Trump is Reviving American Republicanism

[Right_in_Virginia]

Trump is Reviving American Republicanism
American Greatness, Mar 8, 2018, Larry Schweikart and Michael Sheppard

Late on election night, as befuddled pundits finally accepted that Trump, against all predictions, had been elected president, the question arose: “What then should this new Trump party be called?”  Came the puzzled response: “I don’t know you tell me.”

Whereas others entered office prepared merely to give lip service to their campaign promises, Trump intends to keep every single one of his. Get rid of Obamacare? That has already been done for all practical purposes. Build a wall? The prototypes are complete and if it is not built, it will not be the fault of the Trump Administration so much as it is of Republicans in Congress who still do not appear to understand the significance of the immigration problem.  But perhaps most central to Trump’s appeal was his promise to restore American manufacturing, especially in the rust belt.

Those were campaign promises, true. But they were not meant simply to be naked appeals to a certain class of voter. Trump was savvy to notice the blue-collar, middle-class voters Barack Obama and Hillary deliberately ignored and dumped into a “basket of deplorables” had unmet political needs. 

But more than that, Trump’s hostility to open immigration with lax or non-existent borders, recognized that America had unmet political needs that, even though they ran contrary to the establishment majority in the GOP, were a unifying element in the GOP’s base just waiting for someone like Trump to seize the initiative.


Read more:  https://amgreatness.com/2018/03/08/trump-is-reviving-american-republicanism/

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That includes a point I keep trying to make, that the post-WWII period was anomalous and is now behind us. Competition is now back to the norm.

[LauraTXNM]

That includes a point I keep trying to make, that the post-WWII period was anomalous and is now behind us. Competition is now back to the norm.

Do you mean business competition?  I still am not sure what everyone in the Rust Belt is going to do, with automation becoming more prevalent.

[INVAR]

Whereas others entered office prepared merely to give lip service to their campaign promises, Trump intends to keep every single one of his. Get rid of Obamacare? That has already been done for all practical purposes.

I stopped reading right there.

This is the same stupid venal shit we read from WAPO and the NYTs for 8 years solid to prop up Obama.  Saying overt bullshit because repeating a lie over and over again somehow makes it true.

ObamaCare is still here.  Trump and the GOP now own it and there has already been talk of the need to revive the penalties to impose the mandate because the system is going bust without forcing young and healthy people paying into the pool.  So, all Trump has done is reviving Statism under the Republican banner.