Trump scoops up angry, disillusioned voters

[Katashi_itto]

Donald Trump wins, wins, wins, just as he said he would. From ultra-conservative fringes to the Republican mainstream, the White House hopeful is assembling a formidable coalition of angry voters that could carry him to the party nomination in July.

“So we won the evangelicals. We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated; I love the poorly educated,” Trump exulted Tuesday night after his victory in the Nevada caucuses, accurately citing the findings of entrance polls there.

“Of course, if you listened to the pundits, we weren’t expected to win too much and now we’re winning, winning, winning the country. And soon, the country is going to start winning, winning, winning.”

Trump’s chances of accomplishing that are better now that he has shown he is not just a single faction candidate.
He has won nominating contests in three very different states: New Hampshire, where more than a quarter of voters described themselves as “moderates;” South Carolina, where three quarters of voters were evangelical Christians; and Nevada, where 15 percent of voters were “non whites,” the highest proportion of minorities to date in the primaries.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/trump-scoops-up-angry-disillusioned-voters/

[MisterP]

1. "party establishments promise to continue angering and disillusioning voters"

[Katashi_itto]

2. Agree, both parties have no clue.

[MisterP]

4. they're set up to not correct their own behavior, in fact

[pampango]

3. WaPo Ed: “History will not look kindly on GOP leaders who fail to do everything in their power to

prevent a bullying demagogue from becoming their standard-bearer” ...

It is this well of discontent that Trump has tapped more successfully than any of his predecessors. Cary Covington, a political scientist at the University of Iowa, sees a thread linking the current mood to the “law and order” movement in 1960s, the Ronald Reagan Democrats of the 1980s, even the “moral majority” of the 1990s. ... their disappointment with the Republican Party’s perceived failure to deliver on its conservative promises, these voters are disillusioned, disenchanted.

“The well is tainted for the Republican Party, no matter who the Republicans put up,” he said. “If it’s seen as someone connected to the establishment that has in their eyes lied to them time and time again, that person is unacceptable.”

Trump may have further room to grow because he is not ideologically rigid. He was a Democrat for a long time. This year, on issues like gun control and abortion, he is ultra-conservative.

But he also knows how to lure centrists. He has said repeatedly he wants to abolish President Barack Obama’s signature health care reforms. At the same time, he promises that under a Trump presidency, “people are not going to die in the middle of the street.”

Strange how when the right is 'disillusioned' it seems to want more 'law-and-order' and more 'do what the church tells you to do' (to be enforced by the 'law-and-order' government).