Posted on 02/27/2016 5:01:27 AM PST by BobL
We're in a funny moment. Those who do politics for a living, some of them quite brilliant, are struggling to comprehend the central fact Republican primary race, while regular people have already absorbed what has happened and is happening. Journalists and politicos have been sharing schemes for how Marco parlays a victory out of winning nowhere, or Ted roars back, or Kasich has to finish second in Ohio. But in my experience any nonpolitical person on the street, when asked who will win, not only knows but gets a look as if you're teasing him. Trump.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
To see the entire article, post the title into Google and do a search. That usually works.
This was a good article.
Can we find it where it’s not behind a paywall?
Yea, as I mention above, try pasting the title into Google. If that doesn’t work, open another browser as you may have used up your allocation of free articles (i.e., if you’re on Firefox, go to IE, etc.).
FR is not allowed to fully copy articles from WSJ.
Found it here in the clear.
Noonan has no credibility.
Did you read the article?
Ah.... The same frigging brilliant paywalled article I couldn’t read yesterday that I can’t read today.
GENIUS.
Agreed. However, a broken clock is right twice a day. Or as my grandfather used to say, “even a blind hog will find an acorn now and then”.
See link at Post 7 - before the WSJ finds it.
She does waffle from time to time.
Lately, though, she’s been on target.
I agree with her.
” If that doesn’t work, open another browser as you may have used up your allocation of free articles”
Great suggestion! I thought the free articles via Google were over for good, I just didn’t try hard enough.
The article count in Safari on a Mac is in a cookie called “gwallet”. Delete that cookie, and you’re good to go again.
Nice to know, thanks!
Wonderful article. Peggy Noonan often gets a lot of incoming here on freerepublic. This time she hits it out of the park.
She also discusses this in another column about two weeks ago:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-sanders-and-the-american-rebellion-1455236273?tesla=y
In a similar vein, here is another article from several years ago that was the first, I think, to discuss this issue. America’s Ruling Class.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3001142/posts
It is time for me once again seize an opportunity to repeat Nathan Bedford's first Maxim of American politics to explain why the establishment elites do not understand their divergence from the rest of the nation writhing under their policies especially including immigration and trade:
All politics of America is not local but ultimately racial
The elitists believe that they are on the right side of race and American history tells them that must be the end of the inquiry.
Thanks! I finally got to read it and Noonan is half right.
She stopped at the ‘unprotected’ class, didn’t quite make the link between the Sanders and Trump voters and doesn’t see the similarity between them.
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