Posted on 03/14/2016 9:24:18 PM PDT by Ray76
Donald Trump's presidential candidacy threatens the Left's strangehold in this country more than any other movement in American politics in my memory, if not modern history.
That's the simple reason thousands of Leftists mobilized in Chicago last week to shut down the democratic process -- to seize the space inside and around a Trump political rally and transform it into a morass of menace, sirens, chaos, and mobs.
Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Rachel Maddow, Jake Tapper, Megyn Kelly et al to the woeful contrary: Nothing, but nothing, Donald Trump has said from his podium about protestors disrupting his rallies (punch him in the face, get him out of here, beat the crap out of anyone that throws tomatoes at me, I'll defend you in court -- the works) drives the anti-USA agendas of these Leftist groups; nor did it inspire them to organize the mobs that "successfully" interrupted the democratic process last week in Chicago.
So what is behind it?
It is Donald Trump's political agenda that drove the Left to organize its Chicago assets to seize enough control of the streets and the auditorium to thwart peaceable assembly and disrupt free speech -- constitutional rights both (which, by the way, "Constitution defender" Cruz, once again, is so quick to surrender).
The Left reviles Trump's Wall. They revile his policy to deport illegal aliens. To halt Muslim immigration. To halt illegal immigration. To control legal immigration. Restore US sovereignty. Reverse globalizing trade policies, such as TPA and TPP. These sharp turns from our politics-as-usual-over–the-cliff is what drove the Left to the streets in Chicago. Leaders on the Right -- Cruz, Kasich and Rubio -- gave the Left cover by blaming Trump.
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Yeah! Let’s abandon Conservativism altogether!!!In case you haven't noticed it's not working anywhere its pretending to be tried...Not FOR you or anyone else.
Damn. I've thought it for a while, but haven't had the gumption to speak it out loud.
You're right. I'm so damn sick of hearing how our elected Republicans have "fought for us" when, in fact, they haven't accomplished a damn thing.
I'm over the "A for effort" phase of my life. I want RESULTS.
Trump may be only the first link in the chain, but blowing up the cozy relationships has to be the FIRST step.
I don't think he can get us to the promised land, but he can get us started.
Wow. That covers it. Mr Bennett has just summarized just exactly what is at stake.
Bill Bennett wrote this?!
If so, WOW!
It's just more confirmation that Trump is for real.
And the Trump-haters just want to dismiss Donald Trump as a fraud and a con-man?
By doing so, the Trump-haters have been duped into helping the Establishment. Many of them are Cruz supporters. And they say we are the blind ones!
This is the biggest mistake that Cruz supporters are making, IMHO, and as such, it causes them to deride the supporters of Donald Trump, who until recently where their brethren in Liberty.
Such unwitting assistance is of more value to the GOPe et al. than even the willing pawns of the Establishment, such as Ted Cruz and the reamining GOP candidates.
Donald Trump represents the biggest threat to the power of the Establishment. Nothing could be more important for the entire country than for the Washington status quo to be destroyed. Nothing.
Were Ted Cruz to win, I'd like to believe that he'd would do the same things that Bill Bennett alleges that Trump would do.
But he's becoming too cozy with the GOPe now, IMHO, and has engaged in some truly despicable campaign tactics. I just don't see Ted Cruz being as fierce.
Realistically speaking, I also see Ted Cruz's path to a general election victory as much more difficult, demographically speaking, and also with much less potential to expand the GOP base in such a way as to relegate the Democrat party to minority status in government for decades to come.
And Donald Trump's policies are, by and large, eminently conservative. Trump has been driving the collective campaign arc, with respect to which policy topics receive emphasis, for several months now. He's demonstrated great leadership within the party and has great potential for national leadership as President.
Is he perfect? Certainly not.
But he's a red-blooded American businessman and leader who speaks his mind and eschews political correctness.
Can he rehabilitate his negatives?
I certainly think that Trump can rehabilitate his negatives much more effectively than Hillary can. Hillary Clinton is likely to be wearing an orange jump suit before inauguration day.
It also seems very likely that Donald Trump would be able to help create jobs in the private sector, improve our immigration policy, trade policy, even some foreign policy.
I see it; it might not comport perfectly with mine, but Donald Trump's "Patriot's Dream" would probably be a big improvement over what we have now. It would be a step in the right direction. It would be a step that might be palatable to the American People, as opposed to them being force fed a somewhat narrower, more stark and strident flavor of American "conservatism". That's the realistic likelihood, and the only alternative is Hillary Clinton.
At this point, I've concluded that it's both inaccurate and disingenuous to dismiss Donald Trump as a mere con-man or huckster, and to similarly deride his supporters. To do so is to needlessly boost the Establishment's propaganda and indeed is tantamount to rendering them aid in their goal of maintaining and increasing their power.
Regardless, I'm just astounded that Bill Bennett would write something like this piece about Donald Trump. He's obviously wandered off the Establishment reservation, which is a place I would have thought he'd be very comfortable on. Radical.
Let's not destroy each other. Go, Trump, go!
Actually a bit funny, as so many of them were saying not long ago that Her Thighness would wipe the floor with him and he was the best opponent just for the comedy of it all.
Now they are in full panic that he might win and crush his enemies and see them driven before him.
