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Trump’s sweep is another humiliating defeat for media and political elites
Washington Post ^ | April 26, 2016 | Joe Scarborough

Posted on 04/27/2016 5:29:27 AM PDT by detective

Donald Trump’s sweeping victories Tuesday night move the Manhattan billionaire a step closer to winning the Republican nomination for president and to pulling off the most improbable political feat in modern American history. But Trump’s story is about more than a first-time candidate’s stunning rise. It is also about the humiliating defeat suffered by an increasingly isolated political and media class who still do not understand the causes and scope of Trump’s populist revolt.

In his book “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010,” Charles Murray wrote about the rise of a new American upper class and the “narrow elites” who shape America’s economy, culture and government. The number of players who dominate the direction of media, politics and finance is surprisingly concentrated for a country as sprawling and diverse as the United States. And yet almost all of these “influencers” across Manhattan and Washington were incapable of blunting Trump’s meteoric rise. Time and again over the past year, Washington insiders and media moguls misread the mood of working-class voters and their attraction to the populist message championed by Trump.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016gopprimary; election2016; newyork; pennsylvania; presidentdonaldtrump; scarborough; sweep; trump
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To: LS

Back then it was a duty, not an opportunity.


Power is not alluring to pure minds. — Thomas Jefferson


61 posted on 04/27/2016 6:31:45 AM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: pburgh01
You see the list of banned posters.

Link please, tia

62 posted on 04/27/2016 6:32:43 AM PDT by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: Tammy8
Most of the left cannot think without the media, they use talking points delivered to them daily.

More than that; the newsreaders you watch on TV and the failed-fiction writers you read in the print medium have been instructed to say what they do, until they become certifiable as potential news executives. Their game is about grabbing some notoriety, some illicit sex, some undeserved salary, and has nothing to to with speaking what is factual and/or true.

And they always have some disjointed video to show and some paid liar to quote.

It's a cush job...for those helping destroy American societies in our lifetime.


63 posted on 04/27/2016 6:35:06 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: detective
50 years later, [Reagan's Conservative] revolution is being undone by another TV star who has been underestimated by elites while being elevated by working-class voters.

Not exactly! It was the GOPe who squandered Reagan's legacy and governed like democRAT-lite. Trump is our Obi-wan-kanobi; Cruz let his GOPe shine through. Or, in the words of Monty Python, "now for something completely different."

64 posted on 04/27/2016 6:35:57 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("When judges act like whores, they can hardly expect to be treated like nuns.")
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To: detective
The number of players who dominate the direction of media, politics and finance is surprisingly concentrated for a country as sprawling and diverse as the United States.

Exactly as Antonio Gramsci envisioned. Demoralization. Destabilization. "Normalization". Most of us dead, the rest of us in chains.

There is only one way to stop them.

65 posted on 04/27/2016 6:36:19 AM PDT by Noumenon (Destroy Islam and its followers. The civilization you save may be your own.)
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To: LS

Just added to my reading list! Signed copies for the FReepathon?


66 posted on 04/27/2016 6:39:19 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("When judges act like whores, they can hardly expect to be treated like nuns.")
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To: Grampa Dave

I’ll miss LibbyLu. /s


67 posted on 04/27/2016 6:42:39 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (President Trump: It's all over but the counting)
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To: Tammy8

Exactly. The Left assumes that however it works for them, so it must be with us. Your average Dim doesn’t have an opinion until he or she reads it in the NYT.


68 posted on 04/27/2016 6:43:02 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: 2banana

“To all democrats: Hillary is the epitome of the political elite supported by the media elite.”

Trump would be wise to use your phrase in his campaign!
Simple. Direct. Truthful.


69 posted on 04/27/2016 6:47:40 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: papertyger

The conservative writers, especially, have given their game away in the most amateurish, clumsy fashion.

They like to sneer and snort at the DC liberals but guess what? They rub shoulders with these people every day, want to live in the same DC suburbs and therefore must pay the same exorbitant housing costs, taxes, etc.

Frankly, it’s our (meaning conservatives in general) fault that they live and work in DC and NYC and that they keep receiving financial and readership support from us. There’s really no need. They could write from Ft Worth, Cheyenne, Columbia or anywhere else without being exposed to (and inevitably absorbing some) of the lefty poison.

