Posted on 06/02/2016 6:13:59 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
A stray comment by Donald Trump is being taken as his campaign’s lodestone, the key to all his beliefs. Asked what the Republican Party would become under him, he told Bloomberg Businessweek, “You’re going to have a worker’s party. A party of people that haven’t had a real wage increase in 18 years, that are angry.”
If anything more had been needed to stoke the GOP establishment’s ire, that was it: a confession that he wanted the party to attend to the needs of ordinary Americans. How socialist! How fascist! How Democratic! You can easily imagine what Paul Ryan’s hero, Ayn Rand, would have said about this. Equally bad, for libertarians, was the suggestion that, in a Trump administration, Americans should matter more than non-Americans. Of all the nasty words in the libertarian lexicon, none is dirtier than nationalism. But if Randists and libertarians have problems with American First economic policies, so much the worse for them. They don’t get Trump, and more importantly they don’t get free market conservatism. Had they looked about, they’d have realized that the countries that beat us on measures of economic freedom are all ones that more closely resemble Trump’s vision for America than anything the Republican establishment offers.
The establishment is right about one thing, however. The party they thought they owned is dead, as dead as the Whigs in 1856, and a new Republican Party is beginning to emerge, one shaped by two crises that the establishment had ignored: income immobility and corruption. Compared to other First World countries, America’s rankings on both issues are mediocre at best, and this represents a betrayal of the promise of America.
Trump’s Republican Party is not so much a new party, however, as a restoration of the GOP’s original principles.
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"They" don't care about Americans having economic freedom, they care about maintaining access to cheap third world labor.
The tax stream from the Home Depot’s, Rite Aids, Burger Kings and all other large chains that you find on Main Street America has made it all but impossible for the old time small business that used to cover the streets of local communities.
Some poor young fool that wants to open a business must go through the same exact Hoops as these big retailers to open his doors.
The small-town businesses that used to sponsor local Little League teams and buy ads in yearbooks are gone.
Yeah you can open a plumbing business, give each other massages or haircuts but the “Workers America” now works for Wall Street and big government and they in turn control what’s right for the masses.
The party they thought they owned is dead, as dead as the Whigs in 1856, and a new Republican Party is beginning to emerge, one shaped by two crises that the establishment had ignored: income immobility and corruption.
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I disagree, what killed the GOPES was their refusal to stop the illegal alien inundation.
The citizens have been begging for them to side with them and the rule of law and they have refused.
Excellent article, thank you for posting. Provides an interesting clarity of thought and background.
There will be some on here that will shout caution to the remarks of “workers party” made by him.
Look at history and anyone can find what happens when big corporations start abusing the workers. I.E. Andrew Carnegie and Fricks management of his steel company, and the miners strike against Calumet and Heckla in the Copper Country in 1913 which resulted in the deaths of 73 children at Italian Hall, etc. Many more examples such as big coal and on and on.
This time it is the same. Crony capitalism using the government to abuse the most productive workers in the world to obtain cheap labor...same then, same now.
These cronys cant understand that a well taken care of work force equals massive profits and stability in their companies. All they think of is the bottom line and the hell with quality. That is what happens when pencil pushers start running companies.
Trump is more Conservative Republican that 99% of the rest of those who “define” themselves by those qualities.
will certainly agree with you trebb.
what's "conservative" about these DC pols that have run up a 19 trillion dollar national debt in the last 15.5 years?
what's "conservative" about admitting 100's of thousands of immigrants (diseases and all) only to add them on to social welfare programs?
what's so "conservative about obamacare?
imo the last truly conservative pol we had in DC was newt who pushed through the contract with america and the last balanced budget in modern history.
Freepers need to Google Teddy Roosevelt’s Progressive Party 3rd party bid which causes hold some historic similarity to Trump’s campaign
“Crony Capitalism” is a pale euphemism for what is really going on here. We need to start calling these basterds what they really are “Fascist Monopolist Oligarchs”. These peckerwoods helped put Hitler in power (Anthony Sutton’s “Wall St. and the Rise of Hitler”) and would do so again today. They are, in fact, Nazi and the enemy of humanity and should be railed against with the same fervor we rail against Leftist radicals. Wall St. bankers ARE THE ENEMY.
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I don’t think Trump is as much of a protectionist as he is someone who wants FAIR trade over FREE trade. And as someone who has supported Free trade in the past, I have come around to the argument that Free isn’t necessarily Fair. And since when was it bad for a Republican to be FOR workers?
Some pie for the average Joe equals landslide election victory.
I really wish that someone would point out that what we have now is actually NOT free trade with most of the world.
Yep - and like so many "principled conservatives" here, a lot of folks spent a lot of time showing him sitting next to Nancy Pelosi in a pic and claiming he was a traitor. I'd love for him to have a significant role in the Trump Administration - even Veep.
Amazing how so many "on our side" seem to love tearing down our best folks and leaving the door wide open for the real enemy.
good points.
the “traitors” imo, are those congress critters that have sat up there over the past 15 years and ran the national debt up to 19+ trillion dollars, opened the boarder to undocoumented disease and crime from illegal aliens, slipped US jobs into the global economy, and spend all their time raising money for re election.
newt did such a great job as speaker that bill clinton now takes credit as the most financially responsible and most conservative pres since reagan.
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