When people lose jobs, see good jobs go overseas and know that their own jobs could also go overseas and nobody in the GOP will do anything about it except tell them that is the price of free trade and too much gov regulations. Well when companies with record profits are doing that, hard to tell workers that it was caused by taxes and gov regs. Workers know that it is caused by CEO’s who don’t care about the US except profits from foreign cheap labor and dump unemployment onto the rest of the working American taxpayers. If we had the lowest tax rate and little regulations the corporations will stay if Americans are willing to work at Chinese or Mexican wages, otherwise they still leave. Who is fooling who? When gov tell people they have no money to spare (which is true) but willing to borrow for overseas wars and bailout for failed banks and corporations, workers in America know something is wrong. The Dems do not offer solutions except more taxes and spending, but GOP offers nothing major except trust free trade and corporate CEO’s to do the right thing for America. Workers basically say no thanks to such thinking. Trump is the only GOP candidate that offers America First a concept that is fitting with today’s time. Workers of the US finally figured out that the Dems and the run of the mill GOP candidates failed to take care of America first and placed their trust in the wrong institutions and business models that allowed the banks and Wall Street to make tons of money while impoverishing Main Street America or worst destroyed middle class/working class America with wild boom and busts as well as hire and fire employment cycles that get shorter and more wild. In the end (after 20 years of this global free for all) working Americans have wage stagnation, saber tooth career paths/salary patterns and worst little or no prospects of a pension that they paid into (401k and Soc Sec are busted). Trump is the first to deal with who is taking care of Main Street Americans (he sees as the main engine of social stability and prosperity) and the interest of the United States as a great power (and not multi national corporations or the aspiration of leftist socialists). The media is wrong, Trump can win the primary and win the election because these are different times where past conventional wisdoms do not apply.
Fee those are good comments. Good point on Trump’s “America First” policy.
Trump is standing up for America as a country and his actions (not just words) represent the America First policy. To illustrate, here’s a quote from Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal”. This is from 1987:
“My favorite reaction to the world’s tallest building came from columnist George Will. I’ve always liked Will, in part because he’s not afraid to challenge fashion, “Donald Trump is not being reasonable,” Will wrote. “But, then, man does not live by reason alone, fortunately. Trump, who believes that excess can be a virtue, is as American as Manhattan’s skyline, which expresses the Republic’s erupting energies. He says the superskyscraper is necessary because it is unnecessary. He believes architectural exuberance is good for us [and] he may have a point. Brashness, zest and elan are part of this country’s character.”