Of course, the right/left Punch & Judy routine is meant to hide the larger problem of elitism and this is where people like Jonah Goldberg have absolutely lost their minds as they attempt to bolster their own status while hurling insults at the groundlings. In the case of Goldberg, he has a personal grudge against Trump (whatever you think of Trump) and his columns have turned into Unabomber-type monomania.

DC is far more entrenched now than it was in 1980 or even 1988. It was always the seat of power but cronyism has made it a seat of commerce as well. Their reactions to Trump and/or a populist movement are akin to someone threatening to ban gambling in Las Vegas. Suddenly the various competing companies - Harrah’s, Wynn, et al - have a common enemy who threatens sinecures and profits.


70 posted on 04/27/2016 6:48:34 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: pburgh01

While I have not agreed with 2DV during this election he has been a solid member of Free Republic over my years here and precedes me. We all have our opinions and we are mostly strong in those opinions.

I object to personal attacks but strong discussions do not bother me.

In defense of “Nathan Bedford Forest” I view Lincoln as one of the worst president’s due to his part in starting and the actions he supported during the Civil War. Is there anything except our very loves that would be worth the equivalent of 16 million Americans today, suspension of habeus corpus, or the instituting of the first income tax.


71 posted on 04/27/2016 6:48:51 AM PDT by georgiarat (Obama, providing incompetence since Day One!)
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To: scooby321

Please tell me that includes Ravin’ Karl Rove.


72 posted on 04/27/2016 6:49:26 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Every. Single. County. In FIVE different states! On the same day.

Amazing!


73 posted on 04/27/2016 6:51:15 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: detective

The voters handed the House to the GOP and, in 2014, we also gave them the Senate. They squandered it and accomplished nothing that they promised us when they were running for office.

In 2016, the voters are sending a clear message through the Trump campaign and ...the GOP deserves it!


74 posted on 04/27/2016 6:53:24 AM PDT by jokemoke
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To: detective

Even Rove last night, with his whiteboard and marker, after

digesting the Trump blowout, seemed to have (almost)accepted

the inevitable.


75 posted on 04/27/2016 6:55:41 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Race Baiting...... "It's What's For Breakfast")
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To: detective
I was switching back and forth between CNN and Fox last night... both were trashing Trump ad naseum. Rove said that tonight "Trump is slightly bending the arc in his favor with these wins, but we'll have to see how it goes".

CNN had a string of people on to reiterate their line that Trump wants to deport all Mexicans, wants to forever ban Muslims, and so on. They had some black guy on blathering about how he can't imagine a president who operates at a third grade level.

Then, when Hillary does her speech... they're all gushing with awe and glee.

76 posted on 04/27/2016 6:56:15 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: samtheman
... but I suspect the wind is out of the sails of the anti-Trumpers.

I tend to agree. Flipping between CNN and FoxNews last night, there seemed to be a resignation to the fact that Trump is now the presumptive nominee and the window for boxing him out is now closed. Character assassination won't work - the people know who Trump is. Disrupting rallies by sending protesters has proven to be ineffective, in fact, Trump feeds on that and seemed genuinely disappointed there were no protesters at a recent rally. Party parlor tricks such as "wrangling delegates" and making the process confusing for voters also seems to have badly backfired.

I suppose it's theoretically possible that Trump stumbles in Indiana and Cruz pulls out a strong victory like he did in Wisconsin. But I just don't see it. Trump has all the momentum and his rally there tonight with Bobby Knight looks to be a barn burner.

77 posted on 04/27/2016 6:57:56 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Cruz and Kasich are in COLLUSION with the establishment GOP - cannot be trusted!)
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To: notdownwidems; LS
the quiz
78 posted on 04/27/2016 6:58:08 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("When judges act like whores, they can hardly expect to be treated like nuns.")
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To: SamAdams76

I would love to be able to go to that barn burner.


79 posted on 04/27/2016 6:59:39 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: Cementjungle
Then, when Hillary does her speech screech ... they're all gushing with awe and glee.

there, fixed it for ya!

80 posted on 04/27/2016 6:59:56 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("When judges act like whores, they can hardly expect to be treated like nuns.")
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