The article I analyzed is entitled "Trump will lose, or I will eat this column"" by Dana Milbank. Milbank has a considerable amount of credibility. He is highly educated, having graduated from Yale University, where he was a member of Trumbull College, the Progressive Party of the Yale Political Union and the secret society Skull & Bones. Since then he has worked for The Wall Street Journal covering Congress and for The New Republic covering the Clinton White House but has spent the majority of his career working as a political reporter for the Washington Post since 2000. While at the Post he has covered the 2000 & 2004 Presidential election and the first term of US President George W. Bush.
His intended audience are the American people and those of us who are a little concerned with the idea of a President Trump. He begins his argument with comments from the front-runner of the 2016 Republican presidential nominee alleging that Syrian refugees maybe in fact be "clandestine terrorist". But while he was spitting out these ridiculous allegations, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee was was speaking some truth to a group of business students at Georgetown University. Despite his claims on the Syrian refugees and the Mexican immigrants, Trump will not be the nominee at the end of day. Why? Because, as Romney put so well "when all is said and done, the American people usually do the right thing." As American's we are generally a good group of people, not the best of course.. but we're not horrible. We know right from wrong so when it comes down to electing someone to the highest office in the land, we're going to elect someone of similar nature to our own. We're not irrational people, we're not going to vote for someone that is bound to fail. Milbank goes back to comments made by the Post's media critic Paul Farhi that squelch Milbank's belief that Trump will fail, by pointing to the polls showing that Trump has gained six points since July. But Milbank fires back saying that Trump's success has nothing to do with polling, but more with the sensible American people and as voters in the end we will do the right thing. In Romney's words "we've beaten the odds". The odd's he's speaking of are the idea that democracy never last long. But time and time again we seemed to have succeeded in electing good people to run our nation. Hopefully we make it right this time.
