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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNY Times - How the G.O.P. Elite Lost Its Voters to Donald Trump
Nice story of how the GOP's mega donors helped create and benefitted from the conditions that paved the way for Donald Trump's candidacy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/28/us/politics/donald-trump-republican-voters.html?_r=0
As the Republican Party collapses on itself, conservative leaders struggling to explain Mr. Trumps appeal have largely seized on his unique qualities as a candidate: his larger-than-life persona, his ability to dominate the airwaves, his tough-sounding if unrealistic policy proposals. Others ascribe Mr. Trumps rise to the xenophobia and racism of Americans angry over their declining power.
But the story is also one of a party elite that abandoned its most faithful voters, blue-collar white Americans, who faced economic pain and uncertainty over the past decade as the partys donors, lawmakers and lobbyists prospered. From mobile home parks in Florida and factory towns in Michigan, to Virginias coal country, where as many as one in five adults live on Social Security disability payments, disenchanted Republican voters lost faith in the agenda of their partys leaders.
In dozens of interviews, Republican lawmakers, donors, activists and others described some with resignation, some with anger a party that paved the way for a Trump-like figure to steal its base, as it lost touch with less affluent voters and misunderstood their growing anguish.
This is absolutely a crisis for the party elite and beyond the party elite, for elected officials, and for the way people have been raised as Republicans in the power structure for a generation, said Ari Fleischer, who served as press secretary for President George W. Bush. If Donald Trump wins, he will change what it means to be a Republican.
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NY Times - How the G.O.P. Elite Lost Its Voters to Donald Trump (Original Post)
TomCADem
Mar 2016
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ribrepin
(1,728 posts)1. This is a really good article
It's long, but explains what has happened the republican party.
ribrepin
(1,728 posts)2. This really needs more recommends to get it to the greatest page!
phylny
(8,393 posts)3. k/r n/t