ZitatIt’s a pretty sad day when Joy Reid of MSNBC makes more sense to me than National Review.
Check out her diagnosis (which mostly comes from moderate Republican turned liberalish independent Bruce Bartlett) at 6:45.
It’s accurate — the establishment/elite has been selling lies to everyone outside the donor class for years. They use their power to enact their own priorities into law, while telling the rest of us “it’s too hard” or “it will scare the moderates.”
And for years we went along with this.
Well, as she notes, the issue of immigration has caused this bargain — the elites get their actual agenda, everyone else gets lies and empty promises — to break down, probably forever.
You know, for years, I felt it was my duty to sell these shit sandwiches to readers for the Greater Good of winning elections.
I didn’t like doing it, but I thought that, for example, the War on Terror was too important to risk a rupture over other questions.
Although I’ve come to hate politics and I just despise reading the news now, the one good thing is that I’m liberated from splashing some ketchup on Sandwiches Made of Actual Shit and trying to sell them to people as tasty and healthful.
I feel liberated. I serve no “Greater Good,” as I don’t know that there’s a Greater Good to be served anymore. So I can just say exactly what I think.
And what I think is that the establishment has to be destroyed.
We will not be ignored, we will not be condescended to, we will no longer accept broken promises and lies as our payment for our service to the GOP.
And if it requires destroying the GOP and electing a Democrat to teach the establishment this lesson, to chastise them and to humble them, then we shall do just that, and do so happily.
You will either come to terms, or you will be destroyed.
It took me a while to find that article but I wanted to read the comments. I pretty much agree with this poster:
"The Trump supporters are betting on a guy that said liberal things is the past with the hope he does conservative things now..... as opposed to betting on the GOPe guys that said conservative things in the past but end up doing liberal things now."
Quote: truthkeeper wrote in post #2It took me a while to find that article but I wanted to read the comments. I pretty much agree with this poster:
"The Trump supporters are betting on a guy that said liberal things is the past with the hope he does conservative things now..... as opposed to betting on the GOPe guys that said conservative things in the past but end up doing liberal things now."
Donald Trump may have changed his mind on some positions from his past, but what he does not come across as is a hypocrite.
A a businessman, I don't see Trump reneging on a campaign promise and neither do others.
He's not the weasel GOP-e type. That much would be hard to conceal from his past if he was.
******* The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil ... but by those who watch them and do nothing. -- Albert Einstein
How I wish commentators could make their point, which in this case has some validity, without indulging in vulgarity.
That said, Donald Trump is not your typical candidate. The classifications of Liberal/Conservative do not neatly fit him. I believe Pat Buchanan best captures his candidacy by saying he represents the awakening of ethnic nationalism which has long been dormant.
Quote: truthkeeper wrote in post #2It took me a while to find that article but I wanted to read the comments. I pretty much agree with this poster:
"The Trump supporters are betting on a guy that said liberal things is the past with the hope he does conservative things now..... as opposed to betting on the GOPe guys that said conservative things in the past but end up doing liberal things now."
Donald Trump may have changed his mind on some positions from his past, but what he does not come across as is a hypocrite.
A a businessman, I don't see Trump reneging on a campaign promise and neither do others.
He's not the weasel GOP-e type. That much would be hard to conceal from his past if he was.
I have found that some of Trump's biggest supporters are those who are still hanging on or until recently had their own small business. Their main concern is how much will Trump be able to deliver on.