The GOP establishment’s sour reaction and apparent surprise that Donald Trump’s populist message appeals to huge numbers of Republican voters is a symptom of party leadership that long ago became isolated from the people they claim to represent.
If you’re a Republican voter, more likely than not you belong to the group of left-behinds to which I’m referring.
You’re a lifelong hard worker, a member of the so-called middle class and you’ve probably owned a pickup truck—which you either got cheap and fixed up, or bought new and worked like hell to keep—at one point or another.
Back in 2008 and 2012, Mitt Romney wasn’t your guy from the start — but you voted for him, because the alternative seemed much worse.
But truthfully, it probably wasn’t.
Romney represented establishment GOP values better than anyone else at the time just as Barack Obama screams of the establishment values on the other side.
Of course, many voters on both sides of the aisle were inundated with social issue nonsense by the media and mainstream media political fixers in the past few elections. Why? So they wouldn’t notice something shocking.
Forget all the useless talk about who marries whom and who has to bake their cake and imagine for a moment that, thanks to balance of power in government, the president can’t actually unilaterally transform the Constitution. After all, as busted as it is, our system of government does still have its virtues.
Strip the Democratic and Republican establishments down to bare bones and you’re left with a pretty clear picture of the two parties’ major goals: Lining powerful pockets with government contracts (defense, education, infrastructure, energy) and avoiding serious discussions about government spending.
With those two goals in mind, you can take a follow-the-money approach and find a pretty simple explanation for all kinds of stuff our leaders have been telling us is very complicated for years, from foreign policy to financial reform to crime policy.
In other words, the only thing that’s complicated is the system in place to hide corruption at the top.
Today, we’re seeing a GOP establishment in shock that voters aren’t listening. And worse, those voters are glomming on to the coattails of a candidate who was never supposed to run; and whose anti-PC bluster was sure to defeat him in the unlikely event that he did.
He did and it didn’t. Even worse for the GOP, Trump’s relationship with money isn’t one of nurture. He’s won and lost enough financial bets to know that he can self-finance his campaign with little fear of financial ruin. Maybe Romney could have too— but he’s not exactly a risk-loving guy. Hell, the edgiest thing he’s done in recent history was to attack Trump for no apparent reason other than the fact that the GOP handlers who mistakenly gave him a shot at the White House told him to. Trump doesn’t need permission and isn’t likely to take orders.
But I digress.
The point here is that the GOP establishment ought to know exactly what’s happened. They’ve counted on the white working class voter to be too busy to get politically informed for a long time. They spew talking points and social issue garbage, and everyday guys like you and me say, “Sounds like they’re working on it. Good. Now it’s been over 40-hours and the Friday whistle just blew, toss me a cold one and a fishing rod.”
Unfortunately, over the years many fishing buddies have taken weekend jobs to keep the lights on. And, with rising healthcare costs and tax bills to fund fruitless wars, that beer cooler keeps getting harder to fill.
So when a guy comes around and screams in your face, “Hey, dummy, these guys aren’t helping you out,” he comes off less annoying than he does worth tolerating for a moment.
The only people that can’t understand that probably will never know sweat and pain from work, they don’t drive high mile pickups, they don’t fish (at least not off banks or from a leaky 12 footer) and you probably wouldn’t want to share a beer with any of them.
That’s not to say Trump has a whole heck of a lot in common with Average Joe either. But, that he’s pissing off the folks who for so long have been pissing on the hard workers keeping them in power seems like a pretty good sign to me.
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