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Title: Going After The Donor Class–Trump Coalition May Be What the GOP Needs To Survive
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URL Source: http://www.vdare.com/posts/going-af ... -what-the-gop-needs-to-survive
Published: Sep 16, 2015
Author: James Kirkpatrick
Post Date: 2015-09-16 13:14:27 by nativist nationalist
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Views: 1101
Comments: 9
One can’t help but wonder if someone at the Trump campaign is reading VDARE.com. Not just on immigration, because while we may be the best, a number of people are sounding the alarm on that most critical issue. But Trump is going beyond that and echoing, well, me on the need to build a new political coalition that can deliver victory to the Republican Party. At the heart of this is economic populism. Trump said he’ll be rolling out his tax plan in a few weeks. But The Donald isn’t leaving much up to guesswork. Hedge fund managers should worry, but corporations would get tax breaks if Donald Trump gets his way. Their chief executives, though, might need to sweat — particularly if their compensation is “a total and complete joke” made possible by friends who serve on their corporate boards. The real estate mogul who’s leading Republican presidential polls previewed his tax plan Sunday in an appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” saying the full proposal is about three weeks away. “We have an amazing tax plan,” Trump said. “We’re going to be reducing taxes for the middle class, but for the hedge fund guys, they’re going to be paying up.” [Donald Trump hits hedge funds, CEO’s in tax plan preview, by Eric Bradner, CNN, September 13, 2015] Of course, you probably know where this is going. You can break from conservatism on immigration, Common Core, guns, and just about every other issue that the grassroots cares about. You can be forgiven and even praised by the Beltway Right as “pragmatic.” But confronting the Donor Class? Suggesting conservatism means something more than rewarding the same people who keep militantly supporting an Open Borders agenda? This means war! A deep-pocketed conservative organization with a long list of Republican scalps said on Tuesday that it would launch a major ad campaign aimed at Donald J. Trump… The group, Club for Growth, is focusing its considerable firepower first on Iowa, where Mr. Trump has leapt to a significant lead over more conventionally credentialed Republican candidates, panicking Republican leaders. The group will spend $1 million on advertising in the state starting on Thursday, with plans for further spending in the weeks ahead, the club’s president, David M. McIntosh, announced at a news conference in Washington on Tuesday.A deep-pocketed conservative organization with a long list of Republican scalps said on Tuesday that it would launch a major ad campaign aimed at Donald J. Trump in an effort to weaken him among the voters who have made him an unlikely but powerful force in the Republican presidential race… Some fellow Republicans worry that his coarse comments about women and immigrants will undercut the party’s carefully calibrated effort to broaden its appeal for 2016. At the same time, some conservatives are worried that Mr. Trump’s success will spur other candidates to adopt his populist stances on taxes and free trade. [Emphasis added] [Donald Trump is target of conservative ad campaign, by Nicholas Confessore and Alan Rappeport, New York Times, September 15, 2015] The final paragraph sums up the conventional Republican strategy. Mouth the required platitudes of the Main Stream Media on questions involving culture, race, religion, feminism, and above all immigration, and hopefully, reporters won’t be mean to you. The rubes will still vote for you because they have nowhere else to go. Then, once in office, deliver on the promises the Donor Class while ignoring the grassroots. Sound familiar? It’s the story of the Republican Congress following the 2014 midterm elections. The problem for the GOP is that immigration is making it harder and harder for Republicans to take the rube vote for granted. More importantly, as the GOP isn’t actually doing anything to help Republican voters who aren’t millionaires, white turnout is not what it should be. Meanwhile, the Hispanics and other “natural conservatives” favor progressive economic policies and more welfare even more than they support liberalized immigration laws. So this strategy is not only cowardly, it is self- defeating and makes no sense. (Unless you are a political consultant and trying to wring your client dry.) What Trump is doing is crafting a new political coalition that could actually win. And at least some people get it. Breitbart’s John Nolte observes in a critically important article: It is painfully obvious that Trump is already laying the policy groundwork for a general election campaign. He’s not looking past the nomination, but he is also not boxing himself in with policy proposals he won’t be able to wriggle out of should he win the nomination. Basically, he’s telling Republican voters the unvarnished truth about where he disagrees with us on a number of bedrock conservative issues, and he’s gambling that enough will stick him because they trust him more than the 15 others on existential issues such as immigration, border enforcement, lowering middle class taxes, simplifying the tax code, killing terrorists, and giving as good as he gets from the corrupt media. He is also counting on the fact that The Base hates #GOPSmartSet enough that we are willing to go with a more moderate candidate if it means bringing down the corrupt, feckless, insulting, useless GOP Establishment. If he can do this, if Trump can win the nomination by being less than pure on a few key conservative issues, he will enter the general election in a position to expand the Republican base by attracting millions of voters across the Midwest and Rustbelt who for the last 25 years have been ignored and discarded by both Republicans and Democrats. [While the Establishment demands purity, Trump expands the GOP Base, September 15, 2015] Of course, candidates like Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson, and Jeb Bush can hardly be called “pure.” However, their departures from conservative orthodoxy don’t jeopardize the Donor Class or the GOP Establishment. Thus, it is permitted. Trump is actually reorienting the American Right in a more Identitarian, populist, and pro-worker direction. At the same time, he’s actually more moderate on some of the issues (not tearing up the agreement with Iran, gay marriage, etc) that make many Whites simply unable to vote Republican. And despite all the wailing and gnashing of teeth, I’d wager Trump is more likely to win minority voters than some corporate bagman like Jeb or a transparent shill like Fiorina. If he wins the nomination, Trump could actually do what Bush never could and create a New Republican Majority. Unfortunately for him, it’s becoming increasingly clear (and explicit) that the purpose of the Beltway Right is to lose. If Trump is not destroyed in the next debate, look for the Republican Party’s war on its own voters to escalate.
