Forget Trump but Not the Trumpsters

National Review ^ | Victor Davis Hanson

[Truthsearcher]

...Forget Trump and consider instead Trump’s constituencies. They are weary of being lectured that they deserve presidential rebuke for their supposed Islamophobia because they are angry about the terrorist killings of Americans. The middle classes are exhausted from being sermonized that they do not “pay their fair share,” when their state and federal tax bite is nearly 50 percent — especially when half the population pays no income tax, and massive federal entitlements have done little to address the pathologies of the underclasses. The contractor and the insurance salesman are furious at being scolded that “they didn’t build” their businesses, when those doing the scolding are pampered elites like Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama, who never built anything other than grievance careers...

...Trump has done the Republican party lots of damage, but he has also done it some good by reminding its leaders that victory lies in swinging a ball and chain through the flimsy glass mirror of political correctness and the current liberal spectacle of very wealthy people projecting race and class injustice onto others as a way of excusing their own privilege.

Far better than ridiculing Trump as a showboat would be to show more constructive passion than does Trump and to discover what makes sane citizens see him as their last resort. Rather than dismissing his empty populism, it would be wiser to fill it in.

Respect and listen to and learn from Trump voters — and they will not vote for Trump.

[Dr. Sivana]

And your use of the pejorative for a trump supporter marks your level of argument as infantile.

I am a Cruz supporter, and you can call me a Cruzer all you like. If I hear Trumpster, Trumpeter or Trumpette, I wouldn't take it as a perjorative. I suppose Trumpette might be construed as a play Strumpet. Trump's grandfather gave Donald the benefit of a vastly improved, easily remembered, and strong last name. People are going to have some fun with it. Would he be here if his old family name of Drumpf weren't anglicized so well?

[TexasCajun]

Let's forget the past, all the bickering, mud-slinging, the insults.

We understand your anger. ...we stand together to change Washington.

The Cruz tent is open to all comers, you will be welcomed with open arms.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Just offer Trump the job of Domestic Tsar. Bundle all appropriate agencies with instructions to gut them.

[Servant of the Cross]

ping ...

[Randall_S]

Ditto. VDH is a good guy, but I dunno, apparently he thinks business as usual will save the country.
I don’t.

[Mollypitcher1]

NR in the trash heap along with the so called conservative talk show hosts. Time for people to stop, look, and listen and do their own research instead of believing what theey hear somebody said...........

[angryoldfatman]

Not really. Jimmy used his inherited peanut farming business to finance his fulltime political career in the 60s.

[Mollypitcher1]

and your reasons are good enough for me. I’m voting
Trump. Period.

[heights]

National Review, mouthpiece of Cheap Labor, Chamber of Commerce, Club for Growth, Traitors.

[Grampa Dave]

How an Obscure Adviser to Pat Buchanan Predicted the Wild Trump Campaign in 1996

The Week dot com ^ | Michael Brendan Dougherty
Posted on 1/20/2016, 2:17:11 AM by WayneLusvardi

Imagine giving this advice to a Republican presidential candidate: What if you stopped calling yourself a conservative and instead just promised to make America great again?

What if you dropped all this leftover 19th-century piety about the free market and promised to fight the elites who were selling out American jobs?

What if you just stopped talking about reforming Medicare and Social Security and instead said that the elites were failing to deliver better healthcare at a reasonable price?

What if, instead of vainly talking about restoring the place of religion in society something that appeals only to a narrow slice of Middle America. You simply promised to restore the Middle American core, the economic and cultural losers of globalization to their rightful place in America?

What if you said you would re store them as the chief clients of the American state under your watch, being mindful of their interests when regulating the economy or negotiating trade deals?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3385923/posts

[AndyJackson]

Any Republican running is preferable to Hillary or Sanders

Before counting your chickens contemplate the rancor against the sell-out backstabbers who need to go the way of the Whigs.

[wyowolf]

Amen!!

[Mollypitcher1]

The Cruz “tent” will NEVER see me! He ius political slime and a Canadian to boot.

[Flick Lives]

You would think that the Cruz win in Iowas would make them happy, but instead, they just get nastier.

There is that. A sore loser is bad. A sore winner is worse.

[Harpotoo]

YouBetCha:-)

[heights]

Sorry, I don’t vote for Canadians.

[Mollypitcher1]

Nor do I. Supporting a politician who goes along with the NWO traitors is not my idea of being an American. He’s just another camouflaged RINO! This vote is sink or swim for America. No second chances.

[heights]

Cruz won the only state he could, his day in the sun, set last night.

[Harpotoo]

Braun Cruzer 6 Lady Beard & Head Groomer:-)

[Flick Lives]

So National Review runs a special “Against Trump” issue; and now VDH thinks he can sweet-talk the Trump supporters into instead going with a RINO de Jour? Think again. We don’t want to join the RINOs, we want to destroy them.