12 thoughts on “The Ascent Of Populism”

  1. The article already stirring up the online Trumpkins, the alt-Right’s counterpart to the Stupid Left. So that’s good. It’s just sad that all that stands between us and the Alinskyite Witch is Donald Trump.

    1. Trump is vulgar and speaks poorly, but he isn’t wrong.

      Many conservatives have gone full Glenn Beck on us. Trump can be effective in fighting back, the others can’t.

      1. And he a puppet , though guess now we get a “tough and talented lady” in charge just like the three of them planned. In January they be working together to continue the destruction on the opposition to the Clinton Crime family.

  2. The author attacks Republicans like Democrats do, with the same smears, slanders, and innuendos. He claims every movement to reform the GOP is born out of a lack of education and former Wallace voters.

    The Tea Party was better educated than the general public and were not the ideological heirs of Wallace. Trump’s supporters are firmly in the upper middle class, even if they don’t have as many college degrees. The Tea Party and Trump’s base are not the exact same group of people.

    Do the GOPe and NeverTrumpers really believe this shit? Have the Democrats been that successful in inculcating their bigoted stereotypes that the party’s ruling class is so unmoored from knowing their own constituents?

    He overlooks the partys intellectuals’ role in creating the standard for conservatism that McCain, Romney, and Trump don’t meet. He thinks that Republicans have problems with the GOPe because of where they went to school or where they live rather than the difference between what they campaign on and how the rule. Trump is a product of the elite too. He lives on the East Coast and went to all the fancy pants schools.

    He is right to say that there isn’t a debate of ideas. The GOPe is continually campaigning one way and ruling another. That is why there is a Trump. Trump could have been anyone running as an outsider and not tied to the existing ruling class.

    I don’t know why I should support a party whose “intellectuals” have such a bigoted, and incorrect, view of the people their power comes from or whose politicians view themselves as kings and queens lording over people who don’t know how to take care of themselves.

    Maybe it is time for a party split but I wont be supporting one that looks down on its constituents like this, who claim to be motivated by principles while demonstrating a lack of them, who demand loyalty but never return it, and who claim superiority of policy while being unable to convince their own voters of its wisdom.

    For me, there is an arms race taking place between Republicans and Democrats for which party can make me hate them the most.

    1. politicians view themselves as kings and queens

      Which is to say they don’t understand American Exceptionalism any more than Obama.

      It isn’t about Trump. It’s about the people who have amazed me in seeing through all the elites.

    2. The GOPe is continually campaigning one way and ruling another.

      It really is that simple, and still the message doesn’t get through. I no longer hold out hope for the Republican party. Trump will likely lose, and the margin is roughly that of the party he represents. In fairness, both sides of the once GOP are getting what they demanded going in; “my way or the highway”.

      Personally, I thought enough was one to send a message in 2006, but nope, it was missed. A positive message was sent in 2010, but it too was missed. A get-along-to-go-along message was sent in 2014, and apparently that ‘s when the GOP establishment decided it was in complete control again. Nothing was done about Obamacare. Lots of meetings were held about the VA, the IRS, and various failings by State, but other than one resignation (oh a few underlings got whacked and whistleblowers prosecuted), there was no rectifying of unjust policies.

      1. That’s the irony of Trump. We absolutely know the others (D & R) act opposite of their promises. But Trump is the one they accuse (pure FUD tactics) of this.

        No president can do everything they promise. Trump is the only one with a track record of actually accomplishing things (even if you don’t like how.)

        Trump has been affected by his supporters. He will kill himself to keep his promises (you can call it narcissism so you don;t blow a head gasket as it happens.)

        He will fight the correctly labeled lying media. He may have to backtrack to accomplish some things but he will be tenacious. He will put America first the same way he put his business first. You say he stiffed contractors? I say he never would have given Iran a plane full of cash.

        Trump pushes. This is not a bad quality. Many of his ‘lies’ are his inability to be clear and others redefining what he says. Many of the contractors stiffed gave shoddy work. Would they continue with him if he never paid any? If Trump’s success were all fraud we can only hope America has such success.

      2. The way the establishment and the intellectual class attack the Tea Party explains why there was nothing done to rectify unjust policies.

  3. I commented on the Continetti article on Instapundit, and the responses I got from the Trumpkins confirmed everything negative I wrote about them.

  4. I don’t know how the “conservatives” can hold together a political party, any more than the “libertarians” can. They are loose labels, applied to collections of people having widely divergent views on many subjects. The Democrat party panders to an even wider range of divergent views. But come election time, they put their differences aside and focus on the Republican enemy. Republicans, as a party, need to do that. And I don’t think “conservatives” are the people who can pull it off.

    And I know libertarians can’t.

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