The awakening of Conservatism in modern times?
From the MIDDLE? Nah. Reagan came from the RIGHT, straight out of the Right wing. And his appeal was to the Right... Particularly the Christian Right, rising up a force never reckoned before... and the key to the Southern Strategy. That the middle came along is incidental.
The contract with America appealed to the right, not the middle. And its aim was directly toward issues of the right.
Still they overturned city, county, and state governments in record numbers.
Nothing from the right is going to win blue states. But winning blue states by turning blue is no win at all.
@roamer_1 I am a big fan of Reagan,as well as Barry Goldwater.
Reagan won because he was such a likable guy. A huge part of that was he was able to appear to be genuinely amused at the attacks the left put on him,and would laugh his was out of the accussation,and then turn that on the Dims.
Goldwater was unsuccessful because of the times he was running. The voting public was afraid of a candidate that seemed humorless and who was so intense.
ANYBODY that was able to vote that DIDN'T vote for Goldwater was/is a freaking fool.
Which just means there are a lot of fools voting.
What makes this even worse today is the left virtually OWNS the broadcast and print media. When ANY party has control over the issues and the dialogue,they are virtually impossible to beat using traditional candidates.
In one respect,Trump WILL win in the long run because history will prove him to have been both right and robbed.
Robbed by both the Dims and the "Miss Manners" alleged Republicans. Not that it will matter by then because America will no longer exist as "America,the land of the free",but in some corporate form with a name like "The North American Economic Zone",and populated by "good little robots" because that WILL be what it will take to get ahead and be successful.
But you "Miss Manners" types just go ahead and keep playing your stupid games if that's what pulls your trigger. After all,"compromise" is for commies,NOT people that demand THEIR version of "perfect conservatism",right?