Behind The Rise Of Trump, Long-Standing Grievances Among Left-Out Voters

[Purveyor]

By Dan Balz March 5 at 4:12 PM
At the core of Donald Trump’s political success this year are the grievances of a sizable and now vocal block of disaffected voters, many of them white and working-class, and a Republican Party that has sought and benefited from their support while giving them almost nothing tangible in return.

The New York businessman’s position as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination has plunged the party into a contentious debate and raised some of the most troubling questions about its future since the Watergate scandal in 1974 or Barry Goldwater’s landslide defeat a decade earlier.

Campaigning on Friday, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), who is seeking to deny Trump the nomination, put the threat in apocalyptic terms. If Trump becomes the nominee, he said, “He will split the Republican Party and it will be the end of the modern conservative movement.”

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Trump and so-called Trumpism represent an amalgam of long-festering economic, cultural and racial dissatisfaction among a swath of left-out Americans who do not fit easily into the ideological pigeonholes of red and blue, right and left.

James W. Ceaser, a professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, describes the eruption behind Trump as less an “ism” and more “a mood” that has been at a near-boil for some time. But why has it hit with such force in this election? “They have a leader who can articulate it,” Ceaser said.

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[world wide wally]

1. This sounds like just another apologist article trying to explain the Trump attraction.

Let's face it. Trump spews hatred and his followers are filled with hate thanks to the constant dirge of Fox News and right wing radio so they gladly eat up his hate. America is full of haters.
Period

[Hortensis]

2. Left out? In fact, they got what they voted for. And those

who didn't vote got what they didn't vote against. This is a continuation of the problem of them, the mindless rage of ignorance initially erupting as a tea party rebellion that was orchestrated by some of the very people screwing them over, and now Trump, cynically throwing them phrases to keep them panting at his feet for more.

The TP puppeteers wanted their help tearing down government regulation and programs down, reducing taxes on the wealthy. What will Trump use them for?

Does anyone expect an end to their self-inflicted bitterness any time soon? They need the kind of good, positive leader who can sweep them up along with the larger group of moderate conservatives and turn them in a proper direction. There is currently none in sight, and if one does someday try to enter the field he or she will have to somehow survive being torn apart by the various dragons protecting right wing establishment power, right wing plutocrat power, and right wing evangelical power.

And my guess is that can only happen after we are able to hamstring those dragons for them.

[Shandris]

3. Finally, someone gets it right. It only took 9 months.

I suppose I should be impressed.

Maybe our journalists will figure out that there's more to reporting than the same old infantile narrative of "They're just poopyhead racists!!11!!!1!1". But I won't hold my breath.

Heck, maybe by 2160 or so we can figure out how we shun the smartest in society and elevate the idiots to all levels by virtue of how 'likable' someone is. That 20 point IQ gap, it's a real killer. But, again, I won't hold my breath.