The rise of Trump: left out voters

[Peter1469]

The rise of Trump: left out voters (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/behind-the-rise-of-trump-long-standing-grievances-among-left-out-voters/2016/03/05/7996bca2-e253-11e5-9c36-e1902f6b6571_story.html)

Democrats and Republicans who have seen that their elected representatives forget them once in office are understandably done with the Establishment. They see Trump as a possible response.


At the core of Donald Trump’s political success this year are the grievances of a sizable and now vocal block of disaffected voters, many of them white and working-class, and a Republican Party that has sought and benefited from their support while giving them almost nothing tangible in return.

The New York businessman’s position as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination has plunged the party into a contentious debate and raised some of the most troubling questions about its future since the Watergate scandal in 1974 or Barry Goldwater’s landslide defeat a decade earlier.


Campaigning on Friday, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), who is seeking to deny Trump the nomination, put the threat in apocalyptic terms. If Trump becomes the nominee, he said, “He will split the Republican Party and it will be the end of the modern conservative movement.”

It isn't just Repubs. It is Dems.

[PolWatch]

Voter discontent has produced Trump and Sanders. People don't want to be offered party-anointed candidates....they want to pick their own.

[zelmo1234]

This is the most interesting and un reported aspect of this race thus far in my opinion.

While the media on the left would have you believe that the TEA party and the constitutional conservatives are the support of Trump, nothing could be further from the truth.

His support comes from the middle and many of the old Blue Dog, or Reagan Democrats that no longer have a voice in the DNC.

He is a very tuff out in a general election, especially if he plays his cars right and announces a very conservative nominee for the court, before elected

[Peter1469]

This is the most interesting and un reported aspect of this race thus far in my opinion.

While the media on the left would have you believe that the TEA party and the constitutional conservatives are the support of Trump, nothing could be further from the truth.

His support comes from the middle and many of the old Blue Dog, or Reagan Democrats that no longer have a voice in the DNC.

He is a very tuff out in a general election, especially if he plays his cars right and announces a very conservative nominee for the court, before elected

Correct. Trump is running as a populist. Not a conservative.

Although conservatives sometimes go with the populist when they are being ignored.

[PNW]

The rise of Trump: left out voters (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/behind-the-rise-of-trump-long-standing-grievances-among-left-out-voters/2016/03/05/7996bca2-e253-11e5-9c36-e1902f6b6571_story.html)

Democrats and Republicans who have seen that their elected representatives forget them once in office are understandably done with the Establishment. They see Trump as a possible response.



It isn't just Repubs. It is Dems.

No, it's republicans. An op-ed is proof of an opinion and nothing more.

[Peter1469]

It is an interesting article considering that it comes from the Washington Post. They are as left leaning as any respectable newspaper can go before it becomes the Huffington Post.