Posted on 02/13/2016 12:50:30 PM PST by TBBT
Few professional analysts seriously expected six months ago that Donald Trump could win the Republican nomination. But after Tuesday night, it is a clear possibility.
How much of a possibility? To get that answer right, it is important to understand some things about the Trump phenomenon.
Perhaps most important, Trump's campaign is not a Tea Party phenomenon. While there's been a tendency to try to lump Trump in with various G.O.P. insurgencies of the last few years, that role is best filled by Sen. Ted Cruz, who really occupies the "Tea Party lane" of the G.O.P. primary more cleanly.
Instead, Trump is a part of a much older insurgency within the G.O.P., dating back to the 1992 Pat Buchanan campaign and even to some internal debates within the Nixon administration. Candidates in this vein, such as Gov. Mike Huckabee and Sen. Rick Santorum, have argued from varying angles that the economic libertarianism of the G.O.P. is a tough sell, and should be pulled more toward an economic populism that allows for increased redistribution and for helping the "little guy" who has been left behind in the era of globalization. It is because of this confusion that so many of the early attacks on Trump - from questioning his conservative bona fides to making fun of the way he talked - fell flat. Trump's voters simply didn't care about these things.
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“people HATE Trump”
Well, what do we expect from people that write like third-graders? Trump probably talks over your head.
That's a fact. Trump-supporting FReepers who replied to this thread mostly said, he's not and it doesn't matter: How is Trump.2016 any more conservative than Romney.2012? [vanity].
Quite likely - but it's not clear that his FR supporters will care.
Cruz sadly many not have any chance either.
The Trump phenomenon. He knows what people want.
I didn’t get it.
Do you really think that big government statist New York Times can explain it?
They don’t get it.
He many not? Why he butter many giraffe? Not!
I am lucky that I rarely have to deal with people on a personal level who would consider voting for a communist. I didn't have to trash-talk down Cruz, all I had to say was “watch his professional politician NWO Republican Christian schtick.Look all around you at those you know to be practicing Christians by their daily actions.”
Compare/contrast with the odious Westboro Baptist bunch, who also loudly proclaimed themselves to be “Christians”.
How many times have they said he’s done, his campaign is over too.
"One safe assumption I can make about Soros is if he displayed in the past the criminal behavior of most of our elected criminals of both parties, he would be in jail. ..."
One safe assumption I can make about Trump is if he displayed in the past the criminal behavior of most of our elected criminals of both parties and only made $80,000 per year, he would be in jail.
Keep kidding yourselves. When the guy who changes the oil on my car starts to talk to me about why he supports Trump, you not facing a voter revolt, you are facing a voter revolution.
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