Serious question: Trump supporters insult traditional Republicans. Trump supporters don’t seem to want Trump interacting with Traditional Republican Candidates. They seem to despise the Republican Party politics and politicians.
Why is Trump a Republican? With all of his support outside the Traditional Republican Party…why does he bother with them?
Why is Trump a Republican? With all of his support outside the Traditional Republican Party…why does he bother with them?
Good question. I hear this occasionally from only Trumpers:
If somehow Trump is denied the GOP nomination he should go third party and run against the Democrat and DeSantis.
To which I answer: Bull Moose Party.
What only Trumpers are suggesting is exactly what Teddy Roosevelt tried in 1912 when as a former president he failed to win his party's nomination, so he went third party.
And we all know how that worked out.
Only Trumpers need to face facts. Trump is alone here. He has no support from the Democrats or the Republicans.
Why is Trump a Republican?
Fair question.
Trump is not really a Republican is he?
Not sure Teddy Roosevelt was either.
But a national candidate NEEDS a national ticket to run on.
Roosevelt proved that when he went Bull Moose.
The problem is that the two parties have a MONOPOLY, particularly in what are termed closed primary states.
Think about the TYRANNY of closed primary states.
The parties get a FREE RIDE from taxpayers as their primaries are funded with public monies.
In the 1800’s there really were not primaries but at least the costs of nominating major parties candidates were not funded by taxpayers.
Today all primaries are funded with public monies.
But the primaries are NOT open.
In many states in order to vote in a primary you must declare an affiliation with the party.
In some states if you ask for a primary ballot of one party, you are automatically put on the roles as a member of that party.
It’s pretty neat, isn’t it, the CORRUPT major parties don’t even have to pay for the record keeping of their “affiliated” members.
Trump is a businessman not a politician.
Businessman are problem solvers.
Given his druthers he would probably not like to be affiliated with either party.
But as a pragmatic problem solver, he understands he needs a ballot slot of which there are only TWO that matter.
Multi-party systems don’t work very well, the United Kingdom is a prime example.
I’ve NEVER voted Democrat at least in any state or national election.
Yet I would be ASHAMED to have my name listed as a member of either CORRUPT party.
I, like Trump have been held hostage to a corrupt two party system which forces “binary choices”.
My “binary” choice has always been to vote for the lesser of two evils.
His binary choice was which party do I have go with to get my name on the ballot in a national general election for POTUS.
“Traditional” Republicans as you call them should be glad Trump has chosen to run with one of the two major parties.
Had he chosen the option of running on a third party then the Republicans would have no chance just as Daddy Bush had no chance when Perot ran third party nor did Humphrey have a chance when Wallace went third party in 1968.
As for traditional Republicans as you call them, the may be delusional in this regard.
For quite some time, there has only been one party with two wings.
The Uniparty’s only goal is perpetuating the uncontrolled and unsustainable growth of the social welfare state, the corporate welfare state and the military industrial complex.
That perpetuation was celebrated today by Uniparty pooh bah Newt Gingrich when he proclaimed a victory in the raising of the debt ceiling.