Posted on 08/28/2015 5:48:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
While I continue to admire Donald Trump’s ability to command attention at long, rambling, unscripted press conferences, I still am not persuaded he will be the next President of the United States. Nonetheless, the GOP establishment in Washington has decided to treat Donald Trump the way the Bush White House treated many conservative leaders in 2005 during the immigration fight. They’re labeling him racist for daring to oppose Republican leadership preferences on immigration.
Trump is doing something quite amazing. He has taken the political class equivalent of the Island of Misfit Toys and turned it into a campaign team besting the best and brightest of the Republican Party — an even more damning indictment against the GOP political consultant class than Project ORCA. He has captured the souls of almost a quarter of Republican Party voters and fashioned a coalition of people angry at Washington; people angry at Mexico and China; and people who are angry at people of any skin color other than white. Oh, and we should add in the Christians who have some idolatrous ideal of American Jesus and have decided their savior will not be Christ, but a man on his third marriage who says he cannot relate to anyone in the Bible, cannot name a favorite Bible verse, has said he never asked God for forgiveness, and has a prosperity gospel preacher as a spiritual advisor. American Jesus for the win!
I have never seen a single campaign composed of more angry souls — people who believe America is no longer great and are pissed off about it, people who think Washington is actively opposed to making the United States great; white supremacists; conspiracy theorists; Jew haters; and more. If you believe the President is a foreign born Kenyan muslim sleeper cell of one, you are probably voting for Donald Trump. In the same way, if you believe Washington has destroyed the country and there is no one on the national stage who can make America great again, you are probably also voting for the one candidate who has been in bankruptcy court more than all the other candidates combined. This is a coalition of anger, but angry people who are mutually incompatible. The Christians and those who want to make America great again are not racists and the racists are not Christian, but they all are on Team Trump.
Here’s the thing though — the vast majority of Trump supporters are angry, but they are not racist. Certainly a loud element of racists have taken to Team Trump. His campaign needs to deal with that. But most of the people who are with Trump do not hate hispanic immigrants, they are angered by law breakers who are going unpunished. They are not opposed to immigration, but to illegal immigration.
In 2005, as the Bush Administration began to push for comprehensive immigration reform, leadership elements both in the White House and the Congressional GOP reacted to opponents of the plan by labeling all of them racist. Again, there certainly are racists who oppose immigration reform, but the brush used to paint the opponents was so broad to demand that all opponents of immigration be considered racist.
Again in 2015, the same thing is happening. Trump is taking a very vocal stand against law breaking, including crossing the border illegally. This has been interpreted not just by the left, but by Republican establishment leaders as “we hate brown people.” Trump has been clear this is not true.
At the same time, there are very vocal racists and white supremacists who have gravitated to Trump. They have flooded social media, email, and websites raising not just the confederate battle flag, but the Neo-Nazi flag. I suspect Trump does not even know this.
For all the faults I have with Donald Trump, he is not a racist and I have no hesitation in defending him on this point. He was raised in the church of Norman Vincent Peale, a man who championed the power of positive thinking. Most of his supporters, though very angry, are not people who hate Mexicans. They are just outraged at the integrity of our American border being unsecured and politicized. Republicans in Washington who’ve decided to go after Trump for being a racist are again proving they do not know how to deal with Trump and are also proving they have no intention of securing the border. They just keep playing right into his hands.
Erickson wouldn’t even let him in on a debate for the same reasons
He sounds like a woman scorned.
The GOP is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Cheap Labor Express. They do not care that 65% of the citizens do not want to abandon the rule of law and surrender the country to fraudulently documented foreigners.
They had planned to nominate ¡Yeb! right in the teeth of a majority of their voters, but then Trump happened.
Trump is not a conservative, but he does want to stop The Cheap Labor Express and that may be enough.
We never needed “comprehensive immigration reform” - we just need to enforce our existing laws
Hey, I’ll compromise- lets just enforce only the EXACT SAME LAWS that Mexico has.
