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The Trump phenomenon is neither a disease nor a symptom – he is instead the
beta-test of a cure that the American people are trying out.
By Ben Domenech
February 29, 2016
On Face the Nation this Sunday, I attempted to explain the 2016 cycle in 40
seconds. Pull back from the close ups on Donald J. Trump’s tweets, and the
political realignment we are experiencing becomes obvious and impossible to
ignore. The post-Cold War left-right politics of the nation have been
breaking down in slow motion for two decades. They are now being replaced by
a different type of inside-outside politics.
The Trump phenomenon is neither a disease nor a symptom – he is instead the
beta-test of a cure that the American people are trying out. It won’t work
. But this is where our politics are going: working and middle class
Americans are reasserting themselves against a political and cultural
establishment that has become completely discredited over time and due to
their own actions.
Of course, as one more sign of how weak the establishment is, elected
Republicans are the last people in the world to understand what’s going on.
“While still hopeful that Mr. Rubio might prevail, Mr. McConnell has begun
preparing senators for the prospect of a Trump nomination, assuring them
that, if it threatened to harm them in the general election, they could run
negative ads about Mr. Trump to create space between him and Republican
senators seeking re-election.
Republican Senators should run as principled conservatives who will keep
President Trump honest.
“Mr. McConnell has raised the possibility of treating Mr. Trump’s loss as
a given and describing a Republican Senate to voters as a necessary check on
a President Hillary Clinton, according to senators at the lunches. He has
reminded colleagues of his own 1996 re-election campaign, when he won
comfortably amid President Bill Clinton’s easy re-election. Of Mr. Trump,
Mr. McConnell has said, “We’ll drop him like a hot rock,” according to
his colleagues.”
This is madness, of course. Assuming he is the nominee, attacking Trump and
embracing Hillary Clinton by extension will hurt you both with Trump
supporters and with conventional conservatives. Instead, Republican Senators
should run as principled conservatives who will keep President Trump honest.
If you had said a year ago that the frontrunner for the Republican
nomination for president was endorsed in the same weekend by Jeff Sessions
and Chris Christie, it would sound like a big tent kind of candidate, wouldn
’t it? Well, the Republican Party is a big tent party, and it is adapting
to be a bigger tent – encompassing supporters of Paul Ryan and of Donald
Trump.
This is not a temporary adjustment. It is a new reality, as Angelo Codevilla
writes today. “America is now ruled by a uniformly educated class of
persons that occupies the commanding heights of bureaucracy, of the
judiciary, education, the media, and of large corporations, and that wields
political power through the Democratic Party. Its control of access to
prestige, power, privilege, and wealth exerts a gravitational pull that has
made the Republican Party’s elites into its satellites.
“This class’s fatal feature is its belief that ordinary Americans are a
lesser intellectual and social breed. Its increasing self-absorption, its
growing contempt for whoever won’t bow to it, its dependence for votes on
sectors of society whose grievances it stokes, have led it to break the most
basic rule of republican life: deeming its opposition illegitimate.”
Democrats and Republicans who still think that this is a phase – a fever
they just need to wait out before a return to normalcy – are utterly
delusional.
Democrats and Republicans who still think that this is a phase – a fever
they just need to wait out before a return to normalcy – are utterly
delusional. They keep talking about voters “waking up” to realize that
Trump is a bad choice – but the whole reason Trump is the choice is because
voters believe they have woken up to the truth about the American
leadership class. The old order is breaking down, thanks to Iraq. Katrina.
The financial crisis. The failed stimulus. Obamacare’s launch. The Tea
Party. Occupy Wall Street. Sanders. Trump. The American people are trying to
find a new way, and they are looking for outsiders to lead them through the
wasteland.
To the establishment, this breakdown looks like chaos. It looks like
savagery. It looks like a man with a flamethrowing guitar playing death
metal going a hundred miles an hour down Fury Road. But to the American
people, it looks like democracy. Something new will replace the old order,
and there are a host of smart, young leaders on all sides who must prove
they have the capability to figure out how to create or retrofit
institutions that can represent and channel this new energy.
In ten years, the Republican and Democratic parties may still exist – but
they could look as different from what they were in 2012 as the difference
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发帖数: 2865 | 2 你应该re-phrase: It's a cure that the "blue collar, relatively un-educated,
relatively poor, heavily-impacted-by-Great-Recession, feel-left-out-by-
demographic-change, racist-in-closet, white" American people are trying out.
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恐惧，当年Protestant也是同样的歧视Irish，German和Italian移民的，你可以去看一
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发帖数: 523 | 3 great analysis. 10 years from now, the us political landscape will be
completely different. for now, president trump is the savior of the people.
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: The Trump phenomenon is neither a disease nor a symptom – he is instead the
: beta-test of a cure that the American people are trying out.
: By Ben Domenech
: February 29, 2016
: On Face the Nation this Sunday, I attempted to explain the 2016 cycle in 40
: seconds. Pull back from the close ups on Donald J. Trump’s tweets, and the
: political realignment we are experiencing becomes obvious and impossible to
: ignore. The post-Cold War left-right politics of the nation have been
: breaking down in slow motion for two decades. They are now being replaced by
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