That’s a good point.
Some commentators have observed that Republican voters are motivated by an irrational anger for the GOP Congress compromising with Obama too much,and that’s why they rejected the traditional GOP candidates.
This doesn’t make sense to me. The uncompromising GOP candidate was Cruz, not Trump. Trump was the explicitly non ideological candidate - he presented himself as a non ideological (conservative leaning) deal maker.
The angry uncompromising voters somehow rejected the uncompromising GOP candidate, Cruz.
Like most media mind viruses, it makes no sense.
That’s a good point.
Some commentators have observed that Republican voters are motivated by an irrational anger for the GOP Congress compromising with Obama too much,and that’s why they rejected the traditional GOP candidates.
This doesn’t make sense to me. The uncompromising GOP candidate was Cruz, not Trump. Trump was the explicitly non ideological candidate - he presented himself as a non ideological (conservative leaning) deal maker.
The angry uncompromising voters somehow rejected the uncompromising GOP candidate, Cruz.
I heard Ted Baxter is moving on from Fox. You should apply. You would fit right in with what is LEFT.
They all, including Trump, disappoint me most of the time in one way or another.
Trump does some things that seem downright irrational. He does break the status quo though. NATO for example, what do we truly get out of NATO? We have been conditioned to believe that it is still necessary because we have always been in it. Is it effective? Are we willing and able to make it effective? Probably not. Rand Corp estimates that Putin could overtake the Balkans in 60 hours or less and NATO is powerless to stop it. NATO has become expensive window dressing to me. So is Trump right to challenge the status quo? In that regard, I think so.
Erdogan, Trump has made comments of late that tend to support him? Incongruous. I can’t understand it. I can’t see how he is wired. He may survive in his own organization being a loose cannon but he can’t have done what he has done being that way all the time. Can he?
The irrational anger against congress is not irrational at all. It is perfectly rational. Some of the people are sick and tired of paying all the bills, carrying all the freight and not having a voice that is heard. It makes perfect sense to reject traditional candidates and the traditional GOP. Both have betrayed us.
Cruz has shown himself to be mostly uncompromising as long as he thinks it is good for Ted. That does not mean he is without ideals. At the heart of things though is what I have said about Ted all along. He is just not likeable. Other than that, to me, he comes across as just another slimy pettifogging lawyer but he probably is a legal scholar. My other long term problem with Ted is his lovely wife who lies with the dogs of Goldman-Sucks, an organization that I hate and consider the devils hand maid.