Polls show Perry flopped to 4%. Mr Opportunist--the flailing Cruz, also collapsed after stupidly
trying to latch onto the soaring Trump aura. (Perry and Cruz disintegrated to 2% in some polls).
Posted on 07/25/2015 7:39:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
IT WAS a winter night in 1854 when nine men broke into the building site of the Washington Monument, stole a slab of marble and—according to a later confession—heaved it into the Potomac river. The stone, which once belonged to the Temple of Concord in Rome, was a gift from Pope Pius IX. The attackers belonged to an anti-Catholic political movement, nicknamed “Know-Nothings” on account of their strict code of secrecy. Their movement considered Catholic immigrants a menace to the republic. At its peak, followers included dozens of congressmen, some governors and an ex-president. The Know-Nothings feared that the papal stone was a coded call to arms, sent to spark an immigrant uprising. Their vandalism helped to halt the monument’s construction for years. To this day a change in stone colour, part-way up the obelisk, betrays that nativist moment.
There is nothing secret about the nativist views of Donald Trump, a dyspeptic business tycoon running for the Republican presidential nomination. His finger-jabbing speeches about Mexican rapists and murderers, flowing across the border “like water”, and American jobs being shipped to China have taken him to the top of most polls. More dismaying, his apparent popularity has unmanned more conventional presidential rivals, only some of whom have chided him for his bigotry....
(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...
In before Nick
“In the 1960s the John Birch Society saw communist cunning at every turn.”
I’m no Bircher, but I think we can all agree they were PROVEN RIGHT on this point.
Indeed. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.
“The Chinese are ripping America off because ‘their leaders are much smarter’ “
Well, our country’s top leadership just got outsmarted by Iran - so claiming that the Chinese leaders are “much smarter” than today’s American leaders has a lot of credibility to it.
in 1960 there was a communist behind everything. And here we are today ruled by them.
The feckless fool on the hill “leads from behind.” That is not leadership, that is a fool with his hands on his eyes.
I doubt it very much, he’d be a one-man party at most
I had to stop reading this writer at the”Mexican rapists and murderers” line... It is an easy way to tell a phoney because by now everyone with half a brain knows the full context of what he said..
In almost any parliamentary system.
Talk about an article written by typical surrender monkeys. Their smugness and condescension are almost overwhelming.
LOL
The Birchers and the America First groups had very little in common with the Know-Nothings. For one thing, JBS was pretty popular among Catholics in the ‘50s and early ‘60s.
bush raised “105 million” in pay offs. Trumps 757 cost $100 million plus sales tax. I don’t have to give a penny to “make America GREAT again” ( which he copy righted!!) .
New game: Guess how many names they can call Trump in one article.
I’ll read the whole thing here and guess 8!
Wrong again ...not surprised .
Many facets to “establishment”! All scared their kingdom will tumble.
Polls show Perry flopped to 4%. Mr Opportunist--the flailing Cruz, also collapsed after stupidly
trying to latch onto the soaring Trump aura. (Perry and Cruz disintegrated to 2% in some polls).
DONALD'S JUST AN ORDINARY GUY.....W/ HIS OWN 747.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.