Mirsky: Ignore Trump at Your Peril

In the “Hunger Games” world of 2015 television political coverage, New York Real Estate Mogul and Billionaire Donald Trump has already won the Republican Nomination for President of the United States in 2016. You can see it in the sad eyes of former Florida Governor and presidential relative Jeb Bush, whose popularity has never surfaced here in New Hampshire, home of the First-in-the-Nation Presidential Primary.

Trump has seized the moment after the devastating November 13, 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, and the December 2, 2015 terrorist attack on an office Christmas party in San Bernardino, California, which were all accomplished by Islamic fanatics with a goal of destroying Western Democratic Society. Trump has been willing to say the most outrageous things he can dredge up, such as the notion of excluding all members of the Islamic religion from entry into the United States, in order to convey the sense that unlike the President, he, Trump, actually realizes the danger that we are in.

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This is bad news for New Hampshire Democrats, many of whom are apparently ready to vote for Consciousness Objector and climate-change-zealot, Bernie Sanders, a U.S. Senator from Vermont. If Bernie Sanders wins the New Hampshire Primary, with his call to ignore the obvious dangers of radical Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, and his goal of reducing the capitalist American economic engine to a European Socialist Welfare State with no room for entrepreneurship or economic growth, Democrats will be defenseless in the November 2016 Presidential Election, as they were in November 1972, when Senator George McGovern of South Dakota rode his dream of liberal nirvana to nearly unanimous electoral defeat.

As for the Republicans still seeking to challenge Mr. Trump, these candidates appear to have absolutely no chance to win. The list is long of GOP candidates who cannot beat Trump:

• Not the bridge-blocker New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who achieved a flicker of potential success by obtaining the endorsement of New Hampshire’s premier conservative newspaper, the Union Leader. (Trump and Christie will have a verbal or literal fistfight in the next televised debate, no doubt.)
  
• Not Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator from Florida, whose current television advertisements here in New Hampshire are too personal, remind you that Rubio is very very young and inexperienced, and do not connect with the lives or problems of real people here in New Hampshire.
  
• Not Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator from Texas, whose extremist government-shutdown behavior permeates his persona to the point that very few could see him as trustworthy in a time of crisis.
  
• Not Carly Fiorina, former CEO of computer giant Hewlett-Packard, who is just angry.
• Not Ben Carson, the former pediatric neurosurgeon.
  

Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, endorsed by former GOP Nominee Senator John McCain of Arizona, is a good man, but has not caught fire. Senator Graham needs to turn up the volume a notch.

It has been said that a Donald Trump candidacy would benefit former First Lady, U.S. Senator from New York, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, because Trump’s stated views are extreme, often appear to be reckless, and is a generally shocking individual. In order for Hillary Clinton to win, she will have to speak louder than Trump on the truths that we all hold most dear, which include not only the freedoms provided in our Constitution, but also the necessity of defeating our violent radical Islamist fundamentalist enemies.

If we are attacked again like we were attacked in the Middle America stronghold of San Bernardino, California, the American people will only support a leader who demonstrates strength and is willing to fight back.