Posted on 02/20/2016 6:09:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump comfortably defeated his Republican presidential rivals on Saturday in South Carolina's GOP primary.
Trump's resounding victory isn't simply a boon to his prospects for winning the Republican presidential nomination, an outcome once thought impossible that is looking increasingly more plausible. It is also an embarrassing repudiation of conservative orthodoxy that has dominated Republican politics for decades. It suggests that the party's intellectual leaders, who organized the base around the National Review/Weekly Standard consensus -- small government, free trade, pro-Israel, deregulation, low taxes, social conservatism and an aggressive foreign policy -- have been generals of a phantom army.
The troops, instead, are marching with Trump, who bested his rivals in South Carolina by campaigning against nearly everything the Bush family, the Republican Party and neoconservatives who supported military interventions advocated for. Among his many breaks with the elite consensus, Trump declared that former President George W. Bush had lied about weapons of mass destruction to march the country to war; blamed Bush for the 9/11 attacks, arguing that he ignored intelligence community warnings; defended Planned Parenthood; boasted that he was the only Republican who would not cut Social Security or Medicare; said he approved of the individual mandate in Obamacare; and promised to slap onerous tariffs on companies who outsource jobs.
And where Washington and New York-based GOP leaders pledge outreach to immigrants, moderate Muslims and other minorities, the reality TV star plays more overt racial politics than any national candidate since George Wallace....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
Maybe millions of cuckservatives are realizing they’ve been cuckservatives and are now choosing the red pill.
For a minute I though you were introducing Romney /ba-dum 'tssssh>
Not precisely. The rank and file have never *been* cuckservatives; but they have mistakenly *voted* for cuckservatives.
Kind of like Lucy asking Charlie Brown to kick the football.
This time, Charlie Brown is fixing to change the way this plays out...
The rank & file have been cucks
also.
It says that the People who have been betrayed by the Republican party so many times it seem that it’s always been like that, have decided that they don’t trust the Republican Party and any politician who has been part of it - they want someone (good/bad/indifferent) that they can better relate to - funny how they relate better to a billionaire than anyone in the Republican Party....
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.