Posted on 11/12/2015 3:27:58 AM PST by Biggirl
The latest presidential debate vividly captured how the 2008 financial crisis has reshaped the Republican Party by unleashing a potent populist strain that could further scramble an already unpredictable primary contest.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
WOW! What insight!
Why do these clowns think that Trump had a meteoric rise to the top of the polls, and has stayed there since June?
They call it a populist strain, we just say we are pissed off at being continually lied to by all politicians.
I now have three bumper stickers on my vehicle, 'Cruz For President 2016', 'Trump For President 2016' and 'Hillary For Prison 2016" and all three work for me.
WSJ speaks of populism as if it were a BAD thing.
For the elite, perhaps it is. But when the rule of the elite departs too far from the conventional wisdom of the governed, then the elites are at risk of being deposed, and mobs, unruly as they can get, have a notable effect on that deposition.
Be glad that the insurrections are, as of yet, mostly confined to invective and verbal exchanges. Now might be a good time to examine just what the complaints are, and act to rectify the perceived wrong involved.
But make sure it is a real complaint, and it is subjected to corrective action that actually works, or the issue will never go away.
I hate this term “populism” which is historically inaccurate. Populists were socialists NOT nationalists. They wanted gubment ownership of railroads, elevators, inflation, and BIG government.
Ya think????
This was a good article - incidentally, he pointed out that it’s on the rise among the Dems, too, and is what accounts for Bernie Sanders.
I think it’s disturbing because populists get attached to a particular person, falling into a sort of Man on a White Horse syndrome, and then that person can do no wrong and anything that doesn’t fit the figure they have created in their minds will be ignored or denied against all reasonable evidence. Populists hear what they want to hear, and their hero plays to this in his speeches , which are virtually always vague and slogan based and give them an emotional high.
I don’t think people should do this with any candidate, and it’s interesting to see that it’s a phenomenon in both parties.
It isn't even a DEFINED thing.
He isn't invoking the short lived Populist party here. He's using the term "populism" as a vague scare word intended to conjure up images of mob rule.
Every time the GOP trots out one of these big-government globalist shills as a presidential candidate, they lose badly ... because these "Chamber of Commerce" candidates don't represent the populist grass-root voters.
This isn't really hard to figure out, is it?
To the Marxist media, populism is almost as bad as Patriotism.
Pray AMerica wakes
Of course I know what he’s trying to do-—but across the board, knowledgeable people need to comment on this and correct the idiots who use this terminology, because THEY know exactly what they are doing.
They call it a populist strain
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Al Sharpton doesn’t, he calls it “popularist”
To the money people, they associate Populism with the Cultural Revolution (in China), where the rich were dragged from their plush estates, made to apologize to the masses for stealing their wealth, and then sent to “re-education” camps, if they were lucky.
Trump’s form of populism is to secure the border and negotiate trade and arms deals that are in the interests of the United States.
If the money people had ONLY done the job of securing the border and looking out for Americans, Trump would have been LAUGHED OFF THE STAGE, just as everyone predicted would happen last summer - rather than being well on his way to the White House.
The REASON why the money people support open borders and crappy trade deals is because they made a CALCULATED DECISION that they could get around the ever-increasing noose of government regulations by going outside of this country to make their money - rather than EDUCATE AMERICANS as to the damage that was going to happen to our industrial base. They figured, and nearly pulled it off, that their money could stop people like Trump from ever advancing. Perot gave them a warning that there were limits, they ignored the warning.
Now they lose.
They stole “liberalism” from us, too.
The spirit of the nation has been under attack for decades and is currently under siege.
What the fog and smoke blowers see as a rise in populism is actually the hunger pangs of the spirit of "Truth, Justice and The American Way" starving to death and it, and we, won't last much longer without a rescue.
At this point, that spirit and we don't need an insider to be our blockade runner.
Instead, it and we need a more powerful blockade buster to destroy the siege works laid against it, US and ultimately our nation's soul.
Where can we find a "blockade buster" capable of such a feat to save US?
Have you seen “The Wire?”
There used to be a term for those populist voters: “Reagan Democrats”
No, I’ve not watched that show.
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