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2016-06-19 Home Front: Politix

Trump’s Appeal to Radical Middle Is a Wake-Up Call to Conservatives

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Posted by Pappy 2016-06-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 few ~~were aware~~ would admit existed

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-06-19 04:35|| 2016-06-19 04:35|| Front Page Top

#2 The idea that America has never had a sense of national folk identity is just plain false — and making political and policy judgments on that assumption was madness.

Hear, hear.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-06-19 04:41|| 2016-06-19 04:41|| Front Page Top

#3 "historically, opposition to civil rights"

Firearm freedom (one of the characteristic concerns of Jacksonians) isn't a civil rights issue?

Posted by no mo uro 2016-06-19 04:47|| 2016-06-19 04:47|| Front Page Top

#4 historically, opposition to civil rights

IMO, given how "civil rights" work today, that was really prescient of them.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-06-19 04:56|| 2016-06-19 04:56|| Front Page Top

#5 You misspelled Mainstream.

Posted by P2Kontheroad 2016-06-19 07:19|| 2016-06-19 07:19|| Front Page Top

#6 At least McCain and Romney made ~~an effort~~ a headfake toward them.

Posted by Frank G 2016-06-19 10:10|| 2016-06-19 10:10|| Front Page Top

#7 There are enough Jacksonians to win a split GOP primary. There are not enough of them to win a majority in nearly all the opposed primaries, much less a general election. Pluralities must build alliances, not wedge people away.

Trump and his supporters need to mend fences fast, or he is going down in the biggest flames since McGovern. This will be even worse if the Democrats are forced to replace the felon they have now with just about anyone else.

The Donald needs to learn how to shut up and play nice. Thats all that he needs to do to beat Hillary. He seems incapable of that.

Posted by Fat Bob Slearong3746 2016-06-19 10:42|| 2016-06-19 10:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Radical middle? Really? So the majority of the middle class is radical?? Bullshit, another one of Sauls tricks of isolation..

Posted by 49 Pan 2016-06-19 10:56|| 2016-06-19 10:56|| Front Page Top

#9 This shit pisses me off. So its a damn hate crime to call islam radical, it does nothing according to our president, so where the hell is he on this one???

Posted by 49 Pan 2016-06-19 10:58|| 2016-06-19 10:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Just another RINO with a mouth.

Posted by Shipman 2016-06-19 11:46|| 2016-06-19 11:46|| Front Page Top

#11 If I held my nose and voted for Bush, McCain and Romney they can damn well hold their noses and vote for Trump. Or maybe they'll show their true colors and vote for Hillary.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-06-19 16:47|| 2016-06-19 16:47|| Front Page Top

#12 Is our troll back?

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-06-19 20:03|| 2016-06-19 20:03|| Front Page Top

#13 Conservatism was defeated by Ryan and Boehner long before Trump.did. They did it by saying they were conservative and then giving Obama whatever he wanted. The so called alt right is just sticking their lies on top of Ryan's and McConnell's.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-06-19 20:26|| 2016-06-19 20:26|| Front Page Top

#14 The so called alt right is just sticking their lies on top of Ryan's and McConnell's.

Only without the Hugo Boss uniforms.

Posted by Pappy 2016-06-19 22:36|| 2016-06-19 22:36|| Front Page Top

#15 IMO that voters vote for the candidate they think will harm them the least. At the Congressional level, the voters often vote such that they elect a Congress that prevents a POTUS from implementing a personal agenda that is too extreme and harms them. Sometimes they will turn over a Congress dominated by one party so that they achieve gridlock.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-06-19 22:37|| 2016-06-19 22:37|| Front Page Top

#16 NR show their true RINO face, dont they?

Posted by Jack Phamp4944 2016-06-19 23:56|| 2016-06-19 23:56|| Front Page Top

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