Trump won because he's not a politician.
Hindsight is ALWAYS 20/20.
I read through these three expounded upon points and there are some “wisdoms” contained within with which I don’t agree. In point one, it ends with frustration of the middle class including “rich-get-richer” dissatisfaction. I don’t begrudge that, nor was it EVER part of my frustration.
Point two: “unscripted personality.” Yeah, horsehockey unless you really want to nail it down and say that his appeal was and IS that he speaks from the heart, tells you the truth as he believes it, and, MORE IMPORTANTLY, has so far been the ONLY candidate to try and implement his campaign promises I can remember. The other candidates and politicians have ALL been liars of exigency, IMO.
Point three: Ability to ‘control’ the media. No. He isn’t controlling them. He is ignoring them and refusing to accept the media’s false narrative. Neither he, you, I or the media can help that he’s chose another venue to get his message out.
In summation, I submit that even those on our side who may or may not have any motives in analyzing what happened STILL DO NOT GET IT! Not a damn bit. To understand the reasons, you have had to LIVE with its causes over decades and suffered the endless lies of dissembling politicians and an intrusive government that doesn’t give a sh!t about you in an economy which has been lied about consistently.
4. We sent the Republicans to congress to kill Obamacare and stop illegal immigration and they did neither.
The comments at AT were better than the article itself...
I recall the day Trump announced he was running, Rush disrupted his monologue to break the news, and snickered while telling us, then played the Trump sound bite.
When Trump said he’d get rid of the illegals on that day, that was the day I was on his side. I also factored in his not being a politician and being very successful. I knew electing the same bunch of lying RINO’s was not cutting it.
The top-rated comment to that article is worthy of its own post, but I recount it here
JohnFRoss • 6 hours ago
I find it amusing that there are so many people who seem dumbfounded that Trump won the election, and now need to analyze why. I was all in for Trump as soon as he announced in the summer of 2015, and so were a lot of other people. We weren’t all lower middle class people with stagnant wages, either. A lot of us were sick of the Uniparty sellouts in both parties.
On February 26, 2016, long before Trump won either the nomination or the election, I wrote an article for AT that unfortunately was not approved for submission. Perhaps it is more appropriate today:
I first voted as a sophomore in college when unelected incumbent Gerald Ford, considerably weakened by an almost-successful Reagan challenge in the primary, lost to Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter.
The malaise of the Carter years lasted through my college graduation, and Ronald Reagan won his 1980 landslide victory the same week that I was hired by EF Hutton, then the nation’s second-largest brokerage firm. My mother and many other relatives scoffed at Reagan (“He made a movie with a chimp”) but I was a huge fan, for primarily two reasons: First, his degree was in economics, and as a result of that, he had the unshakable belief that capitalism was the greatest engine of prosperity the world had ever seen. He also believed the free market would always correct itself, and refrained from the kinds of tinkering that politicians are wont to do, like the price controls Nixon inflicted on America. The Iranian hostages were released about five minutes after Reagan was sworn in, and when he fired all the Air Traffic Controllers that went on strike, the men in the Kremlin all raced for the toilets to deal with mass diarrhea.
As a result, after the markets realized Reagan was the Real Deal and blasted off like Secretariat in the home stretch at the Belmont, the 1980s were a tremendous time for a young man with a background in finance, a book full of clients, and a passion for building wealth. When the leadership at Hutton started to look questionable in 1986, I left and started my own investment firm. Hutton was soon bought by Shearson.
George Bush squandered the 91% approval rating he had in 1991 by breaking his “no new taxes” pledge and signing the ludicrous Assault Weapons ban, and he lost to Bill Clinton in 1992. It was then that I first heard the term “RINO,” and had the seeds planted in my mind of the concept that would mature into the UniParty.
Now, in 2016, with the disastrous foreign policy of Barack Obama finishing what Jimmy Carter started in Iran, with a record number of Americans unemployed and a record number of illegal aliens, criminals, and military-age male Muslim “refugees” pouring into our country, with a record number of Americans on food stamps, EBT cards, and WIC subsidies, and with 47% of our electorate paying NO INCOME TAXES AT ALL, we are once again in the same kind of depressing reality we endured in 1980.
Just as Ronald Reagan told us it was “Morning in America” with his sunny optimism and bedrock belief that Capitalism would lift us to new heights, we now have a man who promises to “Make America Great Again,” and has the same upbeat conviction that this country can be the best it has ever been. Ronald Reagan was derided as a B-list actor (who made a movie with a chimp), an “amiable dunce,” and a warmonger who happened to be a mental lightweight. Donald Trump is dismissed as a “reality star,” a blowhard with a massive ego, a racist, and (horror of horrors) “not a real conservative” who “should really be running as a Democrat.”
