Anti-Trumpers Totally Misread The Trump Phenomenon
Donald Trump did not create a movement, rather a movement or a cluster of movements adopted him.
This is significant for this reason. The attempt to destroy or politically damage President Trump will not destroy these movements. While it may discourage many people to some degree, it is more likely to instill these movements with an even greater resolve.
Trump’s support comes from many sectors of public opinion. A lot of the sentiment is similar to that of the Tea Party groups. Much of Trump’s support comes from people who are dissatisfied with corruption and influence peddling in Washington, DC. A lot of his support comes from people who are concerned about the invasion of illegal aliens. These people are not anti-immigration. Immigration is a legal process, illegals are not immigrants.
Some of Trump’s support comes from people dissatisfied with the current state of the media. Other support comes from those concerned about the vast expansion of government bureaucracies. These un-elected bureaucrats are often creating laws and regulations beyond their constitutional authority.
Trump opponents make a huge mistake in thinking that all they have to do is discredit or destroy him and the movement behind him will disappear. This movement was here long before Trump and it will be here long after. The fanatical and irrational opposition to Trump merely illustrates to many of us that serious reform of the US government is even more desperately needed. This opposition also reveals this effort will take a lot more time and a lot more resolve.
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I intended my column last week on the dying third-party dream to be the last word on the Mitt Romney as anti-Trump white knight scenario, since it seems clear enough that Romney doesn t intend to get in and there s no need to beat a dead white horse prophecy. But then there was the polling showing Romney pulling a relatively robust 22 percent to Hillary s 37 percent and Trump s 35 percent and the same poll showing that 44 percent of Americans want a third option and the quotes from Newt Gingrich basically daring the pathetic Romney to get into the race and, oh, the fact that Trump is now (totally predictably) adding Vince Foster to his list of conspiratorial forays and well, look, let s just game this out for a minute, because the dream will be officially dead soon enough and we ll have five months to talk about whatever Trump decides should lead the cable news broadcasts that night. So if Romney got in, what would actually happen? Let s say the latest polling is right, and he d start with 20 percent or so to Trump s 35 percent in a three-way race. That seems like it would be a highly unstable equilibrium: Either Trump s numbers would hold up, he would look like the best and only chance to beat Hillary, and Romney s Republican support would bleed Trump s way, or else the Donald would gradually deflate and lots of his more opportunistic supporters would gravitate toward Romney.
Romney is seen by many as a fake conservative, a charlatan, a liar.
In the debates with Obama, his lack of understanding of supply-side economics was a huge disappointment.
But I support Romney as a “solution” for Trump-hating Republicans. He will be very easy to eliminate in the primaries.
Compared to George W. Bush, who led us into a bloody quagmire in the Middle East and presided over the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression? Compared to Barack Obama, who s basically stood by and watched while that same Middle East has gone up in flames, plus Russia s near-abroad and oh, maybe Europe too? Oh, and since you re worried about Trump s character Compared to Bill Clinton, who possibly bombed foreign countries in order to distract from his sex scandal with an intern?
The Middle East is a quagmire, but not thanks to Bush. It is thanks to an evil, backward and barbaric death-cult religion that is also a Fascist ideology.
It can be argued that the crash was more due to Democrat policy. Investors were concerned the new Democratic congress would raise taxes (unfortunately Bush’s cuts had a time limit.) It’s all in the perception, and the investors’ expectations. The out of control GSE’s were the fault of both parties, but more so the Democrats. Barack Obama helped to crash the market by suggesting a large hike in the capital gains tax while he was campaigning.