Trump is winning for one reason:
Posted on 11/27/2015 11:45:44 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
McKay Coppins: “Trump’s dominance in this year’s presidential primary race has often been described as a mysterious natural phenomenon: the Donald riding a wild, unpredictable tsunami of conservative populist anger that just now happens to be crashing down on the Republican establishment. But in fact, Trump spent years methodically building and buying support for himself in a vast, right-wing counter-establishment — one that exists entirely outside the old party infrastructure and is quickly becoming just as powerful.â€
“These forces have asserted themselves repeatedly in the fight over the future of the Republican Party. But Trump came to understand their power earlier than most. When no one was watching, he was assuming command of this Fringe Establishment, building an army of activists and avatars that he would eventually deploy in his scorched-earth assault on the GOP’s old guard, on his rivals in the primary field — and, as an early test case in the winter of 2014, on me.â€
You guys? Meaning me? I hated Romney and that was actually the first time I did not work the phones at GOP central or do anything to help with the campaign. Even with McCain, because Palin was the VP candidate, I got out there and worked.
But I still remember your no doubt hero, Rush Limbaugh, gushing about how he had seen Romney and his freaky looking wife going out to vote and telling listeners “what a decent, decent man” Romney was and what a beautiful family he had and how wonderful it was to have him running. But now Rush has switched to Trump so all is forgiven.
When no one was watching, he was assuming command of this Fringe Establishment, building an army of activists and avatars that he would eventually deploy in his scorched-earth assault on the GOP's old guard, on his rivals in the primary field - and, as an early test case in the winter of 2014, on me.
There is never a left wing fringe. There is no extreme left. There are no left wing fanatics. And there is such a thing as a moderate muslim.
Gives almost NO support for his thesis.
Trump is supported by a centrist conservative-moderate electorate because of his immigration platform.
But the media doesn’t want anyone to know that.
Increasing and easing immigration is supposed to be the centrist position.
So they make up whatever they can out of whatever’s at hand.
Well, Franco was actually an excellent general and a reluctant warrior who did feel that he was called to protect Spain. He was also a gentleman and obviously completely non-corrupt, since the left has spent the last 40 years since his death trying to get something on him. Some of his supporting officials were not that good and he didn’t rein them in, but that was about the worst you could say.
The problem with Trump is that he doesn’t really have a program. Hitler, Lenin and even Stalin all had programs, and normally a populist uses the currents of popular opinion and the grievances of various segments to get himself and his program into power.
Obama was a populist, tapping into black and working class white resentment along with the desire of the leftist intellectual world to support s black (even faux black) person. But he had the left wing of the Democratic Party supplying him with a program, whereas Trump has nothing, not even the GOP platform, since he doesn’t support or even appear to know most of it. So once the anger runs out or once it comes time for voters who aren’t as angry, I think there will be nothing left.
These are just my observations. I’m not working for anybody. I’d vote for Cruz if he can manage to get enough broad support to be the candidate, although I’m not really thrilled about him, for some reason. But I have a lurking feeling that somebody else is going to emerge - although I don’t know who - and I certainly hope so. Otherwise it will be president Hillary hellacious Clinton and Billy Jeff redux.
Common core math at work. Jeb Bush, a new form of 1%-er
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It was touching how the boys kept up with Barbara Billingsley over the years and visited her before she died in 2010; hard to believe it’s been five years now. I believe I read she was a heavy smoker, like Pat Nixon and Jackie Kennedy.
I always though Billingsley looked like Pat Nixon; they were three years apart in age.
Didn’t ‘’The Andy Griffith Show’’ have some episodes partly in church? Of course, Gene Kelly’s ‘’Going My Way’’ did.
Like you, I’m a Cruz supporter, but if Trump wins the nomination, I’ll campaign for him.
And of course, the adults wore pajamas to bed and wore dresses and pearls to clean. My mother never wore dresses to clean only slacks.
I went in to ask ‘em about it and I was banned in 3 comments. A personal record for me.
regarding a program, there are enough self evident problems that need immediate and perhaps long range attention that a program is not necessary.
Tending to the problems remaining in Iraq is a big piece of work. Tending to the elimination of Obamacare is a very big piece of work.Tending to the actual and effective closing of the borders is a big piece of work.
Just these three will have unintended consequences that must be tended to.
By close attention to the above three, Trump can go a long way towards Making America Great Again which is program enough for starters.
I am hangin there for Dr Carson
Not really. Cruz is a slightly better version of a mainstream GOPer. Cruz is establishment all the way.
Trump is winning for one reason:
That was the slimes website?
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