And build the exact same fence Mexico has on its southern border.
Erick is a disgrace to viking heritage everywhere.
And Mark Steyn is laughing all the way to the bank.
Erickson chose to write about Trump, so that someone will read his writings, period.
Erickson does not see the underlying American nationalism, that was once worn very well, for all the years before the queer mulatto.
Erickson going for a little damage control.
Trump may be many things, but “racist” isn’t one of them.
From denial stage to bargaining.
See this post and below for links.
They have initiated a holocaust on Trump supporters and admirers, and sometimes even those that made slight positive mention.
Ironically Erick himself is kind of tepid now on the Trump Derangement Syndrome, going a bit wobbly, but he has two moderators in particular that are loose cannons blasting away wildly.
“There is NOTHING more conservative than stopping a permanent democrat/marxist voting majority and doing whats best for the people and the country. By virtue of Mr.Trump’s position on illegal immigration he “Trumps” all others conservatism.”
Erickson sucking up while simultaneously attempting to appear like he’s not sucking up makes me LOL.
Yep...that’s what I was thinking.
Erick’s hoping to go from dog meat to “he said some very nice things about me...and, I appreciate that”, from Trump.
Meh.
I’ll bet you dollars to donuts Erickson has had a *substantial* decrease in hits to his web site..
He’s more tone deaf than the GOPe.
Noonan: America Is So in Play
( if that fails, try using the backdoor at RCP into Google
"Something is going on, some tectonic plates are moving in interesting ways. My friend Cesar works the deli counter at my neighborhood grocery store. He is Dominican, an immigrant, early 50s, and listens most mornings to a local Hispanic radio station, La Mega, on 97.9 FM. Their morning show is the popular “El Vacilón de la Mañana,” and after the first GOP debate, Cesar told me, they opened the lines to call-ins, asking listeners (mostly Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican) for their impressions. More than half called in to say they were for Mr. Trump. Their praise, Cesar told me a few weeks ago, dumbfounded the hosts. I later spoke to one of them, who identified himself as D.J. New Era. He backed Cesar’s story. “We were very surprised,” at the Trump support, he said. Why? “It’s a Latin-based market!”“He’s the man,” Cesar said of Mr. Trump. This week I went by and Cesar told me that after Mr. Trump threw Univision’s well-known anchor and immigration activist, Jorge Ramos, out of an Iowa news conference on Tuesday evening, the “El Vacilón” hosts again threw open the phone lines the following morning and were again surprised that the majority of callers backed not Mr. Ramos but Mr. Trump. Cesar, who I should probably note sees me, I sense, as a very nice establishment person who needs to get with the new reality, was delighted."
I said: Cesar, you’re supposed to be offended by Trump, he said Mexico is sending over criminals, he has been unfriendly, you’re an immigrant. Cesar shook his head: No, you have it wrong. Immigrants, he said, don’t like illegal immigration, and they’re with Mr. Trump on anchor babies. “They are coming in from other countries to give birth to take advantage of the system. We are saying that! When you come to this country, you pledge loyalty to the country that opened the doors to help you.”
She is making the case that his support is vast and wide. And that the elites will never know what hit them.
And establishment Fatman Erichson is part of the problem playing along with RNC/GOP until “We the People” and “For the people” saying ENOUGH is enough, not Donald Trump. It’s us, and he is our “power tool” trying to wake up the establishment McDonnell/Boehner who are totally out of touch with us, likewise the fourth estate, Knee-Pad media!!!
This bears repeating.
Here's our choice:
1) The practical guy who will do what I want 75% of the time, and save the country in the process; vs.
2) The (mythical) ideologically-pure guy who will do what I want 100% of the time, but who can't get elected.
I'll choose Door #1 every time. The Perfect is the enemy of the Good - because trying to attain that which is perfect necessarily precludes being able to actually DO what is good. FYI, credit to General George S. Patton, Jr. for the quotes about the Perfect and the Good.
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