{"id":75203,"date":"2015-09-23T18:47:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T02:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=75203"},"modified":"2015-09-23T18:47:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T02:47:55","slug":"why-donald-trump-troubles-the-republican-establishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=75203","title":{"rendered":"Why Donald Trump Troubles The Republican Establishment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ann Coulter writes<\/a>: A majority of elected Republicans, their advisers, conservative magazines and newspapers are nothing but junior partners to the left. They go on TV and repeat prepackaged conventional wisdom, hoping to get at least a small ovation. Trump is popular because we now live in a Kardashian<\/a> nation and are one big cult of celebrity!<\/em><\/p>\n

By mounting only impotent opposition, professional Republicans win the admiration of The New York Times,<\/em><\/a> as they turn our country over to the left. All that matters is that they get to keep their offices, their salaries<\/a> and their friends.<\/p>\n

It’s important for them to think of themselves as better than other people\u2014especially those yahoo proletarian conservatives.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ironically, it’s the Ivy League billionaire living a glamorous New York City life who has rocked the political world by speaking for ordinary Americans and insulting the powerful. Meanwhile, depressingly average Washington insiders insult ordinary Americans and suck up to the powerful.<\/p>\n

When someone like Trump comes along and is actually serious about winning the very causes the GOP purportedly seeks to advance, he is seen as a disruptive force.<\/p>\n

Most alarmingly, Trump brought up immigration<\/a>. The Democrats thought they had this one in the bag\u2014they’d worked it all out with Republicans! Both sides had agreed: I won’t talk about it if you won’t.<\/em><\/p>\n

The decision has already been made: We aren’t going to ask the American people what they think. We’re just going to do this because we think we’re right, and at a certain point it will be impossible to reverse, because Republicans will never be able to win another national election.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The transformation of our country has been a deliberate, methodical process, carefully hidden from the public.<\/p>\n

Until Trump started talking about immigration,<\/a> most Americans had no idea that immigrants take more government assistance than natives, that we are allowing nearly half a million anchor babies a year to force their way into citizenship<\/a> and a lifetime of welfare,<\/a> and that we’re bringing in rapists<\/a>, murderers and terrorists<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Immigration is an easy argument to win. But if you talk about it, the media will cut your mike<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Once the Democrats get the voters they want through immigration, they will be like kids in a candy store.<\/a> What will they do first? Ban private ownership of guns<\/a>? Strip Christian churches of their tax exemptions for being “homophobic<\/a>“? Release criminals from prison<\/a>? Imprison the police<\/a>? It will be the LBJ and Carter administrations rolled into one for all time, without end.<\/p>\n

All the debates we have now on talk radio<\/a> and cable news will be completely irrelevant. The most left-wing policies imaginable will be enacted, with no opposition\u2014as they are today in California.<\/p>\n

You might think California would wake up even the utter mediocrities in <\/a>the Republican Party. But their predictable little lives have been disrupted. That’s why Trump has them in a panic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ann Coulter writes: A majority of elected Republicans, their advisers, conservative magazines and newspapers are nothing but junior partners to the left. They go on TV and repeat prepackaged conventional wisdom, hoping to get at least a small ovation. Trump … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,29752,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ann-coulter","category-donald-trump","category-immigration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t