Posted on 01/16/2016 11:40:22 PM PST by TigerClaws
live in Donald Trump country. Maury County, Tenn. â like much of the South â was dominated by the Democratic party until just a few short years ago. Tennesseeâs legislature didnât flip red until 2008, and my own legislative district in my own âconservativeâ county was blue until 2010. Tennessee didnât change dramatically between 2004 (when Democrats were in total control of state government) and 2011 (when control flipped to Republicans), but national politics changed. And â as Donald Trump is proving â they can change again. If there is a consistent refrain among former Democrats (and there are lots in the South), it echoes Ronald Reagan: They didnât leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left them. That means many things, but it does not mean that theyâre small government, constitutional conservatives. It means that while they may have been attitudinally âTea Party,â they were never on board with the core substance of the movement.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429853/donald-trump-voters-conservatism
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
You'd think the establishment would have figured it out after Cantor was dumped, after the epic primary battle against Thad Cochran, after Boner was kicked out, after the fight over the new Speaker, after the awful approval numbers for a Republican Congress... by Republicans voters.
If the intent of the article is to explain the Trump candidacy, they’ve got it wrong. It’s not that the base is insufficiently conservative. It’s that the base is FED UP.
You’d think the establishment would have figured it out after Cantor was dumped, after the epic primary battle against Thad Cochran, after Boner was kicked out, after the fight over the new Speaker, after the awful approval numbers for a Republican Congress... by Republicans voters.
Nailed it.
Cantor was the shot across the bow. They still ignored it. Trump and Cruz are the direct hit.
Fixed it.
Here the all are - At a JEB! speech. Just look at them!
Did I mention they are also invisible?
TX too! Joe Straus keeps liberalism alive in Austin.
As a conservative, I have over estimated the intelligence of a good chunk of the base.
I’ll never do that again.
It is pretty shocking. I can understand the initial attraction, but at this point...
I'll never do that again.
I might. ;-)
If the GOP delivered on just one or two issues important to their voters sometime over the last fifteen years, they wouldn’t have this problem.
How very kind of you.
Since you are all knowing would you share with us your choice so we can likewise look intellugent
Oh Goody, another piece by the delusional pipsqueaks at National Review.
No pipsqueaks, the people have figured out that both parties are not Pro America.
They are
pro politician
pro illegal alien
pro Islam
pro Wall Street bankers
pro meddling all over the world
pro open borders
And, by the way TigerClaws, your post is spot on.
no pearls before swine
Because Republicans, on the national level, are pro amnesty, open border, H-1B loving, unFair Trading, a gloBULList corporate whores and Obama butt kissers. Those aren’t very conservative values.
I've read hundreds of posts here where people are calling out Trump for "not being a conservative" and often, the response is some variation on "I don't care." Maybe those particular Trump supporters (not all, obviously), just aren't/weren't real movement conservatives.
And I think the author also is right in explaining why Trump is attracting Democrats. It's not because those Democrats are closet conservatives, but rather that they're not liberal, and that's the direction in which their party is heading at breakneck speed.
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