In his usual understated way, the Hoover Institution’s Victor Davis Hanson explains why Donald Trump won the presidential election:
… the more Clinton Inc. talked about the Latino vote, the black vote, the gay vote, the woman vote, the more Americans tired of the same old identity politics pandering. What if minority bloc voters who had turned out for Obama might not be as sympathetic to a middle-aged, multimillionaire white woman? And what if the working white classes might flock to the politically incorrect populist Trump in a way that they would not to a leftist elitist like Hillary Clinton? In other words, the more Clinton played the identity politics card, the more she earned fewer returns for herself and more voters for Trump.
The old blue-collar middle class was bewildered by the leftwing social agenda in which gay marriage, women in combat units, and transgendered restrooms went from possible to mandatory party positions in an eye blink. In a party in which “white privilege” was pro forma disparagement, those who were both white and without it grew furious that the elites with such privilege massaged the allegation to provide cover for their own entitlement.
The big question is, will ANYONE on the Left or in the Elitist Right Hierarchy pay any attention to what the American people are telling them?
h/t Gord Tulk
Any of the readers of this blog who have not read “Rules for Radicals” by American communist Saul Alinsky should so. It’s all there. Hillary and Obama are Alinsky acolytes. It’s a divide and conquer strategy as means to achieve power. Achieving power is what it’s all about.
Well … at least for as long as Trump remains president … the people have no need for the elites. I doubt the elites will EVER accept and acquiesce to the hoi-polli. Fu€k em. Let them sit in their overstuffed leather chairs stroking their chins (and any other body parts they choose) contemplating their LOSS of power. They only have ONE play now … and that is Assasination. They did it to Jack … and I don’t put it past them to try it again. So, be SAFE Mr. Trump … keep the SS close. There are plenty of unhinged volunteers out there … as witnessed by a week of violent vandalism throughout Deep Blue cities.
That should be “…Saul Alinsky should DO so.”
Kenji >
“They only have ONE play now … and that is Assasination. They did it to Jack …”
True, they are at the end of their rope, but I do think that physically harming Trump in any way will go allot differently for the Liberal Left than they think it will.
It would result in a “deplorable” martyrdom backlash the likes of nothing Liberals have experienced before.
Based on the last few days they will not listen. They are doubling down and calling them names still. It’s so awesome. They’re ensuring a two term presidency here and likely more gains in the senate in 2018.
It’s the Left and the so-called elites who are working hard to make democracy look more like communism. They can’t accept the people’s choice when it’s not theirs. Let them wail and rant, none of them are good for anything beyond that…they’re too lazy and cowardly to start a revolution….they got a message, they lost,they can’t accept the democratic process that handed them that loss.
VDH is bang on, as usual.
In short, the “assassination Twitterati” and the deep blue city rioters are the antithesis of democracy.
They aren’t interested in democracy per se, they are interested in imposing THEIR will on OTHERS. They are the Sturm Abteilung(SA) of the DNC per Scott Foval and Bob Creamer.
In a democracy you persuade people to come to your side with policies that make some sense.
In contrast, these are the rabble or as Karl Marx referred to them the “lumpen proletariat”.
TRUMP-upPENCE!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
I confess that until now I had forgotten that there was one very prominent Canadian who supported trumps campaign from the very start:
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/full-comment/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/conrad-black-its-morning-in-america
“The big question is, will ANYONE on the Left or in the Elitist Right Hierarchy pay any attention to what the American people are telling them?”
I can tell you right now the answer to that question is “NO!!!” The Left and the Elite Right are two sides of the same Big Government coin. Their shared belief is that people are stupid and must be controlled. Centralized command and control feature prominently in their “solutions” to that problem.
They will no more listen to the American people than grow wings and fly. That is exactly the last thing they will ever do.
They must be DEFEATED, the cannot be reasoned with or ignored. The rioting in the streets today is proof of that, if any were needed.
Exactly Hans.
