Posted on 05/26/2016 9:41:19 AM PDT by Abiotic
Under a President Donald Trump, the Republican Party would become a different one, a broad, populist coalition focused on workers who have gone too long without a raise and on social programs the party establishment has long seen as anathema to its long-term success.
“Love the question,” Trump said in response to a question from Bloomberg Businessweek's Joshua Green in a profile of Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus published Thursday. The article bears the headline, "How to Get Trump Elected When He’s Wrecking Everything You Built."
“Five, 10 years from now — different party. You’re going to have a worker’s party," Trump said in the May 17 interview. "A party of people that haven’t had a real wage increase in 18 years, that are angry." Trump reiterated that cutting Social Security would be a "big mistake" for the GOP, remarking that "[c]utting it the wrong way is a big mistake, and even cutting it [at all]."
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Despite having issued numerous threats to the party about what he suggested would be a "steal" of his nomination, Trump praised the RNC chairman profusely. "I call Reince Mr. Switzerland,” Trump said. “He’s doing a great job as peacemaker.”
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For example, my parents both worked all their lives, teen years to after 65, and both died within a year and a half of retirement.
Their "pay-in" just evaporated into the system, rather than it being part of their estates.
No, he’s fishing for Sanders supporters.
I think Trump is right and I would welcome it. As is, taxpayers have no representation.
There will be a party of the Oligarchs and Gizmedats and a party made up of the taxpaying working class. For all intents we are there now, we just need a party to represent the working class.
Trump is reversing many decades of concerted and coordinated effort by the left to label their enemies and to suppress opposition. He’s totally altered the playing field, and this is exactly what we needed. It was almost, but thankfully not quite, too late.
“No, he’s fishing for Sanders supporters.”
I know what you mean.
I didn’t say the rhetoric won’t resonate.
It is odd that Trump is propping up Sanders vs Hillary with the debate. If this works, and it sure May, Sanders could be the nominee. If so, there is no chance to catch Bernie supporters. That scenario works only if a Hillary is the nominee.
I wonder if something even more bizarre may happen.
Might Trump pick Sanders as his running mate?
You were too late.
Just wait for oily Felito to raise his head again on June 7. In some form. I could be wrong but he’s managed to pop-up in one form or another the last 3 primary days.
He’s taking language from the democrats. But instead of a workers party with a socialist/redistributionist foundation. Trump is building a workers party with a capitalist/America First foundation.
Big Big difference.
The start of both the taking back and rebuilding of the GOP.
Blue collar insurgents have completed their takeover of the GOP.
Republicans such as Paul Ryan and others who are hell-bent on “reforming” or changing Social Security have really put a bad taste in a good part of the electorate.
I am not a fan of the concept of Social Security—however when you cry out that Social Security is broke and needs to be tinkered with—yet on the other hand the government apparently has unlimited funds to prosecute wars in the middle east and maintain bases around the globe-most average americans are disgusted
I like his sentiment but I hate the verbiage “worker’s party”. That is straight up every commie party in existence.
>>Worker’s Party? Isn’t that Marxist?
Noooo. Watch the other hand. It’s Yuger!
The only way Clinton will not be the nominee is if she is indicted. Debating Sanders is a win-win for both Trump (free shots at Hillary) and Sanders (free national exposure for a cash-strapped campaign).
Sanders would never run with Trump.
” ... and put the SS tax in a REAL lockbox account.”
Commingling trust funds is a serious ethical violation, and it can be a crime. But the feds do it every day, considering tax dollars to be fungible across the board: LIFO.
Or that the ruling party in North Korea is called the “Workers’ Party of North Korea.”
On the other hand, how many Communist dictatorships have appropriated the word “Democratic”? Then there’s that Liberal Democratic Party led by “far-right” Vladimir Zhirinovsky. The papers stopped even using the party name. Originally, the disclaimer followed the party name in a subordinate clause.
That entire class of words means nothing, now. Trump decides he gets to play, too.
Exactly. He has little need to chase conservative voters. He already has most of them. His rhetoric is peal off Democrat support AND steal back the language from PC police. His strategies are intensely refreshing after the Romney, McCain, BushBush, Dole campaigns.
The real German workers party is now called the "Oktoberfest"...lots of beer and frauleins......
“I like his sentiment but I hate the verbiage “worker’s party”. That is straight up every commie party in existence.”
That’s because the left has done a good (and destructive) job altering the real meaning of being for ‘workers’. Personally, I want to live in a society in which hard work is rewarded, there is socioeconomic mobility - such that we can all legitimately aspire to climb the ladder and there is opportunity for our children to do better than us, that success is a goal - not a reason for punishment, and that government does not determine outcome - but has a legitimate and Constitutionally limited role in ensuring that the playing field is level and the general rules of society are followed by all (including those in public office or working for government, like Hillary and Louis Lerner).
Well we’ll see how much longer Germans will get to enjoy Oktoberfest, before their Muslim masters put an end to it.
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