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%.
(Excerpt) Read more at donaldjtrump.com ...
But he’s down 12% so it is all over anyway! /s off
Yes, he does. And that is a deep, deep well.
JUSTIFIED anger...
Our government has been allowing vast numbers of fraudulently documented foreigners into our country to prey on the citizens and collect benefits to which they are not entitled.
Both parties have been complicit in the non-enforcement of the laws and borders.
We are being made to pay for the stealing of our country from us.
Now, why would anyone be upset about that?
I will say it again: the mood of the voters is similar to what happened in California with Grey Davis. The public was so disillusioned with Davis that they removed him and put in the Govenator - Arnold. And look where that got us. I have conservative, Christian values - not anti-political party ones.
REPUBLICAN anger..??
Not a chance.
People I talk to thinks he will be a great President with the needed skills. And he is nobodies puppet. He is willing to go it alone for the first time in our history and not do paybacks for the unseen hand.
Really?
So, how do you like the party of baby-killing faggots, communists and moslems?
But it is even better when it is *intelligently* directed.
All the Donald pointed out was that we provide carte blanche even to those undocumented immigrants who turn out to be rapists and criminals (well, murderers actually), and continue to do so even after their criminal careers are well established.
If I could find a political party with a realistic chance of winning that supported my conservative, Christian values, I could agree with you ... But I can't.
Angry?
I was past “angry” after Waco.
White hot hate is more like it.
Do you believe those values will be better served by Clinton or Trump?
How about we thoroughly deplore corruption and betrayal so evident that the likes of Ryan don't even attempt to deny it any more. They just go on doing business as if the interests of the citizens of the United States just don't matter.
Americans are through being suckers for every “victim” manufactured by vote-crazed politicians.
The pols throw tax dollars at these phony victims.....giving the victim/parasites access to programs hard-working Americans can’t get.
The pols think Americans don’t know they keep manufacturing and funding victims b/c that’s how the frickin pols get rich......looting, pillaging, and stealing from these programs.
Trump has done nothing to fight that government except run his mouth.
President Cruz will fix it.
The keep getting it wrong. It’s not ‘anger at government’.
It’s recognition that doing the same old thing will get the same old results.
We Must change the cycle of politicians replacing politicians replacing politicians. See what that has gotten us. We’re an international laughingstock, 20 trillion in cash debt, 120 trillion in unfunded debt, and the middle class is intentionally being killed off.
We NEED to install a leader.
I’m not angry at the establishment, democrat & republican alike....they’re just being the crooked liberals that they are in their hearts. I would probably throw them in jail, but that’s not anger; it’s justice.
We need to stop doing what hasn’t worked and doesn’t work. That’s not anger. That rational thinking.
I will say it again: the mood of the voters is similar to what happened in California with Grey Davis. The public was so disillusioned with Davis that they removed him and put in the Govenator - Arnold. And look where that got us. I have conservative, Christian values - not anti-political party ones
I hate the lying b@st@rds at CNN. FUCNN!
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