I don't think so. Just a problematic personality with self evident delusions of Grandeur? And a thrice times two Bankrupt, who boasts about the millions he's making, all while apparently never paying federal taxes?

We here in Australia have a law that prevents former bankrupts from aspiring to high public office? And for very sound reasons?

I listened to the debate, none of which made D Trump look presidential at any time? But rather, a barely in control diabolically disingenuous fruit loop with money and power and wanting more of the latter?

If he lived in Australia, our very different bankruptcy laws would have seen him reduced to earning a living by the sweat of his brow and native abilities? And given his moral turpitude? A career as a petty thief/confidence trickster?
Singularly unimpressed!
Alan B.

Hi there ALAN B...

What an absolutely brilliant summation you've made of Mr Donald TRUMP and his aspirations of being elected the leader of the free world. So much so, I can offer nothing further that would add to your amazing encapsulation of the man, nothing at all !

Donald Trump is a "Clinton camp plant designed by the Democrats to be an unelectable Presidential Republican candidate"? Yeah, that makes sense, Simon Caterson. At least to liberals like yourself who just can't figure out why your brand of politics is so on the nose with the majority of the public.

the reason for Trump, and Hanson, and Farage, and PEDIGA, and the Tea Party, Simon, is because many ordinary people are beginning to realise that their democracy has been hijacked by self serving politicians who will do anything to grab the minority votes that will allow them to scrape over the electoral finishing line. That worked quite well for many years, but along the way, the politicians of every stripe took the majority for granted.

Here in Australia, a recent poll indicated that 49% of Australians want a ban on Muslim immigration. That Muslims should be so unpopular with so many people should be a wake up call to the politicians of every party. But both sides of parliament support Muslim immigration, and both the Left and right ignore the ever growing opposition to Muslim immigration by their own electors. And that opposition is going to grow with every new terrorist incident, and every Muslim outrage like Rotherham and Cologne.

When Trump says he is going to build a wall across the Mexican US border to stop the dysfunctional and over breeding catholic Hispanics from taking over the USA through immigration and birth rate differentials, it really strikes a chord with white Americans. And if the Americans oppose Islamic immigration to the same extent as Australians, then his call to ban Muslim immigration into the USA rings a bell also.

When politicians ignore their own electors, sooner or later, those electors will turn to others to represent them. If your own leftist policies make no bones about despising white people and white culture. you can hardly be surprised if the white population rejects it.

Some further speculations on the topic addressed in the essay may be found here.

A straightforward political commentary:
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/09/donald-trump-is-like-a-real-life-manchurian-candidate-commentary.html

A satirical graphic art imagining:
http://boingboing.net/2016/08/02/donald-j-trump-is-the-manc.html

What scares the absolute Beejezus out of me is the fact that both of these clowns are even in the running for the US Presidency...let alone given the possibility of pressing a big red button to unleash Hell on Earth.

Given the facts HRC gave away 'official secrets' in the email deluge, and DT wants to turn the US into a huge walled garbage dump there seems to be little between either candidate.

The US of A...home of the land free of the brave.

This is why DT won't end up in the White House...scroll to 8:56

http://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australian_outlook/trade-agreements-more-strategic-than-economic/

Kim Beasley: "We now spend $13 Million (Australian) per day on US defence industry...$1.3 Trillion is US investments in portfolios primarily..."

As Smedley Butler once said: "War is a racket..."