Posted on 03/15/2016 8:52:03 AM PDT by No One Special
Although I have to admit that the incredible obtuseness that seems to invade normally sensible people is beyond me. Nick Cater has an article in The Oz today on Donald Trump’s primary appeal is that he’s not a politician. This is his point:
The inconvenient truth for the political class is that in so far as Trump exploits hate, the principal object is not Hispanics, Muslims or homosexuals but them. The anger welling up from below is anger directed at urban sophisticates like themselves.
Americans regularly elect presidents who are not part of the political class. Eisenhower was the last, and military leaders are a consistent theme. It is executive experience that is valued, of which Obama has none at all while Trump has a lifetime of running things behind him. So for those who still don’t get it, here’s the list of policy issues that matter.
First border protection. Here’s an article by Victor Davis Hanson, who because he works for National Review, cannot actually say he supports Trump (similar to working for Murdoch), but read the article and imagine him voting for anyone else: The Weirdness of Illegal Immigration. Note the word “if” that runs through the para:
If the border were to be closed, if immigration laws were enforced, if there were some reduction in legal immigration, if entry were to be meritocratic, if we reverted to the melting-pot ideal of assimilation, if we cut –studies courses and jettisoned therapy and ideology for hard science, math, and English language, in just two decades one’s particular ancestry would become irrelevant — the image of Oaxaca would be analogous to having a grandfather from Palermo or cousin from the Azores. In other words, things would work out fine.
Second, the economy. Trump has spent a lifetime creating value for money. The American economy, like so many others, is being ruined by Keynesian Crony Capitalism, where the government decides how to use large proportions of our national savings and determines what ought to be built. The US is heading for a $20 trillion debt if it hasn’t reached it already. Is there seriously anyone else within a thousand miles of being electable who has a greater likelihood of getting the American economy on the right track?
Third, foreign policy. Trump wants to rebuild America’s national defence but is not in the business of nation building in third world countries. He will defend our interests, but with the additional thought that maybe those who America has been defending might chip in a bit in their own defence.
Fourth, he would get to choose the new justices for the Supreme Court. Fifth, he is not taken in by global warming. Sixth, he has the ability to achieve his agenda because he knows how to get things done. Seventh, he represents a return to traditional American values. Eighth, he opposes the thug tactics of the left. Ninth, he is the most non-politically correct politician in years and is unafraid of the American media.
Tenth, he is far and away more likely to win than any other Republican who might be nominated. Ted Cruz would lose to Hillary in a landslide and he is the only alternative. Trump is reconfiguring politics in a way that could renew the American system for a generation in the direction that might actually appeal to a conservative.
If you don’t get it, you don’t get it. But it really should not be that hard to see his appeal.
UPDATE: As for his attitude to violent protest, see this video of Ronald Reagan for a useful comparison. Thank you to Anne for the find.
It’s real simple.
The citizens are sick of the illegal alien inundation.
Trump stepped up and said he would stop it.
I get it.
How an Obscure Adviser to Pat Buchanan Predicted the Wild Trump Campaign in 1996
The Week dot com ^ | Michael Brendan Dougherty
Posted on 1/20/2016, 2:17:11 AM by WayneLusvardi
Imagine giving this advice to a Republican presidential candidate: What if you stopped calling yourself a conservative and instead just promised to make America great again?
What if you dropped all this leftover 19th-century piety about the free market and promised to fight the elites who were selling out American jobs?
What if you just stopped talking about reforming Medicare and Social Security and instead said that the elites were failing to deliver better healthcare at a reasonable price?
What if, instead of vainly talking about restoring the place of religion in society something that appeals only to a narrow slice of Middle America. You simply promised to restore the Middle American core, the economic and cultural losers of globalization to their rightful place in America?
What if you said you would re store them as the chief clients of the American state under your watch, being mindful of their interests when regulating the economy or negotiating trade deals?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3385923/posts
Exactly! As much as they try to disguise it behind the accusations of bully and racist, the political prostitutes know exactly what's driving Trump's popularity, and it scares them to death.
Excellent piece, BTW - thanks for posting!
When interrupters with Bernie signs are visibly seen at a Trump rally and Trump is blamed for a riot one can easily side with Trump against an obvious media attempt to perpetuate a lie.
I was looking at Kasich because he's a "favorite son" candidate in Ohio, but I picked Trump because he's the strongest candidate, period. That's the bottom line. (Well, also I've been gleefully waiting for months to see him face to face with Hillary.)
Bump
me too
The vid goes on to show the media playing the exact same games on Reagan that they are now attempting on Trump.
When Americans aren’t allowed to criticize politicians (Obama for example), we are teetering on the brink of a dictatorship....Trump’s brash style is a direct contrast to the type of censorship masking as Political Correctness in today’s society....
Nothing he can do as President will be as important as if he actually wins.
Many FReepers have known for some time that Trump is no conservative.
Since I watched Kasich this morning play the "War On Womyn" card against Trump, I'm glad you did.
>>Many FReepers have known for some time that Trump is no conservative.
Yep. He gets it.
“What if you dropped all this leftover 19th-century piety about the free market and promised to fight the elites who were selling out American jobs?”
Conservatism cannot survive in an America with 25% real unemployment, the lowest Labor Participation Rate and the highest Part Time Employment Rate in decades, and the massive handout to the insurance industry known as ObamaCare dragging the rest of the economy down.
All Globalists are Progressives, but not all Progressives are Globalists.
If being conservative means being for open borders, then I am an America patriot not a so called conservative.
It doesn't - who said it did?
Hell, we have a whole Congress full of Conservatives, we don't need any more than that.
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