Posted on 03/08/2016 1:19:35 PM PST by Jeff Head
After writing "The Donald Trump Phenomenon - Straight Talk," a couple fo weeks ago. I thought I would further articulate my feelings about this 2016 Election cycle, and in particular the Donald Trump Phenomenon and
what it continues to mean.
This is probably one of the most critical elections for the future of the United States in my life time...similar to, and equal in import, to the 1980 election between then President Jimmy Carter and Ronald
Reagan.
Throughout the GOP Primaries, people have gone from believing that Donald Trump's campaign was not serious, to being aghast at his campaign style, to being surprised at the issues he has raised, to wondering
if and when he might go too far and say things that will end his campaign, to seeing him win numerous states, to seeing record numbers of people turning out to vote, to realizing he might actually win, to
either wildly suppporitng him or trying to find any way to stop him.
Well, as much as some people (ie. the MSM, the DNC, the GOPe, etc.) do not want to admit it, Donald Trump's candidacy and its success to this point is a direct result of a very broken GOP leadership.
candidates, some of them could not follow through because they were blocked by the leadership...and then spurned when they tried (like Ted Cruz) to keep their promises anyway.
This has resulted in a growing frustration and anger amongst Republican voters over the last 10-15 years, who have elected people promising to do one thing, and then seeing them not do it...again, and again,
and again.
Trump has focused on this frustration and provided not only an outlet for it...but has gotten directly into the face of the MSM and the GOPe in a completely politically incorrect fashion.
Inb doing so, Trump says the very things that the frustrated electorate has been thinking, and he proposes plans that they want. And he does it using his own money, and without a lot of adsvisors writing
his speeches for him. THis has his supporters viewing him as a self-made man, a man not beholden to the process...and that is what they want.
This is resulting in a phenomenal attraction to Trump...and not just from the frustrated GOP voters. It is now extending to independents and even democrats who are also sick of the political establishment
and who all want someone to go into that establishment and kick the house down.
They believe Trump is a person who will actually not just talk about it...but who will actually go in and do it.
In the midst of campagning, and indeed, as a result of his former role as a reality show star, people have already determined that:
Romney knew it when he glowingly accepted Trump's endorsement in 2012...and he knew it when he attacked him recently.
But all of these people who are so frustrated and upset with the political estrablismment DO NOT CARE. The people who want to take the country back and want the political establishment put in its place want
things fixed and want theings changed more than they want reverence, political correctness, politeness, or platitudes.
It's that simple and so the people wanting to attack Trump over these things find no traction. They find they cannot use them against Trump because the people already know it and they are supporting him any
The do not understand that it is the very crass nature odf the man, his irreverence, and his profane nature, and the things he is sayting he will do that is precisely what thesevoters want.
This is what is happening in the GOP Presidential Primary race, and IMHO, it is too late for the GOPe or the MSM to stop it.
The establishment and politically correct MSM operatives (which is what they are...passing themselves off as journalists), are simply incapable of understanding these things. The only persoin, IMHO, who
really understands it, and it because he himself has been fighting the GOPe tooth and nail...is Ted cruz.
I personally believe it is also too late for the DNC to do anything about these fundamental issues and the rise of an electroate that wants things fundamentally changed in washington.
If Donald Trump becomes the GOP nominee, then the DNC and the MSM will try to do the same types of things that the GOPe and the MSM will have done...and nfailed at. The DNC will determin in fact that they
have to double down on it, particularly the Clinton machine.
But it will not matter. They will fail as miserably as the GOPe and MSM are failing now...and for the same reasons.
More and more democrats will join this Tsunami (and it may well become a Trump-nami), and the DNC, like the GOPe, and like a lot of the MSMs basic operating policy, will be washed aside in the flood.
If it continues as it is now for Donald Trump, and, there is a chance that it may not with the Cruz campaign, Trump will win the GOP nomniation and then go on to win the presidency in a landslide.
When he does, the political prognosticators on both sides will be shaking their heads wondering what happened...just like they did when Ronald Reagan, whom they viewed as an ignorant, old, right-wing,
class-b actor, swept into the White House in a landslide in 1980. And then won a second election in an even bigger landslide in 1984.
I am a Ted Cruz supporter. I am voting for him and hopes he wins the nomination and then the Presidency. I believe there is still a potential path for him to do so. I believe he would be rock solid as a
conservative and would support the U.S. Constitution more faithfully than anyone else.
But what I described above is the reality of what is happening. At this point...although I believe that the only candidate who might have a chance to change it is Ted Cruz...it is most likley that Trump will
win.
No other candidate, party establishment, prognosticators, media putlet, etc. can stop it.
In the event that Ted Cruz dis unable to change the trend and, in essence have the same qualities become focused on him, (because quite frankly Ted Cruz himself has fought the establishment tooth and nail in
Washington, and could filling that same role)...as I say, in the event Trump proceeds and wins the GOP nomination, as Americans we will then simply have to do all we can to mkae it a win for America.
And I honstely think, the good Lord willing, that we can.
