Posted on 01/12/2016 11:43:48 AM PST by TBBT
I am hearing some support for Donald Trump coming from fellow travelers — tea partiers, constitutional conservatives, and even a few libertarians — in my grassroots community. So I have to ask: What's up with that? At a superficial level, I get it. I get the economic anxiety and a belief, completely justified, that insiders in Washington, D.C. are really all about themselves, not the rest of us. I also get the profound political paradigm shift that is taking control from party bosses and shifting it back to the voters and activists that participate in the political process. This democratization of politics is fueled by social media, the breakup of the big media cartel, and the ability of insurgent candidates to raise money and organize boots on the ground without permission from party headquarters or lobbyist money bundlers. Political disintermediation is a very good thing because it breaks up concentrated power.
I, along with about one zillion other grassroots activists, have been trying to get Grand Old Party Pooh-Bahs to take this paradigm shift seriously, to take us seriously, for years. I actually wrote a book about all of this in 2012 called Hostile Takeover. In response, the establishments in both parties have just attacked us, taking comfort in the hope that the all this disruption was just a bug, not a feature. The power of social media has fueled outsiders like Ron Paul in 2008 and 2012, and now socialist Bernie Sanders. Enter Donald Trump, the Jedi Master of Twitter trolls. He is the odd man out in a field of insurgents, in that his rise is fueled more by name ID, a traditional criteria for political success. Trump's campaign is about personal celebrity, riding his pop star status culled from many years on tabloid TV.
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativereview.com ...
He's constantly testing the political market for voters, throwing ideas against the wall, seeing what sticks. If he gets a positive response he says it again. If not, he drops it.Yes. Trump's a man of true core convictions.
Sounds like a typical Republican to me.
I'm not voting for Jebito, or any of the others polling at 3%.
If it's not Cruz, or Trump, I'm staying home for the first time in over 40 yrs.
5.56mm
So this is, like, what, the 5th or 6th raving article from “Conservative Review,” the place that has a Ted Cruz speech writer on the payroll with the hysterical Mark Levin as editor?
No thanks.
So now that Trump is back ahead in Iowa, and not faltering everywhere else, now we get 2 weeks of every no-name conservative blog making appeals to conformity.
More TDS. I wonder how many will commit hara-kiri if Cruz loses Iowa.
Mark Levin has done far more for the Conservative cause than anything you have with your pathetic Trump mewing.
And if you're going to attack and dismiss the Conservative Review, then you better do so for Hillsdale College and other Conservative institutions as well, since they don't bow down to the Altar of Trump.
I don’t see ‘some support’ and ‘few’ at any Trump event....I see MASSIVE support and YUGE turnouts....
“Fellow travelers.” What an odd term to use in this context.
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Levin has been extremely positive about Trump. He has called him out on a few things, but he’s as anti-establishment as it gets and seems to be welcoming the Trump movement.
The Overton window, also known as the window of discourse, is the range of ideas the public will accept. It is used by media pundits.[1][2] The term is derived from its originator, Joseph P. Overton (1960–2003),[3] a former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy,[4] who in his description of his window claimed that an idea's political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within the window, rather than on politicians' individual preferences.[5] According to Overton's description, his window includes a range of policies considered politically acceptable in the current climate of public opinion, which a politician can recommend without being considered too extreme to gain or keep public office.
Rather then posting their usual collection of daily bile laced infantile personal attack tirades at Trump and his supporters, perhaps "Conservatories and Libertarians", might want to thank Trump for changing the national political paradigm so far in their direction that a "President Cruz" is now a distinct possibility.
In before the Twister board...
Well if Matt Kibbe says so.
By the way, who is Matt Kibbe?
They drove hours, stood on lines, braved heat and cold and the chance that there would not be any seats left just for the entertainment...they’re not going to show up to vote...
I shall not be voting Trump regardless. He is a phony out for himself. I am not going to be responsible for giving him power. The end could prove as bad as anyone, even the socialists.
I cannot speak on behalf of patriots, but I think that the gist is that Trump is the monkey wrench that patriots want to throw into the corrupt Washington cartel.
This democratization of politics is fueled by no one else but Donald Trump social media, the breakup of the big media cartel, and the ability of insurgent candidates to raise money and organize boots on the ground without permission from party headquarters or lobbyist money bundlers. Political disintermediation is a very good thing because it breaks up concentrated power.
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