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#1. To: nativist nationalist (#0)
What is Trump's salary ? Betting he is a phony on this issue like Warren Buffett.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
If those people are "conservatives",I am a airliner. They are freaking FASCISTS,that's what they are. The good news is that the help us identify who NOT to vote for because those are the ones that are corrupted and paid off to destroy the country. The problem for the GOP is that immigration is making it harder and harder for Republicans to take the rube vote for granted. Right here is where Kirkpatrick self-identifies as a Beltway Buffoon. He and the other asshats like him that have spent their entire lives in the white collar beltway world of "thinkers posing as doers" think that anyone that doesn't wear a white shirt to work and work in an office is a "rube". Here are the Miram-Webster dictionary definitions of a "rube",and as a life-long cubicle twit that writes for a living,you can be sure Kirkpatrick completely understands these definitions,and used the word on purpose because he really does think that anyone outside the beltway or one of the major NE cities fits these descriptions. "1: an awkward unsophisticated person : rustic 2: a naive or inexperienced person 3: an uneducated person who is usually from the country" And THIS elitist self-absorbed asshat thinks he knows enough about us to speak as our "champion" The final paragraph sums up the conventional Republican strategy. Mouth the required platitudes of the Main Stream Media on questions involving culture, race, religion, feminism, and above all immigration, and hopefully, reporters won’t be mean to you. The rubes will still vote for you because they have nowhere else to go. Then, once in office, deliver on the promises the Donor Class while ignoring the grassroots. Sound familiar? Sounds like RNC doctrine to me. He is also counting on the fact that The Base hates #GOPSmartSet enough that we are willing to go with a more moderate candidate if it means bringing down the corrupt, feckless, insulting, useless GOP Establishment. That one sentence sums up the ENTIRE reason "The Donald" wasn't laughed off the stage the day he declared he was running. It's not that any of us actually like that narcissistic gasbag,it's that we hate him less than we hate the usual suspects. If he can do this, if Trump can win the nomination by being less than pure on a few key conservative issues,... Can you say "gun control"? Make no mistake,if Trump is the next president,we will see gun control laws pushed and signed into law that will make Sarah Brady as giddy as a school girl. You can be sure there will be exceptions for the ruling classes and their bodyguards,though. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
James Kirkpatrick gets it. So does Trump. Kudos to both. And to you, Nativist - best article I've read on LF for a long time. This one is a keeper.
He is exactly right. The ruling class does look upon folks in flyover country as rubes. The ruling class wages racial and economic war against us. This article is correct, we need to wage war against them, and if you do not attack your enemies logistics you are not serious about winning. In WW2 we waged unrestricted submarine warfare against Japan and brought her to to starvation. Today we are in a civil war, and the elites are aligned against us "rubes." The donor class is the logistical support of the enemy, therefore they are on the target list.
Phrase of the week encapsulating a great truth...
RLK>> Phrase of the week encapsulating a great truth... That's sneakypete that you're quoting. The Club for Growth is NOT in the least conservative. About the same as the Chamber of Commerce. Neither are Trump, "Severely Conservative" Mitt, Jeb!, or most of the D&R party "candidate" line up. There are a handful of conservatives, but they're staying out of the libtard food-fight, aka Presidential Election 2016. It seems that most conservative candidates have left the D&R party, and run for elective office under some other banner. The party will support whoever opposes the conservative candidate, regardless of brand, D or R. They'd rather lose, than allow a pro-American conservative to get elected. You know what? I think that is a wise thing for them all to do because you can't get into a fight in a pig pen without getting yourself covered with as much pig shit as the pigs. I am seriously hoping at least one actual conservative is sitting back biding his time,and will be ready to jump into the ring at the last minute when all the actual conservative voters are so disgusted they are saying they will sit this one out. Just think of the excitement someone like Walter Jones Jr would bring to the 2016 elections if he threw his hat into the ring after the circus clowns had beaten each other senseless and there seemed to be no hope. Like they did with Reagan,the alleged Republicans would want to saddle him with JEB,Bobby,or some other useless oxygen thief like they saddled Reagan with Poppy as a condition to get their backing,but I don't think anybody today would fall for that trick again. No,I do NOT think this is going to happen,but you can't hate a guy for hoping. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
And how exactly do you suggest that target list be attacked? Si vis pacem, para bellum
