September GOP consultant Rick
Wilson wrote in The Daily Beast that
Trump supporters “put the entire
conservative movement at risk of being hijacked and destroyed by a bellowing billionaire
with poor impulse control and a profoundly superficial understanding of the
world . . walking, talking comments sections of the fever swamp sites.” Insulting? You bet. But the
laugh-out-loud moment for me came when Wilson defined us as The Troll Party,
writing, “The Troll Party puts nationalist,
anti-establishment bluster before the
tenets of our constitutional
republic.”
He adds, “The contagion hasn’t infected the entire GOP, not by a long shot. But
it’s spreading. The traditional
elements of limited-government fiscal conservatives, social conservatives, and
defense hawks are still there. But the Troll Party screams louder, and
its members have reached a point where they are more than content to watch the
world burn around them if they don’t get their way, right this minute.”
Somebody better wake this guy up.
We’re not the ones shredding the Constitution! The radical Left is chopping her
up into little pieces, aided and abetted by the GOP establishment. Many of us ARE the fiscal conservatives, social
conservatives, and defense hawks.
What is even more amusing is that
months after Wilson penned this piece and his delusional frame of the present
GOP, their beloved Speaker, Paul Ryan, exercised his red coat brand of
leadership in passing of the omnibus
bill—a monster costing us the $1.1
trillion government spending (with the support of the Republican controlled
Congress) last week (which apparently nobody had a chance to read the 2,242
pages). Somebody should tie this guy up and
read it to him, noting that neither defense hawks nor fiscally responsible
citizens SUPPORT THIS BILL.
So why are people supporting
Trump instead of a GOP favorite? Unless we elect someone who can stop the
Trojan Horse invasion, actually get the wall built and get us off the economic
cliff, there won’t be a sovereign solvent nation, much less any political
parties left.
Look— I could produce a polished
piece on behalf of Donald J. Trump. But no way can I match Brietbart’s News Diane West: It’s Time to Rally Around Trump article, So I’ll let the brilliant and talented Diane West explain
why, as Trump supporters, we do not care if the radical Left, liberals, the
political class, including the establishment GOP or pseudo-intellectuals “get
us.”
Brent
Bozell has called on conservatives to rally around Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) or the
Republican presidential nomination. Ted Cruz is a good man and a fine candidate
— my own second choice — but I believe GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is the
candidate for American patriots to rally around. Bozell
states that Cruz is the one candidate who will return the United States to “her
Constitutional foundations and Judeo-Christian values,” explaining:
On every
issue of crucial importance to conservatives—defunding Planned Parenthood,
ending the Obamacare nightmare, reducing the size of government, opposing amnesty—Cruz
is not only with conservatives, he’s led the fight for conservatives.’
To be
honest, if these were the only issues under discussion in this GOP presidential
primary season I would hardly be able to make myself pay attention. It’s not
that they are unimportant issues. Personally, I support every one of them. But
they are not existential issues. They
are not the issues on which the very future of the Republic hangs. They
are issues that a responsible Republican House and Senate, if they were loyal
to their oath and to their constituents, could today begin to rectify all by
themselves.
If they
did — or if, say, a President Cruz were to ensure that Planned Parenthood was
defunded, Obamacare ended, government trimmed, and amnesty once again staved
off for another election cycle — we would all rejoice. However, the Constitution, the Republic, would be no more secure.
On the contrary, they would still
teeter on the edge of extinction, lost in a demographic, political, and cultural transformation that our
fathers, founding and otherwise, would find inconceivable — and
particularly if they ever found out that the crisis took hold when We the
People lost our nerve even to talk about immigration and Islam.
It is in
this danger zone of lost nerve and the
vanishing nation-state where the extraordinary presidential candidacy of Donald
Trump began. Like the nation-state itself, it started with the concept
of a border, when Donald Trump told us he wanted to build a wall. Circa
21st-century-America, that took a lot
of nerve.
After
all, Americans don’t have walls. We don’t even have a border. We have “border
surges,” and “unaccompanied alien minors.” We have “sanctuary cities,” and a
continuous government raid on our own pocketbooks to pay for what amounts to
our own invasion. That’s not even counting the attendant pathologies, burdens,
and immeasurable cultural dislocation that comes about when “no one speaks
English anymore.” A wall, the man says?
The
enthusiasm real people (as opposed to media and #GOPSmartSet) have shown for
Trump and his paradigm-shattering wall is something new and exciting on the political
scene. So is the “huge” sigh of relief. Someone sees the nation bleeding out
and wants to stanch the flow. Yes, we can (build a wall). From that day
forward, it has been Trump, dominating the GOP primary process and setting all
of the potentially restorative points of the agenda, compelling the other candidates to address them, and the MSM, too.
Blasting through hard, dense layers of “political correctness” with plain talk that shocks,
Trump has set in motion very rusty wheels of reality-based thinking, beginning a long-overdue
honest-to-goodness public debate about the future of America — or, better,
whether there will be a future for America. That debate starts at the border,
too.
A well-defended border is an obvious requisite for any nation-state. It bears noting, however, that
before Donald Trump, not one commander in chief, and (aside from former Rep.
Tom Tancredo, R-CO), not one figure of national fame and repute I can think of
had ever put it to the people of this land that a wall was a way to stop our border crisis: the unceasing flow into the
nation of illegal masses of mainly Spanish-speaking aliens, among them
terrorists, criminals (yes, including rapists and murderers) and transnational
gangs. On the contrary, crime and chaos at the U.S. non-border are what
every branch and bureaucracy of our government expect We, the People to accept as normal — and pay
for as good citizens.
But good
citizens of what — the world? For many decades, the unspoken answer to this
inconceivable question (inconceivable,
that is, before Trump) has been yes. “We Are the World” has been the
USA’s unofficial anthem, the political Muzak of our times that we either hum
along to, or accept in teeth-gritted silence for fear of censure (or cancelled
party invitations). “Openness,”
“multiculturalism,” “globalism” — all have been pounded into us for so long
that I think Americans despaired of ever hearing anyone give voice again to a
patriotic vision of American interests.
Then Trump came along and changed the tune. Americans perked up their ears.
Maybe a wall — which is just the beginning of Trump’s detailed immigration policy, which Sen. Jeff Sessions
(R-AL) calls “exactly the plan America needs” — would make America possible
again. That would be great, indeed.”
http://politichicks.com/2016/01/trump-supporters-loathed-and-why-we-dont-care/
Comment: Amen, Trump can do this. Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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