I think the wall shouldn't have a door in it.

It's time that people talk openly and seriously about how trade and immigration aren't always in the best interests of the United States.

Trump is more of a phenomenon than a man. I wrote about that here. takimag.com/article/sympathy_for_the_donald_charles_c_johnson/print

I think he's an indication that globalization is over.

Barack Obama interestingly enough prophesized this future in April 2008 in his famous “bitter clingers” comment:

You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Cruz has been running on guns and religion; Trump has been running on “antipathy to people who aren’t like them,” and “anti-trade” and “anti-immigrant” sentiment. Trump neutralized the gun attack by favoring concealed carry everywhere and the religion attack by meeting with pastors everywhere he could get an audience.

The demographic concern is real. Cruz has been winning lily-white states like Wyoming, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, and Idaho—places where multiculturalism and #BlackLivesMatter haven’t brushed up against the average white voter. Cruz will probably win Utah given these demographics and lose Arizona. It’s telling then that Cruz hasn’t won a single southern state beyond Texas. And the more Black Lives Matter protestors attack Trump, the more whites want to vote for him to defy them.