By Thomas Lodico
The Iran Nuclear Deal, new infrastructure deals in congress, all the other presidential candidates, why is everyone talking about Donald Trump? Trump has never run for public office and has never held public office. Yet Donald Trump is the talk of the town. Almost every news story is covering Trump from his immigration comments to his not-so-subtle take-down of the P.O.W. Senator John McCain, calling his time in Vietnam unheroic. So why is he gaining steam in polls and support from potential voters?
Donald Trump is fast becoming the leading candidate among Republican voters, and that is the main topic being spread around in the media. So why is he getting away with what he is saying? A main reason that comes to mind is that Republican candidates have only very recently challenged Trump’s inane and sometimes vile suggestions about others, mainly immigrants and African Americans. The people looking at Donald Trump need to wake up. People do not find racist and bigots electable. Yes, there are people in America who agree with Trump, but the fact of the matter is that Trump will not get the nominations and even if he surprises everyone by becoming the nominee, Trump has only the slimmest chance of winning in the general election.
And now Trump is what the media is talking about. Trump is every headline and will stay this way until we stop talking about him. There is no appeal to Trump. He is a spectacle, a sideshow, someone who shouldn’t be running for president. Yet the more we talk about him, either negatively or positively, the more we add fuel to the fire. Once we stop talking about Trump, his campaign will die as well alongside whatever chances he may have had of ever becoming president.