Run don’t walk from any politician whose pandering becomes palpable. Hillary was oozing it before she decided to label those supporting her rival as “deplorables”.
Sanders and Pocahontas (Warren) are endorsing a Muslim-convert radical congressman from Minnesota to be the DNC chairman. The Democratic party is heading way left.
Hence: Senate super-majority in 2018; Trump re-election in 2020; Three (maybe 4) SCOTUS appointments
I am VERY encouraged to read that the Trump Admin (actually the Senate majority) intends to use the Democraps same ‘nuclear option’ to get their SCOTUS pick(s) immediately confirmed by the Senate. Using a simple majority of votes, not the traditional 60 vote majority. After 8 years of Obama … it’s time for a healthy helping of the lefties own medicine. No more Bushque-toast wimpiness anymore. Mitch McConnel can get with the party or get blackballed out of relevance.
Yes, because he knew the man, and wasn’t judging him by the rhetoric.
Piers did the same thing in England, standing by his friend Trump all the way to the end.
Headline Daily Mail
“PIERS MORGAN: They’re not calling you a Ku Klux Klan loving loser now, my friend!”
For those who believe that God had a hand in Trump’s election (and there are many), now they must pray that God will protect him till he accomplishes what he has set out to do.
Okay, okay! Got it!
I just downloaded a few version of Obama, Hillary, Saul Alinsky and their Useful Idiots
on my Amazon kindle,
“… will ANYONE on the Left or in the Elitist Right Hierarchy pay any attention to what the American people are telling them?”
No.
Any further questions?
Seriously, leftists and the Elitist Right Oligarchy will NOT pay attention to what the American people are telling them because they are so convinced of their own brilliance – many of them are “educated,” you see – that they are simply unable, and unwilling, to see their own short-comings. They therefore cannot self-correct.
If they were able and willing to see their own short-comings and self-correct, Venezuela and Cuba would be booming economically and financially. Their standard to measure the goodness of their results is not something arm’s-length like numbers but THEMSELVES, making it impossible for them to self-correct and therefore IMPROVE and PROSPER.
Glasnost wrote: “Sanders and Pocahontas (Warren) are endorsing a Muslim-convert radical congressman from Minnesota to be the DNC chairman. The Democratic party is heading way left.”
And in B.C. the NDP have just nominated their first trans-gender because…. 2016.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-woman-sets-sights-on-becoming-first-transgender-mla-1.3785677
It’s a guy who prefers womanhood and get this: his (I won’t kowtow to referring to ‘him’ as ‘she’)claim to fitness for political office is that he sat on a Parent Advisory Council for his school district. Oh and he’s the ‘mother’ of two children.
Trans-gender. Trans-national. Trans-fantastic. Trans-NDP.
It’s Vancouver. Normal rules of reality don’t apply.
Hmm I think Pat Caddell comes much closer, and he has the data. In fact, Michael Moore also was ringing the bell, I can only conclude the loss was due to that oldest and best known factor, HUBRIS.
The fight isn’t over and they are not going away..
Never forget that obummer and illiary were mouthpieces, puppets, the face of the power but not the power behind the throne. He and his henchmen sora$$, buffett, koch, zukerberg et al and some we don’t know are not about to throw in the towel.
Also remember that Trump is a man not a savior. We were are the edge of a finainial cliff, we have taken a step back but there are many who’s goal is to still throw us over.
Much was accomplished thru the internet (why do you think obummer gave it away?) but we really need a a news channel and Fox dosn’t count as it has been infiltrated and comprimised.
“Mitch McConnel can get with the party or get blackballed out of relevance.” Kenji
The Senate can move, or get blown away. In 2018-24 Democrats are facing defeat (Their bad year) and Trump will get rid of the RINOs that think they can sell influence….The road ahead is Trump easy
I hope the Senate passes the Bill to eliminate the 9th circuit during the lame session, there is so much corruption
that comes from the 9th… Arizona suffered a Ninth Circuit intervention that would have allowed illegal votes to be gathered by the Soros groups (overturned by SCOTUS) and Sheriff Joe has a court Judgement. The Ninth circuit protects the
Environmental groups, which are mostly Lawyers suing EVERYONE…
The Koch brothers do NOT SUPPORT the left. Unless they have made some sort of deal to allow for more mutual greed … but, normally they are right wing establishment swine. Not to be confused withe fine folks who support the Trump version of conservatism, Rather, more along the lines of the Bush sell out to globalism, variety.
