On just one issue alone, the realignment took place decades ago.
Not since Ronald Reagan has anyone stood up for the working man as much as he did. Same for the middle-class.
At the current time there’s only one candidate who talks about bringing jobs back. He is roundly ridiculed for it.
Donald Trump is redefining the party alright, but he’s defining it back toward’s it’s traditions, a supporter of a robust economy and ACTUAL (no smoke and mirrors) full employment.
Trump wants the middle-class to survive. Glad someone does.
Yeah, my Dad said the GOP he remembered wanted to avoid foreign wars and not seek them out. The idiotic "nation-building" that H.W. and G.W. advocated, with his idiot advisers is what re-aligned the party.
I am pretty sure the big shots in the GOP did not want Reagan.
If you’re saying that we left the trajectory REagan started you’re right. Bush, Sr was a joke, since then, down hill.
Although Ross Perot had a lot to do with this.
[Trump wants the middle-class to survive. Glad someone does.]
What amazes me about Trump is 2 things I heard him say that show he is in touch with average Americans. He said once that the fed holding down interest rates left Americans with nowhere to invest their money but the stock market, which was risky and bound to fall again. And another time he said the Obamacare deductibles were so high that it made any care unaffordable.
Now a multibillionaire probably isn’t affected by those things but the fact that he recognized what millions of Americans face was surprising to me, after decades of politicians that are so far removed from the people- and couldn’t care less.