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Washington Elite Speculate About A Trump Presidency
BBC News ^ | 10/29/2012 | Tara McKelvey

Posted on 10/28/2016 8:20:21 PM PDT by goldstategop

Donald Trump says that if he's elected, he'll fix Washington and run the nation like a business. People here are wondering whether he'd make good on his promise. Would President Trump fix Washington - or would Washington fix him?

Trump scares the Washington Establishment, an amorphous group of lawmakers, lobbyists, journalists, lawyers and others. If he were elected, he could up-end Washington - and break things.

"He's saying he could completely overturn Washington," James Madison University's Marty Cohen said, describing Trump. "Whether he could do it or not, it's still a threat."

Not surprisingly, the nation's capital has been reeling.

"I can't think of a president who represents such a change," said Michael Kazin, the author of The Populist Persuasion: An American History.

He said the closest analogy to Trump is President Andrew Jackson, who served from 1829 to 1837.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; bbcnews; democrats; gopestablishment; jacksonians; msm; populism; taramckelvey; trump
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Trump is a Jacksonian.

He is as intolerable to the Washington elite as Andrew Jackson was to the New England Brahmins.

Hillary is one of them.

1 posted on 10/28/2016 8:20:21 PM PDT by goldstategop
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I want to see a yuge wheel of cheese in the White House and all the common people invited in to eat it. I think that was part of Jackson’s inaugural.


2 posted on 10/28/2016 8:21:58 PM PDT by Mercat (Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
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Reddit is showing that Obama today quietly cancelled several upcoming Hillary rally appearances. #HillarysEmails


3 posted on 10/28/2016 8:22:52 PM PDT by jennychase
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To: jennychase

SchlongerTogether is also trending on Twitter


4 posted on 10/28/2016 8:24:17 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: jennychase

I was wondering about him.


5 posted on 10/28/2016 8:24:46 PM PDT by donna (Donald Trump is going to win!)
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...I think that was part of Jackson’s inaugural....
That and a two week supply of alcohol. An inaugural celebration for the books.
The revelers eventually had to be kicked out of the White House.


6 posted on 10/28/2016 8:25:06 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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L M A O


7 posted on 10/28/2016 8:26:21 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Lost in Space / the Democrats are Dr. Smith and the rest of us are the Robinsons...)
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The Washington elitss are n for a rude surprise come November 9th.


8 posted on 10/28/2016 8:27:06 PM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP Rocks!)
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We’re counting on him breaking things. Big league.


9 posted on 10/28/2016 8:27:28 PM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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I think someone will try to whack him.

Reagan had one Sam Donaldson. Trump will have ten, led by Megyn Kelly.


10 posted on 10/28/2016 8:29:31 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([VOTE FRAUD] == [CIVIL WAR])
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11 posted on 10/28/2016 8:30:06 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Lost in Space / the Democrats are Dr. Smith and the rest of us are the Robinsons...)
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“She’s now way ahead in polls..”

Stopped there.


12 posted on 10/28/2016 8:31:26 PM PDT by Luke21
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can you explain reddit to me? how does it work? can you show me a link to that info? I really don’t understand it.


13 posted on 10/28/2016 8:31:48 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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Trump scares the Washington Establishment, an amorphous group of lawmakers, lobbyists, journalists, lawyers and others.


That’s why we love him.


14 posted on 10/28/2016 8:32:14 PM PDT by Flick Lives (Voting Trump. It is not just a vote, it is a chance to burn down the rotten Uniparty.)
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Reddit is showing that Obama today quietly cancelled several upcoming Hillary rally appearances.

Which ones?

15 posted on 10/28/2016 8:34:27 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity?)
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To: TigerClaws

Just Damn!

We have got some witty people on our side!


16 posted on 10/28/2016 8:37:14 PM PDT by Conserv
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That’s a pretty big deal. Almost as big as the MSM running with it.


17 posted on 10/28/2016 8:43:01 PM PDT by umgud (ban all infidelaphobics)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Reddit is like FR, at 300 mph.


18 posted on 10/28/2016 8:43:10 PM PDT by Salamander (I'm young enough to look at, and far too old to see All the scars are on the inside.)
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There is a reason that the richest Zip Codes surround Washington D.C.

Washington Elites, Political Hacks and Enemies of the People and the Republic, the whole lot of them.


19 posted on 10/28/2016 8:43:20 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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He went to Florida this evening. Hillary’s Twitter I’d fill of quotes of him singing her praise.


20 posted on 10/28/2016 8:45:51 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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