Posted on 02/13/2016 6:06:05 AM PST by Theoria
There's nothing irrational about Donald Trump's appeal to the white working class, writes Charles Murray: they have every reason to be angry
If you are dismayed by Trumpism, don't kid yourself that it will fade away if Donald Trump fails to win the Republican nomination. Trumpism is an expression of the legitimate anger that many Americans feel about the course that the country has taken, and its appearance was predictable. It is the endgame of a process that has been going on for a half-century: America's divestment of its historic national identity.
For the eminent political scientist Samuel Huntington, writing in his last book, "Who Are We?" (2004), two components of that national identity stand out. One is our Anglo-Protestant heritage, which has inevitably faded in an America that is now home to many cultural and religious traditions. The other is the very idea of America, something unique to us. As the historian Richard Hofstadter once said, "It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one."
What does this ideology--Huntington called it the "American creed"--consist of? Its three core values may be summarized as egalitarianism, liberty and individualism. From these flow other familiar aspects of the national creed that observers have long identified: equality before the law, equality of opportunity, freedom of speech and association, self-reliance, limited government, free-market economics, decentralized and devolved political authority.
As recently as 1960, the creed was our national consensus. Running that year for the Democratic nomination, candidates like John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey genuinely embraced the creed, differing from Republicans only in how its elements should be realized.
Today, the creed has lost its authority and its substance. What happened?
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And the republicans are doing every thing they can to side with the demodummies goal to turn ours into a socialist nation. While I may not see Trump as the “savior”, I see him as someone the U.S. so desperately needs at this time in history if we are to survive as a nation. Alas, I am only one in a nation of millions.
A few thoughts on what happened;
1. Jesus hating perverts and Marxists crept in and destroyed the political class and unified them under the one world one citizenship dictatorship represented by dems and rinos (like the Bushes and their ilk.
2. Americans abandoned the creator God of Israel and His Son, Jesus Christ, as the Saviour and the source of truth and now look the dead idol of useless government as a source of income so they can have useless government jobs with overpayed taxpayers monies. This is always marked by malice and evil toward all who love Jesus and His beloved people, Israel. This hatred will result in the coming of antichrist preceding the coming of Jesus Christ to bring in His 1000 year kingdom rule of the earth. Armageddon is the last war between the fallen of mankind and the God who created the Heavens, the earth, and all who dwell therein.
Right there with you. Trump has his warts for sure, but he is the right man for the job at his particular point in history. In addition, of the front-runners, he is the only one that is a natural born citizen as well.
I have bounced around between Cruz and Trump and feel now that Trump’s “bull in a China shop” approach is wearing thin. I’m still trying to evaluate the pluses and minuses of both.
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Why bounce between them?? I like them both...Either of them will be better than any of the others on both sides....
The main thing is winning the general election.....
Trump is like Patton. The gop establishment is like Eisenhauer. Patton never had political plans but Eisenhower needed him. Might be the proper formula with Cruz at the top.
The libs took over the educational system. They barely teach anything about the constitution anymore.
You can be both angry and irrational. Of course it is irrational.
D.C. ain't no china shop. It's more of a whorehouse sold out to the likes of Goldman Sachs and the other internationalists.
“I have bounced around between Cruz and Trump and feel now that Trump’s “bull in a China shop†approach is wearing thin. I’m still trying to evaluate the pluses and minuses of both.”
Wrecking ball and bulldozer first to solve structural and systemic problems. Finishing tools later.
Trump Cruz 2016!
The feeble attempt of these morons and mediocre minds to disparage supporters of Donald Trump by implying that they are working class, racists, uneducated, and stupid merely reveals their intellectual mediocrity (at best) and inability to comprehend what's actually going on.
They cannot grasp the simple truth that Trump and his supporters are far superior to them intellectually, not inferior as they would love it to be true.
It is they who cannot understand, with their mediocre minds, stuck in the tiresome, mediocre, restricted paradigms of groupthink, pathetically unable to think their way out.
The main thing is winning the general election.....
Winning for winning's sake is nothing. The main thing is to further the conservative cause...
...without redefining conservatism.
Well, if our candidate doesn’t win, the only thing that is “furthered” is this country goes further into oblivion...
You have to win first before you can “further” anything.....
More like the “bull in the constitutional China shop”.
Mr Murray gives a more philosophical spin on my main concern with a populist approach to the executive, that is, in the call to “get things done”, what power will the executive assert beyond the limits which have already been breached, most especially by Obama, of his specified authority.
Just as the true “Roman” character of its society slowly disappeared in the lurch toward the imperial system, we are losing our national character. I have hope that history will not repeat itself.
It's about Super packs; lobbyists; special interest groups trying to run this country thru the people they give millions of dollars to; We trump supporters don't like that...
It's about the lying, deceiving House Representatives and Senators coming around with their hands out and promising us the moon, stars and beyond if we re elect them; We Trump supporters see right thru that...
It's about our government taking OUR jobs away from US and giving them to illegal immigrants on H1B visa bills; We Trump supporters are not happy about that...
It's about our government taking support from OUR country and paying Iran 150 billion dollars for garbage; We Trump supporters would like that money for our Vets and Wounded Warriors...
It's about our government letting ‘every one and their dogs’ come into OUR country and feeding, tending, housing, giving free medical care to illegal immigrants; We Trump supporters say ‘Take care of OUR people first’...
It's about our government taking away our health care by enacting a bill ‘oh you have to vote on it before you know what's in it’ situation; We Trump supporters feel everyone in OUR country should have affordable healthcare by us and for us...
We Trump supporters want a STRONGER, RICHER, Country and it's born and bred people that are legal citizens to be taken care of with better jobs, healthcare, a border wall, a lower tax plan, helping our older Americans that have worked their whole lives in this Country....
To you, Mr. Author of this article, take you ‘meme garbage’ and go live in another country and say this crap and see how long you get away with it!!!
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