Posted on 06/28/2015 8:10:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Are you wondering why Donald Trump is resonating across America more than you thought he would? Let me try and offer an explanation.
To chalk it up to the simple fact that he’s a TV celebrity is naïve. Donald Trump is resonating because for many Americans he represents their, “inner voice.” He’s the guy that actually says out loud what a lot of people think inwardly. If you’re honest, you know you’ve thought some of this as well. And yes liberals, I bet you too have privately thought some of the things Trump is saying. Maybe not as much as conservatives but c’mon be honest.
Here’s a sampling of “Trump’s Greatest Hits:”
“I say that you can defeat ISIS by taking their wealth…“Take back the oil. Once you go over and take back that oil, they have nothing. You bomb the hell out of them, and then you encircle it, and then you go in. And you let Mobil go in, and you let our great oil companies go in. Once you take that oil, they have nothing left.”
“I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall.
"You have people coming in, and I'm not just saying Mexicans, I'm talking about people that are from all over that are killers and rapists and they're coming into this country,"
"You have to bring in jobs, you have to take the jobs back from China, you have to take the jobs back from Mexico,"
"I don't care about the government of Iraq. They're corrupt. The government of Iraq is totally corrupt,"
"We have rebuilt China…They have taken our jobs, they’ve taken our manufacturing, they’ve taken everything from us. … They’ve taken money. Do you know that right now we owe China $1.3 trillion? We’re paying them interest. What you do to China is you say if you don’t behave we’re going to have to start taxing your goods coming into this country. … They charge us tariffs. We don’t charge them because we’re stupid. They charge us.”
Now look, will the statements above give Trump a few problems on the diplomacy front? I guess (not that he cares) but you see, Trump is playing a different game. You see, most politicians are careful with their words as they play a cautious game guided by consultants. Is that smart politically? You can easily make the case that it is but typically it’s not bold and it surely isn’t fully transparent. With Trump, he lays it all out there and that is refreshing to many people. He is channeling their inner voice. He is saying what many are thinking but might be too afraid to say it publically. He is also saying what many politicians might be thinking but are too afraid to say it. Trump doesn’t care. And in this day and age of bloviating hot air politicians, he comes across as refreshing.
Now, is Donald Trump brash? Yes. Does Donald Trump have a “healthy” dose of ego? You bet. He has flaws and he needs to work on them. Nobody is denying that. But here’s something else you can’t deny. Trump’s poll numbers are moving higher and he’s striking a chord.
About Nixon Americans said, "In your heart you know he's right."
Actually he was.
In your heart you know Trump is saying what you have felt all along.
LOL, how thick does someone have to be to compare Reagan, or anyone, being a democrat in the 1930s and 1940s and having Truman in 1948 as his last democrat presidential vote, before campaigning for Eisenhower in 1952, and 1956, and Nixon in 1960, and already earning a reputation as a conservative speaker and thinker in the 1950s, giving a famous conservative speech at Goldwater’s 1964 convention, two terms as republican governor, and giving us the Reagan years, to Donald trump leaving the GOP, to join the democrats in 2001, and being a democrat under Obama, and naming Bill Clinton as his favorite modern president?
Trump wasn’t a democrat in the old days, and WWII, he left the GOP, and became a modern Al Gore, Hillary, Bill, Obama, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy democrat, leaving at age 63, in 2009.
Republicans will continue to lose if they can't tell the difference between political leaders and pop-culture figures/entertainers.
It's harder for the right because we don't have Hollywood.
[ Reagan was also once a democrat. He switched to Republican in 1962 .
A quote in which Reagan complained, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.’’ ]
One of the reasons the left hated Reagan so much was they felt betrayed by him leaving the demorat party
The Country is already Liberal.
I disagree, as do many. :-)
http://www.gallup.com/poll/180452/liberals-record-trail-conservatives.aspx
We all know what a politician says and what he does are two different things, as with Trump. However, at least he says what people are thinking.
Sadly, I wish it were true my Friend, but actions speak louder than words.
Allow me to quote an Old Retired Navy Chief that worked for me years ago, “wish in one hand and spit in the other and see which one fills up first”.
The People might actually believe they are Conservative, and even here on FR there are varying degrees of Conservatives, but they don’t act Conservative in the least.
Some of us living in Conservative enclaves might thing that is the norm, but living in a bubble is not reflective of the Country’s reality.
That is how I see it and I always have a bit of hope that I am mistaken so I can sleep at night.
>>>Some of us living in Conservative enclaves might THINK that is the norm, but living in a bubble is not reflective of the Country’s reality<<<
Sometimes I hate Spell Check...
The People might actually believe they are Conservative, and even here on FR there are varying degrees of Conservatives, but they don’t act Conservative in the least.
We need rule of law.
Ted Cruz is the man who wants to fight for that.
He doesn't even have to say it, his actions and words show it.
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