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kpete

(71,991 posts) Thu Jul 2, 2015, 01:47 PM Jul 2015

Donald Trump IS the GOP.

Otherwise bright professional people seem shocked that Donald Trump is doing as well as he is.

Which is weird.

Because if you have watched the GOP dumbspiral down, down, down for the last 40 years from anyplace other than inside the Beltway bubble, Trump making a strong early showing is a perfectly logical next step. He is Crazy Uncle Liberty with money: a braying moron, invincibly confident in his own racist and impregnably ignorant opinions.

https://twitter.com/Mr_Electrico/status/615149715240394752

http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2015/07/donald-trump-is-gop.html

Trump doesn’t just represent the Republican base on immigration. He is the Republican base on immigration. His anxieties are their anxieties. And his rhetoric—a revanchist stew of foreign policy belligerence, small government ideology, anti-elite agitation, and raw bigotry—reflects and appeals to a meaningful part of the Republican electorate.

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Donald Trump IS the GOP. (Original Post) kpete Jul 2015 OP

He is the GOP Cirque du So-What Jul 2015 #1

Marketing 101 Pick your audience and tailor your message to them vinny9698 Jul 2015 #2

Well, he IS part of the GOP. A minority part. MineralMan Jul 2015 #3

Cirque du So-What

(25,938 posts)

1. He is the GOP

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Jul 2, 2015, 02:02 PM

Jul 2015

with no filter twixt brain and mouth.

vinny9698

(1,016 posts)

2. Marketing 101 Pick your audience and tailor your message to them

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Jul 2, 2015, 02:37 PM

Jul 2015

Find your target audience, research their believes, habits, educational level, etc. Then work your message around that research.
Corporations, politicians, have been doing this since the era of mass media. Lincoln got elected by winking at the Abolitionists and appealing to their votes.
Trump might not really believe what he is saying, but he knows in order to get ratings and support, he has to espouse those thoughts.

MineralMan

(146,308 posts)

3. Well, he IS part of the GOP. A minority part.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Jul 2, 2015, 02:42 PM

Jul 2015

That's why he has no chance of becoming the nominee. He appeals to the racist base of that party. He appeals to the jingoistic, moronic part. But, that isn't the bulk of Republican voters, by any means. He's not going to be the nominee. Not a chance. He'll be the comic relief in the GOP primaries, along with Huckabee and Pyush Jindal.

I think we shouldn't waste much time on The Donald. He'll defeat himself just fine on his own.

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