Explaining Donald Trump’s Enemies

Canada Free Press ^ | 08/19/15 | Tim Dunkin

[Sean_Anthony]

Desperation carries a scent about it – it may be time for folks who aren’t anti-Trump to invest in a pair of nose plugs

You can tell a lot about a man by his enemies, and Donald Trump has those aplenty. I’m not referring to people who may merely disagree with him on certain issues, or even those on the far Left – like Democrats – who will hate anybody who is not a progressive loonie toon. Instead, I’m talking about the folks in Trump’s own party and on Trump’s own side, broadly speaking, of the ideological divide. The Republican establishment, as well as a large subset of the conservative (loosely defined) commentariat, seem to have visceral hatred for the man – and for his supporters in the GOP base.

Lindsey Graham - in what might possibly be this year’s most stunning example of a lack of self-awareness – worries that Trump is bringing the GOP into disrepute. The reliably establishmentarian pencil neck George Will has taken to devoting his apparently limited research time to coming up with wild new ways in which Trump might destroy America and the world. Every day, a new op-ed hits the broadsheets by some GOP consultant or strategist explaining how Trump’s supporters are all a bunch of dumb rubes who are “fooled” by Trump, who is really a “Democrat plant,” and they just don’t realize that he’s not a “real” conservative (which I think they already know, but just aren’t that concerned about it).

[scooby321]

At this point the GOP would not keep the house nor the Senate

[skeeter]

Who would notice?

[Mouton]

Trump in his own words has said he is not a very right wing republican...he has so distinguished himself that by noting his idea for a health plan, one that takes care of the poor too. That said, IMO, he is HONEST about it. He is spouting a line that is very popular with many of the GOP, a good number of independents and some democrates i.e. we have to stop the illegal immigration, cut their benefits, do trade agreements that work for the common guy not the multinationals or foreign countries, and reset the national ego. This resonates across political lines as it reaches the mainstream of the US population sans the immigrant horde. It also undermines the political class who has been nurtured by the status quo into life time lucrative positions. The DC area has become an eden while the rest of US with the exception of a few enclaves is at the level of troglodytes.

[1010RD]

Trump’s a stalking horse for Hillary! He’s at best a NY RINO, but he talks purty and that’s so fresh, new and exciting.

The sad part is that after a leftist imperial presidency so many are calling for one from the right.

[HarleyLady27]

If the GOPe, the MSM, the RINOs, and the washington cartel cannot unite with those of us who are supporting Trump, they will lose everything....

Those of us who are behind Trump and want to Make America Great Again are very serious and not just on the national level, those people are going to the cities, and States to prove their point: they have had enough of the corruption, illegal immigrants getting everything they want, poor health care, not being able to work a decent job, watching time after time the people they vote for lying to them and then doing what they want...they are finished with it...

If you want on their party, then support Trump, if not, your finished, find a new place somewhere else, because these people are done with it....

[central_va]

If he builds a wall and starts cracking down on the foreign invasion, just those two things, he will do more good than all the other “promises” from the also rans. Throw in stopping insane Free Trade practices and you have the makings of a MT Rushmore Presidency.

[central_va]

Free Republic is replete with anti Trumpsters....

[Yosemitest]

"The reliably establishmentarian pencil neck George Will has taken to devoting his apparently limited research time to coming up with wild new ways in which Trump might destroy America and the world.
Every day, a new op-ed hits the broadsheets by some GOP consultant or strategist explaining
how Trump’s supporters are all a bunch of dumb rubes
who are “fooled” by Trump, who is really a “Democrat plant,”
and they just don’t realize that he’s not a “real” conservative
(which I think they already know, but just aren’t that concerned about it)."

George Will is a DemocRAT who got SO OFFENDED by the DemocRATS, that he couldn't tolerate being associated with all those "CRAZIES" .
Now for a deeper understanding of just WHO George Will IS:

The word "neocons" is ONLY used by LIBERALS, trying to insult Conservatives.
The is no such thing as a "NEW" Conservative.
Conservatives ARE Conservative, plain and simple.

But read this"
Liberals, Conservatives, and Neocons — Learn the Difference!
March 12, 2014

Almost everybody is confused about the word "neoconservative" and its shortened form, "neocon."
I find that liberals/Democrats seem to use it as a sort of disrespectful form of "conservative,"
and probably have no idea the the words have distinct meanings.
On the other hand, I know of some conservatives who define it as "new conservatives,"
meaning people who were formerly something else, but have converted to conservatism.
Both are wrong.
As near as I can tell, "neo-" doesn't apply to any other word that way —
formerly not X, but having become X.
No, "neo-" almost always refers to an ideology that is different from the root word in a significant way.
Neoconfederates are not people who want to secede and become a separate country.
They want the ideals of the Confederacy to be applied to modern politics, more or less, but not all of them.
Neoliberal is a more vague term,
but it specifically applies to people who may have SOME of the attributes of liberals,
but who contradict liberalism in their advocacy of free trade and privatization
and other ideas usually thought of as conservative.
And, finally, neoconservatives are mostly those moderate cold war LIBERALS who defected to the Republican party when the Democrats got totally flaky with McGovern and his ilk.
Their ultimate origin, however, is not the Democratic party but the Trotskyite movement.



Jack Kerwick elaborates.

Read this:
Most "Conservatives" Are Secretly Neoconservatives
12 March, 2014, by Jack Kerwick, Ph.D.

A colleague of mine has drawn my attention to a Washington Post blog post — “Why Most Conservatives Are Secretly Liberals” — by a Professor John Sides, a political scientist at Georgetown University.

