U.S. Election - al Baghdadi’s to Lose?

U.S. Presidential Election - al Baghdadi’s to Lose?

I hope I'm wrong, but my political radar is telling me that D.J. Trump’s latest absurdity will, once again, boost his poll numbers. I expect that by now he has engaged the services of some high-grade (if politically amoral) pollsters. My hunch is that he will find the “Keep Muslims Out” slogan has not only improved his numbers with likely Republican primary voters (unsurprisingly) but that it has attracted the favorable attention of the coveted “Reagan Democrats.”


And if I’m not wrong, if his pollsters study their focus group results closely enough they will find that shameless fear-mongering is the ultimate key to winning the women’s vote. Once persuaded that their young are endangered, females in general become deaf to all appeals to rational policy, while the suggestion that any value should be superordinate to immediate and absolute safety will be furiously rejected by them.


Trump has now so positioned himself that a few incidents of jihadist terrorism in the U.S. – of the right kind and at the right times – could sweep him to nomination and then into the Oval Office. He certainly understands this.


But does al Baghdadi? It can scarcely be doubted that Trump is the candidate ISIS would most gladly see elected. Do the jihadist terror groups have assets in this country that would enable them to put their man in the White House? I doubt it very seriously. But I suppose we shall see.