22 Jul 2016 4:33 pm
If You Don't Think Paul Manafort Can Get Trump Elected, You Don't Know Paul Manafort.
Paul Manafort made a career out of stealthily reinventing the world’s nastiest tyrants as noble defenders of freedom.
Getting Donald Trump elected will be a cinch.
Manafort has spent a career working on behalf of clients that the rest of his fellow lobbyists and strategists have deemed just below their not-so-high moral threshold.
Manafort has consistently given his clients a patina of respectability that has allowed them to migrate into the mainstream of opinion, or close enough to the mainstream.
He has a particular knack for taking autocrats and presenting them as defenders of democracy.
If he could convince the respectable world that thugs like Savimbi and Marcos are friends of America, then why not do the same for Trump?
One of his friends told me, “He wanted to do his thing on home turf.
He wanted one last shot at the big prize.”