Trump: “You can throw free trade out the window.”
This is why Donald Trump is happening to America. It isn’t because the GOP betrayed their principles, and it isn’t because conservative pundits demanded too much of Republicans in Congress. It’s because, as a movement, we forgot the need to educate people on why the things Donald Trump says in this clip are absolute and total nonsense.
The problem is that conservatives got arrogant on their own success. The last 20 years have seen an unprecedented level of success for the GOP, electorally speaking. We started taking it for granted that people just believed in conservative economic ideals and the free market, and we forgot that it takes nearly constant reminders and education to the public to convince them that it is almost always a bad idea for the government to monkey with the market in any way.
We forgot what a siren call it was for people to hear, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” We forgot that people will always look to their immediate interest to the detriment of their remote interest, if you don’t constantly remind them of how the one affects the other. And so this guy, Trump, comes along and spews absolute nonsense and we can’t understand why people are taking him seriously.
I’m starting to understand that it’s a massive failure of education throughout the system, and it’s something that will have to be addressed – if it’s not already too late.
http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/05/02/trump-can-throw-free-trade-window./
Based solely on your comments above, I don’t think you understand. The main reason Trump has connected with so many people is that he’s tapped into the fact that MILLIONS of people are extremely angry and disgusted with political correctness, and the censorship/culture of “offendedness” that goes with it. You can’t say this, you can’t say that… and someone’s “offendedness” or feeling “uncomfortable” is used as a lever to take away the free speech of others, and their right to DISAGREE with them. Trump has overcompensated, with an attitude of, “I refuse to be controlled by political correctness and EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL, and I’m going to say whatever the hell I feel like saying, regardless of who likes it or who doesn’t.” That’s not “presidential”, and he’ll have to polish his image a little, but it’s also why he’s captured the imagination of millions of people who find it refreshing that someone has cut through the bull@#$%, and says what’s on their mind. Republican (or Democratic) candidates who lack the cajones to do that and tiptoe around the eggshells to avoid setting off social justice warriors, are completely out of touch with the sentiments of millions of people who are sick of SJW totalitarianism, and he’s giving us a voice because we don’t like having our freedoms of thought, belief, and speech (or the press) stripped away from us by ultraliberal/Marxist jackasses who don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. Fwiw, I’m not Republican or Democrat, I belong to no “party”, but that’s what I see happening here.