After winning three of the first four nominating contests, Donald Trump hasn’t just hijacked the Republican Party but fractured it newly into three.
The populist billionaire’s rise to the pinnacle of Republican politics has upended what had been decades of relative GOP stability, a 40-year span in which most Republican presidential contests since 1976 neatly narrowed to an establishment-embraced front-runner and a conservative insurgent alternative.
Suddenly, there are three strands of Republicanism, each entrenched and vying for supremacy in 2016. Ted Cruz is the leader of the traditional conservative purists. Marco Rubio is emerging from the mud of a multicandidate brawl to lead the once-dominant, now diminished, mainstream lane of the GOP.
But it is Trump’s new alliance of angry populists that is ascendant — and on the precipice of dominance.
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“It is not enough to simply nominate someone who is angry.”
ReplyDeleteI beg to differ. When the mass electorate is angry, that's who they want for their candidate.
And we are very angry.
Central Alabamaian
And we are very angry.
DeleteOh, yes.
Now it looks like even the 'three strands' might be fracturing.
ReplyDeleteDonald and Marco are stopping here, but it looks like Ted has decided to just "Cruz On By"....
http://yellowhammernews.com/politics-2/cruz-prepares-for-election-day-massacre-by-pulling-out-of-alabama-events/
Central Alabamaian
That's unexpected. Thanks.
DeleteWe want an angry street fighter who is not afraid to get into a fight and knows the dirty tricks. Time to get down and dirty on the establishment. Kick them in the nuts and make them turn tail.
ReplyDeleteAmen, Madam! :)
DeleteThe Republican Party fractured ? Fine with me, you were voted in by people who oppose the actions of the Democrats, not collaborators who vote along with them. We demand politicians who not only oppose their actions but also push legislation that is an alternative to fix the problem.
ReplyDeleteTrump may not be a great canidate, but he doesn't run from a fight and that is what interests a lot of voters. Big Plus - he scares the crap out of the Democrats and the media (same people ?) because of that.
he scares the crap out of the Democrats and the media
DeleteThat's more than enough to vote for him right there.
And fracturing it into pieces was the mission. Mission accomplished. I wonder if the commie party of Hitlery is as fractured? Prob not they're only running 2 people. I wonder why the repubes had so many? Into the breach we go
ReplyDeleteTrump is a nationalist...not a national socialist like Bernie. I think the difference between Trump and Cruz is that Cruz is tainted as a politician while Trump is not. I will vote for either and would like to see both on the ticket. Cruz would probably pick better SCOTUS candidates. All the rest are international socialists...better know in most places as Communists.
ReplyDeleteCommunists.
DeleteSocialism invariably ends up as Communism.
http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/desperate-hoax-kkk-trump-supporters-were-black/
ReplyDeletehttp://www.infowars.com/black-lives-matter-activists-interrupt-hillary-clinton-at-private-event-in-south-carolina/
If not black, then they must have used shoe polish.:) Which remonds me:
DeleteTalking baby dolls and shoe polish
http://namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=5021&highlight=shoe+polish
My Vietnamese friend, who worked with me at OICC/RVN Saigon, told me after the war, that when they came to Can Tho and searched his house, they found a talking baby doll and thought it was a CIA radio, so they kept a man in his house for a week until they realized they were fools. The man also opened a can of shoe polish, put his finger into it to have a taste of what he evidently thought was eatable.