Explaining the Trump Phenomenon: Part II  

By Growltiger*

In 2010, the American electorate elected Republicans to the majority of the House of Representatives. The House tried, but failed to stop the Obama/Democrat/media agenda. The House's excuse was that without the Senate, there was nothing they could do. So in 2014, the electorate voted the Republicans into the majority in the Senate.

Nothing changed except now it's Boehner, McConnell and Roberts who pass the President's agenda instead of Pelosi and Reid. Terrified of the media accusing them of "shutting the government down", they let the Obama agenda shut down the country.

With the recent trade deal, the Republicans handed the President and his allies a double victory. The President got the deal he wanted without his Democratic allies having to vote for it and endanger their standing with Big Labor. It's called having your cake and eating it, too. And the kick in the head is that the GOP baked the cake.

Now they're telling us that in order to get anything done, they need the presidency.

For decades the Republican Establishment has treated Republican voters like mushrooms (kept in the dark and fed manure). Donald Trump threw open the basement door and let in the light.

Unlike roaches, the entrenched did not scatter. The mainstream press launched their full arsenal against Mr. Trump, attacking even his hair. He fired right back.

The Democrat Entertainment wing (Jon Stewart, Saturday Night Live, Hollywood, etc) let loose their own barrage. Trump told them to get lost.

Macy's stopped carrying his product. He lost television contracts. Mayor DeBlasio threatened something (DeBlasio is always threatening something). Entrenched Establishmentarians like Lindsay Graham and John McCain attacked him, and in McCain's case, his supporters, calling them "crazies". The WSJ Editorial Page suffered apoplexy.

Through it all, Trump refused to cave. He stands his ground. He doesn't need their approval. Or their money. His billions protect him like a coat of chain mail.

Sometimes Trump behaves boorishly (in the case of McCain). Sometimes he's Puckish as when he gave out Lindsay Graham's cell phone number. While some of his antics make his supporters squirm, the joy of seeing a Republican finally stand up to the media and a Republican establishment that has disappointed so many times overcomes any squeamishness they might have.  

It is doubtful that Donald Trump will get the Republican nomination. It's even more doubtful that he would win the election were he to. But right now, he is the voice of those who have had no voice, the voters who sent Republicans to Washington in 2010 and 2014 only to watch the Republicans kowtow to the Democrats and their media cheerleaders.

Trump supporters aren't asking for much.

They want Republicans to keep their campaign promises. Or at least try.

They want secure borders.

They don't want amnesty for the 11 million people who sneaked across the border.

They don't care if those who shouldn't be here in the first place want to "come out of the shadows". They understand those here illegally chose the shadows.

When they hear Democrats and Republicans say "you can't deport 11 million people", they want to know. Why not?

They want employers who hire illegal aliens fined and punished, not given a wink and a nod.

They don't want to be in hock to China.

They don't want Americans who want to work unable to find a job because big government's crony capitalism has sucked up all the oxygen.

They resent that their American born sons and daughters have to pay out-of-state tuition if they want to attend university in a state in which they do not reside while a student born in another country to parents who are not citizens pay in-state tuition. (Texas is one of these states, so when Governor Perry boasts how he sent the Texas National Guard to the border, somebody should ask him why then doesn't he send the Guard to the University of Texas?)

They don't want sanctuary cities.

They want felons deported and if they return, jailed.

The Trump Phenomenon is a nonviolent rebellion, an uprising by a silenced electorate that is tired of being fooled by campaign promises only to watch their representatives grovel at the feet of a media that no longer even bothers to pretend they are objective.

But most of all, they're sending a message to Republicans whom they send to Washington to represent them only to find that once they get there, represent Washington instead.

 

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