Posted on 08/16/2022 7:52:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Early in the 2016 presidential campaign, Republicans in the United States were more likely than Democrats to value experience and a proven record in a presidential candidate. But that changed with the rise of political newcomer Donald Trump.
Today, nearly a third of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (32%) say they like a political leader who has no previous government experience, compared with just 10% of Democrats and Democratic leaners, according to a survey conducted in July by Pew Research Center.
Among the public overall, 20% of U.S. adults say they like leaders without prior experience in government. A larger share (36%) say they dislike such political leaders, while another 43% say they neither like nor dislike inexperienced political leaders.
Nearly half of Democrats (49%) hold negative views of political leaders without previous government experience, including 24% who dislike such leaders a lot. Just 10% of Democrats say they like inexperienced political leaders, while 40% neither like nor dislike them.
Republicans’ views are more divided. While 32% say they like political leaders with no prior government experience, 22% dislike them and 46% neither like nor dislike such leaders.
Conservative Republicans are more likely than moderate or liberal Republicans to favor leaders without prior government experience. Among conservative Republicans, about twice as many say they like leaders without previous government experience (37%) as say they dislike this type of leader (18%). Among moderate and liberal Republicans, a larger share say they dislike (30%) than like (22%) leaders without government experience.
Nearly identical shares of liberal Democrats (9%) and conservative or moderate Democrats (10%) say they like political leaders without prior government experience. However, liberal Democrats are 8 percentage points more likely than conservative or moderate Democrats to say they dislike this type of leader (54% vs. 46%).
Younger adults and those with higher educational attainment are more likely to have negative views of political leaders without previous government experience than older adults and those with less formal education.
Adults ages 18 to 49 are more than twice as likely to say they dislike leaders without previous experience (39%) as they are to say they like such leaders (18%). Among adults ages 50 and older, the difference is smaller: 32% say they dislike and 22% say they like leaders without prior government experience.
And while adults at all levels of educational experience are more likely to dislike than like leaders without prior government experience, those with a postgraduate degree are especially likely to say they dislike this type of leader. Nearly half of adults with a postgraduate degree (46%) say they dislike such leaders, compared with 38% of those with college degrees but no postgraduate experience. About three-in-ten adults with a high school education or less (31%) and 36% of those with some college education but no degree say the same.
No lawyers.
No Ivy Leaguers.
No professional politicians.
Government should be much, much smaller and should be administered by people who have actually worked for a living.
Well, to talk of politicians without government experience, Trump definitely fits the bill on that one.
DUH!
Well said.
Politicians with “government experience” are a lot wealthier and have a lot of wealthy family members with contracts with foreign countries.
That was the intent of our forefathers. The worst thing ever to happen to this country is the rise of the professional politician.
If we want this country back we need to eliminate three things. The professional politician, the professional lobbyist, and the professional congressional staff.
Government Experience - definition:
“Experience in fraud, bribe taking, influence peddling, lying, ass-kissing...”
Politicians without government experience positively.
Donald J. Trump winks told you I could do it and did make America strong.
And now look at what we have a pile of s**t running the country.
The experience issue is a problem.
What most folks don’t realize is that new electeds are run and manipulated by staff. Staff believes (correctly) they are there forever and the electeds come and go. So it is their job to manipulate the electeds so that staff achieves their agenda, not the elected’s agenda. They train the electeds to think like them and never to think out of the boxes staff defines.
It takes at least two years for smart electeds to figure out the game and to start taking control back from staff. Many electeds never figure it out (or are lazy and do not want to figure it out) and settle into deep-state-lackey status.
Donald Trump is a good example. After 2016, he trusted establishment “staff” far too much and was betrayed over and over. If he is elected in 2024, he will not make the same mistake. Experience will be the difference.
“What about democrats who have experience in the private sector?”
All three of them? No four. AOC was a bartender.
To Paraphrase William F Buckley: I’d rather pick 50 people randomly of out the phone book than the people elected. I’d pick 50 people out of a Nebraska phone book.
Government experience includes reckless spending, buying votes and unsustainable debt.
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