“Every Republican wants to do a big number on Social Security, they want to do it on Medicare, they want to do it on Medicaid. And we can’t do that.”
“People as they make more and more money can pay a higher percentage” of taxes.Does that sound to you like the Republican frontrunner in 2016? It is.
While many fail to understand how, possibly, Donald Trump could be leading the Republican Presidential primary, that's because -- as Michael Lind points out in the linked piece -- they really don't understand the modern Republican Party.
I stand here today, as Governor of this sovereign state, and refuse to willingly submit to illegal usurpation of power by the Central Government.
And it is a sad day in our country that you cannot walk even in your neighborhoods at night or even in the daytime because both national parties, in the last number of years, have kowtowed to every group of anarchists that have roamed the streets of San Francisco and Los Angeles and throughout the country. And now they have created themselves a Frankenstein monster, and the chickens are coming home to roost all over this country.
Yes, they’ve looked down their nose at you and me a long time. They’ve called us rednecks -- the Republicans and the Democrats. Well, we’re going to show, there sure are a lot of rednecks in this country.
It’s people—our fine American people, living their own lives, buying their own homes, educating their children, running their own farms, working the way they like to work, and not having the bureaucrats and intellectual morons trying to manage everything for them. It’s a matter of trusting the people to make their own decisions.
What are the Real issues that exist today in these United States? It is the trend of the pseudo-intellectual government, where a select, elite group have written guidelines in bureaus and court decisions, have spoken from some pulpits, some college campuses, some newspaper offices, looking down their noses at the average man on the street.The first quote obviously wasn't Trump, but it could have easily been somebody like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. But almost any of these quotes could easily have come from a GOP Presidential contender in 2016 -- perhaps even Donald Trump. But, no, if the title of this diary wasn't a dead giveaway, those quotes all came from 1968 Presidential candidate George Wallace.
And Trump has inherited the mantle of right-wing populism that has largely been dormant since 1968. Wallace was the canary in the coal mine that showed that in 1968, the Democrats' long-running New Deal coalition was not viable in the long term. Trump is doing the exact same to the GOP's Reagan-era coalition. Join me below the fold for more.