Posted on 03/21/2016 6:08:15 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
What bothers me most is that Republicans don’t seem to be learning anything from Trumpism.
Jeb Bush and Trump were the two polar opposites of this election. Bush was obsessed with raising money and spent all his time pulling in dollars six figures at a time. His idea of a political rally was to go to a posh country-club home, chat with 30 to 50 donors and swoop up checks with lots of zeroes. Trump’s events attract actual voters in the tens of thousands. Bush wouldn’t have won if he’d had a billion dollars.
Trump challenges Republican and conservative orthodoxy on trade, immigration and foreign policy. No one took him seriously because he had rough edges, said offensive things and had never won an election. But lo and behold, a plurality of GOP primary voters liked what he said. The explanation may go back to the famous cereal commercial: “He likes it! Hey, Mikey!”
On these pages I’ve criticized Trump’s Fortress America position on immigration and trade. But this year at least, the voters don’t agree with me. They do want the wall. They do want to get tough with China. They do think foreign goods are taking American jobs. They do want to keep out Muslims. They do want a balanced budget and an end to foreign aid. And they won’t be intimidated by the thug tactics of the left.
If Trump wins the nomination and then the election, he will do so by forging a new coalition of voters. He will lose many highbrow Republicans, but he will gain millions of independents and blue-collar Democrats — commonsense workers who’ve been crushed by Obama’s anti-business policies.
They would be a coalition of voters who want to put America first. And maybe it’s about time.
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The economic and political costs and dislocations would be comparable to the reunification of Germany...except we’ve never been one country.
You probably mention communities because you saw dismantling of factories in your local area. We all did, but the media downplays it.
more read about it....I have personally been pretty protected, and I’m grateful for that. It takes only a little empathy and experience to know that the shutting of a factory is a terrible thing for that community....and it should cause pain to every true conservative.
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