Trump, the First Amendment Candidate?

From The American Thinker:

What accounts for Trump’s commanding lead? At first it seemed like it was his willingness to speak bluntly about an issue that politicians don’t seem to understand is critically important to most Americans: the transformation of our country by mass illegal immigration.

But sanctuary cities have been around since 1979. Tom Tancredo got nowhere in 2008. It’s the speaking bluntly that has Trump with three times the support of the Jebster.

What the Trump surge is really all about is the First Amendment. The regime that George Orwell, Arthur Koestler, and, especially, Czeslaw Milosz described so brilliantly has taken root here. Voters know that an unguarded comment, if read or overheard by the wrong person, can instantly cost them their job. They know that to reveal a familiarity with the history and beliefs of Islam is to be labeled an Islamaphobe, to refer to four decades of research on race and intelligence or to black crime statistics is to be labeled a racist, to speak about the work of neuroscientists on gender differences is to be branded a sexist. And they know that these labels can have terrible consequences.

Political correctness and the fear of offending someone has become so programmed into people and politicians, that when someone actually speaks their mind (and/or the truth), it's news.

Similar to the lead character in the movie Bulworth.