Posted on 12/08/2016 4:48:39 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Things look different now, and not just because Donald Trump was elected president. It has been clear that most voters have been rejecting big government policies, and not just in the United States but in most democratic nations around the world.
Leftist politicians supposed that ordinary voters with modest incomes facing hard times would believe that regulation and redistribution would help them. Evidently most don't.
The rejection was apparent in the 2010 and subsequent House elections; Republicans have now won House majorities in ten of the last 12 elections, leaving 2006 and 2008 as temporary aberrations. You didn't hear Hillary Clinton campaign on the glories of Obamacare or the Iran nuclear deal, and her attack on "Trumped-up, trickle-down economics" didn't strike any chords in the modest-income Midwest.
Republican success has been even greater in governor and state legislature elections, to the point that Democrats hold governorships and legislative control only in California, Hawaii, Delaware and Rhode Island. After eight years of the Obama presidency, Democrats hold fewer elective offices than at any time since the 1920s.
Things look similar abroad. Britain's Conservatives, returned to government in 2010, are in a commanding position over a left-lurching Labour party. France's Socialist president, with single-digit approval, declined to run for a second term. European social democratic parties have been hemorrhaging votes, and got walloped in Sunday's Italian referendum. In Latin America and Asia, the left is declining or on the defensive.
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Trump’s platform was more Conservative than Reagan’s, and you agree that there wasn’t a Conservative on the ballot.
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OTH Free Trade and open borders are Marxist philosophies.
Agree that cutting corporate (or many other) taxes is a conservative concept. Same with cutting government regulations.
But with regard to tariffs, if you look at American history, depending on the era and the product, I think both conservatives and leftists have been both for and against, so that's kind of a gray area as to whether you would call it conservative or "liberal."
So true; I’m thrilled Trump won but I know this was a very close election. There are MASSES of people like those in your pic.
FRegards!
I disagree on that, but please give me some specifics that support your case.
The important thing is that Trump distinguished himself enough from HRC (and also from McCain in '08 and Romney in '12) to eke out the win, not as much as a conservative but as a populist. (Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that he did win nonetheless.)
But to say Trump was more conservative in his campaign than Reagan was when Reagan won by 10 percentage points and won all but about 6 states vs. Carter in 1980, just doesn't work.
Completely close the Department of Education.
Perhaps Trump will build on his election...his first six months will certainly give us a window on the Republican future.
Populist is a virtually meaningless word. What politician says he favors the ruling elite over the common man?
ML/NJ
TRUE
Wall on the border
Sending illegals home
Defunding planned parenthood
If you need more, look it up yourself.
Let’s hope so; there is an opportunity to peel off Dem constituents that other Republicans were unable to attract.
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