Robert Reich: Trump's "Anti-Politics" Resonating With Ordinary Americans

Breitbart.com ^ | May 24,2016 | Breitbart News

[Biggirl]

Throughout the Republican primaries, pundits and pollsters repeatedly told us he’d peaked, that his most recent outrageous statement was his downfall, that he was viewed as so unlikeable he didn’t stand a chance of getting the nomination.

[Political Junkie Too]

Ordinary Americans

I'd like to know whom these pundits think the "extraordinary Americans" are.

I'm getting a little annoyed at that phrase.

-PJ

[Helicondelta]

A Latina-American from Laredo, Texas, tells me she and most of her friends are for Trump because he wants to keep Mexicans out. She thinks too many Mexicans have come here illegally, making it harder for those here legally.

A union member from Pittsburgh says he’s for Trump because he’ll be tough on American companies shipping jobs abroad, tough with the Chinese, tough with Muslims.

[cgbg]

The last sentence of this otherwise excellent article is a disaster.

Trump is only dangerous if you are a political insider or a crony capitalist dependent on DC favoritism.

Implied (but not stated) is that the all of the television news stations and broadcasters are fighting the last war, “covering” a Nixon Humphrey Presidential race instead of the new world of Trump.

(For those who don’t remember that game is call the Republican names, worship the Democratic candidate, and sound very serious and impartial.)

The elites made the world the way they wanted it—now they will have to deal with the consequences.

[wastedyears]

Implied (but not stated) is that the all of the television news stations and broadcasters are fighting the last war, “covering” a Nixon Humphrey Presidential race instead of the new world of Trump.

(For those who don’t remember that game is call the Republican names, worship the Democratic candidate, and sound very serious and impartial.)

I'm only 30, but haven't they been doing that ever since Nixon? Look at 2008 and 2012. You'd think modern Hitler was running on the republican ticket.

[niteowl77]

At a pre-Iowa caucus Trump event, a foreign reporter asked me if I thought Donald Trump had a chance; I told him "yes," and I told him why. Other people on FR have put my reasons more articulately than I did to this gent, but it isn't some sort of fraternal, secret handshake mystery.

(Unlike the globalist, uniparty crap kept as hidden as possible from we "lumpen.")

Mr. niteowl77

[Col Frank Slade]

Reich is a pure genius.

Just ask him.

[dblshot]

Yep, I consider myself an ornery American.

[exit82]

Stand up, Bob!

[Political Junkie Too]

That's okay on long as you're not a ronery American.

-PJ

[bjorn14]

Robert Reich has veered recklessly into the truth.

[tet68]

I’d like to know whom these pundits think the “extraordinary Americans” are.

Why, that would be themselves...