No one is quite sure why Chicago is called the Windy City.\u00a0 Some blame it on the windy politicians primarily for bragging about Chicago.\u00a0 One would note that there is a lot less bragging now.\u00a0 Others blame it on the wind caused by the high buildings.\u00a0 Even on calm days there are some places where downtown Chicago is still pretty windy.\u00a0 Anyone familiar with baseball understands the significance when the wind is blowing out at Wrigley.<\/p>\n
Chicago is also famous for demonstrations and riots.\u00a0 This is now exactly new.\u00a0 Fort Dearborn was constructed on what is now the corner of Michigan and Wacker.\u00a0 The fort was built to tell the Indians who was now in charge.\u00a0 In 1812 Fort Dearborn was abandoned and the Indians responded by killing many of the evacuees in the Ft. Dearborn Massacre.\u00a0 There have been other events, like the Haymarket protest.\u00a0 Most of us are familiar with the protests surrounding the 1968 Democratic convention.\u00a0 It should be no surprise to anyone that Donald Trump ran into significant protests in Chicago.\u00a0 It is what they do.\u00a0 Chicago is famous for protests.\u00a0 The Chicago police are famous for handling protests.<\/p>\n
The primary blame belongs to the people who organized the protests.\u00a0 Freedom of speech is not just confined to liberals.\u00a0 These protests were orchestrated by the far left.\u00a0 That is why you never see such crap at a Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton campaign.\u00a0 They get protestors, but it is typically one or two people.\u00a0 In Chicago this was a well-organized effort that successfully shut down a major event.<\/p>\n
The sad truth is that Donald Trump poured fuel on the fire.\u00a0 His primary strategy has been to ignore political correctness and insult almost everyone.\u00a0 While it is refreshing with regard to some of the political correctness insanity, Donald Trump crossed the line on numerous occasions.\u00a0 He did encourage people in his crowd to get physical with protestors.\u00a0 Contrast that with George W. Bush who always responded to protestors by saying he was glad to live in a country that honored free speech.<\/p>\n
These protests may even help Trump, for a while.\u00a0 But eventually people will grow weary of the nonsense.\u00a0 It is really unfortunately that Trump cancelled that rally in Chicago because now the protestors think they have won.\u00a0 We can expect more and more of this in the future.\u00a0 If Trump wins the nomination, it will be a long, hot and very ugly summer.<\/p>\n
In the short run, this is likely to help Trump.\u00a0 That is the problem with Trump.\u00a0 Everything seems to help him in the short run.\u00a0 In the long run, the country is likely to have a world class case of buyer\u2019s remorse.\u00a0 The only question is when?\u00a0 If we are lucky it will be before the Republican nomination is sewn up.\u00a0 If we are unlikely it will be during the general election.\u00a0 We better all hope this doesn\u2019t happen after we elect Donald Trump to be President of the United States.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow will be an interesting day.\u00a0 There are no accurate polls, since most of them are based on surveys taken before the debate and he Chicago protests.\u00a0 Trump should win everywhere, but that is what people predicted before Super Tuesday.\u00a0 So far all the predictions have been predictably unpredictable.<\/p>\n
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No one is quite sure why Chicago is called the Windy City.\u00a0 Some blame it on the windy politicians primarily for bragging about Chicago.\u00a0 One would note that there is a lot less bragging now.\u00a0 Others blame it on the … Continue reading