Yeah, no foolin’
I’ve been telling the politicians for YEARS to get off the “diversity train” and make your appeals to the white working class. OUT with “affirmative action” and “diversity” crap. In with merit, good/safe schools, family and WORK
The rest of them can GTH
They are STILL trying to over-think it to figure out what happened...
DECADES OF BEING LIED TO is what happened
And poeple are sick of it.
If Trump had not come around something else might have- incluing armed insurrection
Yeah. That's the hilarious part. There are still idiots in the Rust Belt who think the Rat party and Trumka are on their side.
Only if they say that pedophilia is a civil right.
But the fools keep voting for them, and the Rats keep doing pulling the Lucy Van Pelt stunt on them.
This election we will find out if they finally get that. This time they have a choice, instead of tinhorn frauds like "Mitt" (!) Romney or Mad Jonny McCain.
The big appeal about Trump is that he is *not* a politician, inexperienced or otherwise. He is a regular person. He understands the people.
As for "uncouth"--he is no more so than any normal person. He just doesn't meet the standards of the professional Republican class. However, he is way more couth than the average professional Democrat politician.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the white working class lasts for a thousand years, men will say, “This was their finest hour.”
Quoting that murdering pig Che Guevara isn’t going to win friends and influence conservatives, honey.
They always have to throw in “white”. Trump energizes “Americans”. That includes “white”, “black”, “working-class”, “rich”, “poor”, ...
Maybe a higher percentage of “white working-class” citizens consider themselves to be “Americans” first while other groups consider themselves “black-american” or “gay-american” or whatever rather than “Americans”. But Trump is energizing the “Americans” in every group.
Trump’s ascent just means that the party lines are being drawn. It used to be Republicans favored social conservatism while Democrats favored social liberalism. They both were more or less pro-corporatist, either of Koch flavor or of Soros flavor.
Trump single-handedly re-drew the lines. The conservatives have lost the cultural war. Get used to gay marriage and abortion. Even Trump is for them. Okay, the new party lines are being drawn around Nationalism vs Globalism. Women, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Gays, and immigrants in general are backed by corporatists to benefit the Globalist Democratic party. Whites, particularly males, are Nationalists and are convinced of Trump — they are the new Republicans. The new deciders are White females. They determine who wins and who loses.
The damage done in the last 4 years has been horrendous
The silent majority of working class stiffs woke up 4 years too late and the worst of the damage has already been done.
The pivotal election was in 2012, now the 2016 election only determines who manages the inevitable Obama engineered crisis and who picks up the pieces.
Light ‘em up!
Donald, if your staff is reading: Please look into the H1B situation and how it displaces perfectly capable American STEM workers by forcing the H1B’s to work as indentured servants (75 hour weeks) to keep from being deported.
Trump gave voice to what the other 17 ignored, and still ignore, and will always ignore. In other GOP words, f the working class, they’re not Wall Street. But all but Sanders also say f the working class, they’re pro-life.
In order words, the working class is ignored.
1- Organize 6 armies.
2- Place one east of Seattle, one east of San Francisco, one east of Los Angeles, One west of New York City, One west of Wash DC, one west of Boston.
3- Have them march to the sea.
4- Mop up Sacramento later.
5- Problem solved.
In 1976, Donald Warren—a sociologist from Oakland University in Michigan who would die two decades later without ever attaining the rank of full professor—published a book called The Radical Center: Middle Americans and the Politics of Alienation. Few people have read or heard of it—I learned of it about 30 years ago from the late, very eccentric paleoconservative Samuel Francis—but it is, in my opinion, one of the three or four books that best explain American politics over the past half-century.
While conducting extensive surveys of white voters in 1971 and again in 1975, Warren identified a group who defied the usual partisan and ideological divisions. These voters were not college educated; their income fell somewhere in the middle or lower-middle range; and they primarily held skilled and semi-skilled blue-collar jobs or sales and clerical white-collar jobs. At the time, they made up about a quarter of the electorate. What distinguished them was their ideology: It was neither conventionally liberal nor conventionally conservative, but instead revolved around an intense conviction that the middle class was under siege from above and below.
Warren called these voters Middle American Radicals, or MARS. “MARS are distinct in the depth of their feeling that the middle class has been seriously neglected,” Warren wrote. They saw “government as favoring both the rich and the poor simultaneously.” Like many on the left, MARS were deeply suspicious of big business: Compared with the other groups he surveyed—lower-income whites, middle-income whites who went to college, and what Warren called “affluents”—MARS were the most likely to believe that corporations had “too much power,” “don’t pay attention,” and were “too big.” MARS also backed many liberal programs: By a large percentage, they favored government guaranteeing jobs to everyone; and they supported price controls, Medicare, some kind of national health insurance, federal aid to education, and Social Security.
On the other hand, they held very conservative positions on poverty and race. They were the least likely to agree that whites had any responsibility “to make up for wrongs done to blacks in the past,” they were the most critical of welfare agencies, they rejected racial busing, and they wanted to grant police a “heavier hand” to “control crime.” They were also the group most distrustful of the national government. And in a stand that wasn’t really liberal or conservative (and that appeared, at least on the surface, to be in tension with their dislike of the national government), MARS were more likely than any other group to favor strong leadership in Washington—to advocate for a situation “when one person is in charge.”
If these voters are beginning to sound familiar, they should: Warren’s MARS of the 1970s are the Donald Trump supporters of today....