Trump - Populist?

[laguna1]

Maybe he's trying to do away with the two historically dominant parties. It'd be nice if parties were done away with. I guess it's American culture where there needs to be teams. Why can't we have top infrastructure, for instance, and why does this need to be a left ideal?

 

[kescwi]

Maybe he's trying to do away with the two historically dominant parties. It'd be nice if parties were done away with. I guess it's American culture where there needs to be teams. Why can't we have top infrastructure, for instance, and why does this need to be a left ideal?

I don't know, I find it odd history seems to be recycling every +\-80 years. Strang to hear some of the Trump rationalizations, they sound so 1960's TV docs re Germany in the 30's.

 

[laguna1]

I don't know, I find it odd history seems to be recycling every +\-80 years. Strang to hear some of the Trump rationalizations, they sound so 1960's TV docs re Germany in the 30's.

As all the pundits keep saying, they've never seen anything like this.

 

[kescwi]

As all the pundits keep saying, they've never seen anything like this.

What is sad IMHO, is the Republican Party created this monster, they may have been grooming/hoping for someone else but what Trump has done is hijack their +20 year AMradio/cable news nonsense. And now they don't know what to do.

I literally am working in a house right now and the owners were beyond disappointed with the primary down here, hate Trump, but they come home every day to eat lunch while listening to Rush with Fox muted on the TV. Its so hard because I just want to ask, where do you think Trump came from?

 

[laguna1]

What is sad IMHO, is the Republican Party created this monster, they may have been grooming/hoping for someone else but what Trump has done is hijack their +20 year AMradio/cable news nonsense. And now they don't know what to do.

I literally am working in a house right now and the owners were beyond disappointed with the primary down here, hate Trump, but they come home every day to eat lunch while listening to Rush with Fox muted on the TV. Its so hard because I just want to ask, where do you think Trump came from?

I don't know if they created him though. He's in the position he is and has been all over the board for the last 30 years, in plain sight. It's what people want now, apparently. And Fox tried to destroy him last night.

It's going to be him vs. Clinton, no question. Clinton will have all the hard core Dems but Trump will have Reps., plus a lot of people who have never voted, plus people that are very unsatisfied with the last 8 years. Clinton should win, but we'll see.

 

[qazplm]

I don't know if they created him though. He's in the position he is and has been all over the board for the last 30 years, in plain sight. It's what people want now, apparently. And Fox tried to destroy him last night.

It's going to be him vs. Clinton, no question. Clinton will have all the hard core Dems but Trump will have Reps., plus a lot of people who have never voted, plus people that are very unsatisfied with the last 8 years. Clinton should win, but we'll see.

They most certainly created him. He now says things with a bullhorn that before was said with dog whistles. Other than the level of crassness, what is he saying that isn't said every day for decades on right wing talk radio? People who have never voted aren't very reliable voters...some will come out, some will not.

As for the idea of parties. Every nation with a relatively open political system has parties. England only really has three main parties instead of two, but I believe that usually only two of those parties are relevant at any one time. It's not an American thing, it's a human/tribal thing, and neither Trump or any other human is going to stop that from happening.

 

[gr8indoorsman]

Fox has Trump's campaign spokesperson on pretty regularly. She's a friggin' nutjob and is every bit as combative and disrespectful as Trump is. Now, I don't watch Fox that much at all, but it's been interesting the past two days with the debate and their commentary about Trump's answers to the moderators' questions.

 

[LCBrasefield]

Maybe he's trying to do away with the two historically dominant parties. It'd be nice if parties were done away with. I guess it's American culture where there needs to be teams. Why can't we have top infrastructure, for instance, and why does this need to be a left ideal?

LOL, that's a rather bizarre take on things. Usually, when someone tries to do away with historically dominant parities its because of some noble principle. Viewpoints as divergent as George Wallace to H. Ross Perot to Ralph Nader have done this. Trump is just a grandstanding egomaniac lusting for power at the expense of ideals.

 

[qazplm]

As all the pundits keep saying, they've never seen anything like this.

That's because they weren't around the other times when populism was big like this because it's been awhile, but that strain has always been there.

 

[laguna1]

LOL, that's a rather bizarre take on things. Usually, when someone tries to do away with historically dominant parities its because of some noble principle. Viewpoints as divergent as George Wallace to H. Ross Perot to Ralph Nader have done this. Trump is just a grandstanding egomaniac lusting for power at the expense of ideals.

This race is bizarre too.

 

[laguna1]

They most certainly created him. He now says things with a bullhorn that before was said with dog whistles. Other than the level of crassness, what is he saying that isn't said every day for decades on right wing talk radio? People who have never voted aren't very reliable voters...some will come out, some will not.

As for the idea of parties. Every nation with a relatively open political system has parties. England only really has three main parties instead of two, but I believe that usually only two of those parties are relevant at any one time. It's not an American thing, it's a human/tribal thing, and neither Trump or any other human is going to stop that from happening.

Not saying parties is an American thing. I guess it's human nature to want to make things black and white though. He's all over the board is my point, and it seems to be increasing the further this gets. The GOP is getting very nervous.

If Rubio and/or Kasich don't win their home states the GOP is Trumped.