Posted on 07/18/2016 2:01:17 AM PDT by raccoonradio
NO POLITICAL LEADER since Ronald Reagan has created the excitement and buzz that Donald Trump has. He is the first politician since that late, great president to go over the heads of the media and elite ruling class and speak directly to the American people.
He is concerned that our country is no longer a country, and that America has sold out its sovereignty to a nondemocratic internationalist order, at the expense of the American worker and of American jobs. He has been criticized by opponents for not having elaborate position papers down to the last detail.
Trump, unlike the robotic and dull Mitt Romney, gives no slick PowerPoint presentations. Trump merely says, “We are getting killed.” And the people know exactly what he is talking about.
Trump is an exciting political presence, responsible for drawing new people into the political process. The American people today are frustrated. They feel our whole political process is unresponsive. They continually vote for political reform, sending people to Washington hoping they will do something, and are then betrayed as the newly elected representatives become a saccharine travesty of the reform they clamored for.
What makes a country a country is its sovereignty. A country that has no borders, and whose independence is restricted by internationalist agreements, is no longer a sovereign nation. The Democrats and, sadly, some Republicans (House Speaker Ryan) would allow noncitizens the right to vote, provide free college tuition for them, and would provide welfare benefits while letting more of them stream over our unprotected borders.
It must be reiterated that Trump is not against immigration. He advocates legal immigration. His mother was an immigrant, a Gaelic speaker from the isle of Lewis, off Scotland. Trump believes the process must be legal, as it was for the millions of those who came to America’s shores over the past two centuries seeking the American dream of economic betterment, peace, and prosperity. Trump’s popularity is perplexing to the establishment. But it is readily understood by the majority of Americans.
Trump speaks for the average American worker. He wants prosperity at home and peace abroad. His conservatism is not a dogma. Trump seeks to conserve our best values at home, and not go abroad promoting monolithic internationalism — a monster of many tentacles, as John Quincy Adams warned.
Trump is not a conservative as defined by George F. Will on one of his Weekly Standard cruises. Will, a former Democrat, is in reality no conservative, but is actually a 19th-century liberal ideologue, of the Manchester school of economics. Trump’s thinking is more akin to the nationalism expressed by Theodore Roosevelt, who believed the government should intervene in the economy to protect all Americans, under what he called the Square Deal.
I believe Trump has been under political assault by the media and establishment because he is beholden to no one. Trump runs his own operation from the fifth floor of Trump Tower, in a kind of unfinished storage area. It is not from the plush surroundings of marble and gold featured in “The Apprentice.” Yet from here, with his small group of campaign staff, he has let forth a cry to Washington insiders and the corrupt political establishment: “You’re fired!” It is a cry like a voice from Mount Olympus that echoes in the hearts of the American people and will put him in the White House by a landslide.
Lou Murray is a delegate to the Republican National Convention from the Eighth Congressional District.
Excellent! This explains it really well, what the self-styled “elites” still can’t manage to grasp.
Very well put, Trump speaks for people who believe this nation was given to us by God.
And he gained his wisdom by on the job training.
Hillary’s campaign strategy changed subtly, but significantly, in the last week or so.
She used to talk about her policies and what she would do if elected, but now that’s changed to full screeching mode - attacking Trump all the time, all negativity, no positive vision offered.
That switch indicates that Trump is now ahead in the polling (though the Dems will never admit it). If Hillary was still leading, why would they change tactics?
Wow ! From of all the unlikely places the Boston Globe ????
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>>Lou Murray is a delegate to the Republican National Convention from the Eighth Congressional District.
Though admittedly a Mass. Republican
Of course the comments are from typical Globe readers
>>I saw Trump and Pence on Sixty Minutes tonight. A mind so shallow that it could only belong to a high school cheerleader...Trump is basically a trade school graduate with no legal education. His goal is not the White House. It is to promote the Trump brand.
>>How does this guy get an Op-Ed? I hope that if the Globe publishes an Op-Ed by a delegate to the Democratic Convention, they will choose a better spokesperson.
>>Trump’s supporters are as delusional as Trump is. Or willfully ignorant. Take your pick.
>>Lou whoever? There should be no pride in being a delegate for Trump. The entire reason the country is in standstill is the Republican Party that would rather see the entire country go down the tubes than work with the Democrsts (sic)_ to actually solve problems.
Attacking Trump is all that Hillary’s got. She can’t run on her record, the party’s new platform is lunacy—what’s left?
The shift came right after the DNC put their post Bernie pro CPUSA platform together.
It's really very simple.
You are a jealous rat because those two men had an awesome interview and will be in the White House Early next year. Hillary is a complete mess and don’t forget about her ongoing criminal investigation of perjury and the evil Clinton foundation.
Those were Globe reader comments.
The cop killings are creating a large Trump Underground — people who won’t say Trump to a pollster but who will vote Trump on Election Day.
And they never will...egos run amuck cannot get out of their own way to see clearly and admit error.
Let’s hope. That interview he did last night with Mike Pence on 60 minutes was absolutely horrible, made him look like a complete hypocrite which was probably CBS intention.
Mr. Trump speaks common sense.
Oh, my, it looks like the Globe readers are complete idiots.
What in the world does a president need a legal education for? Haven’t lawyers trying to do the executive job of president done enough damage to the country?
And the one who thinks that Democrats actually solve problems? All Democrats ever do is steal money from the productive to buy votes from the nonproductive. How does that solve problems?
Trump has been doing a great job in pointing out the hypocrisy of the mainstream media. If this interview did not look good, all Trump has to do is hit the media with it. He could even cut them off like he did WaPo.
It was HEAVILY edited, it was a joke, like some HIgh school kid edited it. You would see Trump talking then all of a sudden he would be cut off and then Leslie Stahl would ask another “got you” question, like why is it OK for Pence to support the Iraq invasion and not Hillary. NO questions about the terrorist attacks, what illegals are doing to the country, how Obama has divided the nation, the whole interview was a disaster, a total set up and already liberals are using it against Trump. I don’t know why he did it. This is the same stupid show that asked HIllary and Obama “Do you two like each other” after the Benghazi attacks. NO questions about Benghazi, only soft question about how they like each other, total leftist show.
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