Posted on 05/16/2018 7:18:44 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A new book—tweeted out by the president himself—argues that America is in the midst of a populist realignment.
For two years, the American media has been stuck in the movie Groundhog Day, replaying the 2016 election over and over in the hopes of extracting some new insight about an outcome it didn’t see coming. While some of this work comes from an earnest place—national reporters sense they got the story wrong, and now they’ve been to the heartland to see what they missed—in aggregate, they’re easily caricatured: the Trump voter as blue-collar Baby Boomer, out of a manufacturing job, a little bit racist, just whittling away at his rusty nail.
The journalist Salena Zito, along with the Republican political consultant Brad Todd, have written a new book in this genre, with two important caveats: They avoid stereotypes of Trump voters, and they do not believe Trump’s election was a freak political accident. The Great Revolt argues that Trump didn’t just destroy conventional Republican politics; he also built something new, uniting a coalition of Americans who hate bigness and politically correct, arrogant elites.....
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
The American public finally woke up to the fact that BOTH parties have been preventing them from stopping the illegal alien inundation.
Both parties could not continue to represent illegal aliens and leave the citizens without representation.
The Bush League Republicans MUST be replaced with patriots.
The GOP can go back to Bush league candidates all they want, they’ll never win another Presidential election.
One of the better tries at MSM journOlists trying to understand it. (Besides words like “mythmaking”, etc.)
The Trump presidency may represent the high water mark of the deplorable / MAGA movement. The country’s demographics are a factor and since 2009 I sense America is shifting to a center left nation.
The Trump presidency may represent the high water mark of the deplorable / MAGA movement. The country’s demographics are a factor and since 2009 I sense America is shifting to a center left nation.
Trump is a bit of a one-off kind of guy. He’s a trend an an outlier at the same time. Who’s the “next Trump” we have in the pipeline?
Post; comments BUMP!
That’s a fact. It isn’t about Trump per se.
“Demographics” won’t save democrats... because in the future Hispanics and Asians will gravitate to the Republican party.
bump
The pendulum swung way to the left for 30 years and now it’s swinging back to the right with a vengeance. Result of obama, Bushs
I was going to write something similar, but you said it much better.
We do need to make sure we have an equal voice in the public square. Leftism depends on having a near monopoly in the media.
They can’t win in the marketplace of ideas and they know it. Thus Political Correctness and attempts at censorship.
It is interesting that they never mention “draining the swamp” as a major factor in Trump’s election. Perhaps because the authors are leftist elites, they don’t even think the swamp needs draining.
Yeah it will. This movement would not have happened without Trump. Once he’s gone there is nobody else out there who can rally his movement like Trump did.
Can you see it continuing with Pence at the helm?
Not a bad review given its source. That comment applies to the elite of both parties, and the one that understands it first (neither do at the moment, IMHO) will have a huge advantage in upcoming political contests. And then there's this gem, gone nearly unnoticed in a torrent of over-analysis:
The politically correct stuff has gotten overboard.
The permanent part of "Trumpism" (a neologism that may have legs) isn't the man, or his programs, it's a resistance to the cultural and economic oppression that is Political Correctness. This used to get fingers shaken at the "offender"; no more, these days through the power of the institution or the state it can cost jobs, careers, even lives. That's too far, and the people doing it are convinced that it isn't far enough. There is, as well, a conviction on the part of "Trumpists" that is validated with every glance at the Comments section of a liberal newspaper - they hate us, they tell us they hate us, and they will do us harm at every opportunity. This is neither an "impression" or a "perception" unless it's an impression or a perception of a cold, hard fact. This is beyond issues. The sides in the Culture War have gelled into something that old-school liberals never anticipated, and what is new about "Trumpism" is that the side that has been attacked incessantly over half a century is at last fighting back guiltlessly. That's what's changed, and the formerly unassailable cultural warriors don't like the loss of their invulnerability.
And so the 64-dollar question: will "Trumpism" outlast the man? Does it require a leader? These are questions nobody can answer at the moment, but the people described in the review aren't going anywhere.
Trump has opened people's eyes to a possibility. The possibility that We The People can wrest control of our government away from the swamp-dwellers and the mainstream media. That's toothpaste that won't go back in the tube.
President Trump didn’t suddenly come up with a bunch of brilliant, popular ideas, he simply had the COURAGE to say what was already on the minds of millions of Americans.
“Trumpism” requires GUTS and the ability to IGNORE the inevitable Media criticisms.
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