Sides agrees with fellow political scientists Christopher Ellis and James Stimson, co-authors of Ideology in America.
Ellis and Stimson CONTEND that
America is, at bottom, a “center-left nation,”
for while “30 percent” of self-described “liberals” are consistent in endorsing “liberal” policy prescriptions,
the same sort of consistency can be ascribed to only “15 percent” of “conservatives.”
And another “30 percent” of “conservatives” actually advance “liberal” positions.

In short, Americans may TALK the talk of “conservatism,” but they WALK the walk of “liberalism.”
That is, they favor Big Government.

Sides, Ellis, and Stimson, it seems clear to me, are “liberals.”
It doesn’t require much reading between the lines to discern this.
That they associate “liberals,” and “liberals” ALONE, with such virtues as “consistency” and such lofty ideals as “a cleaner environment” and “a stronger safety net” is enough to bear this out.
Yet in peddling the ridiculous, patently absurd notion that
“conservatives” see the media as PROMOTING “conservatism,”
the verdict regarding their “liberalism” is seen for the NO-BRAINER that it is.

There is, though, another CLUE that unveils Sides’, Ellis’, and Stimson’s ideological PREJUDICES:
They equate the term “liberalism” with a robust affirmation of Big Government.
They treat “liberalism” synonymously with its modern, “Welfare-Statist” incarnation.
There is no mention here of the fact that, originally, “liberalism” referred to
a vision that attached supreme value to individual liberty,
a vision in which government played, and had to play, a minimal role in the lives of its citizens.
And there is no mention of the fact that, if “liberalism” is now “an ugly word,”
it is because the very same socialists who made “socialism” an ugly word hijacked “liberalism” when it enjoyed a favorable reception
and visited upon it the same fate that they secured for “socialism.”

In other words, if Sides himself wanted to be bluntly honest, he’d have to admit that “liberals” are secretly socialists.

Still, though their premises are bogus, Sides and his colleagues draw the correct conclusion that
most “conservatives” are NOTHING OF THE KIND.
The truth of the matter is that
the vast majority of contemporary “conservatives” are neoconservatives.

Now, “neoconservatism” is a term that hasn’t the best reputation.
It has ALWAYS BEEN CONTROVERSIAL,
and most of its proponents have DISAVOWED IT to the point of, preposterously, condemning it as an “anti-Semitic” SLUR.
But George W. Bush and his party inflicted potentially irrevocable damage upon the label.
“Conservatism” is a more marketable label.

Nevertheless, the reality is that neoconservatism is indeed a distinct school of political thought.
Beyond this, it is fundamentally different in kind from classical conservatism.
Irving Kristol, the so-called “Godfather” of neoconservatism, an appellation that he readily endorsed, ADMITS this in noting both
that neoconservatism exists
and that “conservative” “can be misleading” when used to describe it.

Neoconservatism, you see, is THE INVENTION OF LEFTISTS like Kristol himself.
When the Democratic Party began veering too far to the Left in the 1960s, Kristol and more moderate leftists began turning toward the Republican Party.
So as TO DISTINGUISH THEMSELVES FROM traditional conservatives, they coined the term “neoconservatism.”

Neoconservatives, Kristol asserts, are “not at all hostile to the idea of a welfare state” —
even if they reject the “vast and energetic bureaucracies” created by the Great Society.
Neoconservatives ENDORSE “social security, unemployment insurance,” and “some kind of family assistance plan,” among other measures.
But what’s most interesting, particularly at a time when ObamaCare has DIVIDED the country, is that Kristol reminds us that
neoconservatives SUPPORT “some form of national health insurance.”

In all truthfulness, however, neither a degree in political science nor an IQ above four is required to know that
neoconservatism has always championed Big Government
for it is its foreign policy vision more than anything else that distinguishes it from its competitors.
For neoconservatives, America is “exceptional” in being, as Kristol puts it, “a creedal nation,”
the only nation in all of human history to have been founded upon an “ideology” of equality, of “natural rights.”
The U.S.A., then, has a responsibility to promote this ideology throughout the world.

And it is by way of a potentially boundless military — i.e. Big Government — that this “ideological patriotism” is to be executed.

Had the foregoing political scientists been looking in the right places, they would BE FORCED TO CONCLUDE that most “conservatives” are secretly neoconservatives.

So, you see that those WHO THEY CALL "neoconservatives", are really nothing more than the old moderate side of the DemocRATS.
It's just THAT SIMPLE .

[boycott]

You have clown shows like Lindsey Graham that act like Trump is beneath them. Meanwhile, no one in the senate has a sleazier past than Lindsey’s pal John McCain.

[tacticalogic]

Sadly, we’ve come to the point where ordinary common sense has become a political game-changer.

[ballearthout]

Maybe the Republic was killed by Democrats and Republicans and our very own Julius Caesar, albeit with more interesting hair than his predecessor, has finally arrived. lol

[arthurus]

The Republicans, gopes, are behaving like, well, standard orthodox Leftists.

[ballearthout]

Yeah, I don’t think most Republican voters have yet to fully understand how “free trade” has done this country in. More Democrats understand it than Republicans do. Of course, Democrats answer is pure socialism.

[CatherineofAragon]

"Free Republic is replete with anti Trumpsters...."

And a good thing it is, too. Unless you think FR should just be a Trump fan club/worship service.

I've never had any use for him and never will. He's a liberal shyster.

[1010RD]

Sadly you’re right. We’ve had plenty of Clodiuses, but what worries me are the Sejanuses.

[central_va]

Why does he make liberal heads explode?

[1010RD]

“If” is for children and gamblers. Plus, you don’t know what “free trade” is. The lack of discernment and pro-big gov positions you take is what is most frightening about Trump cheerleaders.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

There are a lot of paleo-cons who have been on the Right for decades who see Trump as a demagogue with zero grounding in conservative ideas. I agree with them.

[central_va]

We’ll see buckwheat. I think the gloBULList punch bowl is being taken away. Good thing.