Posted on 04/20/2016 5:54:03 AM PDT by markomalley
A candidate like Donald Trump should be impossible. A loud, unscripted, hard-edged reality show-style candidate with exceedingly flexible positions on many hot-button issues would be laughed out of contention for the Republican nomination in other years. A man whose serial gaffes and willingness to stick his thumb in the eye of the gatekeepers of good taste would be cooked before he stepped onto the debate stage. An utterly inexperienced politician, who describes our rights and privileges as particular to us as Americans rather than universal moral mandates, would be rejected by both parties at any other time in the modern era.
But in Trumps case, these supposedly disqualifying positions and attributes have proven to be the basis for unexpected success. Why? In part, it is because he corrects massive ideological failures by the Right, which have enabled unmitigated cultural overreach by the Left, eliminating the social and cultural basis that permits a Western liberal order to exist.
For decades, the institutional Right has ceded American culture to the Left, in spite of many voices who pointed out ample areas where the Right could carve out a countercultural movement against leftist domination, or even co-opt some of modern culture for itself.
The cause of this is partially a denial of how swiftly the culture has moved Left, leaving the institutional Right under the false impression it is still fighting the culture war of the 90s and early 2000s. The Rights obsession with 90s-era battles over sex, drugs, and rock and roll is more than just an anachronism: it represents a self-inflicted wound that ignored how the Left used the culture to repeatedly make the case for their vision of an ideal society. We now know the Left won that war, and in this context, Trump represents...
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
Well, no. If that’s what we need, it’s not him. Like a lot of wealthy people Donald Trump lives above those cultural conflicts. He’s not above making comments about political correctness, but he’s no culture warrior. Trump’s success at the polls has as much to do with a deeper weariness with culture wars as it does with a surface reaction against political correctness. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing — or a good thing — but I think Mytheos is deceiving himself and taking Donald Trump for something he isn’t and never claimed to be.
legal favoritism and access to or control over public money.>>>> well spoken control over public money made their own a quickly as possible.
For the first time since Reagan, it will have to be defended by the rats with a LOT of money.
He also has the outside chance of winning, because he's the only candidate that will ridicule Hillary to within an inch of her political life.
If New Yorkers watch and listen, they may realize what a fraud she is.
Either way, he's going to cause quite a stir there.
He may take Michigan, he may take Pennsylvania, he may take a couple of other traditionally blue states, or at least put them in play.
That's all good, and no one else could get even close.
I want to point out that Trump came in third last night in NY. Behind Sanders.
All that puffery that Trump could bring new people to the polls and put even democrat NY into play in the general election is just pure BS.>>>> good point but you had to register as a “republican” not in the “conservative” party republican to vote in the primary by october 9, 2015 (six months ago). even a lot of bernie supporters didn’t make it. here in PA i was all set to vote for bernie in my own continuation of operation chaos. but i switched back on the last day. March 25.
An excellent article that based on the comments here seems to have fallen on deaf ears. The right has no chance if it doesnt defeat PC; eventually conservatism itself will be deemed hate speech and banned from the public square. Trump is only GOP candidate whos even battling within this arena.>>>> you are correct already anything you say with a conservative view is hate speech, Christianity is hate speech. Look at the reaction to Trump on the muslim immigration truth. Then he started the snake poem and it makes me smile just thinking about it.
” He also has the outside chance of winning, because he’s the only candidate that will ridicule Hillary to within an inch of her political life.
If New Yorkers watch and listen, they may realize what a fraud she is.”
Trump will rip her head off, and hand it to her on the stage.
Donald Trump blamed Pamela Gellar for the Islamist attemped assassination in Texas.
Donald Trump has never once spoken of religious liberty.
Donald Trump today come out in support of Trannies in the bathroom.
Donald Trump is a PC thug taking you rubes for a ride, while destroying the Conservative movement.
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