These parallels are tempting, but they miss the mark for several reasons. First of all, we are now in an environment where the Party elites (or “establishment,” if you prefer) are much more aligned with Globalization to line their own pockets at the expense of ordinary Americans compared to 1980. Further, we now have the UniParty, much more than 35 years ago. Back then I never heard anyone say “there’s no difference between the two parties.” Now that sentiment is common, and rightly so.
If you doubt the existence of the UniParty, think of all the members of the GOPe who have either said “Trump can’t beat Hillary” or that if Trump gets the nomination, they will actually VOTE for Hillary!
Donald Trump thinks big. Period. He thinks bigger than just the Presidency, and his supporters feel that in their bones, even if they don’t consciously realize it. When Donald Trump says he wants to help “Make America great again,” he actually means it. He isn’t just aiming for the Presidency, he is going for ALL the marbles. Donald Trump and his supporters don’t just want him to win the Presidency, we want him to also kill the UniParty.
Make no mistake about this: Donald Trump is not just our candidate, he’s our MURDER WEAPON.
Like a traitor or spy in wartime as contrasted to enemy soldiers in uniform, the GOPe has arguably been an even worse agent of destruction in this country than the Socialist slime that permeates the Democratic party. The people saw the horror of an Obama Presidency, the Republicans said they needed control of the House before they could push back, so the people gave it to them in 2010. What happened? Nothing.
The Republicans then said they needed control of the Senate to stop the Marxist slide, so the people gave that to them, too, in 2014. Again nothing happened. Wait, I take that back—Paul Ryan happened.
Then the GOPe rewrote the election rules to make it more difficult for a “movement” candidate to gain traction in the Presidential election (outright majority in 8 states needed instead of just 5, changed in 2014), to assure they could field another McCain or Romney that, win or lose, would keep the elites in power at the expense of everyone else in America. Donald Trump saw this, before he announced, and put together a plan to deal with it.
Trump’s plan has been working so well that the GOPe even tried to get the rules changed BACK to the 5-state minimum when their splitter strategy to ultimately give Jeb the nomination failed so miserably. Don’t believe me that Jeb was always the chosen one? Then why on earth would the GOPe allow not one but TWO candidates into the primaries that quite possibly won’t meet the Natural Born Citizen requirement, if not to use them as splitters to eventually prop up Jeb?
Donald Trump is well aware of ALL of this, and he intends to not only crush Hillary or Sanders, but also root out the UniParty Paul Ryans that have betrayed the Republican base from within. That’s why he terrifies ALL the elites in power, and is garnering such massive support from the people of America.
Donald Trump is one of the richest men in the country. The lowest estimate of his wealth is about $5 billion, which means he’s wealthier than all but about 100 people in a country of over 300 million. Donald Trump and the next multiple generations of his family could live like kings by merely running their existing businesses in the same successful manner that they are currently doing. That wasn’t true of Ronald Reagan. And unlike Reagan, who had strained (and estranged) relationships with his children, the entire Trump family is a stellar example of cohesive love, intelligence, decency, and passion for excellence.
Instead of being content to just enjoy the fruits of his successful business, Donald Trump is demonstrating the energy of ten men a third his age by holding massive rallies all over the country, and he is exposing himself to massive physical danger from not only the mentally ill misfits that lurk around such events, but political enemies in the UniParty with access to more professional operators. Remember what happened to Vince Foster, Ron Brown, and many others?
Why is Trump doing this? Is it because he intends to seize the reins of power, sell out to the Globalists, and multiply his wealth even more?
I don’t think so. I don’t think so because I believe Donald Trump likes accomplishing what he said he’d do even more than he likes making the most possible money in a deal. I believe that because I myself am the same way: Making lots of money is great, but once you’ve done that, doing good for the country that made it possible is even better. I think that sentiment is true of most successful people. The second reason I believe Trump when he says he wants to make America great again is there is a historic precedent, and it’s not Ronald Reagan.
There was a man in America, who, like Trump, was one of the wealthiest in the country. Like Trump, he came from a wealthy family, but unlike Trump, he also married a woman even wealthier than himself. He had massive holdings, in land that stretched from Virginia to Ohio. He could have lived his entire life like royalty, and wanted for nothing. The taxes he paid, in relation to his income, were trivial.
Instead, like Trump, he wanted to Make America Great. And his desire to do this was so strong, that he risked imprisonment, losing everything he had, and death. And when he SUCCEEDED at making America great, and his work was done, he could have had anything he wanted. He could literally have been King. Instead, he looked over what he had done, smiled, and returned to his property and family.
