The terrifying reason Trump is winning: The infantilized conservative base wants rage, not ideas

Salon ^ | September 9, 2015 | Sean Illing

[dforest]

Yep, I am also into rage. I raised 3 boys and busted my butt working.

Whatever I think is not infantile.

It is full blown adult anger at getting stiffed. I refuse to surrender.

Salon is a place for true nutcases. Bite me, Salon.

[Bratch]

[ichabod1]

Why can’t Conservatives just realize they’ve been beaten and shut the he!! up and cow down? #sorewinners

[Vision Thing]

Sean Illing wrote this.

Sean Illing?

Maybe he should compete with ellen and start the Illing Degenerate Show.

[Amagi]

We've already got ideas, Sean Illing of Salon.
And they work.
It's called the Consititution.
And yeah, we may be a bit enraged watching a lying halfwitted POTUS trashing it daily.
Does that terrify you, skippy?

[Cementjungle]

...a perfect distillation of the Tea Party id: No ideas, no substance – just bluster and fiery platitudes

Typical liberal gibberish. Trump's laid out more specifics than Obama ever did (and no, "hope" and "change" aren't specific ideas).

[dragonblustar]

The infantilized conservative base wants rage, not ideas

Shouldn't Salon and other libs start kissing our ass then?

Seems they only kiss up and respect infantilized rage types..... Occutards, BlacklivesSplatter, raging feminazis... etc...

[The_Victor]

Sounds to me like he's describing 0bama and the liberal democRAT base.

[ichabod1]

I’d rather lose to an enemy I can oppose than an enemy who is supposed to be on my side.

[Jyotishi]

"...how easy it is to openly infantilize the conservative base."

That works. William Wordsworth wrote: "The child is father of the man."

[PA-RIVER]

Trump isn’t perfect, but he is a winner.

He’s not the kind of guy that would trade Bergdahl for five top level Terrorists.

He seems to be an American, unlike our president.

[Vision Thing]

He is easily terrified.

[PA-RIVER]

Married to his boyfriend by now.

[cymbeline]

“He rarely makes sense and he never bothers to explain himself”

Trump does whatever. If his opponents can’t mount a defense then they deserve to be rolled over.

We won’t know until election time how stupid voters are.

[skeeter]

“Black Lives Matter” is all about calm, reasoned discussion.

[Savage Beast]

Poor Illing! He’s in WAY over his head. What’s happening is WAY beyond his comprehension.

[SoFloFreeper]

Sean be Illing. :)

[PA-RIVER]

What city will team sharpton-obama burn next?

[amihow]

I love it when a Cruz supporting Freeper keeps posting anti-Trump screeds written by others. Why waste our time with such rather than deeply examinig the candidates self professed positions so as to help each other start focusing on the best candidate?

[TigersEye]

Trump’s success (and Jeb’s decline) shows how easy it is to openly infantilize the conservative base.

Nonsense! It took years and years of betrayals to wear us down to the point of not believing anything a GOPe pol says. The author needs to climb out of his crib and see the world outside sometime.