Translation from LeftSpeak: "bend an entire party a party elite to his will the will of its rank and file".
LOL. This from the party which cheers for groups that murder police officers.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/05/the_obama_cult.html
Liberals like to plagiarize don’t they?
No, what has happened is a hostile takeover of GOP by its rank-and-file.
I reject that argument entirely. If there was no Obama there would be no candidate Trump. If there was no Hillary there wouldn’t be a President Trump.
The country was desperate for Trump because of those two.
Many of us regarded the neocon dogmas and Bohemian Grove rot with aversion and even hatred - and did so from the very beginning. It has taken this long to have a champion again, after the black day of January 20, 1989.
Trump did not change the base. He stripped the degenerate veneer off of the grifter elite.
The party leadership as it was composed, part of what we all called the Uniparty, was the aberration, not Trump’s populism.
Axios is a dem, lib, funded fake news website that is no better than CNN. It just sounds like a teen age boy deodorant.
As always, the case in this article is overstated. Republicans have been for big spending since George Bush. Bush even tried to implement tariffs early in his presidency. The base has always been for enforcing immigration laws even if the Republican establishment has been against it. That is why we had the rebellions at the end of Bush’s presidency. The irony is that Trump is not an ideological person. He doesn’t have a well-thought out theory of government like Reagan did. For the most part, Trump will go along with whatever Republicanism currently is. He isn’t shaping it at all. But he is giving voice to the suppressed parts of the base on trade and immigration. Those voices were always there, however.
“All evidence in the last two years points to the fact that the R base was never as ‘conservative’ on economic policy as we portrayed them during the Obama years.”
Wasn’t it Obama who was going to get us into the Trans-Pacific Partnership? And isn’t it called something like “trade liberalization”? The point is globalism and global government.
Crony Capitalism has never been a Conservative value. The Bush family, starting in 1988, corrupted the GOP elite with their love of Crony Capitalism in the guide of "globalism". Trump is a return to a traditional GOP outlook on Globalism.
Trump nationalized anti- illegal immigration period.
The beauty of it went right to the core of red v blue.
Want to stop ms-13 AND punish blue states for Bobo?
Vote Trump.
Hell it’ll work again in 2020.
Axios...another plot to inform us of where Red Herring swim.
Where the heck was this guy the 8 years before Trump became President?
Talk about a cult of personality...
Given how sceptical most of Trump’s supporters are it’s highly unlikely they would be cult like followers.
As for free trade support we always been , although Donald Trump’s argument is for fair trade. Positing that existing trade deals are not fair to Americans. That is what we are buying tenistively.
As for shifting the party on other issues this happens all the time. The shift isn’t as big of a shift as you think thou.
For example while we may be conserned about deffiecent we also know the power of good economic policy and the central importance of infistructure to an economy. We know Donald Trump’s life time in reeatate construction staying ahead of schedule and under budget makes him the perfect man to garrrentee we get the best bang for our buck In all of these regards.