"One of the moderators asked, in effect: if you’re so opposed to Hillary Clinton, why did she come to your last wedding? It seemed like a revealing, even devastating question.
Trump’s response, delivered without pause or embarrassment: Because I paid her to be there. As if she was the wedding singer, or in charge of the catering."
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/donald-trump-is-shocking-vulgar-and-right-213572#ixzz3ynFR5Ih4
This honestly could not be more beautifully stated. Trump may be a deranged loon, but he's a deranged loon with no filter between his personal and public lives, and while in some ways that makes him dangerous--especially when facing the "other", i.e., brown people from other places, it also makes him useful when it comes to opening the door into the inner worlds of wealth, class, and politics.
Trump is, as the almost spot-on author of the Politico piece puts it, a class traitor. He gleefully jokes about what not even political enemies will say about each other--he's not an outsider as the media often likes to label him, he's an extremely privileged insider with nothing to lose. He is dead wrong about almost every policy he has put forwards, and is wrong for the same reason he loses more often in business than he wins. He is a "straight shooter", in that everything he says shoots straight from his id. And the party has no way to reign it in, and that terrifies them. If he loses, he goes back to his life as a billionaire dilettante. They have nothing over him.
Now where the author gets it wrong is that by projecting his own socio-economic and political concerns onto Trump, he assumes this is part of some cohesive strategy or ideology, when the opposite is true. Trump is a mischievous imp, the schoolyard bully who has discovered that all of the administration's punishments are toothless, and that none of them can possibly match the fun of pulling up the underpants of nerds and snapping towels in the locker-room. He has terrific inside information into the corruption that money brings to politics, but don't for a second think he's out to change it. Teddy Roosevelt was a rich kid who developed a conscience thanks to his ideology, there's no danger of that with the Donald. He'll say what it takes to win, even if it's true.
His goal isn't to say the truth--he just can't help himself.
