He
has the “it” factor. While travelling through Ireland with a tour group earlier
this summer, the first question I received from a blue-collar Canadian couple
was about Donald Trump. The man, a leader in his local building trades union,
stated on multiple occasions, “Maybe it’s time for a man of business to lead
your country.” Hardly the sentiment one would expect from a union man.
At
home, a friend who works as a school bus driver and maid tentatively asked me
about him, ending the neutral conversation with her strong declaration of
support. I doubt that this smart, hard-working, woman has ever registered to
vote, but she will to vote for The Donald.
Each
of these people know something is very wrong with our country and that the
system is broken, and each independently have come to the conclusion that
Donald Trump’s brand of straight shooting is what is needed to fix it.
Political
platitudes and slick campaign commercials cannot compare to the politically
incorrect businessman who has heads nodding across the nation, even as
political elites are scratching theirs.
The
appeal is simple. The people see Trump as authentic and a direct contrast to
Jeb Bush or other candidates being pushed by the inside-the-Beltway
establishment. A billionaire, who doesn’t need the job, willingly accepting
that some business partners will choose to end their relationship due to his
positions because he sees his nation in trouble.
Republican
consultants think they can beat Trump by talking about issues, never realizing
that the public doesn’t believe any of them because, too often, their actions
have not matched their rhetoric. All the rules about credibility have been
thrown out the window. Instead the people hear Trump cutting through the noise
and know that at least if he’s in charge, they will have hired someone with the
business acumen, smarts and leadership ability to shake up the stagnant,
stinking pond that is Washington, D.C.
Trump’s
Teflon coating against traditional political attacks stems almost entirely from
the illegitimacy of the attackers and the long-time affinity they have with the
Trump brand. When a political pundit or politician declares him unfit because
his health care position has changed from earlier support of a single-payer
system, listeners know that the GOP has chosen to fund the hated Obamacare
every year it has been in existence. When they attack his immigration
positions, listeners remember the millions of dollars of ads from Republicans
attacking Obama’s executive amnesty, as well as the subsequent decision to fund
it.
It is
Donald Trump, standing with
Senator Jeff Sessions in a massive rally in Mobile, Ala., who is moving the needle with a comprehensive
immigration plan that ends illegal immigration.
It is
Donald Trump who led the charge against giving Obama fast track trade
authority. A move that makes Trump look more and more prescient as Obama
defends a horrible Iran treaty and Republicans in Congress have made themselves
impotent in stopping it. The more Republicans bemoan a nuclear Iran resulting
from Obama’s deal, the less they look wise in giving the President what Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called “an enormous grant of power” to
negotiate trade deals.
It is
Donald Trump who is taking on the culture of victimization that has permeated
the country, by confronting the absurd political correctness that makes banning
the U.S. flag at a California high school on Cinco de Mayo because it offends
Mexican-born students the law of the land in the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals.
People
who go to work every day and shake their heads at how crazy our nation has
become have a hero in Donald Trump.
For
establishment Republicans, it is their own weakness in confronting what has
been a wholesale assault on American culture that has forced the people to turn
to Trump for leadership. In the month ahead, through the government funding
process, Congress will get one last chance to show they are willing to stop
Obama’s transformational agenda.
Failure
to exercise their constitutional authority to put the executive branch in check
will be the final nail in the coffin for establishment Republicans trying to
stop the anti-Washington, Trump movement.
The
author is the president of Americans for Limited Government.
http://netrightdaily.com/2015/08/theres-something-about-trump/
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