Posted on 07/01/2016 11:47:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
Everyone's looking for what Winston Churchill called a pudding with a theme. How did the likes of Donald Trump make it to the forefront of American politics? How did the British break their strong link with the Europeans just across the channel? The common denominators, so we're told, are "revolution," "down with the elites" and "power to the people."
Or, as Che Guevara put it: "The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
The idea of revolution, of course, does not apply to Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, because she's the apple clinging to a tree that has survived a lot of shaking and hasn't fallen. She has a native tenacity that gives her staying power, despite being a little too ripe.
Bernie Sanders is too old to play Guevara, and he was never serious enough as a candidate to actually make it to the Oval Office. But he put together a mini-revolution big enough to force Clinton to tack left, despite her sympathies and associations with the superrich who seek access through their big donations to The Clinton Foundation, her favorite charity. She collects millions from Wall Street in over-the-top speaking fees. Ever canny and cynical, she now campaigns with Elizabeth Warren beneath a banner celebrating the convenience of a shotgun wedding: "Stronger Together."
The Democrats are better than the Republicans at protecting their own. They long ago shunned President Ronald Reagan's famous 11th Commandment, "Thou shall speak no ill of another Republican." The Republican party has perfected the circular firing squad, this year with 17 candidates banging away at one other, leaving the loudest, richest, most uncouth and most inexperienced politician as the last man standing.
But the Donald leads an authentic revolution. Many of his followers are perceived by the elites to be vulgar, rough and raw at the edges, untutored in political niceties and underrated by the vain and foolish. When Warren mocks the Trump slogan, "Make America Great Again," as goofy, they retort that she's the goofy one. They answer with the moral clarity of those hurt most by the corrupting spirit of the Clinton mindset. They're demeaned by the emphasis on the ethnic identity of fashionable others, and they laugh out loud at the joke when he calls Warren "Pocahontas," a dig at her claim of Cherokee ancestry. The Trump people have had it with the self-serving self-righteousness of the politically correct.
The Donald's biggest supporters are found in the white working class. Their much-derided way of life, together with their livelihoods, has been destroyed in the new global economy. They think he's got their back. They live in neighborhoods below the shining city on the hill, where the weaker sunlight puts their modest houses and declining businesses in harsh relief. Many of them live depressed in the dark shadows of decay, where working-class white lives should matter, but are sneered at in the cultural salons because they lack what Leon Wieseltier, critic of culture and policy at the Brookings Institution, calls "moral glamour." He describes the scattershot nature of American compassion, the "soft betrayals" where sympathy for what matters is highly selective.
"Since much of the white working class lives in states with large rewards in electoral votes, it had been the national custom to pause and remark upon their misery only every four years," he writes in the Washington Post. "And in the years between general elections, when the course of American history, or rather the interest of American politicians, did not run through Ohio and Pennsylvania, they had generally been met with indifference and even contempt." These voters especially resent the chic Democratic "bi-coastals" to whom the farms and small towns of flyover country are "culturally embarrassing."
The white working class delivered strong victories for Trump in the primaries, and they believed him when he told them "I'll be back often." They don't feel patronized when he says, "I love the poorly educated." The Democrats who preen their faked affection for the white working class and say they're for Sanders are ripe for Trump in November because he speaks their language.
"I want you to imagine how much better our future can be if we declare independence from the elites who've led us to one financial and foreign policy disaster to another," Trump told a Pennsylvania audience this week. He urges them to follow the British who voted for Brexit to take back their future, too. The Donald is ridiculed for his undisciplined, spontaneous rhetoric, but polls show he wins on economic issues, as the candidate who would know how to create jobs. It's the economy, Stupid. And Stupid must understand that the future depends on who can put the right theme in the pudding.
Yeah, no foolin’
I’ve been telling the politicians for YEARS to get off the “diversity train” and make your appeals to the white working class. OUT with “affirmative action” and “diversity” crap. In with merit, good/safe schools, family and WORK
The rest of them can GTH
They are STILL trying to over-think it to figure out what happened...
DECADES OF BEING LIED TO is what happened
And poeple are sick of it.
If Trump had not come around something else might have- incluing armed insurrection
Yeah. That's the hilarious part. There are still idiots in the Rust Belt who think the Rat party and Trumka are on their side.
Only if they say that pedophilia is a civil right.
But the fools keep voting for them, and the Rats keep doing pulling the Lucy Van Pelt stunt on them.
This election we will find out if they finally get that. This time they have a choice, instead of tinhorn frauds like "Mitt" (!) Romney or Mad Jonny McCain.
This is just to paint Trump as “raciss”; until whites vote as a block taxpaying whites can’t elect presidents anymore.
The big appeal about Trump is that he is *not* a politician, inexperienced or otherwise. He is a regular person. He understands the people.
As for "uncouth"--he is no more so than any normal person. He just doesn't meet the standards of the professional Republican class. However, he is way more couth than the average professional Democrat politician.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the white working class lasts for a thousand years, men will say, “This was their finest hour.”
Quoting that murdering pig Che Guevara isn’t going to win friends and influence conservatives, honey.
Trump is not a member of the country club. He just owns the country club. LOL.
They always have to throw in “white”. Trump energizes “Americans”. That includes “white”, “black”, “working-class”, “rich”, “poor”, ...
Maybe a higher percentage of “white working-class” citizens consider themselves to be “Americans” first while other groups consider themselves “black-american” or “gay-american” or whatever rather than “Americans”. But Trump is energizing the “Americans” in every group.
Trump’s ascent just means that the party lines are being drawn. It used to be Republicans favored social conservatism while Democrats favored social liberalism. They both were more or less pro-corporatist, either of Koch flavor or of Soros flavor.
Trump single-handedly re-drew the lines. The conservatives have lost the cultural war. Get used to gay marriage and abortion. Even Trump is for them. Okay, the new party lines are being drawn around Nationalism vs Globalism. Women, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Gays, and immigrants in general are backed by corporatists to benefit the Globalist Democratic party. Whites, particularly males, are Nationalists and are convinced of Trump — they are the new Republicans. The new deciders are White females. They determine who wins and who loses.
The damage done in the last 4 years has been horrendous
The silent majority of working class stiffs woke up 4 years too late and the worst of the damage has already been done.
The pivotal election was in 2012, now the 2016 election only determines who manages the inevitable Obama engineered crisis and who picks up the pieces.
Yes. The “white” tells people wink wink if they support Trump they’re racist. Unfortunately it works for many foolish people.
Yeah, I’m very tired of being lied to over and over again.
I’m also tired of not fighting the opposition, the enemy. Donald knows how to fight. He does it well, and we need fighters today, not refined people who are afraid of their on shadow.
I believe in turning the other cheek. But something down deep tells me that our GOP leaders are giving up - not turning the other cheek. We have to fight sometime or else the enemy will kill us.
“If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow.”
Light ‘em up!
Donald, if your staff is reading: Please look into the H1B situation and how it displaces perfectly capable American STEM workers by forcing the H1B’s to work as indentured servants (75 hour weeks) to keep from being deported.
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