He told Chris Hayes in a recent interview that his attacks on the GOP Establishment are always the biggest applause lines-bigger even than attacks on Hillary and the President.
Yeah, that's something I have in common with the GOP base. We both hate the GOP Establishment. They are the worst.
This is why the GOP Establishment is right to worry about a coming schism.
"The Republican Party is facing a historic split over its fundamental principles and identity, as its once powerful establishment grapples with an eruption of class tensions, ethnic resentments and mistrust among working-class conservatives who are demanding a presidential nominee who represents their interests."
"At family dinners and New Year’s parties, in conference calls and at private lunches, longtime Republicans are expressing a growing fear that the coming election could be shattering for the party, or reshape it in ways that leave it unrecognizable."
"While warring party factions usually reconcile after brutal nomination fights, this race feels different, according to interviews with more than 50 Republican leaders, activists, donors and voters, from both elite circles and the grass roots."
"Never have so many voters been attracted to Republican candidates like Donald J. Trump and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who are challenging core party beliefs on the economy and national security and new goals like winning over Hispanics through immigration reform."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/us/politics/for-republicans-mounting-fears-of-lasting-split.html?smid=tw-share&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Politics&action=keypress®ion=FixedLeft&pgtype=article&_r=0
The Southern Strategy has come full circle. In my last piece I pointed out that Trump is in a long line of Dixiecrats-and those are certainly the types that support him.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/01/on-trump-pat-buchanans-fan.html
In 1968, though, George Wallace was the bane of the Democrat's existence; this time it is of the GOP's existence.
The bargain was always that the base accept a lot of things they don't want-supply side tax cuts for the rich, Neocon foreign policy, etc in exchange for nativism and racism.
But the base now sees that they have gained nothing from the GOP after all these years of support. Listen, when Frank Luntz did his focus group of the Trump supporters, some of them outright said-'Ok, maybe this elects Hillary Clinton but if so the GOP deserves it.' Part of why the electability argument doesn't make them reconsider supporting Trump is they want to send the GOP a message more than they even care about beating Hillary Clinton.
Their anger is greatest for the GOP Establishment and on that at least, you have to sympathize.
"Back in August, the conservative writer Ben Domenech asked, in a prescient essay, “Are Republicans for freedom or white identity politics?” Trump, he said, threatened to reorient the GOP away from ideological conservatism, along the lines of right-wing European political movements. The divide within the GOP has long been described as the “establishment”—power brokers, donors, elected officials, consultants—versus the “conservative base.” But it’s increasingly clear there are two separate conservative bases within the GOP."
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/the-split-within-conservatism/419400/
Sure, with the caveat that the Trump/Cruz side is a lot bigger.
Yeah, that's something I have in common with the GOP base. We both hate the GOP Establishment. They are the worst.
This is why the GOP Establishment is right to worry about a coming schism.
"The Republican Party is facing a historic split over its fundamental principles and identity, as its once powerful establishment grapples with an eruption of class tensions, ethnic resentments and mistrust among working-class conservatives who are demanding a presidential nominee who represents their interests."
"At family dinners and New Year’s parties, in conference calls and at private lunches, longtime Republicans are expressing a growing fear that the coming election could be shattering for the party, or reshape it in ways that leave it unrecognizable."
"While warring party factions usually reconcile after brutal nomination fights, this race feels different, according to interviews with more than 50 Republican leaders, activists, donors and voters, from both elite circles and the grass roots."
"Never have so many voters been attracted to Republican candidates like Donald J. Trump and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who are challenging core party beliefs on the economy and national security and new goals like winning over Hispanics through immigration reform."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/us/politics/for-republicans-mounting-fears-of-lasting-split.html?smid=tw-share&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Politics&action=keypress®ion=FixedLeft&pgtype=article&_r=0
The Southern Strategy has come full circle. In my last piece I pointed out that Trump is in a long line of Dixiecrats-and those are certainly the types that support him.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/01/on-trump-pat-buchanans-fan.html
In 1968, though, George Wallace was the bane of the Democrat's existence; this time it is of the GOP's existence.
The bargain was always that the base accept a lot of things they don't want-supply side tax cuts for the rich, Neocon foreign policy, etc in exchange for nativism and racism.
But the base now sees that they have gained nothing from the GOP after all these years of support. Listen, when Frank Luntz did his focus group of the Trump supporters, some of them outright said-'Ok, maybe this elects Hillary Clinton but if so the GOP deserves it.' Part of why the electability argument doesn't make them reconsider supporting Trump is they want to send the GOP a message more than they even care about beating Hillary Clinton.
Their anger is greatest for the GOP Establishment and on that at least, you have to sympathize.
"Back in August, the conservative writer Ben Domenech asked, in a prescient essay, “Are Republicans for freedom or white identity politics?” Trump, he said, threatened to reorient the GOP away from ideological conservatism, along the lines of right-wing European political movements. The divide within the GOP has long been described as the “establishment”—power brokers, donors, elected officials, consultants—versus the “conservative base.” But it’s increasingly clear there are two separate conservative bases within the GOP."
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/the-split-within-conservatism/419400/
Sure, with the caveat that the Trump/Cruz side is a lot bigger.
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