Interesting article on the Republican nominee

“….Republican strategist Steve Schmidt — senior advisor for Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential bid and campaign manager for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2006 reelection — articulated it during an MSNBC postmortem Tuesday night: “The tone is disgusting” on much of talk radio and some cable TV.
“This cancer has spread and the tone has infested the whole Republican Party,” Schmidt said. It has been echoing for years, he continued, and “you arrive at this moment.”…”
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Well, i dunno if I’d agree that rightwing-radio has caused
an acceptance of uncivil talk and twitter has caused a shortening of attention span, and both have paved the way for Trump.

I dunno what lead to Trump, but I know part of it is simply that the Rep Party has been holding some very different factions together for a long time. And now some of those factions are splitting apart. I suspect some of the rightwing supporters who liked Ross Perot, are the ones supporting Trump now.

Somebody interviewed on npr today mentioned that Trump is like a ‘white board’ in that people see in him whatever they want to see.

NPR talked about Hillary and Trump all morning, btw. No mention of Bernie at all. I went to his rally in Morgantown yesterday and there were a couple of thousand folks there. His speech was the best political speech I’ve ever heard in person.
Whats the best pol speech you ever heard ?
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wv wrote: “I dunno what lead to Trump, but I know part of it is simply that the Rep Party has been holding some very different factions together for a long time. And now some of those factions are splitting apart. I suspect some of the rightwing supporters who liked Ross Perot, are the ones supporting Trump now.”

Multiple factions are not involved. The pundits like to claim that but they as shown for the last year are out of touch with the conservative base of the party. The base is fed up with RINOs campaigning as conservative to get into office. This nation’s economy is in the shitter. Conservatives are tired of being somewhat accommodated on social issues while the economy is destroyed. To keep voting for the same would be to reaffirm the RINO supposition that conservative are brain dead. Of course it remains a great economy around DC and pols of both parties enter as middle class congressmen and after a few terms exit as multimillionaires usually staying in DC to become lobbyists desiring to further destroy the economy. Conservatives see this and are fed up. I believe the same dynamic is in play with the democrats supporting Bernie. How brain dead do you have to be to be a union member still voting for the democrat party? It is astonishing how lemming like they are while unions are being decimated. Same for blacks voting democrat that care about jobs. Obama has been the worst for job creation and with his flooding this country with illegal aliens who are overwhelmingly unskilled the stiff competition for entry level jobs will only result in ever lower wages. Trump is an outsider. He highlighted issues that directly effect the workers in this country that are watching their real income fall consistently while worrying if their job is secure since they don’t see job opportunities to replace the wage they have. Obamacare is a disaster for the individual that lost their previous healthcare insurance because of it and it is a disaster to the budget. Conservatives see crystal clear that SOTH Paul Ryan immediately rolled over to pass it. Trump calls it like it is that the War on Iraq was because of a lie told to the people and that it has been a horrific failure. The TPP like NAFTA and GATT before it place the economic burden on working americans while Wall St. and the beltway crowd profits. There’s more but you get the idea. I would say Trump’s campaign thus far has been far more in line with Pat Buchanan’s presidential campaigns as well as Ross Perot.

wv wrote:

Well, i dunno if I’d agree that rightwing-radio has caused
an acceptance of uncivil talk and twitter has caused a shortening of attention span, and both have paved the way for Trump.

I dunno what lead to Trump, but I know part of it is simply that the Rep Party has been holding some very different factions together for a long time. And now some of those factions are splitting apart. I suspect some of the rightwing supporters who liked Ross Perot, are the ones supporting Trump now.

Somebody interviewed on npr today mentioned that Trump is like a ‘white board’ in that people see in him whatever they want to see.

NPR talked about Hillary and Trump all morning, btw. No mention of Bernie at all. I went to his rally in Morgantown yesterday and there were a couple of thousand folks there. His speech was the best political speech I’ve ever heard in person.
Whats the best pol speech you ever heard ?
w
v

I believe talk radio made it possible for Trump to speak the way he does. I posted that theory about three months ago, and I still think so. I am surprised you would even doubt it.

I think that blaming Twitter for short attention spans is false, though. People have always searched around for some reason to explain why everyone else is stupid, and 10 years ago, it would have been “sound bite culture” to blame.

I think Trump is the natural harvest for what that party has sown over the past 50 years, but particularly since the rise of Atwater and Limbaugh.