Trump is running on the platform he started running on in the early 90s:
"I'm elated that Trump has gotten into this race, raised issues, shaken these things up, but we've got 25 million people watching a Republican debate inthe summer of 2015. My time has come and gone... it was a while ago, and we did as well as we could at the time... but I congratulate him, he is doing well on issues I care about."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/01/10/pat_buchanan_trump_has_cross-party_appeal_because_what_i_warned_about_in_the_90s_has_come_to_pass.html
Rachel Maddow drew a Trump-George Wallace comparison this week. This is a point I've made for awhile.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/shades-of-george-wallace-30000-come-out.html
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/donald-trumps-george-wallace-moment.html
Am I saying Rachel read me? No. But had she done so she might have come to this conclusion a long time ago-I'm just saying.
It'd be interesting to catalogue how many things I have said that no one was saying, that later everyone was saying. Like the whole Trump Democrat thing.
Oh well, people still treat those people who said it way after me as more important...
But there is little question that Trump's supporters are very like Wallace's supporters. There are the studies of his supporters that show he has a lot of Kim Davis types-those who are registered Democrats supporting him.
They are populist, angry whites who are not necessarily ideological conservative Republicans. In many ways Wallace was a New Deal liberal who once said that he'd never be 'outniggered' again. Ie, he used 'nigger talk' as a way of getting to the issues he really cared about.
Trump too has a number of liberal positions. Again, this is the Dixiecrat position-a Dixiecrat is all for the welfare state, provided it helps the right people-them; not the wrong people-minorities, etc.
P.S. An Atlantic piece asks this regarding GOP voters:
"What if the populist, nativist bloc of the party turns out to be larger than the intellectual conservative movement?"
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/the-split-within-conservatism/419400/
The polls certainly indicate this is the case. And the 'intellectual conservative movement' has never really had much support-the GOP enticed the base with the Southern Strategy. Now that the GOP is talking about ending the SS what is left?
Even after 50 years of the SS, there is very little support for supply side economics and Neocon foreign policy. As Trump notes, people don't want their Social Security cut or Medicare blockgranted out to the states.
"I'm elated that Trump has gotten into this race, raised issues, shaken these things up, but we've got 25 million people watching a Republican debate inthe summer of 2015. My time has come and gone... it was a while ago, and we did as well as we could at the time... but I congratulate him, he is doing well on issues I care about."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/01/10/pat_buchanan_trump_has_cross-party_appeal_because_what_i_warned_about_in_the_90s_has_come_to_pass.html
Rachel Maddow drew a Trump-George Wallace comparison this week. This is a point I've made for awhile.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/shades-of-george-wallace-30000-come-out.html
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/donald-trumps-george-wallace-moment.html
Am I saying Rachel read me? No. But had she done so she might have come to this conclusion a long time ago-I'm just saying.
It'd be interesting to catalogue how many things I have said that no one was saying, that later everyone was saying. Like the whole Trump Democrat thing.
Oh well, people still treat those people who said it way after me as more important...
But there is little question that Trump's supporters are very like Wallace's supporters. There are the studies of his supporters that show he has a lot of Kim Davis types-those who are registered Democrats supporting him.
They are populist, angry whites who are not necessarily ideological conservative Republicans. In many ways Wallace was a New Deal liberal who once said that he'd never be 'outniggered' again. Ie, he used 'nigger talk' as a way of getting to the issues he really cared about.
Trump too has a number of liberal positions. Again, this is the Dixiecrat position-a Dixiecrat is all for the welfare state, provided it helps the right people-them; not the wrong people-minorities, etc.
P.S. An Atlantic piece asks this regarding GOP voters:
"What if the populist, nativist bloc of the party turns out to be larger than the intellectual conservative movement?"
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/the-split-within-conservatism/419400/
The polls certainly indicate this is the case. And the 'intellectual conservative movement' has never really had much support-the GOP enticed the base with the Southern Strategy. Now that the GOP is talking about ending the SS what is left?
Even after 50 years of the SS, there is very little support for supply side economics and Neocon foreign policy. As Trump notes, people don't want their Social Security cut or Medicare blockgranted out to the states.
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