It’s a heck of a filthy relationship that makes everyone filthy rich, everyone except the American people. We get ripped off. We’re the patsies. But for once, the powerful socialist cabal and the corrupt crony capitalists are scared. The over-the-top reaction to Trump by politicians of both parties, the media, and the biggest corporations of America has been so swift and insanely angry that it suggests they are all threatened and frightened.
I may be wrong, but was not Bennett part of that elite, and may still be? A small bit of hypocrisy here?
Tell it like it is!!
GO TRUMP!!
TWEETED!
You are not wrong there is some error in authorship. It’s a good piece anyway. I followed it on another thread. Bennett is/was Paul Ryan guy as per Hannity interview back in oct.
I don’t think you understand the grave condition this country is in right now.
Yeah, what is this oft-repeated assertion that Herself will beat The Donald like a drum, where does THAT come from.
Herself, like Jeb Bush before her, is a low-energy life form, and not easily capable of exciting more than a few robotic zombies into repeating the same monotone phrases over and over. Depending on Slick’s formerly somewhat longer coattails to carry Herself into office is grasping for straws, as Slick is well past his prime, and only the geriatric crowd can see even a shadow of what he once was. To the millennials, Slick is as moribund as watching an old Perry Como video.
As a fellow hoosier, it pains me to know you teach. I hope it is a hard subject as in math or science. I would hate to have your fool being imprinted upon our youth were it to be a liberal arts thing. Either way, you are a schmuck.
You forgot the link.
That would be the link that shows Bill Bennett actually uttered what you purport that he uttered.
In a nutshell - periodically in history, the right man/men show up at the right time and manage great things - it’s how we started and may be how we will raise our heads again.
Right. We need to find a better word than Conservatism. I guess Trumpism or Self-Reliance.
Newt Gingrich said much the same thing on the Hannity show yesterday. He said if Trump continues on, gets the nomination, and says the same things in the General election that he’s saying now, the Hard Left will become even more unhinged than they are now. He also said that fighting it, however difficult, is the only hope for stopping the path of slow decay and decline that we are on now.
It wasn’t an outright declaration for Trump, but it might as well have been. He thinks Trump is the only hope for taking back the country from the Hard Left.
Well whoever wrote it it’s spot on, both in describing events and the stakes.
“Are You basing your statement on Trump’s tax plan? Can you even tell me what his tax plan is? Do you base your statement on his independent energy plan? “
I could care less about tax “plans” or energy “plans” or any other “plans” for that matter. After 64 years on this planet, I, along with tens of millions, realize that “plans” are just another bullshit tactic to get votes, and no GOP candidate ever carries out any of their “plans” anyway. As soon as they get elected they sale out the people. Almost every one of them.
Here are the “plans” I care about:
I want MY President to stand up for the U.S. against all enemies (and even some so-called friends).
I want MY President to respect our Constitution.
I want MY President to make sure we actually have a country by controlling our borders, and stopping and reversing the invasion of our country by foreign nationals.
I want MY President to build a wall.
I want MY President to rebuild our military and remove the LGBTXYZABC generals Obama installed and put hard core warriors back in charge.
I want My President to curb the EPA.
I want My President to curb the Labor Department.
I want MY President to curb the Education Department.
I want MY President to curb the Civil Rights Commission.
I want MY Presiden to curb the IRS and all other Federal agencies from making political attacks.
I want MY President to curb the Federal Communications Commission, turn the Internet back over to free enterprise, and take ICANN back from the despots of the world.
I want MY President to destroy ISIS.
I want MY President to halt common core.
I want MY President to institute voter ID nationally.
I want MY President to repeal and replace Obamacare.
I want MY President to start mining and burning coal again.
I want MY President to repeal ALL of Obama’s executive orders.
I want MY President to stand up for traditional American values and tell the PC crowd they can kiss his sweet behind.
I want MY President to revoke 99% of all regulations Obama and Bush promulgated.
I want my President to stop the attacks on Christianity in our country and stop pandering to the d@mn Muslims.
I want MY President to support ALL Federal laws equally and quit picking and choosing the ones he likes and doesn’t like.
I want MY President to stand up for Israel and tell the Palestinians to take a hike.
I want MY President to speak harshly AND carry a D@MN BIG stick.
I want MY President to bow to no foreign head.
I want MY President to shake the hands of no tin-pot communist dictators.
I want MY President to support our police.
I want MY President to support the 2nd Amendment the same amount as all of the other Amendments.
I want MY President to be color blind, supporting ALL Americans equally, and stop treating some Americans more equally than others.
I want MY President to make appointments and promotions in our government based solely on merit, totally ignoring race, creed, gender, color and sexual preference.
I want MY President to stop all crony capitalism funded out of the U.S. Treasury.
I want MY President to audit the Federal Reserve Bank.
I want MY President to withdraw ALL Federal funding from sanctuary cities until they repeal their anti-American laws.
I want MY President to prosecute Hillary Clinton.
I want MY President to prosecute the Wall Street scum who operate our financial markets as their own personal, rigged casinos.
I want MY President to owe no quid pro quo “favors” to big campaign “donors”.
I want MY President beholden only to the people, not to the party apparatchiks or the oligarchs or the plutocrats.
AND FINALLY, I don’t give a rat’s behind about “Dignity” or any of that other squishy, mushy, elitist BS! Or “plans”.
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