Posted on 02/29/2016 5:46:05 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Actor, economist and former Richard Nixon speech writer Ben Stein says Donald Trump is the “George Wallace of our era without being a racist.”
In an interview with “CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin” on Monday, Stein argued Trump “is going to be a figure to be reckoned with. I’m not even sure Hillary can beat him. He is the voice of the unspoken, unwashed voice of the people coming down from the hills and hollers and they are very, very angry.”
Referring to the large number of protesters ejected from Trump’s campaign rally in Radford, Virginia Monday, Stein said, “These demonstrators today have confirmed that Trump will win. These demonstrators — if Trump had paid each of them $1,000, they couldn’t have done for more him than what they’ve done today.”
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Alzheimer’s? This makes no sense at all. Just another celeb dirtball chucker.
Ben, He couldn’t be any worse than the clown in office now.
So the elites, like Ben Stein, think all Trump supporters are from the “hills and hollers”. This is yet another example of how out of touch the GOPe and GOP-elite are with the grassroots anger with the GOP.
“He is the voice of the unspoken, unwashed voice of the people coming down from the hills and hollers and they are very, very angry.”
Sounds more like Andrew Jackson than George Wallace.
“I love the uneducated!”
-—Donald Trump
You can see why that might spark the comments it did.
Well, he was in Redford, VA today, and those people mostly did come from the hills and hollers. No insult, it’s in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Radford.
What is left about George Wallace as a historical figure if you take away the racism? Still, Ben seems to get it. It’s a movement and people are willing to go to more effort to vote than normal (hence the hoots and hollers), and he very well could win. We won’t think about what happened to Wallace, and pray that Mr. Trump’s security plus the secret service, are more than sufficient to protect him.
George Wallace’s position on race evolved during his political career. In 1962, he advocated segregation. In 1972, he didn’t emphasize race and even sought out black votes. In 1982, he had long since repudiated his earlier segregationist views and won over much of the black vote in his final campaign for governor.
Then David Duke is his Lester Maddox?
Well there is something about Trump that reminds me of the “Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act”......
Bullets are the traditional way the establishment deals with populists.
And we are “unwashed”.
What a useful idiot. His claim to fame is “Beuller? Beuller?”
Oh my. Thank you for that clarification of the historical record. Unfortunately all people probably remember is threatening to stand in the door and block the feds from forcing integration. Or something like that. I must be getting old. I don’t quite remember.
Alright. Ben Stein a Nixon speech writer. The Nixon administration ended well, didn’t it. ;-)
Yes he could... Obama damaged the democrat brand (along with the country)..
oh who am I kidding. The GOPe pretty much destroyed the republican brand.
However, conservatives will be blamed for all the chaos Trump creates.
Everything is racism on FR tonight to the extent that the Leon Trotsky Brigade of mutant disruptors must be at work beating that bullcrap invented word to death. I’ve got to come up with a shorthand to call it out every time I see it. Trotskyite crap. That’s it.
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