{"id":83371,"date":"2015-12-26T19:12:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T03:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83371"},"modified":"2015-12-26T19:12:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T03:12:56","slug":"elites-and-media-really-hate-donald-trumps-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83371","title":{"rendered":"Elites and media really hate Donald Trump\u2019s voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/12\/26\/elites-and-media-really-hate-donald-trumps-voters\/\">Michael Walsh writes<\/a>: To hear the patronizing wise men of the Republican Party tell it, anyone who would vote for Donald Trump for president must be deranged. \u201cTrumpkins,\u201d they call them, mental midgets and xenophobic troglodytes who\u2019ve crawled out from their survivalist caves in order to destroy the Beltway Establishment.<\/p>\n<p>How their resentful attitude galls the crack cadres of campaign consultants who brought conservatives halfhearted standard-bearers like John McCain and Mitt Romney to do sham battle against Barack Obama in 2008 and \u201912, then return to the safety of the US Senate and a beachfront mansion in La Jolla.<\/p>\n<p>The peasants are revolting!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;In the movie business, there\u2019s something called the \u201ccheer moment,\u201d when the long-suffering hero finally decks his tormentor with a satisfying right cross. What the Beltway Republicans fail to understand is that their conservative base \u2014 which gave them stunning congressional victories in 2010 and 2014 and has nothing to show for it \u2014 has been longing for precisely that moment since Reagan crushed Mondale 49-1 in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>The Trumpkins are sick of winning and having nothing to show for it, and their vengeance will be terrible. Maybe the Establishment should stop belittling them and listen instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Walsh writes: To hear the patronizing wise men of the Republican Party tell it, anyone who would vote for Donald Trump for president must be deranged. \u201cTrumpkins,\u201d they call them, mental midgets and xenophobic troglodytes who\u2019ve crawled out from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83371\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[29752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83372,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83371\/revisions\/83372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}