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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe 8 best explanations of the Donald Trump-Ben Carson phenomenon
The 8 best explanations of the Donald Trump-Ben Carson phenomenonBy Aaron Blake at the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/13/the-8-best-explanations-off-the-donald-trump-ben-carson-phenomenon/
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Democratic pollster Peter Hart:
"America doesn't want a politician. We're sick of career politicians. We did what we were supposed to do. We wrote the letters, we made the phone calls, and they did not listen, and we're out to clean house."
The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf, who checked in with dozens of Trump supporters back in August:
Broadly speaking, the men and women who wrote fall into two categories: Those who earnestly believe that Trump is the best choice to lead America and those who are motivated by giddyness at the chaotic spectacle of his success.
National Journal's John Judis, who likened Trump's ascent to others in recent decades by citing political sociologist Donald Warren's "Middle American Radicals" (or MARS):
If these [Trump] voters are beginning to sound familiar, they should: Warrens MARS of the 1970s are the Donald Trump supporters of today. Since at least the late 1960s, these voters have periodically coalesced to become a force in presidential politics, just as they did this past summer. In 1968 and 1972, they were at the heart of George Wallaces presidential campaigns; in 1992 and 1996, many of them backed H. Ross Perot or Pat Buchanan. Over the years, some of their issues have changed illegal immigration has replaced explicitly racist appeals and many of these voters now have junior-college degrees and are as likely to hold white-collar as blue-collar jobs. But the basic MARS worldview that Warren outlined has remained surprisingly intact from the 1970s through the present.
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The 8 best explanations of the Donald Trump-Ben Carson phenomenon (Original Post)
applegrove
Nov 2015
OP
I would add that things are not going well for the base, what with union membership down
applegrove
Nov 2015
#1
I'm with you. GOP got no leadership left, just charlatans or dupes. Nothing in between.
applegrove
Nov 2015
#3
applegrove
(118,778 posts)1. I would add that things are not going well for the base, what with union membership down
and government getting out of helping people. They want to vote for a change but Democrats have been so vilified they cannot go there. So they stew for a decade. Then trump/carson come along...seems like they are anti-establishment...and the base falls in love.
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)2. The best explanation is the same explanation
of the Romney - Gingrich - Santorum phenomenon of eight years ago:
They're the piss-poor pick of a VERY piss-poor litter.
rocktivity
applegrove
(118,778 posts)3. I'm with you. GOP got no leadership left, just charlatans or dupes. Nothing in between.