That man was George Washington. I believe Donald Trump is of the same mettle.
2/25/2017 addition: Everything that Trump has done since his inauguration reinforces my belief in the things I wrote above.
I’ll give you the three H’s why Hillary lost:
Her...Hillary just isn’t very likable. Whether it’s her shrill voice, questions about her health and email servers, etc., she just wasn’t a strong candidate. Her disconnect with voters was stunning. Expecting to win simply because “it’s my turn” won’t work during a time of economic and social chaos.
Him...The Dims set themselves up for failure in 2016 way back in 2008 when they equated any criticism of Barack Hussein Obama to racism. Hillary’s no dummy; she knew the economy was crap, but couldn’t say that because of the aforementioned rule. While Trump was pounding the poor economy, social unrest and terrorist attacks, Hillary was forced to act like it was all a bed of roses. They were hoisted by their own petard.
Hutzpah (I’m using a variant spelling)...When Hillary uttered her now famous “deplorable” comment, she was toast.
Bump
Frustrated middle class — check.
Unscripted personality — check.
Ability to control narrative — check.
My three reasons are simpler than that:
John Boehner (zero accomplishments, given enormous power by conservatism, squandered it for GOP-e pottage)
Mitch McConnell (zero accomplishments, given enormous power by conservatism, squandered it for GOP-e magic beans)
Donald Trump (massive accomplishments, owing nobody anything, saying what we’ve all been thinking but our GOP-e “leaders” were always unwilling to say, vowing to blow up the republicrat establishment and undo barrak obama).
It’s that simple. And, oh yes, a PS onto the Donald Trump manifest: unique, ingenious blue-collar appeal.
Trump’s rise to power is based on the following:
Our political class has been an utter failure for several decades. It has become not merely a suspicion, but a fact that is shown in blinking neon every single day, that politicians do not view themselves as being our representatives, they instead view themselves as being our masters. Every single combination of President, House of Representatives and Senate, divided between either of the two major parties over the last 50 years, has produced just about nothing but disaster for this country in various ways, the sole exception to that being a few years under Reagan (who’s election required a similar revolution to Trump’s).
We were facing an election in which a lot of people finally understood this, and also understood that the candidates put up by the elites in both parties would be functionally identical. Then comes along this ultra-successful business man, who went completely against the grain and said whatever was in his mind and heart and, more importantly, what was in OUR minds and OUR hearts, and he just blew them all away. He applied business and marketing principles from a completely different world to politics, and swept competing politicians of both parties away like so much garbage.
Over the course of the last month, we have seen that he is, in fact, very different from all of these people. It was not just an act. He is fulfilling campaign promises on a daily basis, and shows no sign of slowing down or changing that fact. The powers that be in our political structure and the media are predictably shocked and enraged. He is doing his level best to end their world, and Donald Trump’s level best is pretty damned good. You could say no less about a man who turned a $1,000,000 loan into a multibillion-dollar fortune in less than a lifetime.
I am happier now then I was even during Reagan’s time in office. Now we have not only the example of what Reagan accomplished to look back upon, but we also have the lessons of various failures and shortcomings during his administration and subsequently, that could not be known at that time. We know, specifically, that the opposition cannot be trusted to adhere to their word, or care for the people of this country, and we also know that federal judges and justices must be very closely vetted to make sure that they perform as expected. Knowing all of these things, and having a Republican-controlled Congress, will make Trump a far more successful president than Reagan ever was... and that is saying a lot, because Reagan was the most successful president of my lifetime.
Interesting that no one seems to be attributing his win to God. I prayed for Donald Trump and our country every day for well over a year, and my prayers became more fervent the closer the election was. I know I wasn’t the only one to do so. I’m still doing that same thing.
For me, I was sick of all the Republicans telling us all the usual conservative promises; then immediately upon getting elected, turn around and give us the middle finger and tell us to shut up because they know better than us. So I decided to vote with my middle finger...named President Trump!
A friend of mine even coined the phrase “President Giant Middle Finger.” Love it!
Trump’s rise to power happened because:
1. people from all over this country realized what Freepers have known for years, that Congress was not representing us, only themselves. They still are, but the President is on to them, just like we are.
2. Trump saw, as Freepers have voiced for years and many, many Americans recognized, that our country is being destroyed by the progressive left and their wilful disregard of the Constitution.
3. Americans are tired of being lied to by the media, and having every bit of news slanted and skewed negatively toward Conservatives.
4. Obama was a disaster for this country and Hillary/Bernie would finish the job.
5. Lastly, but certainly not least, I believe God, reached out, and blessed America again.
Placemark
1)Talked over the media
2)Shillery sucks
3)Country in bad shape after 8 years of Obummer