(February 6, 2018 at 4:12 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(February 6, 2018 at 4:03 pm)Khemikal Wrote: You could probably say the same about the current president. In any case, going back to primaries the entire republican establishment was aligned against what they saw as a clown that would damage the party and country. Even after he won the nomination many people who voted for him considered him the "lesser of two evils"..... again clearly indicating a rift between his platform and candidacy and the long running establishment message.
So, who are the establishment republicans, where are they running, and how are they distancing themselves from whatever rift trump as a candidate and trumpism as an ideology presented then and now?
People voted for Trump because he offered solutions to a couple of main issues that most voters are concerned about. And he was more appealing to the voters in the Rust Belt States than Lying Crooked Hillary was. That gave him the margin of victory. None of the other Repub candidates addressed the issues that the voters were concerned about so they all lost to him. Trump may not be a real Repub but that's not what the voters in 30 States are concerned about.
*my bold*
Where "addressed the issues" = mirrored their sentiments, worked them up into a lather about their shared outrage and then promised vindictive remedies - like locking up his political rival because that is such an American thing to do.