We are surrounded by globalist treachery … remember y’all, ‘slaves don’t own guns’
Get yours now.
The uploader has not made this video available in Canada.
“The Left and the Elite Right are two sides of the same Big Government coin.”
Exactly. Trump is the side.
“They will no more listen to the American people than grow wings and fly. ”
I agree.
I like the “Trump has better coverage than Verizon” entry in:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/11/the-week-in-pictures-the-epic-trumpening-special-double-edition.php
hmm…that they still dont get it and never will was just made brillaintly clear with an interview I just watched:
Mansbridge – Anne Coulter
..speaking about Trump on Anti Immigrant rage seen throughout the West…
Mansbridge: “….uh, I’m not sure why we missed that….there was some of that in Brexit, but, but, it’s still a puzzle to us..??.”
Well Peter…let me put it directly to YOU: You and every other Progressive Presstitute wasn’t F’ng LISTENING….Like most Leftist Media types, they cannot concieve of a narrative that differs fomr their own.
And that folks, is what happens with an element of society, particularly those elitists who live in the “Centre of the Universe” that don’t get out very often and actually listen to the salt of the earth: the Cab Drivers, the Trades people, the Butcher, the Cashier, the Welder, the Pipefitter, the Pipeliner, the Labourer, the Plumber, the Mailman, the Barber et all…..as Marx put it I believe, the “unwashed masses”. the people who build and keep this nation going.
Go TRUMP…the Right guy at the right time….
We Want the Truth… and We’ll Take It Where We Find It.
https://youtu.be/iHLcrfhwPtc
Mikey Moore not only predicted Trump’s win last July, but he also outlined exactly how Trump could do it. The left dismissed it because they ‘knew’ Clinton would win. It appears the Trump team put the ideas to good use.
Trump got more votes than Romney. Clinton received fewer votes than Obama. Many DEMs didn’t vote because they couldn’t bring themselves to vote for another corrupt Clinton, but they’d be good DEMs and support her when she wins the ‘sure thing’ the media and pollsters were predicting. HA !!
Since when is 70 middle aged? How many 140 year olds do you know?
Like weaselfarmer, I find the term “middle-aged” to be a bit off with regard to Clinton.
Lots of analysis.
I like the brief ones.
Trump won because the democrats kept trying to appeal to some demographics that are actually a small minority of the vote, but that get more attention in the media than reflect their actual number. But the means the Democrats used to attract that support was to demonize other larger demographic groups. This method actually has been employed by the DNC since the 60’s to my recollection. The trick is that they would employ a good measure of guilt so the group they are tearing down doesn’t catch on and move their vote to the other side.
The last two elections the DNC blew its wad by having Obama and inferring any criticism no matter how vague, was a form of racism. The problem they failed to see was that in order to maintain the power of the race card they needed another black candidate.
Because they failed to see this the demographics they pander to didn’t like the candidate, and the ones they hoped to guilt into voting for their candidate just felt resentment, more importantly those dems feeling the resentment knew that Trump hadn’t been hand picked by the RNC.
I read about Keith Ellison years ago at Powerline. He is as radical as it gets. He was associated with a cop killer before his election, and he hasn’t changed a bit since then. If he becomes head of the DNC, it will prove how lunatic that outfit has become:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/09/the-secret-history-of-keith-ellison.php
What’s the point in assasinating Trump when Pence is much more conservative? Unless to cause terror as the jihadists do.
I seem to remember a Democratic convention when they voted to remove the word God from something or other and were only saved by the chairperson ignoring the majority of ayes that were heard.