Why Trump Will Win (in several thousand words)

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Why Trump Will Win (in several thousand words)

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James Pinkerton writes these super long articles for Breitbart, but he's calling this one a manifesto..... :shock:

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You are patiently standing in the middle of a long line stretching toward the horizon, where the American Dream awaits. But as you wait, you see people cutting in line ahead of you. Many of these line-cutters are black—beneficiaries of affirmative action or welfare. Some are career-driven women pushing into jobs they never had before. Then you see immigrants, Mexicans, Somalis, the Syrian refugees yet to come. As you wait in this unmoving line, you’re being asked to feel sorry for them all. You have a good heart. But who is deciding who you should feel compassion for? Then you see President Barack Hussein Obama waving the line-cutters forward. He’s on their side. In fact, isn’t he a line-cutter too? How did this fatherless black guy pay for Harvard? As you wait your turn, Obama is using the money in your pocket to help the line-cutters. He and his liberal backers have removed the shame from taking. The government has become an instrument for redistributing your money to the undeserving. It’s not your government anymore; it’s theirs.
More than a hundred years ago, at the turn of the 20th century, America faced a crisis that was, in many ways, similar to what we are seeing now. That is, the rich were getting richer, and many of the the rest, if not actually getting poorer, were barely scraping by. Meanwhile, massive immigration was rearranging society. Finally, in the meantime, giant corporate combines—back then, commonly referred to as “trusts”—were dominating the economic and also political landscape, piling up big profits while grinding the faces of the poor.

Enter President Theodore Roosevelt. TR, born to great comfort in New York City, was easily a member of that era’s one percent, and yet he was different: He had ideas about improving the lot of all Americans—that is, the full hundred percent. Indeed, as a young man, he sojourned to North Dakota for two years, there to work as a ranch-hand; his main goal was to toughen himself up, and yet he also gained lifelong empathy for the travails of ordinary folks as they worked and struggled.

In addition, as a way of completing his training as an all-around citizen, in 1898, during the Spanish-American War, he led troops into battle. And by “led,” I mean, truly, led. As he recalled of the Battle of San Juan Hill in Puerto Rico, if he wanted his Rough Rider cavalrymen to charge against the entrenched Spanish troops, “The only way to get them to do it in the way it had to be done was to lead them myself.”

So thus we can see, as president, beginning in 1901, TR had credibility with both sides of the class divide: He was one of the one percent, but he also knew the lives of the ninety-nine percent.

In the White House, while more on the right than the left, TR had a single big guiding idea: He would mediate the class conflicts among the rich, the middle, and the poor. That is, he would make sure that each was treated fairly and thereby stave off radicalism, even revolutionism. As he said to a group of rich businessmen:


We do not intend that this Republic shall ever fail as those republics of olden times failed, in which there finally came to be a government by classes, which resulted either in the poor plundering the rich or in the rich exploiting and in one form or another enslaving the poor; for either event means the destruction of free institutions and of individual liberty.

In pursuit of those goals—ameliorating class conflict, thus saving the Constitution and the Union—TR launched an ambitious agenda of regulatory and political reform, affecting everything from the operation of the railroads, the mines, and other workplaces, to the safety of the food and drugs that Americans consumed. No wonder he was re-elected in 1904 with 61.2 percent of the two-vote. So we’re starting to see a pattern here: Develop that center-right majority; win 60 percent or more of the nationwide vote.

Moreover, many other enduring reforms that TR supported and set in motion—such as an income tax, anti-trust enforcement, and the direct election of US senators—would still come later, after he had left office.

From the perspective of today, in 2016, we can see that the TR presidency is still a good role model for conciliatory leadership: That is, find a leader who will implement policies so that the rich won’t continue to exploit the poor, and, at the same time, make sure that the poor don’t feel compelled to rise up and perhaps plunder the rich.

To be sure, many purists, of various ideological hues, have criticized TR’s pragmatic brokering of disparate interests. And yet we’ll never know what those critics would have done instead, or how they would have fared. And why is that? Because ideological purists never get elected, that’s why.
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