Posted on 04/27/2016 5:29:27 AM PDT by detective
Donald Trump’s 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 Trump’s story is about more than a first-time candidate’s 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 Trump’s 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 America’s 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 Trump’s 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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Back then it was a duty, not an opportunity.
Power is not alluring to pure minds. — Thomas Jefferson
Link please, tia
Not exactly! It was the GOPe who squandered Reagan's legacy and governed like democRAT-lite. Trump is our Obi-wan-kanobi; Cruz let his GOPe shine through. Or, in the words of Monty Python, "now for something completely different."
Exactly as Antonio Gramsci envisioned. Demoralization. Destabilization. "Normalization". Most of us dead, the rest of us in chains.
There is only one way to stop them.
Just added to my reading list! Signed copies for the FReepathon?
I’ll miss LibbyLu. /s
Exactly. The Left assumes that however it works for them, so it must be with us. Your average Dim doesn’t have an opinion until he or she reads it in the NYT.
“To all democrats: Hillary is the epitome of the political elite supported by the media elite.”
Trump would be wise to use your phrase in his campaign!
Simple. Direct. Truthful.
The conservative writers, especially, have given their game away in the most amateurish, clumsy fashion.
They like to sneer and snort at the DC liberals but guess what? They rub shoulders with these people every day, want to live in the same DC suburbs and therefore must pay the same exorbitant housing costs, taxes, etc.
Frankly, it’s our (meaning conservatives in general) fault that they live and work in DC and NYC and that they keep receiving financial and readership support from us. There’s really no need. They could write from Ft Worth, Cheyenne, Columbia or anywhere else without being exposed to (and inevitably absorbing some) of the lefty poison.
Of course, the right/left Punch & Judy routine is meant to hide the larger problem of elitism and this is where people like Jonah Goldberg have absolutely lost their minds as they attempt to bolster their own status while hurling insults at the groundlings. In the case of Goldberg, he has a personal grudge against Trump (whatever you think of Trump) and his columns have turned into Unabomber-type monomania.
DC is far more entrenched now than it was in 1980 or even 1988. It was always the seat of power but cronyism has made it a seat of commerce as well. Their reactions to Trump and/or a populist movement are akin to someone threatening to ban gambling in Las Vegas. Suddenly the various competing companies - Harrah’s, Wynn, et al - have a common enemy who threatens sinecures and profits.
While I have not agreed with 2DV during this election he has been a solid member of Free Republic over my years here and precedes me. We all have our opinions and we are mostly strong in those opinions.
I object to personal attacks but strong discussions do not bother me.
In defense of “Nathan Bedford Forest” I view Lincoln as one of the worst president’s due to his part in starting and the actions he supported during the Civil War. Is there anything except our very loves that would be worth the equivalent of 16 million Americans today, suspension of habeus corpus, or the instituting of the first income tax.
Please tell me that includes Ravin’ Karl Rove.
Every. Single. County. In FIVE different states! On the same day.
Amazing!
The voters handed the House to the GOP and, in 2014, we also gave them the Senate. They squandered it and accomplished nothing that they promised us when they were running for office.
In 2016, the voters are sending a clear message through the Trump campaign and ...the GOP deserves it!
Even Rove last night, with his whiteboard and marker, after
digesting the Trump blowout, seemed to have (almost)accepted
the inevitable.
CNN had a string of people on to reiterate their line that Trump wants to deport all Mexicans, wants to forever ban Muslims, and so on. They had some black guy on blathering about how he can't imagine a president who operates at a third grade level.
Then, when Hillary does her speech... they're all gushing with awe and glee.
I tend to agree. Flipping between CNN and FoxNews last night, there seemed to be a resignation to the fact that Trump is now the presumptive nominee and the window for boxing him out is now closed. Character assassination won't work - the people know who Trump is. Disrupting rallies by sending protesters has proven to be ineffective, in fact, Trump feeds on that and seemed genuinely disappointed there were no protesters at a recent rally. Party parlor tricks such as "wrangling delegates" and making the process confusing for voters also seems to have badly backfired.
I suppose it's theoretically possible that Trump stumbles in Indiana and Cruz pulls out a strong victory like he did in Wisconsin. But I just don't see it. Trump has all the momentum and his rally there tonight with Bobby Knight looks to be a barn burner.
I would love to be able to go to that barn burner.
there, fixed it for ya!
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