1st and foremost, we have to pray (and fast) in beseeching God in Heaven to turn all of this for the good.
2nd, we have to be active in following through on our prayers and becoming personally involved wherever we can in working hard to turn it for the good.
3rd, we have to constantly voice our feelings to our represetnatives, right up to the President and demand that they keep their promises and fulfill their oaths to the Constitution.
If we do those things, I believe that Donald Trump will proceed and keep his promises to:
frew world.
See my:
The Trump Phenomenon: Straight Talk
Jeff Head
Idaho, USA
March 2016
“Oh please. He flip flops more than a fish out of water.”
Not really, he has misspoken but he really doesn’t change his views unless he gets new information that tells him he should...and that is a super character strength. Not a flaw.
“There were only 8 GOP candidates vying for votes in the 1980 primaries.
There were 12 GOP candidates in Iowa, 2016:”
There’s only 4 now, and Trump still isn’t surpassing the 35% - 40% popular vote.
“Not really, he has misspoken but he really doesn’t change his views unless he gets new information that tells him he should”
LOL
“LOL”
If you were not a low information voter you would know that Trump has remained steady for the most part for years. If you look at what Romney and Trump said in 2012 you will see he held the exact same views as now. If you look at what Trump testified before congress more than 15 years ago you would see his views are pretty much the same as now. You have just been brainwashed and do not have the ambition to learn.
A sow hog has 6 teats on each side, so she can have as many as 12 piglets.
Of course, if there are fewer sucking they each get more milk.
Ronald Reagan got a lot of the same denigration you’re dishing out when he was running from other candidates’ fans, a lot of it from Mitt’s Daddy.
Thanks Jeff. Hope all is well with you.
“Ronald Reagan got a lot of the same denigration you’re dishing out”
Donald Trump sounds nothing like Reagan. I would have been more than happy to vote for him had I been old enough at the time.
Thank you.
it is going as well as I can expect...and I am very grateful that I have been preserved for the last six years since my major surgeries and removal of the cancer.
God in Heaven has been very kind to me.
We’ve had six grandkids since that time...and that makes eleven now. I have to say that those grandkids are a sweet spot.
“If you were not a low information voter you would know that Trump has remained steady for the most part for years.”
I’m not a low information voter. Which is why I support Cruz. Trump is full of hot air and no substance.
“I’m not a low information voter. Which is why I support Cruz. Trump is full of hot air and no substance.”
That alone is proof of being a low information voter...
“That alone is proof of being a low information voter...”
I was following Cruz long before he got into the race for the Senate while trump was subsidizing the establishment. I know exactly who I’m supporting.
Well, he has done better than that in five of his 12 wins.
46% in NV
44% in AL
50% in MA
43% in LA
40% in TN
With four or more candidates in each of those, he has done fairly well.
Cruz did better in three of his six wins:
45% in TX
46% in ME
48% in KS
Rubio has the highest so far in one of his two wins:
75% in PR
Donald Trump is crass.
Donald Trump is irreverent
Donald Trump is often profane.
Trump is all of those things...and may G-d bless him and grant him the wisdom and fortitude to win and implement good policies for this nation.
OH, so you are fine with him being owned by the banks and PAC’s? You are fine with his law firm, which he was an owner in donating to democrats but demonizing Trump for that. I have been following Trump since his book The Art of the Deal...he is a great patriot, very honest man, and very compassionate man.
he’s done everything he said he would do. I have no issue.
“.The problem I see is the Uniparty Congress fighting his every move...
if this happens, I think Trump will, instead of laying down like a professional politician, stand up and let the American people know exactly who is stopping the actions that would help ALL Americans...”
“he’s done everything he said he would do. I have no issue.”
Can you list his victories? And, you are fine with his lying then? And, with him being owned by banks, Pacs, etc.?
“Can you list his victories?”
You can thank Cruz for leading the fight that killed the Gang of Eight amnesty bill in the House. I was here when FR was thanking him for that too. I could go on with other successes he’s had, but you don’t care.
That happened time and again with Reagan. with the huge landslides he won on, even with a large Democratic majority, it is amazing how much he got done because he knew how to use the Bully Pulpit, and he knew that tens of millions of Americans would support him if he used it properly.
“My whole point here is to try and let people know that if Ted does not make it, Trump is going to be who I support against Hillary or sanders. I think the inverse should also apply.”
I was a Cruz supporter, even giving him money when he declared. I don’t dislike his policies, in fact I like them better than Trump’s in many cases...but I think that Cruz would get smeared in a race with Hitlery. Trump is about 70% of what I want, and is (IMHO) electable. I believe that it would be a “shocking” (to the MSM and conventional political pundits) landslide for Trump in November.
My first vote for President was for Reagan in the 1980 primaries and General. The mood now, and the attitude of the entire political world toward Trump, are virtually identical to those things in 1980. Take a 2016 story, and substitute in Reagan’s name for Trump’s, and you have the 1980 story. The only new thing is having GOPe people saying that they’ll vote for the Dems.
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