Posted on 11/24/2016 8:38:13 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
The Hill’s Jonathan Swan reports that during a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill, Donald Trump’s economic advisor Stephen Moore told House Republican lawmakers that “they now belong to a fundamentally different political party.” To the surprise of some in the room, Moore explained that the conservative party of Ronald Reagan has now become Trump’s new “populist working-class party.” From The Hill:
“Just as Reagan converted the GOP into a conservative party, Trump has converted the GOP into a populist working-class party,” Moore said in an interview Wednesday. “In some ways this will be good for conservatives and in other ways possibly frustrating.”
Moore has spent much of his career advocating for huge tax and spending cuts and free trade. He’s been as close to a purist ideological conservative as they come, but he says the experience of traveling around Rust Belt states to support Trump has altered his politics.
“It turned me more into a populist,” he said, expressing frustration with the way some in the Beltway media dismissed the economic concerns of voters in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
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We’ll see about that.
Most working class people do live conservative lives even if they don’t express it that way.
I disagree with most of these people that call themselves conservative. What they call conservative is not what it used to be but has moved too far to the left. Trump and his proposals were far more conservative than the other Republican candidates. Even ‘conservative’ Ted Cruz waffled on things that Trump didn’t.
The conservative party with the old alliances and positions on trade meant we never win again. I do not know if i am for or against trumps trade policies but i will gladly take them if it means getting our border under control and depriving the left of a clear path to their victory.
Why is Paul Ryan still House Speaker?
It hadn’t been Reagan’s party for almost thirty years. Only the most self interested GOP Inc hack would make that case. It’s been the Bush party, and thankfully that has ended.
NeoCons
Such as?
No, we won’t. The fact is, Reagan transformed American conservatism for over 190 years from a nationalist economic policy to an internationalist policy, with some important exceptions.
Reagan did not have the advantage of seeing what many of these internationalist policies would do, because in the SHORT RUN jobs were up, saving was up, etc. But in the long run, American industries started to get hollowed out. And because Reagan was correctly focused on the near term danger of defeating the USSR, and because the short run numbers all looked good, we all thought it was a workable policy. It wasn’t. Clinton perpetuated it, and got another decade of job growth out of it, while there was a fundamental shift going on within the economy. It was becoming obvious, though, by the end of the 1990s that the middle class was being destroyed as was American manufacturing and industry.
So, you’ll see in short order a repositioning of the American economy to the principles of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Calvin Coolidge. (Ike is an exception because the world destruction was so great any economy of any sort could pretty well have dominated trade and manufacturing simply because it wasn’t in rubble).
If the GOP had moved in a more populist/nationalist direction in the 90s instead of becoming rent-boys for the Chamber of Commerce & doormats for the cheap labor crowd & the free trader frauds we would have never had to live through Clinton or Obama.
Best Election Ever! If we’d wanted a doctrinaire conservative, Cruz would have been the nominee. Instead Trump conducted a hostile takeover of the perpetual loser and off-course GOP party (aka Democrat-lite, or the R-branch of the Uniparty) and now is reforming it in ways the old guard would never have done, returning to traditional American values and capitalism. President Reagan would indeed lift a glass to that!
The conventional GOP in Congress is epitomized by rotten Senators like McCain, Graham, McConnell, and the host of Republican House members who forgot who they work for the day after they arrive in DC.
It’s a new day!
Trim the edges of free trade, but free trade is still a win-win for all.
They haven’t been Reagan’s party for 28 years.
I’m sick of seeing the “conservatism” we have been seeing from these “conservatives”.
If Trump can build the wall, stop illegal immigration & get jobs for Americans, I don’t care what you call it. Seems pretty conservative to me.
I see Trump as a Jacksonian Democrat.
“Just as Reagan converted the GOP into a conservative party, Trump has converted the GOP into a populist working-class party,” (Stephen) Moore said in an interview Wednesday. “In some ways this will be good for conservatives and in other ways possibly frustrating.” …That sounds like leftist rhetoric. It is also not what people voted for. What is the game here?
Losing continuously since 1989 has put us in a position where we need to lock-down, and hold, so we can rebuild the nation, while pushing back against the Social Justice left.
The “conservative movement” of the past 25 years have been good at talking ourselves to death, but otherwise promoted a SOYA (Sit On Your Ass) attitude among the right, as well as a smugness, where we thought just listening to AM radio was activism, and that the sheer virtue of not being leftists was enough.
The left on the other hand, had been pushing and winning under the radar, and by 2013 we had no idea where the nation went.
We now have to be populist because there is no way else to activate a mostly apolitical population to try to save the place.
Winning isn’t enough for me to replace Ronald Reagan with Donald Trump. He has an historic opportunity to lead, which I’m confident he will do.
God Bless Donald Trump and his entire team.
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