A Trump in a China Shop? | RealClearPolitics
In hindsight, much of the coverage of Donald Trump’s candidacy could have run under the same headline: Unexpected bull poised to enter china shop. But commentators spent virtually all of their energy expounding on the first half of that metaphor. Our campaign ethologists incessantly analyzed the behavior of this curious new political animal. What conditions created the bull, who’s feeding it, why is it acting this way? This isn’t totally surprising. Such analysis of presidential contenders is the grist of campaign mills. What was unusual is how matter-of-factly the analysts cast America’s institutions as a china shop.
