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Donald Trump taps into deep Republican anger at government
CNN via donaldjtrump.com ^ | November 24, 2015 | Stephen Collinson and Tal Kopan

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 ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; trump; trumprebellion
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To: jsanders2001

Yes, it’s very well justified anger, and it has been dismissed by our rulers as “astroturf”, extremism, etc. They just call us names for it instead of heeding our concerns.


61 posted on 11/28/2015 9:11:39 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: xzins

The focus should be on the vision of hope that is offered by Mr. Trump...A safe and secure nation, more economic opportunity both for business and those seeking better real jobs, fair and equitable trade agreements, and fair and honest in the treatment of Veterans.
Americans believe Mr. Trump will get us out of this mess and back to being a great nation.
TWB


62 posted on 11/28/2015 9:27:47 AM PST by TWhiteBear (i)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Illegal immigration represents our biggest priority because at its core it represents an incompetent government beholden to political correctness, always defined by the string pullers who run the media, instead of the Constitution and American people.

The PC police heretofore have instilled fear and controlled both Parties.


63 posted on 11/28/2015 9:37:11 AM PST by apoliticalone (Political correctness should be defined as news media that exposes political corruption)
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To: jettester

“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. “

And maybe you should stop “saying it again” because you obviously don’t know much about what happened other than the surface facts.

Grassroots California conservatives were the driving force behind recalling Gray Davis and the conservative choice to replace him was Tom McClintock.

But once the recall was successful the GOPe muscled their way in with all of their money and pushed their sock puppet Arnold.

They could do this back when there wasn’t a tea party and when fewer voters used the internet to organize. Times have changed, and the GOPe has a much harder time rolling conservatives.

Donald Trump may be a lot of things but being a GOP establishment stooge like Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t one of them.

” I have conservative, Christian values - not anti-political party ones.”

Something Jimmy Carter managed to tap into back in 1976. How’d that turn out?


64 posted on 11/28/2015 9:56:32 AM PST by Pelham (A refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: 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 RNC brought it upon themselves.


65 posted on 11/28/2015 10:08:50 AM PST by CottonBall
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Without Trump, illegal immigration wouldn’t even be discussed.

And Cruz can only do what his donors (like Club for Growth) let him.


66 posted on 11/28/2015 10:11:13 AM PST by CottonBall
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To: Pelham

Peanut Head Carter won because his name wasn’t Ford or Nixon


67 posted on 11/28/2015 10:12:27 AM PST by newfreep (TRUMP/Cruz 2016 - "Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: BillM

Been there, done that, and all We got was: Medi-X expansion, DHS, TSA, TARP/bailouts, NCLB....

The budget wasn’t balanced, govt didn’t DECREASE, NO/Laws were rolled-back, no Liberty/Freedoms were restored.

Hell, We voted a full REP Congress to STOP the progression of the tyrant in the White House and STILL we got funding for exec. amnesty/PP and everything the Resident wanted w/out ANY concessions counter.

Govt is full steam ahead for the betterment of themselves over the Rights and property of We the People.


68 posted on 11/28/2015 10:19:15 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Trump has also not been an elected official tasked with the responsibility to fight it either. He put his money behind the candidates whom he thought would do it and was just as, maybe even more, thoroughly disgusted so he decided to try and get ‘er done himself.

Screw the politicians! I am a Cruz supporter as well, but your kind of lambasting does not a friggin thing to help fix the problem either. Howz about we support both of them until we have to make that final decision (for me March 15).

You might be mindful that since either has announced, neither has displayed the need to attack either one. To me that is VERY telling.


69 posted on 11/28/2015 10:39:04 AM PST by mazda77
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To: Colonel_Flagg

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3365795/posts

From a man I have a mountain sized amount of respect for.


70 posted on 11/28/2015 10:41:22 AM PST by mazda77
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To: GonzoII

Trump is the manifestation of the fury against the GOPe, RINOs, Rove, NR, and the WSJ.

Trump is the Establishment’s Fault.

Had the RINOs been perceptibly conservative at any point, Trump could not happen.


71 posted on 11/28/2015 10:46:42 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.)
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To: CottonBall

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas and its beginning to look a lot like Trump. :-)


72 posted on 11/28/2015 11:01:28 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I’ll take a delayed Christmas present of having Trump the nominee :)


73 posted on 11/28/2015 12:00:18 PM PST by CottonBall
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