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.
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If you consider the birth of the Tea Party movement to be Rick Santelli's rant on the floor of the Chicago Merc, then open border/free "traitor"-types had nothing to do with it. So who hijacked what, exactly?
I’m guessing it will be you.
Quit with the tantrums. Sounds like your dear leader
Huh?
Ever read any of the many books about Cankles?
Every pottymouth expression I know I learned from quotes from those books.
There's also open mike ooopsies from The first rapist and Uncle Joe. The Biden one.
Trump is an amateur.
They’re still trying to figure me out?
It’s simple. They’re inept and they’re sell-outs.
That’s literally the bottom line.
Trump will never build a wall, ever.
Texas land is 99% privately owned along the Rio Grande. He will never ever be able cut them off from their cows drinking from the Rio Grande.
Let me tell you something now, I live in East Texas and I will tell you all those ranches are owned by fat cats most if not all their ranch hands are Mexican and trust me they are great cowboys. A Cowboy lives across the street from me and runs 2 ranches, the ranch corp owns his house, with family. He’s a good guy and I’d hate to see him and his wife kicked out, even though his kids may be citizens by birth here.
I can show you similar pics of Obama...
And Hitler....
Big crowds don’t mean you make a good leader.
“Trump’s Ceiling of Support May Be Limited”
I agree. He may blow the roof off one of these stadiums. Tampa was rockin last night.
Oh yeah.
I've noticed.
< /sarc >
After I read your post for the third time, I just burst out laughing so hard. Great post and BTW, I am more of a Cruz supporter.
Tiny little crowds aren’t a good sign in a campaign though.
I know that Trump is a nice guy compared to Hillary, the horrible Kennedy daddy and other liberals.
But I wish he would not sink even a little to their level. It is customary and easy to use a euphemism... I always say dang instead of the other word.
So I guess I am sinning in my heart but it is much easier on other people who don’t like foul language.
Hasn’t he always been in the 30% range?
Omigosh, remember the Temple picture of Obama.
So how do cows that are not any where near the Rio Grande manage to drink water?
PS: The wall will be built cow punches or not.
Just wait until the general. He will be skewered.
Why not? It wasn’t all that unfavorable.
The Trumpists habit of putting their fingers in their ears when they think anything negative is being said about Trump might cause you to miss something.
The wall is going up. It can go up now under Trump or later after rivers of blood. One way or another, that wall is going up. Count on it.
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