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Jeff Kuhner’s latest column at the Washington Times deals with the same thing I talked about on my radio program Thursday night: the threat Donald Trump is posing to the GOP establishment Beltway Boys insider club. I’ve excerpted portions of Kuhner’s article here. Click here to read it in its entirety.
Donald Trump is giving the Republican establishment cardiac arrest. It is trying to destroy his credibility as a viable presidential candidate in 2012. It is easy to see why: Mr. Trump is soaring in the polls. Over the past month, the billionaire real estate mogul has catapulted to the top of the prospective GOP field, closely trailing former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Mr. Trump has many positive assets. He is articulate, forceful and – should he decide to run – would have an almost unlimited war chest. Yet his greatest weapon is that he is not afraid to hit President Obama hard on almost every major issue – taxes, trade, deficits, government spending, Obamacare, jobs and Libya. He is willing to go where other GOP candidates fear to tread. He is politically incorrect, discussing taboos such as the president’s birth certificate, which is considered beyond the pale by our establishment media. In short, Mr. Trump is the consummate outsider.
And for this, he is being eviscerated by GOP insiders. Karl Rove, senior adviser to former President George W. Bush, labeled Mr. Trump’s possible White House bid a “joke.” That was echoed by the anti-tax group the Club for Growth, which branded Mr. Trump a “tax-hiking liberal” and the “king of protectionism” in international trade.
“Donald Trump for president? You’ve got to be joking,” Club for Growth President Chris Chocola said.
The emerging GOP narrative is as obvious as it is infantile: Mr. Trump cannot be taken seriously. He is the court jester of American politics – good for some laughs and nothing else. This is a cheap smear designed to avoid discussing the substance of his ideas.
In particular, Mr. Trump is different from the other potential GOP candidates in one important respect: He is a nationalist. He is tapping into a Middle American populism previously championed by Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan.
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There is nothing funny or comical about his potential candidacy. In fact, it is remarkable that the same people – Mr. Rove, the Club for Growth, the GOP establishment – who are smearing Mr. Trump are partially responsible for America’s current crisis. They were complicit in propping up the Bush administration. Mr. Bush supported runaway deficit spending, massive bailouts, the prescription-drug benefit that paved the way for Obamacare, bleeding wars in the Middle East, disastrous trade deals and the appeasement of China. His failed big-government, free-trade policies badly damaged Republicans, costing them control of Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008. In other words, it was Mr. Bush who ultimately gave us the Obama-Pelosi Democrats.
Mr. Trump’s ideas are not a joke. He is rightly raising the flag of Republican nationalism – a once-dominant tradition that desperately needs to be revived. Economic nationalism made America great. It can do so again.
Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a columnist at The Washington Times and president of the Edmund Burke Institute.
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Folks, Trump has an ability to tap into the hearts of many Americans, Yes he is a billionaire and there those that would argue, oh he is tainted because of his associations of the wall street elite banker gangsters, and that he is to close to be a friend to the common man per say. That maybe or not be a reason to have a serious cause for concern. So lets look at a similar type of a situation how a man who we really no nothing about ( Forget about where he may have been born here or there ) captured and tapped into the hearts and minds of many americans to the point of voting for him
and putting him into the white house, statements that
BO has made about his columbia college days, is just an avenue to view as being very suspect, because when he says he was there, nobody, young men and women
who were there, never saw him, never knew him, it is like he is the perfect Manchurian candidate, it is just as he was created out of thin air or at least what would be
very important times in ones life, You also just don’t spend 20 million dollars trying to keep people from
finding out certain things in your past life, I do believe
someday we will know the truth and we will find out that the American people had the greatest fraud in history perpetrated upon them.
I am very conservative…and really enjoying Trump’s commentary. Even more, I love that he is causing heads to explode on the left AND the establishment right.
I am willing to listen to what he has to say..he seems willing to think, and he clearly knows how to take action.
GO DONALD TRUMP!! I’ll vote for you in a heartbeat!!