What Would a Donald Trump World Look Like?

Happy Friday to you Friends,

Donald Trump took a pummeling from Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in last night's GOP debate, but showed he could take a punch, even though his legs noticeably wobbled a couple of times.

I thought Rubio came off like a smarmy teenager, looking for any opening to throw a well-rehearsed roundhouse at the frontrunner.

Pointing out that The Donald repeats himself at least as much as Rubio does, the young senator had that nervous gloat of a child who had just gotten away with crtiicizing an elder. His rivulets of perspiration gave away his discomfort.

Standing to Trump's other side, Ted Cruz also availed himself of every opportunity to take the billionaire down.

These guys were so tough on Trump last night, he didn't even have the chance to bring
this up.

Both opponents railed at The Donald for employing 1,000 Polish workers illegally--some 30 years ago per Trump's counter argument, and for an active civil lawsuit by former students of the now-defunct Trump University.

Cruz, channeling the bad-old-days of Eugene McCarthy, accused Trump of covering up fraud because he still hadn't released his tax returns.

The irony here is that not one other GOP candidate has yet made his tax returns public, nor is it customary to do so this early in the process.

Through it all, Trump maintained a degree of equanimity that befitted someone who’s likely to face many similar situations, perhaps in a much more important capacity.

And that brings us to today’s topic: what would the world be like under a Donald Trump presidency?

The answer to that is; probably pretty similar to the way it is now. 

If you wade through a lot of Trump's rhetoric, his actual policies seem pretty middle of the road. Little wonder he's given so much money to Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, over the years.

Most likely, Trump didn't give that money to influence the party to make a big move to the right. More likely, he wanted policies that were already in place to be maintained or enhanced..

No one can honestly say he or she knows where The Donald is coming from. He seems to be shredding longstanding GOP doctrine with every subsequent debate. He likes Planned Parenthood and health care for everyone. He thinks George W. Bush wrecked the country.

And now he's been endorsed by Blue State moderate Republican Governor Chris Christie. So, he's got a big chunk of the GOP establishment solidly behind him.

I believe Trump would be the least likely Republican candidate in the field to support the party's full pantheon of back-pedaling ideas.

He may handle the economy well, though rumors run the gamut regarding how he's treated the "tens of thousands of people he's hired."   

If we can trust what The Donald says, there is at least one thing we know for certain about a Donald Trump World; at least nobody will be dying in the streets...unless he's shooting them on 5th  

Avenue.