They should read Jeff Sessions' brilliant piece written over 2 years ago, Becoming the party of work--How the GOP can help struggling Americans, and itself. It is the template for victory and only Trump appears to have read it. An excerpt:
According to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll, seven in ten voters believe that the Republican party is “out of touch with the concerns of most people in the United States today.” What follows is a plan for how the GOP can win back their trust — and a build a conservative majority in the process. But first, a little history.
When Americans went to the polls in 2012, the following was true: Work-force participation had sunk to its lowest level in 35 years, wages had fallen below 1999 levels, and 47 million Americans were on food stamps. Yet Mitt Romney, the challenger to the incumbent president, lost lower- and middle-income voters by an astonishing margin. Among voters earning $30,000 to $50,000, he trailed by 15 points, and among voters earning under $30,000 he trailed by 28 points.
And what did the GOP’s brilliant consultant class conclude from this resounding defeat? They declared that the GOP must embrace amnesty. The Republican National Committee dutifully issued a report calling for a “comprehensive immigration reform” that would inevitably increase the flow of low-skilled immigration, reducing the wages and living standards of the very voters whose trust the GOP had lost.
Over the past four decades, as factories were shuttered and blue-collar jobs were outsourced or automated, net immigration quadrupled. Yet the corporate-consultant class has pronounced that an insufficient level of immigration is the problem. A more colossal misreading of the political moment has rarely occurred.
Perhaps the most important political development now unfolding in the U.S. is the public’s growing loss of faith in our political and financial elites of both parties. To open the ears of disaffected voters, the GOP must break publicly from the elite immigration consensus of Wall Street and Davos. Republicans have a clear path to building a conservative majority if they free themselves from the corporate consultants and demonstrate to the American public that the GOP is the only party aligned with the core interests, concerns, and beliefs of everyday hardworking citizens.
But the immigration “principles” offered by House GOP leaders imply that record immigration levels must be increased further to meet “the needs of employers.” One such GOP proposal — to provide the food industry with half a million low-skilled workers each year — was polled by Rasmussen. Nearly 70 percent of independent voters opposed it.
“Most business leaders have long favored more open immigration. Different businesses want different kinds of people,” a prominent GOP fundraiser declared on TV. “A restaurant may want waiters and cooks; a hospital wants nurses and doctors; a university wants physicists; a business like Exelon needs more engineers.” Asked by the interviewer about hiring U.S. workers for open jobs, he replied that many of those now unemployed are “unable to compete for them.”
Is that the message of a winning party? It might win a majority of votes at a dinner party in a gated community in Bel Air, but it is an act of profound delusion to think that plan can form the basis of a nationwide Republican resurgence.
Democrats in Washington have already cast their lot. A recent report from the Center for Immigration Studies shows that all net employment gains from 2000 to 2013 — a period of record legal immigration — went to immigrant workers, and yet the immigration plan championed by the White House and congressional Democrats would triple the number of immigrants given permanent legal status over the next decade, and it would double the annual flow of guest workers to compete for jobs in every sector of the U.S. economy. The Democrats’ plan delivers for international corporations, open-borders groups, and even workers now living in other countries — all at the expense of American workers.
So Republicans have a choice. They can either join the Democrats as the second political party in Washington advocating uncontrolled immigration, or they can offer the public a principled alternative and represent the American workers Democrats have jettisoned. Republicans can either help the White House enact an immigration plan that will hollow out the American middle class, or they can finally expose the truth about the White House plan and detail the enormous harm it will inflict.
So Republicans have a choice. They can either join the Democrats as the second political party in Washington advocating uncontrolled immigration, or they can offer the public a principled alternative and represent the American workers Democrats have jettisoned. Republicans can either help the White House enact an immigration plan that will hollow out the American middle class, or they can finally expose the truth about the White House plan and detail the enormous harm it will inflict.
Great stuff,voters are tired of the status quo on both sides.They want someone,something, new. That’s Donald Trump. They will get him.
Despite the old communist associations with “Workers Party”, Donald clearly gives it new meaning, i.e.....The party of those who honestly work for a living vs. those who could work but expect the govt. to care for them via welfare programs, food stamps, disability, etc.
Morning Cousin Mike!
I put the McLaughlin family crest you posted last week on Facebook. Man all the McLaughlins came out of the woodwork and they had all kinds of different crests.
Anyway my granddaughter is out helping her father load the truck. She’s 12 and doing a bang up job. Granddaughter’s name is Frey and son-in-law has to deal with crazy daughter, only she is his WIFE! she had so many PFA’s against him and she had him arrested so many times my head spins.
She manipulates the system with ease and fluidity.
Anyway I say to son-in-law that granddaughter’s expert journeyman skills come from the McLaughlin side of the family.
Son-in-law laughs and says it sure ain’t from the Fish side.
Well of course granddaughter is NOT a Fish and this is important in that we are going to Mass. this summer and visit brother-in-law Mike Fish and mother-in-law. Mike, a great guy, my beloved ex-husband’s brother, has a son, Matthew. I want Kaitlyn to meet Matthew as they are NOT related.
Finally, I got a little rant about Hillary Clinton.
Every day I sit and ponder when is the hammer going to come down. When is that woman going to get kicked out of the race because folks, day and night and night and day I do not see people voting for that woman.
She is very unlikeable, she is obviously so crooked. Already the polls show her falling behind.
The email thing is not helping her and I pray let it go on and on and on.
I predict she won’t last beyond end of June.
Thanks Kabar for posting the excerpt from Jeff Sessions. I think that you are right about Trump not only reading it a couple years ago but using it as a blueprint now. His positions on the wall and with trade fit perfectly well with revitalizing our blue collar work force. You can readily appreciate the tremendous primary turnout that set records for the stale GOP. The elites see the same as you and I, but many are still in denial.
I think the inter-dimensional portal had a rift. We got the FNS program fRom a different universe. Panelist discussion sounds like MSNBC