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Posted on 05/27/2016 7:52:22 AM PDT by mandaladon
Let's give credit where it's due. When Donald Trump took his famous escalator ride nearly a year ago, few people outside Trump Tower thought he could win the Republican presidential nomination.
Now he has secured the majority of delegates. Before the Republican National Convention. Before the June 7 primaries, including New Jersey and California. Before receiving House Speaker Paul Ryan's endorsement. Before Hillary Clinton.
Trump did this without a pollster. Without a campaign staff of even 100 people. Without moderating his rhetoric. Without acting presidential. Without the support of either the party establishment or the conservative movement.
The billionaire was ridiculed as not even being a real candidate. (There was a chart to prove it!) He quickly dispatched a field of 17 other contenders who were mostly highly regarded, including senators, governors and perhaps a half a dozen potential presidents, before Clinton could put away septuagenarian socialist Bernie Sanders. Today, Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee.
When the Trump campaign predicted in an internal memo that their candidate would amass over 1,400 delegates, it seemed like an absurd projection. Now it's not quite so farfetched. The Associated Press has him at 1,238 already. Winner-take-all New Jersey plus just half of California's delegates would put him 25 votes away from this threshold.
Some of it was luck. Some of it was a series of well-timed implosions. Marco Rubio never achieved liftoff. Ted Cruz never really consolidated conservatives. John Kasich never came close to winning outside Ohio. The big Republican donors never opened their wallets against him and party leaders like Mitt Romney sat on their hands until it was too late.
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Business IS POLITICS.............................
The citizens have been sick of the invasion and colonization of our country for decades.
Trump stood up and said he would stop it.
The citizens have been waiting for someone to stand for the rule of law and for them.
All the others were more concerned about the fraudulently documented foreigners and their employers.
He spoke to the issues that are important to the American people. Trump’s success is because “We the People” voted for him! Because we would no longer accept the standard elite political class fare served up by the party who ignored us and slandered us.
What is really telling is the popular vote.
After June 7, he will have the most votes for any primary republican candidate in history.
Accomplishing that with 16 opponents.
“moderates who thought the GOP elected officials were too obstructionist”:
Just an insane abuse and perversion of the word ‘Moderate’.
Real moderates (the ideological middle third of voters between conservatives and liberals) are attracted by Trump’s policies.
Trump’s policies appeal to all but the fringes of moderate and conservative voters. That coalition has and will sustain his campaign.
He had the base when he said the word WALL
**Marco Rubio never achieved liftoff. Ted Cruz never really consolidated conservatives. John Kasich never came close to winning outside Ohio.**
So true.
Everything is political
The home is a benevolent dictatorship
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Businesses need to be aware of political trends and act accordingly if they are to prosper. If being smart and using tact as needed is politics, then most of Citizenship/everyday life IS POLITICS.............................
Trump is just a vessel for anti-establishment anger.
Few people know what he’s really going to do, but it doesn’t matter all that much. All that matters is he’s not one of THEM.
If it turns out that this is all a game or a ruse, his descent will match the rapidity of his ascent. On the other hand, if he’s serious about cleaning house and getting the US back on the path to peace and prosperity, they’re going to have to find more space on Mount Rushmore.
Rubio was the poster boy for Amnesty in a year when the overwhelming majority of republican voters thought stopping Amnesty was one of the most important issues in the election. Kasich was wrong on Amnesty, on Obamacare, and on social issues, sounding like a democrat on every major issue in this election. As for Cruz, his strategy was to outplay his many opponents, state by state, to win at the convention, using his almost undisputed standing as the conservative standard bearer . . . until Trump carried that standard much more effectively than Cruz could have managed or even imagined.
Luck had nothing to do with it. Trump shaped the discussion to play to his own strengths and then squeezed Cruz out by being more likable.
Trump’s insurgency has upended the old order.
Both conservatism and liberalism have run out of ideas.
Trump is pushing the GOP onto a populist path and he will likely get his way in Cleveland.
Voters want practical answers to America’s problems and are uninterested in debating ideology.
Given the mood, Trump seems like the candidate for the times.
There really is no such thing as a moderate. It is an entirely fabricated term by the Left to get Republicans to appeal to a non-existent political bloc so they can water-down conservative principles.
The media’s “moderate” is a false construct.
But of course a real moderate exists- by definition.
The media is deceiving people by conflating the two.
We are faced with ‘politics’ everyday in our private lives.
At work, in school, in churches, even.
Our relationships with others and our own needs and wants are all wrapped up in ‘politics’ of one sort or another.
Businesses have to deal with vendors, each other and their competitors in a political way.
As some 19th century German philosopher once said, “Laws (and hence politics) are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.”...........................
Some of it was luck. Some of it was a series of well-timed implosions.
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Trump made his own luck and got his opponents to trip all over themselves.
I read this as an attempt to whitewash the GOPe from their flagrant attempts to manipulate their own process:
“The big Republican donors never opened their wallets against him and party leaders like Mitt Romney sat on their hands until it was too late.”
Really? So the $200M Yeb burned through never happened, the RedState and National Review firestorms were a figment of my imagination, the “everyone get Trump” debates are in the memory hole, and the panoply of #nevertrump GOPe power brokers never actually dominated Fox and other channels for months running?
Just because the author wrote some complimentary things about Trump does not mean this article is actually in his praise. IMO it’s all about pretending the GOPe just slept through the primary process, when in reality they exercised every sneaky trick, every dollar they could scrounge, and every attack they could muster from Iowa onwards.
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