Posted on 11/12/2016 9:16:45 AM PST by Semper911
Edited on 11/12/2016 11:53:24 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
Throughout the course of the 2016 election, the conventional groupthink was that the renegade Donald Trump had irrevocably torn apart the Republican Party. His base populism supposedly sandbagged more experienced and electable Republican candidates, who were bewildered that a
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When one considers the Illegal Vote, the Dead Vote, the Proxy Voting, and the media bias - this was a BLOWOUT ELECTION. Clean up our system and media and Trump would have won by 15 points, if not more.
Correct. Just the people who voted Libertarian would have won him Maine, New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Nevada in addition to what he won.
Worth repeating.
I figured this out a year ago. I predicted that Trump would win the nomination and surmised that he had the best chance of winning the general election against Hillary Clinton. VDH hits two of the key reasons--(1) He could draw blue-collar voters who were not traditional Republicans (2) He is a street fighter. And we needed that to take on the Left Wing Hate Machine.
Wow, what a fantastic essay. Top notch.
“The more Clinton played the identity politics card, the more she earned fewer returns for herself and more voters for Trump”
Very astute analysis from Mr. Hanson.
this is a tremendous article. I think the NeverTrump types may not have all been necessarily anti-Trump at heart; they were so deathly scared of more Republican POTUS losses, and were just scared that the media would easily eviscerate Trump. Our record from 1992-2012 (inclusive) was 2 for 6; I can’t hate the ones for whom it wasn’t truly personal, but just wanted to avoid making it 2 for 7. 2 for 7 is less than a third: the kind of vote total Hillary got in West Virginia, which Bill Clinton won by double digits twice, most recently in 1996, 52%-37%.
bump
It’s always great to have the perspective of people you respect and trust and who are consistent like Hanson and Rush to add perspective in good times and bad.
Nope.
Just not a trump supporter. Not the same thing.
Seeing him as an erudite superior intellect, and considering also who the remaining opponent was, he literally didn't have a choice.
Trump’s Republican critics variously disparaged him as, at best, a Huey Long or Ross Perot, whose populist message was antithetical to conservative principles of unrestricted trade, (open-border immigration???), and proper personal comportment. At worse, a few Republican elites wrote Trump off as a dangerous fascist akin to Mussolini, Stalin, or Hitler.
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Since when is it a conservative principal to ignore the immigration laws and permit open borders?
I can make it even shorter: “It’s the Economy Stupid”.
Obama’s ideology and policies didn’t do diddly about creating real jobs for a huge portion of the Democratic Party’s base. There are still people in this country who want to work, and not depend on a handout from Uncle Sam.
A problem is that 1/2 of America lives in these ‘Rat Urban Utopias.
That's because he had a faction of the GOP fighting him and millions of illegals voting Hillary.
In 2020 the GOP will be 99% for Trump, the illegals will be gone, and any doubts about Trump's fitness for office will be banished by his economic boom.
“The Democratic Party is now neither a centrist nor a coalition party. Instead, it finds itself at a dead-end: had Hillary Clinton emulated her husband’s pragmatic politics of the 1990s, she would have never won the nomination—even though she would have had a far better chance of winning the general election.”
Best part is, they did it all to themselves.
“The old blue-collar middle class was bewildered by the leftwing social agenda in which gay marriage, women in combat units, and transgendered restrooms went from possible to mandatory party positions in an eye blink. In a party in which “white privilege” was pro forma disparagement, those who were both white and without it grew furious that the elites with such privilege massaged the allegation to provide cover for their own entitlement.
Haha. He got their f@#$ing number.
In the aftermath of defeat, where goes the Democratic Party?”
STRAIGHT TO HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And good riddance.
Millions of us ordinary working stiffs figured out who Trump really was, within weeks of his joining the race.
It's still amazing to me that so many of our 'betters' didn't figure him out until the end of the primary. Some took even longer (looking at you, Levin).
Suggestion for Article of the year! BTTT.
I’m just an “irredeemable......not quite “deplorable”. I need to step up my game a notch : )
Scott Adams Blog - The Cognitive Dissonance Cluster Bomb
Hanson's a rear running creep.
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