“The people are tired of this political correctness when things are said that are totally fine,” Donald Trump
Why would any republican be shocked that Donald Trump did so well in the primaries?
Really? He is just saying what has been hidden behind coded words for years. Any conservative, anyone who feels that their party, the Republican Party, wasn’t really just about white privilege and multi-national corporations should be reassessing their belief system.
Yet there is something dark about the blind, lockstep acceptance of the party’s candidate. Something the feels out of place in a democracy, lacking the depth of a country built on the sacrifices of “… That all men are created equal …”
“[He] had come to think of The Party differently than he had as a boy… There were no elections. No freedom of the press. No freedom of speech. No freedom of travel. No freedom to choose… No freedom to change things.” Adam Makos A Higher Call
We see a fundamental shift in the thinking of the electorate. For years the Republican party kept redefining what conservatism was that the party base came to think that it was in their best interests to blindly follow the rich oligarchs in destroying the very economy, jobs and security they enjoyed as the growing middle class.
Left with a nation of working poor, watching jobs race offshore at light speed, drowning in debt and suffering untold foreclosures of their ATM houses of course they love Donald Trump. His continual rhetoric of returning America and its dreams sells.
"I play to people's fantasies, People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That's why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular." Donald Trump
Many other “leaders” in history have used the same tactic with extreme success. And they were to the right of the political landscape. Their message is appealing and those who follow often believe in the part that impacts them and feel that the hate rhetoric is just that; it doesn’t affect “me.”
The bulling, belittling, faultfinding, boogeyman syndrome that is employed to keep the faithful in line has left the beer halls and now lives on the morning news programs. With a phone and hundreds of viewers and a media that pedals not an open and fair discussion of our discourse, but rather the narrative that makes them wealthy.
If someone’s questions Mr. Trump motives, integrity, honesty or sincerity, the wrath of Trump ascends him. Vilification becomes the message of the day. Don’t question the nominee. Don’t investigate his misdeeds. Leave the republican alone. Instead focus on his opponent. Make them the enemy.
Divert, divide, obfuscate and suppression is the lifeblood of The Party. And Mr. Trump embraces it whole heartily.
"If you have to lie, cheat, and steal, ... " Donald Trump
Yes Donald Trump is the face of the Republican Party.