DIE! DIE! DIE....!!!
Posted on 01/31/2016 2:02:30 PM PST by Hojczyk
America doesn't need two secular, cosmopolitan parties.
Trump's secret is that he has found an unoccupied space to practice politics. Call it the politically incorrect, moderately traditionalist, main-street economics zone, where winners and losers exist (just as in the real world) and it is not a crime to believe unabashedly in American greatness.
Trump has stoked xenophobic fears and used his crass showmanship to mark out this territory. His tactics of strong demagoguery make it completely understandable to lament his success.
Yet, in order for our political system to work, people must feel as if they have real choices that can make a difference — and they haven't felt that way for some time.
This election cycle began with Americans being told that Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton were the inevitable choices. Many people just snapped.
Haynes argues that this is why people looked outside the political system to independent-minded candidates like Trump and Sanders. “If that fails, they will seek to change the system,†he said.
What we don't need are two parties or candidates perceived to be standard-bearers of the secular elites who are economically comfortable.
What we do need is someone who represents a middle-class that holds traditional values and believes all things are achievable, especially if government doesn't drag us down.
That kind of disruption in our political alignment doesn't happen overnight
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
DIE! DIE! DIE....!!!
Remember, it took the Republican Party 36 years — starting with the 1820 Missouri compromise, followed by several disruptive movements and fractured elements — before it pulled together as a united party, agreed on a unifying platform and elected Abraham Lincoln as president.
Can someone verify if this makes sense?
I thought the Republican Party was founded in Wisconsin in 1854, and that many of the original Republicans, including Lincoln, were former Whigs. The Whig Party dissolved in the early 1850s.
So don’t understand how she traces the Republican Party roots to the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Maybe I missed some things in history class???
ChiCom writers and La Raza writers love to write xenophobic!
Donald Trump has pitched his flag in the vast chasm between progressives and the GOP. The Democrats abandoned their center for Obama, and now they’ll pay the price.
The first identifiable Republicans were in Massachusetts and New York. (At least that is what historians who study the period agree on.)
But you are correct, many Republicans were in fact former Whigs and leftovers from some smaller parties of the day.
Fear? More like disgust.
Everything else comes after that.
What an uplifting message
Which tells me Trump is aiming for the liberal vote. Liberals always get something in return for their vote, so what is Trump going to give them?
The author is one of those new-fangled types who can't help but link EVERYTHING to race.
Her unsubstantiated theory is that the grief and rage that resulted from the MO compromise later birthed the Republican Party.
Before they became evil fascists.
If you chip off the political slag this piece is fairly accurate.
“Trump’s secret is that he has found an unoccupied space to practice politics. Call it the politically incorrect, moderately traditionalist, main-street economics zone, where winners and losers exist (just as in the real world) and it is not a crime to believe unabashedly in American greatness. “
I’m hoping it is the beginning of the end of the uniparty.
I hope to die as a very old man in a nation where my descendants will never know what either of those parties ever were.
The G.O.P. HELPED in the IRS effort to audit the Tea Party.
The GOP does NOT view the Dems as the opposition.
THAT monicker is something the GOP reserves for the TEA PARTY.
The GOP and America are **ENEMIES**.
Remember that and spread it around to people you know.
The unoccupied space in which Trump is practicing politics is that of a Democrat inside the Republican Party.
As you can see, Wall Street can give easily to both democrats and republicans. Government vendors can give to democrats and republicans. Foreign governments can give to republicans and democrats. So, it seems that the two parties have become enough correlated that they vie for the money that used to be split.
Each side only getting money from its naturally strategic allies. But now each party will quietly or loudly give in to the money depending on whether it agrees with their traditional message. So, government vendors will give to both sides and a democrat congress will loudly praise their bill which spends more than we have. The republicans will also spend as much. They will just be quiet about it.
So this leaves the American population on one side. And the money on the other side. As long as the money buys thirty second ads. And those ads sway the population. But Trump has stumbled onto (or maybe he knew) that the world is not watching TV as much. And they certainly aren’t watching network news as much. So, information about candidates is not bottled in by the twin forces of money and network news.
Trump, as a business man was likely to get a modern PR group to run his message, instead of an old school ad buying firm used by the old school politicians. Taylor Swift and Trump have more PR similarities than do Trump and Rubio.
Somewhere in New York there is a large 24/7 PR group that is watching every post on the internet and responding real time. They know that public opinion is swayed by the unanswered attack. The last word is king. And the owners of media no longer have the last word if you can watch everything and respond fast enough.
Yard signs, buttons, bumper stickers and the thirty second ad are things of the past. And candidates that rely solely on these things will also be... of the past.
Lot of political horsehockey in this article but some truth.
Politics are largely class based. Both factions of the uniparty have abandoned the middle class. DT is looking to represent those folks.
This election cycle began with Americans being told that Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton were the inevitable choices. Many people just snapped.
People lost faith in the whole political process when they woke up in 2015 and realized that this nation of 300+ million people produced @ssholes from these two families as the front-runners in a presidential election.
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