Trump's is not a rebellion of frustrated conservatism
Krauthammer calls bullshit.
If insufficient resistance to Obama’s liberalism created this sense of betrayal, why in a field of 17 did Republican voters choose the least conservative candidate?
Of course, I've been calling bullshit on that self-serving conservative lie for months.
But Krauthammer still doesn't quite get it or isn't quite ready to completely come clean.
He describes Trump as a man with no political principles.
Not being a mind reader I can't say what the man might be not saying.
But I quite well understand what he is saying.
Il Duce's public and consistently expressed ideology is Buchananism minus Pat Buchanan's vestigial small government, fiscal conservatism along with most of whatever respect PB might still personally have for America's republican political process and institutions.
And that is the ideology of his supporters.
K continues.
Which makes Indiana a truly historic inflection point.
It marks the most radical transformation of the political philosophy of a major political party in our lifetime.
The Democrats continue their trajectory of ever-expansive liberalism from the New Deal through the Great Society through Obama and Clinton today.
While the GOP, the nation’s conservative party, its ideology crystallized by Ronald Reagan, has just gone populist.
It’s an ideological earthquake.
. . . .
The ideological realignment is stark.
On major issues — such as the central question of retaining America’s global preeminence as leader of the free world, sustainer of Western alliances and protector of the post-World War II order — the GOP candidate stands decidedly to the Democrats’ left.
And who knows on what else.
On entitlements?
On health care?
On taxes?
We will soon find out.
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