Wouldn’t it be great if the 2016 election ended up pitting
Donald Trump against Bernie Sanders? To begin with these two candidates
who were deemed unelectable by most pundits? Yet now Trump is prevailing
against Cruz with the help of Sarah Palin whose verbal hijinks would make her a
great candidate for Restoration comedy and Bernie Sanders is just prevailing.The race would
essentially be David versus Goliath, the representative of the little man with
all his failings and foibles against the Ubermensch, the symbol of big
business who represents the notion that might is right. Trump is just a
slightly more crass version of Ayn Rand’s Howard Roark, the hero of The Fountainhead. Roark was an architect
and Trump is a developer, but they’re pretty close. On the ideological level
Sanders represents socialism and Trump free market capitalism. It’s Adam Smith
versus not Marx but maybe someone like Fourier. If the matchup turns out to be
Clinton versus Cruz you get a far less black and white scenario and hence
something lacking in the superhero effect that would be the result of the
combat between two contenders who are basically New Yorkers (something which
would parenthetically afford some poetic justice after Cruz’s dismissive
remarks about Big Applers during the last debate). In essence the Sanders/Trump
fight card is Brooklyn vs Queens since that’s where both candidates
respectively emanate from and that has to say something about the state of the
nation. Lastly, what is the mathematics of
electing two supposedly unelectable candidates? The British bookmakers, famous
for making odds on almost anything, will be working over time on this one.
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