Economics. The biggest liberals in America are the left wing globalist billionaires. We need a party that stops coming through for these guys and starts coming through for the rest of America. Guys like the Sheldon Adelson, Mark Zuckerberg and the Koch brothers are not conservative because they conserve nothing, they consume. These guys are the biggest fans of free trade policies that have consumed our industrial base, and mass immigration that has consumed our birthright. Taxes on wages should go down, that helps our logistics. Keeps U-boats from sinking our convoys. The wage earner is our base, and that is who we should pander to, and stop pandering to the enemies of our base. Refuel our escorts and patrol planes; and stop refueling the U-boats. Taxes on the plutocrats should go up. In the era when Ike was securing our border, the top tax rate was 91%. Actually no one paid that rate, there were plenty of ways around it, the rate can be much lower, but it needs to be the actual rate. The capital gains of a speculator should not be rewarded, these guys are gamblers who've fixed the game. Corporations. Most of the market capitalization in corporations would be erased if the exposure to liability for shareholders was eliminated. Not that I advocate such a thing, but this is true. Therefore the greatest obligation of corporations should not be to shareholders, but to society. Society passed the laws limiting liability, which favor shareholders over other members of society who may be harmed by those corporations. If you look back at our early history, when corporations were first given charters, there was a great deal of opposition. We did not have a bunch of left wing liberals 180 years ago, so the opposition can not be laid to that. The opposition stemmed from the fact that one part of society was to be granted a privileged position vis a vis other parts of society, by the elimination of possible redress through limitation of liability to the stake of the actual investment, and then only to the ones holding the shares at the time of trial. Corporations are needed for modern life, you could not build a jetliner without having corporations. But a corporation is not required to sell dog food. Instead of a corporate income tax, there should be a corporate sales tax, and it can go up to a higher rate the greater sales are (I would only tax for sales in the US). In the range of 4 to 7%, but the rate would apply uniformly to every dollar of sales, once the corporation reached that business volume. Monopolies would be discouraged. I read recently of a proposed merger proposed merger that would consolidate most of the beer sales into a single entity. They are trying to gain monopoly pricing. They would be at the 7% rate, in fact you could set the rates to trigger by market share as well as dollar volume of sales. In the 1840's Tocqueville wrote of how every American state had eliminated primogeniture as it would tend to concentrate wealth with each generation, which was just the opposite policy followed by England, who wanted to concentrate wealth. America of 170 years ago was not communist, they had good reasons for this policy against the concentration of wealth. We would be well to learn from our forefathers if we want to preserve our birthright. Tax exempt foundations. This is the Manchuria of the left; the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation; and a host of others, these fund the cultural war against America's heritage and posterity. They need to be taxed, they really need to be taxed ruinously, they are an enemy. Taxing them will be going north of the Yalu, instead of allowing the enemy safe sanctuary for his logistic base. Banking, the Federal Reserve needs to be federalized. It is a super-weapon that has been turned against us, it needs to be turned against the bankers, the biggest liberals in America. They inflate asset bubbles, which inevitably must burst, and the effect is to ratchet wealth concentration into fewer hands each time. When these boom and bust cycles happen they do not change the real productive capacity of America in the short run, but they control who controls it. In the long run of course they do diminish our productive capacity by fleecing savers, who sacrificed in order to save, and then see their savings tossed into a rigged crap shoot. The money that would have bought a lathe instead buys another ivory backscratcher for Lloyd Blankfein. We lose actual productive assets pandering to this crowd, to the benefit of social parasites like Goldman-Sachs. I would have never thought this way 30 years ago, but I've pretty much become a single issue voter. When I see these oligarchs stab me and mine in the back, and get lied to by their GOPe whore enough times, it becomes obvious that we're losing the game. When your game plan is not working; you change your game. It is war, and if you do not attack the enemies logistics, you are night fighting to win, you are merely sacrificing what you hold dear to appease the gods of greed and vanity. Our America is worth fighting for.
#2. To: nativist nationalist (#0)
A deep-pocketed conservative organization with a long list of Republican scalps said on Tuesday that it would launch a major ad campaign aimed at Donald J. Trump… The group, Club for Growth
#3. To: nativist nationalist (#0)
#4. To: sneakypete (#2)
Right here is where Kirkpatrick self-identifies as a Beltway Buffoon. He and the other asshats like him that have spent their entire lives in the white collar beltway world of "thinkers posing as doers" think that anyone that doesn't wear a white shirt to work and work in an office is a "rube".
#5. To: nativist nationalist (#4)
in the white collar beltway world of "thinkers posing as doers" think that anyone that doesn't wear a white shirt to work and work in an office is a "rube".
#6. To: rlk, sneakypete, *The Two Parties ARE the Same* (#5)
SP>> in the white collar beltway world of "thinkers posing as doers" think that anyone that doesn't wear a white shirt to work and work in an office is a "rube".
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#7. To: hondo68 (#6)
There are a handful of conservatives, but they're staying out of the libtard food-fight, aka Presidential Election 2016.
#8. To: nativist nationalist (#4)
" The donor class is the logistical support of the enemy, therefore they are on the target list. "
#9. To: Stoner (#8)
And how exactly do you suggest that target list be attacked?
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