Posted on 09/01/2015 4:33:04 AM PDT by goldstategop
1. He's advancing a populist economic message
Tax-cutting and deregulation have been key parts of Republican orthodoxy since the days of Ronald Reagan. Mr Trump isn't reading from that particular hymnal, however. Instead he preaches a populist salvation for the economically disaffected.
Poll after poll shows economic security is the most important issue for Republican voters, and Mr Trump's entire message - his anti-illegal-immigration stance, his condemnation of Chinese and Mexican trade practices, his calls for taxation of Wall Street hedge fund managers and his constant touting of his resume as a successful businessman and "job-creator" - is built around this. ..... (snip)
5. He's fomenting a Republican civil war
Mr Trump's rise is exposing the fault lines within the Republican Party between rank-and-file conservatives and the party's governing elite.
Rick Wilson, a long-time Republican political strategist, was one of the first to launch an anti-Trump salvo, with an article in Politico urging the candidate's supporters to come to their senses.
"The circus is almost over," he wrote. "My advice to Trump fans? Don't be the last clown out of the tent."
As Mr Trump support continued to endure despite much-touted "game-changing" gaffes, the barbs directed his way turned sharper still.
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He is here to stay.
Under Clinton and Obama, a bottomless chasm developed.
Both of them have no use for we, the people.....they both worship at the Church of Whatever Works for Me.
Just by stepping onto the political stage, Donald Trump has drawn the people closer to their govt...as the Founders intended.
“Could it be that the conservative movement is no longer driven by a coalition of fiscal conservatives, people of faith, and those concerned about foreign policy, but instead is driven by a coalition consisting of working class whites, blue collar populists, and anti-immigration hawks?” the Daily Caller’s Matt K Lewis asks.
They are really the same people. It is the inside the beltway GOPe that thinks they are different.
-——Could it be that the conservative movement is no longer driven by a coalition of fiscal conservatives, people of faith, and those concerned about foreign policy——
if they are for Trump it means that the various inane litmus tests have been set aside
Purist conservatives still go around with the little glass bottles of pink and blue strips. they won’t leave home with out them
He’s in it to win it. Look to your own miserable immigration troubles, Limey!
I just watched a segment on Fox & Friends - they showed Trump’s newest internet ad then said Bush has negative ads ready to go - using Trump’s past words on him. Then they had someone named Art something or other - who used to work for Bush 43. He was trashing Trump and building up Carson. They all had nice things to say about Carson. This makes me suspicious if Carson is the Trojan Horse in this race. I don’t know what to think.
“This makes me suspicious if Carson is the Trojan Horse in this race. I don’t know what to think.”
Look at what was done to Herman Cain. His departure cleared the way for Romney. Same here. Carson is there to run interference for Bush. He just doesn’t realize it yet.
“Could it be that the conservative movement is no longer driven by a coalition of fiscal conservatives, people of faith, and those concerned about foreign policy, but instead is driven by a coalition consisting of working class whites, blue collar populists, and anti-immigration hawks?”
He’s on to something here...although I’d replace “no longer driven” with “no longer owned”.
I’ve been shouting here for about five years that 2016 was gonna be all about populist economics.
No one in the MSM was paying attention apparently.
They are riding Carson long enough to neutralize Trump (they hope), then will abandon Carson and/or work to take him down.
Godspeed Mr Trump.
Yes, I see through their tactics, and it is really so unfair to Dr. Carson. He is a good man, and accomplished man and yet these same commies drool and swoon over a half-black man named obama, or whatever his name is. Not a real black man who pulled himself up from poverty to great accomplishments. Not that Carson is using his race as a tool, but, hopefully, you get my meaning.
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