The Real History In this Election Is Trumphttp://canadafreepress.com/article/the-real-history-in-this-election-is-trumpKaty Grimes
August 5, 2016
The reason so many in America are rooting for Donald Trump is that he single handedly disrobed the Republican Party, and bared the dirty, corrupt underbellyHillary Clinton may shatter the proverbial glass ceiling by being the first women nominated as the Democrat Party’s Presidential nominee, but Donald Trump is also significantly historical.
People say Hillary Clinton’s candidacy for U.S. President is historical only because she is a woman. Blah blah blah. Feminist author Camille Paglia called Hillary Clinton an “ethically challenged incompetent,” and has repeatedly challenged Hillary’s feminist credentials.
Why is Donald Trump’s candidacy also historical? Trump is the first candidate in U.S. history who is not a politician, government worker, political appointee or a top military officer.
The Presidents who had never been elected to public office before being elected President were: Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Herbert Hoover, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Taylor, Grant and Eisenhower were in the military, and Hoover was Secretary of Commerce.
Of the 55 U.S. Presidents, 26 had previously been lawyers, 22 had previous military experience, and nine were Generals in the U.S. Army.
Trump isn’t a lawyer. Trump has never been in government.
The closest example was the 1940 Presidential race, when the GOP named Wendell Willkie its candidate for president. Originally a Democrat, Wilkie, an attorney and utilities executive, switched parties in 1939 in opposition to President Franklin Roosevelt’s Tennessee Valley Authority. During a deadlocked GOP convention, party leaders turned to Wilkie as an alternative presidential nominee to Thomas Dewey.
Trump also received more than 13 million votes in the primary, giving him more votes than any candidate in Republican history—even with 17 candidates in the race.
Trump Trumps Politics as UsualTrump’s rise is a direct result of the gross self-absorption and corruption of the elite U.S. political class. They stopped listening to the American people, and consequently became deaf to public anger over a succession of economic and foreign policy failures, and government corruption—by both parties.
And the media is probably even more corrupt. “The media have remained smugly hostile to Trump, despite warnings that a majority of Americans despise the media too,” the Spectator UK said in a recent article. “American presidential politics is a jungle; the nominees are great beasts, but Donald Trump is larger and fiercer. In taking over a major US political party from the outside, he has done something that has never been done before, and he should win.”
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