The GOP establishment and their media lapdogs are throwing everything they can at Trump. However, he gives as good as he gets and enjoys the combat. Many on the Left admit Trump beat Obama in the birth certificate debate. Many Republicans are in denial about Trump’s victory. In a sign that the Establishment Republicans are not that far apart from Democrats, a writer at the New Republic made an onbservation. He called for Democrats to support the Republican Establishment’s war on Donald Trump!
What Trump actually stands for is an exaggerated sense of victimhood. This is the theme that unites his personal style with the political views he has thus far expressed. Are you tired of being pushed around? Are you tired of our country being pushed around? Trump’s political acuity lies in his ability to take these grievances and turn them into politics. His foreign policy views in essence consist of a pledge to bully other nations. China is “decimating our country.” OPEC is imperiling the economy. And ungrateful Libyans and Iraqis are trying to build a society from oil that is rightfully ours. (“We won the war. We take over the oil fields. We use the oil.”) When Bill O’Reilly, in an interview with Trump, seemed taken aback by the idea that we could simply force OPEC or China to do our bidding, Trump appeared surprised that anyone could view international relations as anything more than a contest of machismo. “The messenger is the key,” Trump told O’Reilly. “If you have the right messenger and they know how to deliver the message … you’re going to scare them, absolutely.”
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Donald Trump has appointed himself spokesman for some of the nastiest impulses in American politics, and he seems to have a following. The sooner the Republican mainstream rejects him, the better. And we liberals should be cheering them along as they do.
Amazing, this writer is calling for an alliance between Democrats and Republicans against Donald Trump! Why is he so dangerous? Why can’t he be treated like other candidates and let his ideas be accepted or rejected by voters? The GOP elites have gone after Trump way harder than they ever did against Obama. This shows the GOP elites are Progressives and political Eunuchs of the Democrats.
As a very dissatisfied Republican, I gave the Party a chance after the Bush debacle. During the Bush years, anyone who criticized Bush from the Right was called a traitor or Communist. I thought that dark era was over and the GOP finally would allow diverse views and be willing to fight the Left. Their actions after the 2010 elections and their treatment of Trump shows the GOP is a joke. I no longer feel as if my views fit in today’s GOP. I am really thinking of leaving the Party I grew up with and become an Independent Conservative who doesn’t care about politics. This is not the Party I grew up with under Reagan. It has become a Party obsessed with whom people sleep with, Morality, pays lip service to economic concerns but does nothing, grovel before the Left, kisses up to Arabs/Islamists, puts the interest of the Global economy, over the interest of Americans and believes in spreading Democracy at the point of a Gun. In short, I don’t feel as if I belong to the Republican Party or what is called the Modern Conservative movement. How the primaries play out will determine my final decision on membership inthe GOP.
