THE HIILL: …1. Trump destroyed Jeb Bush. Okay, so former Florida Gov. Bush probably doesn’t think that’s great, but it is. Bush represents everything that is wrong with establishment politics. Before Trump came along, Bush was in first place by a wide margin, and that margin wasn’t a result of merit. It was manufactured by a political machine: a golden name, an infrastructure of big donors and an heir of dynastic inevitability…
2. Our system of government was designed for an informed electorate. When the electorate is not informed, we all suffer for it. Armed with his celebrity and a completely fearless attitude toward conflict, Trump singlehandedly raised the audience for the primary debates by about 300 percent. That means about 18 million people who don’t follow the news closely heard about the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Iran deal, the Planned Parenthood videos and much more, merely as a side effect of wondering what insanity would spew from Trump’s mouth…
4. He gave political correctness a nasty kick in the teeth. And while his rhetoric has been too juvenile (“look at that face”) and too fantastical (“I will make Mexico pay for that wall”) for him to be taken seriously by many Americans, he showed that if Republicans have the courage of their convictions, they don’t have to run to a camera to apologize every time some faux-outrage-driven Twitter clique demands it… (more)
