Posted on 01/20/2016 2:17:11 AM PST by WayneLusvardi
Imagine giving this advice to a Republican presidential candidate: What if you stopped calling yourself a conservative and instead just promised to make America great again?
What if you dropped all this leftover 19th-century piety about the free market and promised to fight the elites who were selling out American jobs? What if you just stopped talking about reforming Medicare and Social Security and instead said that the elites were failing to deliver better health care at a reasonable price? What if, instead of vainly talking about restoring the place of religion in society â something that appeals only to a narrow slice of Middle America â you simply promised to restore the Middle American core â the economic and cultural losers of globalization â to their rightful place in America? What if you said you would restorethem as the chief clients of the American state under your watch, being mindful of their interests when regulating the economy or negotiating trade deals?
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Similarly to how in 2008 it was McCain’s turn, and in 2012, Romney.
What is amazing to me is that the party establishment for a party that is generally anti-union, for some very good reasons, uses a union seniority model for pushing establishment candidates. It simply defies all logic.
Great article! Spot on. Lets try something different, no more lawyers and polititians. America first! American citizens first!
Great article. Thanks for posting.
I guess if you said/did all that, you could call yourself Bernie Sanders.
bflr
this is a great article.
I agree with it in principle, and with Trump, in principle 100%.
I do think we have every right to be concerned about a few things, however. A tariff alone is not going to solve anything (though it sure does send a message, which is important). What this article sets forth is more of a comprehensive reworking of the two parties’ ideologies and policies to keep America great and strong but in the 21st century. That’s why this is great...because it is a comprehensive look at a comprehensive problem. The point being, if you have to proceed piecemeal, as is usually the case when you are revolutionary, you have to make sure that each incremental piece pushes the ball forward and does not, on its own, create more misery. Tariffs are in fact dangerous. But in the right comprehensive approach, they are also indispensable.
In any event...fantastic article.
Michael Brendan Dougherty has been on a roll
People talk about GHW Bush being a RINO or not a conservative. What they miss is that the Washington conservative Establishment liked Bush when he ran for reelection. They had criticisms, especially about taxes, but more opposition to Bush came from more populist quarters for populist reasons. Immigration and trade were powerful issues that Washington conservatives didn't want to deal with.
It didn't take a rocket scientist to see that. There was a split opening up even then.
A trace of Marxism ?!?
What the heck are ya’ll smoking.
“He was an intellectual disciple of James Burnham’s political realism, and Francis’ political analysis always had a residue of Burnham’s Marxist sociology about it. “
They aren't so much temper tantrums as they are 'Trumper tantrums'...
the infowarrior
What's-his-name at NR has been flamed mercilessly for making exactly this observation.
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