What Trump is doing IMHO is trying to win. Many of our friends have forgotten what this means. Rush calls this conditioning, I call it stockholm syndrome.
Running in 2016 versus 1980 is a little different, no? The population is +100 million and WWII and Korea era are vanishing fast. Their replacements are many imported people who barely recognize English or the Constitution.
So you have this different demographic. Shall our guy party like its 1980, running up the “conservative” flag? ( BTW, I remember those elections well, don’t oversell the (C) aspect, especially in 1980 when external events dictated the outcome ).
Levin, right this second is lecturing on (C)onservative principles or else, reading the Declaration, but I ask you this ... does it even matter to you or him whether the voters in the battleground states are receptive to this? Are they clamoring for lectures? Evangelicals? Constitutionalists?
Exactamundo. We are in the second or third Generation Kardashian election. Using trench warfare 1980 tactics is the surest way to lose. There’s no evidence anybody else in the race besides Trump does get that fact, IMO. Cruz is running a paleo conservative campaign and most everybody else is running hard left. That’s not how a GOPer get elected POTUS in 2016, IMO.
you are not as smart as you think you are
how should Reagan have run his campaign?
I cannot understand why there is this so-called “conservative purity” stuff going on.