Posted on 02/13/2016 12:50:30 PM PST by TBBT
Few professional analysts seriously expected six months ago that Donald Trump could win the Republican nomination. But after Tuesday night, it is a clear possibility.
How much of a possibility? To get that answer right, it is important to understand some things about the Trump phenomenon.
Perhaps most important, Trump's campaign is not a Tea Party phenomenon. While there's been a tendency to try to lump Trump in with various G.O.P. insurgencies of the last few years, that role is best filled by Sen. Ted Cruz, who really occupies the "Tea Party lane" of the G.O.P. primary more cleanly.
Instead, Trump is a part of a much older insurgency within the G.O.P., dating back to the 1992 Pat Buchanan campaign and even to some internal debates within the Nixon administration. Candidates in this vein, such as Gov. Mike Huckabee and Sen. Rick Santorum, have argued from varying angles that the economic libertarianism of the G.O.P. is a tough sell, and should be pulled more toward an economic populism that allows for increased redistribution and for helping the "little guy" who has been left behind in the era of globalization. It is because of this confusion that so many of the early attacks on Trump - from questioning his conservative bona fides to making fun of the way he talked - fell flat. Trump's voters simply didn't care about these things.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
As interesting as anything from this column is:
“He isn’t the second choice of very many voters...”
He actually IS my second choice.
Quite pollyanna.
Teacher says, every time an editorial writer predicts Trump's demise, another GOPe candidate drops out of the race.
That's right my little Pocket Turtle, that's right.
That’s not a particularly smart reply.
I’m guessing you did not read the article but simply assumed it to be negative.
Ordinarily a good assumption from the Times but wrong in tis case.
Please go back and read it so that you can make intelligent comments in the future.
He will never got more than 100% of living, elgible voters. Only someone running as a democrat can do that.
Nah.
OH PLz!
I have come to hate the political process..
Sausage making is easier to stomach than what has become a dance to the death for all.. So moribund is the vision of our “leaders”.. We live in a fog of regulations and rules..
Bound to fates we neither choose willingly nor support obligingly like sheople.
Yet pay and pay.. And pay for.
I prefer to think of them as members of The Face of God cultists.
What kind of retard writes a column like this?
Trump’s support is a maximum of 320 milliion and only goes down from there.
With 1/3 being democRATS, then we are down to 200 million, and then with and 1/3 being independents, we are down to 100 million, and then we are down to 1/3 of that (assuming 3 candidates divided equally) then we are down to 33 million. That’s the ballpark using, basics. everything else is just wiggle.
Cruz people are so sure.
If only I were that sure.
I know.
But I just can’t trust Trump to be steadfast and do the things he’s promised.
There is nothing in his history to make me believe that. Until 2011, he was quite liberal.
He changes every few days on little things like whether Cruz is a great guy and would be a good veep to he’s going to sue Cruz if Cruz keeps hurting his feelings and trying to win the nomination.
I think he may be a little bi-polar which could be a good thing in a business man but no so much in a president.
You’re not sure?
Trump mentioned that seat last night, and said the MSM would be pointing it out ;-0) (Not that particular one, but he actually did make the exact point you are in the Tampa speech).
Extremely wishful thinking.
Apparently calling out BS Trump supporters is worthy of censoring comments. Bite me.
Somebody is going to hit their limit at some point.
Well, I am totally not ashamed of my posting history and I’m not trying to fool anyone.
What the heck are you implying?
OMG! Say it isn’t so! Well, that changes everything for me. One empty seat is unacceptable. What a LOSER! ;-)
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