Posted on 10/19/2017 8:03:30 PM PDT by sparklite2
Pretty embarrassing. And yet they’re not embarrassed. Many of those same overpaid, underperforming tax-exempt sinecure-holders are now demanding that Trump be stopped. Why? Because, as his critics have noted in a rising chorus of hysteria, Trump represents “an existential threat to conservatism.”
Let that sink in. Conservative voters are being scolded for supporting a candidate they consider conservative because it would be bad for conservatism? And by the way, the people doing the scolding? They’re the ones who’ve been advocating for open borders, and nation-building in countries whose populations hate us, and trade deals that eliminated jobs while enriching their donors, all while implicitly mocking the base for its worries about abortion and gay marriage and the pace of demographic change. Now they’re telling their voters to shut up and obey, and if they don’t, they’re liberal.
It turns out the GOP wasn’t simply out of touch with its voters; the party had no idea who its voters were or what they believed. For decades, party leaders and intellectuals imagined that most Republicans were broadly libertarian on economics and basically neoconservative on foreign policy. That may sound absurd now, after Trump has attacked nearly the entire Republican catechism (he savaged the Iraq War and hedge fund managers in the same debate) and been greatly rewarded for it, but that was the assumption the GOP brain trust operated under. They had no way of knowing otherwise. The only Republicans they talked to read the Wall Street Journal too.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
my heart bleeds for the GOPe, NOT!
Something tells me he’s the reason why the NFL and Harvey Weinstein issues are coming to a head. He represents a bully to these people so the players and actresses feel more comfortable coming in public out as victims. Problem is Trump never made them do anything they didn’t want to. At least in the last 10 years.
A few of these paragraphs read to me like the declaration of independence.
Tucker throwing down the gauntlet!
And that was almost two years ago. Prescient.
“Conservatism” lost its heart, its moxie.
Trump is, however clumsily, trying to get it back.
It has to be about God, rather than about us or even about our pride, in order to work. That means it’s going to have to take liberalism back from secular liberals, too. God makes no secret about prizing private liberality in His name. What He does not want is for government to exalt itself as an idol, usurping the role of Giver and only managing to rob Peter to pay Paul.
Bingo!
I find President Trump neither shocking nor vulgar, but he generally speaking proves to be right on a number of issues with the passage of time. Trump is animated, frank, pleasantly honest and genuine, uninhibited by the straightjacket of ‘political correctness’, and other attributes, but shocking and vulgar he is not. That is the illusion the media painted on Trump. Now Zero on the otherhand was/is both of those things in spades and a lot more.
This is an oldy but spot on. Tucker nailed it. I would say that the only thing I would change is that the republican elite do know what the republicans in the country think, and what they want. You know this because they poll republicans in the primary and they repeat what they think republicans want to hear. They know republicans want controlled immigration and boarders. They know that republicans want good trade deals. They know republicans want less government spending, less debt, less taxes. They know that republicans want smaller less intrusive government and laws enforced. They all tell us this in the primary election. So they do know it.
But the hard reality that the elites are now figuring out. Is that we are tired of the game. We can see the fraud. And we are voting for the guy who seems to be more beholden to the voters than the guy who is beholden to big money. And at least this year its Trump. Lets hope we always have a choice. Most years the big money wraps up all the candidates. Some how this year Bernie and Trump blasted through.
Not only is Tucker spot-on, but given when this was written (Jan. 2016), it shows just how far ahead of the curve he was in his understanding of Trump.
Bear in mind this was written two years ago before anyone was accustomed to Trump’s persona. He might have seemed vulgar (locker room humor) and shocking (un-PC).
Tucker lays it pretty good in this article. He’s one smart cookie.
They knew/know but just don't care - that's why Trump is a threat to them....he knows and cares.
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