Donald Trump: The Republican id
He’s a walking caricature, but it’s a caricature created from everything Republicans believe.
Trump’s hilarious insistence that everything he touches is the best, the absolute elite, the most high-end and top-shelf and super-classy, is an echo of how Republicans say we must talk about America itself.
.. Is Trump the most ridiculous candidate in the Republican presidential primary? Of course. But one thing you can’t say about him is that he doesn’t belong there. He’s the personification of the Republican id, saying forthrightly the things most of them want to finesse, embodying their worst impulses, and doing it all with a spectacular if unwarranted confidence.