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Trump: GOP will become 'worker's party' under me
Politico ^ | 05/26/16 | Nick Glass

Posted on 05/26/2016 9:41:19 AM PDT by Abiotic

Under a President Donald Trump, the Republican Party would become a different one, a broad, populist coalition focused on workers who have gone too long without a raise and on social programs the party establishment has long seen as anathema to its long-term success.

“Love the question,” Trump said in response to a question from Bloomberg Businessweek's Joshua Green in a profile of Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus published Thursday. The article bears the headline, "How to Get Trump Elected When He’s Wrecking Everything You Built."

“Five, 10 years from now — different party. You’re going to have a worker’s party," Trump said in the May 17 interview. "A party of people that haven’t had a real wage increase in 18 years, that are angry." Trump reiterated that cutting Social Security would be a "big mistake" for the GOP, remarking that "[c]utting it the wrong way is a big mistake, and even cutting it [at all]."

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Despite having issued numerous threats to the party about what he suggested would be a "steal" of his nomination, Trump praised the RNC chairman profusely. "I call Reince Mr. Switzerland,” Trump said. “He’s doing a great job as peacemaker.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: elections; peoplesrepublic; president; trump; trumpcomment; trumpmiddleclass; ussa; workersparty
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To: xzins
I think there is a case for private accounts within the SS system.

For example, my parents both worked all their lives, teen years to after 65, and both died within a year and a half of retirement.

Their "pay-in" just evaporated into the system, rather than it being part of their estates.

21 posted on 05/26/2016 10:00:30 AM PDT by TontoKowalski (You can call me "Dick.")
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To: ifinnegan

No, he’s fishing for Sanders supporters.


22 posted on 05/26/2016 10:00:38 AM PDT by BlackAdderess (A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen... -Emerson)
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To: Abiotic

I think Trump is right and I would welcome it. As is, taxpayers have no representation.

There will be a party of the Oligarchs and Gizmedats and a party made up of the taxpaying working class. For all intents we are there now, we just need a party to represent the working class.


23 posted on 05/26/2016 10:00:52 AM PDT by IamConservative (There is no greater threat to our freedoms than Bipartisanship.)
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To: mrsmith

Trump is reversing many decades of concerted and coordinated effort by the left to label their enemies and to suppress opposition. He’s totally altered the playing field, and this is exactly what we needed. It was almost, but thankfully not quite, too late.


24 posted on 05/26/2016 10:04:48 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: BlackAdderess

“No, he’s fishing for Sanders supporters.”

I know what you mean.

I didn’t say the rhetoric won’t resonate.

It is odd that Trump is propping up Sanders vs Hillary with the debate. If this works, and it sure May, Sanders could be the nominee. If so, there is no chance to catch Bernie supporters. That scenario works only if a Hillary is the nominee.

I wonder if something even more bizarre may happen.

Might Trump pick Sanders as his running mate?


25 posted on 05/26/2016 10:04:49 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Hyman Roth; Psalm 144; mkjessup; nopardons

You were too late.

Just wait for oily Felito to raise his head again on June 7. In some form. I could be wrong but he’s managed to pop-up in one form or another the last 3 primary days.


26 posted on 05/26/2016 10:05:25 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: mrsmith

He’s taking language from the democrats. But instead of a workers party with a socialist/redistributionist foundation. Trump is building a workers party with a capitalist/America First foundation.

Big Big difference.


27 posted on 05/26/2016 10:06:12 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Abiotic

The start of both the taking back and rebuilding of the GOP.


28 posted on 05/26/2016 10:06:56 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Abiotic

Blue collar insurgents have completed their takeover of the GOP.


29 posted on 05/26/2016 10:07:11 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Abiotic

Republicans such as Paul Ryan and others who are hell-bent on “reforming” or changing Social Security have really put a bad taste in a good part of the electorate.

I am not a fan of the concept of Social Security—however when you cry out that Social Security is broke and needs to be tinkered with—yet on the other hand the government apparently has unlimited funds to prosecute wars in the middle east and maintain bases around the globe-most average americans are disgusted


30 posted on 05/26/2016 10:09:37 AM PDT by Fast Ed97
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To: Hawthorn

Que Anthem...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs


31 posted on 05/26/2016 10:11:23 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Abiotic

I like his sentiment but I hate the verbiage “worker’s party”. That is straight up every commie party in existence.


32 posted on 05/26/2016 10:12:50 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: nickcarraway

>>Worker’s Party? Isn’t that Marxist?

Noooo. Watch the other hand. It’s Yuger!


33 posted on 05/26/2016 10:13:16 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: ifinnegan

The only way Clinton will not be the nominee is if she is indicted. Debating Sanders is a win-win for both Trump (free shots at Hillary) and Sanders (free national exposure for a cash-strapped campaign).

Sanders would never run with Trump.


34 posted on 05/26/2016 10:18:12 AM PDT by Abiotic (The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board)
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To: dp0622

” ... and put the SS tax in a REAL lockbox account.”

Commingling trust funds is a serious ethical violation, and it can be a crime. But the feds do it every day, considering tax dollars to be fungible across the board: LIFO.


35 posted on 05/26/2016 10:18:28 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: dfwgator

Or that the ruling party in North Korea is called the “Workers’ Party of North Korea.”

On the other hand, how many Communist dictatorships have appropriated the word “Democratic”? Then there’s that Liberal Democratic Party led by “far-right” Vladimir Zhirinovsky. The papers stopped even using the party name. Originally, the disclaimer followed the party name in a subordinate clause.

That entire class of words means nothing, now. Trump decides he gets to play, too.


36 posted on 05/26/2016 10:20:00 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
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To: BlackAdderess; Abiotic

Exactly. He has little need to chase conservative voters. He already has most of them. His rhetoric is peal off Democrat support AND steal back the language from PC police. His strategies are intensely refreshing after the Romney, McCain, BushBush, Dole campaigns.


37 posted on 05/26/2016 10:22:25 AM PDT by getitright (If you call this HOPE, can we give despair a shot?)
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To: dfwgator
“German Workers’ Party.”

The real German workers party is now called the "Oktoberfest"...lots of beer and frauleins......

38 posted on 05/26/2016 10:22:35 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (#HillaryForPrison-2016)
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To: NohSpinZone

“I like his sentiment but I hate the verbiage “worker’s party”. That is straight up every commie party in existence.”

That’s because the left has done a good (and destructive) job altering the real meaning of being for ‘workers’. Personally, I want to live in a society in which hard work is rewarded, there is socioeconomic mobility - such that we can all legitimately aspire to climb the ladder and there is opportunity for our children to do better than us, that success is a goal - not a reason for punishment, and that government does not determine outcome - but has a legitimate and Constitutionally limited role in ensuring that the playing field is level and the general rules of society are followed by all (including those in public office or working for government, like Hillary and Louis Lerner).


39 posted on 05/26/2016 10:23:27 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Hot Tabasco

Well we’ll see how much longer Germans will get to enjoy Oktoberfest, before their Muslim masters put an end to it.


40 posted on 05/26/2016 10:23:36 AM PDT by dfwgator
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