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Donald J. Trump
Mar. 8th, 2016 08:30 pmDonald Trump has another good night of primaries and caucuses. There was some expectation that all the hits that he has taken by Republican leaders might be taking its toll and bringing his numbers down, but, no, the man is still steamrolling his way through to the Republican Convention.
I will take this opportunity to grab an excerpt from David Brooks's column, which argues that Trump may represent an evolutionary transition in the Republican Party if he continues to be successful in his bid for the presidency.
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The 1980s anti-government orthodoxy still has many followers; Ted Cruz is the extreme embodiment of this tendency. But it has grown increasingly rigid, unresponsive and obsolete.
Along comes Donald Trump offering to replace it and change the nature of the G.O.P. He tramples all over the anti-government ideology of modern Republicanism. He would replace the free-market orthodoxy with authoritarian nationalism.
He offers to use government on behalf of the American working class, but in negative and defensive ways: to build walls, to close trade, to ban outside groups, to smash enemies. According to him, America’s problems aren’t caused by deep structural shifts. They’re caused by morons and parasites. The Great Leader will take them down.
-- David Brooks at The New York Times
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I will take this opportunity to grab an excerpt from David Brooks's column, which argues that Trump may represent an evolutionary transition in the Republican Party if he continues to be successful in his bid for the presidency.
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The 1980s anti-government orthodoxy still has many followers; Ted Cruz is the extreme embodiment of this tendency. But it has grown increasingly rigid, unresponsive and obsolete.
Along comes Donald Trump offering to replace it and change the nature of the G.O.P. He tramples all over the anti-government ideology of modern Republicanism. He would replace the free-market orthodoxy with authoritarian nationalism.
He offers to use government on behalf of the American working class, but in negative and defensive ways: to build walls, to close trade, to ban outside groups, to smash enemies. According to him, America’s problems aren’t caused by deep structural shifts. They’re caused by morons and parasites. The Great Leader will take them down.
-- David Brooks at The New York Times
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