Posted on 05/05/2016 2:48:06 PM PDT by GilGil
The elites’ refusal to grapple with the reality before their eyes continued long after it was obvious Trump was no passing phenomenon. They resorted to increasingly implausible rationalizations to explain his success.
“In nearly every election cycle, there are candidates who lead national polls and sometimes even win states, but don’t come close to winning the nomination,” explained Nate Cohen of the New York Times in December. “It would be tough for Mr. Trump to prevail in a one-on-one contest against a typical mainstream Republican, much in the same way that Mr. Buchanan quickly faltered against Mr. Dole.”
Why, since Trump defined the race from the day he announced, did almost no one in the media and political elite believe that he could win the nomination—even long after it became clear he was dominating the field? What was it they failed to recognize?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
The same contempt the Republicans have for Main street is plaguing the democrats and Hillary. That contempt will destroy Hillary's chances of winning. The voters are mad as hell! How hard is that to understand.
Gingrich is not going to be the VP. He might be a good guy to go on shows and talk nice about Trump, but you could never trust him to keep his mouth shut. VP is only position you can’t fire, need loyalty above all else.
What “they”…
The most important question that was ever proposed to your decision, or to the decision of any people under heaven, is before you, and you are to decide upon it by men of your own election, chosen specially for this purpose. If the constitution, offered to your acceptance, be a wise one, calculated to preserve the invaluable blessings of liberty, to secure the inestimable rights of mankind, and promote human happiness, then, if you accept it, you will lay a lasting foundation of happiness for millions yet unborn; generations to come will rise up and call you blessed. You may rejoice in the prospects of this vast extended continent becoming filled with freemen, who will assert the dignity of human nature. You may solace yourselves with the idea, that society, in this favoured land, will fast advance to the highest point of perfection; the human mind will expand in knowledge and virtue, and the golden age be, in some measure, realised. But if, on the other hand, this form of government contains principles that will lead to the subversion of liberty — if it tends to establish a despotism, or, what is worse, a tyrannic aristocracy; then, if you adopt it, this only remaining assylum for liberty will be shut up, and posterity will execrate your memory.
Momentous then is the question you have to determine, and you are called upon by every motive which should influence a noble and virtuous mind, to examine it well, and to make up a wise judgment. It is insisted, indeed, that this constitution must be received, be it ever so imperfect. If it has its defects, it is said, they can be best amended when they are experienced. But remember, when the people once part with power, they can seldom or never resume it again but by force. Many instances can be produced in which the people have voluntarily increased the powers of their rulers; but few, if any, in which rulers have willingly abridged their authority. This is a sufficient reason to induce you to be careful, in the first instance, how you deposit the powers of government.
So far therefore as its powers reach, all ideas of confederation are given up and lost. It is true this government is limited to certain objects, or to speak more properly, some small degree of power is still left to the states, but a little attention to the powers vested in the general government, will convince every candid man, that if it is capable of being executed, all that is reserved for the individual states must very soon be annihilated, except so far as they are barely necessary to the organization of the general government. The powers of the general legislature extend to every case that is of the least importance — there is nothing valuable to human nature, nothing dear to freemen, but what is within its power. It has authority to make laws which will affect the lives, the liberty, and property of every man in the United States; nor can the constitution or laws of any state, in any way prevent or impede the full and complete execution of every power given. The legislative power is competent to lay taxes, duties, imposts, and excises; — there is no limitation to this power…
And are by this clause invested with the power of making all laws, proper and necessary, for carrying all these into execution; and they may so exercise this power as entirely to annihilate all the state governments, and reduce this country to one single government. And if they may do it, it is pretty certain they will; for it will be found that the power retained by individual states, small as it is, will be a clog upon the wheels of the government of the United States; the latter therefore will be naturally inclined to remove it out of the way. Besides, it is a truth confirmed by the unerring experience of ages, that every man, and every body of men, invested with power, are ever disposed to increase it, and to acquire a superiority over every thing that stands in their way. This disposition, which is implanted in human nature, will operate in the federal legislature to lessen and ultimately to subvert the state authority, and having such advantages, will most certainly succeed, if the federal government succeeds at all.
In a free republic…
Brutus #1 - Anti-federalist
Uprising of the citizens in many states of the republic. HOORAY patriots.
That does it!
We can cross off Megyn Kelly as VP too!
Shea can’t keep her mouth shut either and she is not loyal
“... In her mind the voters need to appreciate her...”
That is a great line and the absolute truth....
I hear many people, analysts, prognosticators, and politicians trying to explain the Turmp "Phenomenon."
They go to great lengths about all sorts of things when it is really pretty easy and straight forward. It's a three bullet point explanation:
1.Most American people have lost complete faith in career politians and the political establishment on both sides of the aisle.
2.Most American people are tired of the US getting a bad rap and bad deals, whether from our own people here, or from people or nations abroad.
3.Most American people believe, irrespective of whatever else, that Donald Trump means what he says and will do all he can to make it happen.
It's really that simple.
Very well said
Jeff, I remember reading that back in Feb., and you are right, “It’s really that simple.”
Why the GOP does not refuse to seat the “winner” of these clearly fraudulent elections is unfathomable. The democrats would, and have, refused to seat the Republican winners of dubious or very close elections.
Secondly, I hope that starting next year, the Trump DOJ will not fail to investigate and prosecute those who commit vote fraud in federal elections, and that congress immediately expel any member who was fraudulently seated. (The senate could have refused to seat Harry Reid, for example, whose election was fraudulent.)
Newt. This guy gets it.
“... In her mind the voters need to appreciate her...”
No single phrase could capture it better. Very well said.
Which I find very interesting, because in the end she is running a pretty typical Democrat strategy of promising to give the people more. And it often works quite well. She will of course claim Obamacare is really just a repackaged Hillarycare and that only she knows how to fix it; she will promise higher minimum wages; she will propose to soak the rich with higher taxes; and $1 Trillion in new spending.
So the first question is, is she having a hard time because Sanders is offering even more? Or is it because they trust him more or like him more. And the second question is, if she cannot manage a victory promising all these giveaways have the mainline Democrats finally come around to realize that we have long past the limits of what we can expect government to accomplish? Sure, your quote captures a repulsive essence and arrogance in her that turns off many people including many on the left. Is that feeling strong enough to cause either defection or abandonment in the general election?
So the first question is, is she having a hard time because Sanders is offering even more? Or is it because they trust him more or like him more. And the second question is, if she cannot manage a victory promising all these giveaways have the mainline Democrats finally come around to realize that we have long past the limits of what we can expect government to accomplish? Sure, your quote captures a repulsive essence and arrogance in her that turns off many people including many on the left. Is that feeling strong enough to cause either defection or abandonment in the general election?
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I am an avid reader of Scott Adams. He has followed Trump’s candidacy since June and has made a series of predictions that have 100% come true including that he would be nominated.
Scott has gone further. He has said that by October it will appear as if Trump is running unopposed and that the word landslide will be used to describe Trump’s candidacy!
I could see Trump keeping Gingrich around as a close advisor on how to deal with Congress but that’s about it.
+1
**The answer is simple. It wasn’t Trump that the media and political elites failed to understand. It was the American people.**
I have become a daily visitor to the Dilbert blog myself. Good stuff there and Scott knows what he’s talking about.
I’ve also been following Scott Adams. Great.blog
Newt can have a place in the new Trump cabinate but Not VP. He can use his knowledge of Washington DC but—is he loyal?
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