Posted on 04/27/2016 5:29:27 AM PDT by detective
Donald Trumps sweeping victories Tuesday night move the Manhattan billionaire a step closer to winning the Republican nomination for president and to pulling off the most improbable political feat in modern American history. But Trumps story is about more than a first-time candidates stunning rise. It is also about the humiliating defeat suffered by an increasingly isolated political and media class who still do not understand the causes and scope of Trumps populist revolt.
In his book Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, Charles Murray wrote about the rise of a new American upper class and the narrow elites who shape Americas economy, culture and government. The number of players who dominate the direction of media, politics and finance is surprisingly concentrated for a country as sprawling and diverse as the United States. And yet almost all of these influencers across Manhattan and Washington were incapable of blunting Trumps meteoric rise. Time and again over the past year, Washington insiders and media moguls misread the mood of working-class voters and their attraction to the populist message championed by Trump.
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With TRUMP, the people are SPEAKING out!
With TRUMP, the people of South Carolina EMBARRASSED their own stooge Lindsey Graham to F OFF in his OWN STATE.
With TRUMP, the people have told the BUSHES, ROMNEYS, McCAINS to F OFF.
With TRUMP, the people of this country will finally tell OBAMA, RATS, and HILLARY to F OFF!
Newt had the best Statement last night
We are finally done with the Bushes in the GOP.
I haven’t enjoyed a Zottening this much since Quix got banned! ;o)
Cruz shot himself in the arse by officially shedding his "Outsider" label and getting into bed with Kasich and the GOP Establishment. Up until that point Teddy had a 50/50 chance in stopping Trump from reaching 1,237. But now, we have one remaining candidate that is anti establishment.
You might be right with your prediction of the importation of massive numbers of paid anti-Trump protestors to Indiana Trump gatherings... but I suspect the wind is out of the sails of the anti-Trumpers.
Him and Levin, all cruz all the time. They are not getting it. The minute they start talking up the Canadian, I change stations. They better be finding a new topic pretty quick.
Wish I could believe that. :(
I don’t much like Trump, but if it’s a choice between Trump or Hillary, it’s no contest that I’ll vote for Trump
It’s even more impressive than that! The reports I hear is that he won every single CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT within each county within each state!
The thing is I do not even recognize over half of those posters other than as Cruz supporters. Many have sign up dates before mine and I don’t remember them posting about other things.
Now, we can work on getting the delegates for Trump to be declared the candidate to smash Clinton!
No more 8 years of Obama. Just say, Hell no to Clintoon!
Most of the left cannot think without the media, they use talking points delivered to them daily.
A couple more examples are the twin lies of ‘92 - “The character of the candidate is not an issue” and “Worst economy in 50 years”.
Cruz is done.
I know how hurt and angry some of you must be, but we MUST unite, get behind the Republican nominee and all get out and VOTE.
Those who were so angry that their candidate did not win the nomination that they stayed home, voted third party or did a 'write in' are partly responsible for the muslim being elected a second time.
We CANNOT let this happen again. We MUST get a Republican back in the White House. We MUST. As corrupt as the party is, it is better than the rat party. The witch, Hillary, will continue on with Obama's policies and finish destroying us. The first thing she will do is take our guns.
Trump is a good man.
He is an AMERICAN who loves his country
He is owned by no one.
He has heard the voice of We The People and has stepped in to fight for us.
He is a brilliant businessman/CEO who CAN run this country AND GET THINGS DONE!
It's true; he was once a rat- but so was Reagan. Everyone has a right to change their minds. We should not hold this against him
The most important thing right now is to stop the flood of criminal invaders across our border and stop the thousands and thousands of 'immigrants' (Muslim colonists/ jihadists) that Obama has flown in and distributed all across America in hopes of America being eventually under the rule of islam.
Texas alone has been the victim of almost 600,000 crimes by these criminal invaders. (Where are you, Gregg Abbott ?! Why haven't you done something about Obama's giving orders for the border guards to stand down and not interfere with the flood of criminals over our Texas border?)
Donald WILL build the wall. He will surely run into lawsuits by rats, many roadblocks and delays- but in the meantime, he WILL stop the flood of criminals by putting enough guards on our borders.
He WILL secure our border.
Our border guards believe in him.
He is the only presidential candidate EVER endorsed by them.
He will vet/investigate/deport the many dangerous muslims Obama has imported and distributed across America against our will- colonists/jihadists that he hopes will overthrow our government and claim this land for Islam, just as the Koran commands.
Donald is the ONLY one who has had the good sense to propose we start cutting down on the national debt of 20 trillion (run up by Obama throwing our tax payer's money away by pouring it into countries who hate us) by reducing aid to foreign countries and make them pay for our protection
Donald will NOT cut our senior's social security as Cruz is on record of proposing. (Google it)
Donald will put a stop to this.
Count on it.
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Seriously, I hope security keeps firearms and sharp weapons out of Ted's reach.
The comments from WashPo leftists are hysterical. They are really reaching for straws to dismiss the point of Joe Scarborough’s article, including ad hominem attacks on Scarborough and Trump. Of course all their arguments are straw men, so this should be no surprise. The left is never about substance, only emotion, usually vindictive, nasty, snide drivel that one would expect from a petulant child.
It's NOT just the 'working class' - it's all of us...
It's NOT just the 'working class' - it's all of us...
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