Posted on 11/28/2015 6:57:07 AM PST by GonzoII
A sustained outburst of anger and deep disdain for government that has shaped the Republican race for president and confounded the pundits is not going away.
The spirit of insurrection that has powered outsider candidates like Donald Trump to the head of the polls is threatening to close an already narrowing lane for more traditional candidates in the frenzied run-up to the first early voting contests early next year.
A Pew Research Center poll published Monday showed that the deepest suspicion of government, though also elevated among the broader electorate, remains in the Republican Party. The intensity of that sentiment toward the nation's leaders helps explain the turbulent nature of the GOP's 2016 election race and the dominance of Trump.
With his explosive anti-establishment rhetoric, attacks on political correctness and deeply personal swipes at rival candidates, Trump has successfully tapped into this palpable fury in sectors of the Republican primary electorate and has skipped unharmed through controversies -- like branding undocumented immigrants from Mexico rapists and criminals and backing a database for Muslims in the United States -- that might have ended more traditional campaigns.
And with voters in Iowa and New Hampshire now just over two months away from weighing in on the contest, the conventional wisdom that outsider candidates such as Trump and neurosurgeon Ben Carson will fade seems to be on thinner ground than ever before.
The Pew poll shows that candidates like Trump who have fanned the flames of anger at government have sound political rationales for doing so.
Republicans and those who lean Republican are three times as likely as Democrats to say they are "angry" with government -- 32% to 12%. Among Republicans and Democrats who vote often and follow politics closely, the gap is even wider: 42% to 11%.
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A sustained outburst of anger and deep disdain for bloated, intrusive, oppressive, wasteful, law-breaking, gargantuan government that has shaped the Republican race for president and confounded the pundits is not going away.
There. Fixed it.
Not saying President Trump will be able to reverse these conditions but I think he will try harder than Obie, Li'l Bush, Monica's boy toy or Papa Bush.
You do understand that the government of the USA has 4 different branches. To get anything done you need at least 3 of those voting the same way. Change comes when everyone gets fed up and generates a majority in congress and the presidency.
That day is coming!
“Deep Republican anger”
Lots of Democrats are angry about some of the same things.
I would replace ‘Republican’ in the title with ‘American’.
So before going off on Trump, lets wait and see who is going to be doing what...all I'm saying is Cruz is a ‘sitting Senator’ ...Trump is not....
Yes that day is coming, and I can't wait for a ‘non politician’ to be put in the Oval Office....
I don’t want to change them because I’m angry.
I want to change them because they incompetent and have been for forever.
Some of the cheating, lying things they’ve done has me angry they aren’t behind bars yet.
So true, Cruz is nothing more than overrated hot air.
The only hope for America is to return to the Constitution. That is what Cruz knows better than anyone else running.
Good luck.....
Couldn't have said it better.
GO CRUZ!!
Both parties have been complicit in the non-enforcement of the laws and borders.
Yes, for years. What exactly did W do to control immigration after 911—NOTHING. Bushes and Obamas and all Congressmen have allowed our borders to be wide open for any and all. Now the citizens have to pay in fear of ISIS and other terrorists daily.
aka RDNC candidates.
If it weren't for Trump, Cruz would have been drowned under an ocean of RDNC pablum!
“suspicion of government ... also elevated among the broader electorate”
Which is just one of the many reasons we’ll be watching President Trump in action in just a little over a year.
“And look where that got us.”
What that got us was that the California voters also elected a state legislature that was overwhelmingly Democrat while Arnold was governor, so he was completely powerless.
Cruz has done nothing to fight that government except run his mouth.
‘’President Cruz will fix it.’’
Except that there can be no “President Cruz” if there is a Hillary candidate. Cruz isn’t strong enough to fight the Clinton Machine. If it’s God’s will that Cruz should win, then Cruz will win. Great!
But how would Cruz fix anything? Trusting that McConnell, et al., tell him the truth and then he’ll make decisions based on bad information? Reading bedtime stories to his kids on national TV?
The ones who are not angry (dems and establishment) settle for what they now have in the government... and don’t care who pays for it.
The ones who are angry are the ones paying for it all and losing freedoms right and left... seeing no one in congress stopping any of it. Another 4 years of this and our country won’t be recoverable.
Those reporters are too young to know what happens when things are run like they have for the past 7+ years.
Explain how it has come to be that illegal immigration is front and center of this campaign.
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