Posted on 12/24/2015 12:50:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
With five debates down, the GOP primary continues to excite. Donald Trump has finally committed to the GOP, Ted Cruz is moving up quickly, Marco Rubio is holding steady, and the Iowa caucus six weeks away. But the contest has so far failed to identify a real frontrunner. Here's why.
Contrary to media stereotyping, the GOP is indeed a big tent. It draws together three distinct views of America, public policy, and the role of government: 1) nationalist, 2) globalist, and 3) moralist. Each of these factions is conducting its own primary, with an aggregate effect that is confounding pundits and frustrating the establishment.
The nationalist faction draws heavily upon what we used to call the working class. Its members, who skew towards the lower half of workers in both education and income, are fiercely proud of their own accomplishments and protective of their traditional lifestyles. They are wary of intrusive government but not averse to government assistance.
The America they want is strong, tough, and assertive — but not overly entangled in complex disputes abroad. Many on the left have noted correctly that these nationalists are precisely those Americans who stand to lose the most from globalization: They labor in the industries most susceptible to offshore competition, and immigrants simultaneously compete with them in the labor pool and change the character of their neighborhoods. Donald Trump, as the only candidate in the GOP's nationalist primary, won it immediately. His support will hold firm, with polls suggesting that nationalists represent between a quarter and a third of Republican voters....
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It can’t be real.
Denial.
Hoping hoping hoping
HELP I WORK FOR CNBC and cant STOP Peeeeing on myself!
And Francis isn’t the real Pope.
Was I the only one that heard Nazi Military-style parade music reading THAT?
Oh. My. God. The Enemy Media are sh*ttin’ BRICKS, LOL!
Brooth Abramson and Jeff Babboonbutt, political HACKS
Trump has been leading for 6 months.
I am going to vote for Trump. All thr BS, I ignore.
So.
Nationalists are working class and uneducated.
Interesting. Especially given that it’s critical in this country to look down ‘one’s’ pince nez at both blue collar and un-intelligentsia persons, mustn’t one.
Big tent theory. Interesting.
Jeb Bush is the REAL GOP frontrunner.
The 3% that he is polling are the GOPe money cronies who own his @$$.
I have no idea what they are talking about.I've been assured Crewz Helmet is in control.
Surely the GOPe must know Cruz is winning by now.
And GOPe, for the record...
The Conservative Party ended in January of 1989.
What? You think you're some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that? I'm an American. Mind tricks don't work on me.
Trump 2016 campaign video for the GOP Elites Christmas Eve gift:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg22rjzYo4w&app=desktop
Brooth Abramson and Jeff Baboonbutt belong the fourth group that prefer HIllary!
anus-sniffing, Socialist bedwetters.
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