Neither Trump nor Berlusconi has a real political program; what they are selling is themselves.Berlusconi does have an edge Trump doesn't however; He owned the Italian media. While Trump gets a lot of free media, he's not in a position to shut down opposition ads or hostile hosts paid by the MIC. Looking at the current delegate count (rubio + cruz > trump), I think the establishment has him licked.
...in many cases, probably most, the flamboyant denunciations of Trump by establishment figures make no sense except as self-aggrandizing pretense, because those condemning him have long tolerated if not outright advocated very similar ideas, albeit with less rhetorical candor. Trump is self-evidently a toxic authoritarian demagogue advocating morally monstrous positions, but in most cases where elite outrage is being vented, he is merely a natural extension of the mainstream rhetorical and policy framework that has been laid, not some radical departure from it. He’s their id.DING DING DING we have a winner
