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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoe Scarborough gives up the game: After 30 years, the GOP base realized ‘it never trickles down’
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough complained on Tuesday that the Republican Party was fracturing because it had advocated economic policies benefiting the richest Americans for the last 30 years with the promise that the wealth would trickle down to others but it never did.
The problem with the Republican Party over the past 30 years is they havent and Ill say, we havent developed a message that appeals to the working class Americans economically in a way that Donald Trumps does, the former Republican lawmaker explained. We talk about cutting capital gains taxes that the 10,000 people that in the crowd cheering for Donald Trump, they are never going to get a capital gains cut because it doesnt apply.
We talk about getting rid of the death tax, he continued. The death tax is not going to impact the 10,000 people in the crowd for Donald Trump. We talk about how great free trade deals are. Those free trade deals never trickle down to those 10,000 people in Donald Trumps rallies.
You sound like Bernie Sanders, NBCs Chuck Todd pointed out.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/joe-scarborough-gives-up-the-game-after-30-years-the-gop-base-realized-it-never-trickles-down/
liberal N proud
(60,335 posts)I will believe it when I see it.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)will suffice, whether it's Reaganomics or some other kind of bullshit dressed up in fancy language and big italicized words.
brewens
(13,590 posts)government work for the average people without being accused of wanting free stuff and all that.
Jester Messiah
(4,711 posts)Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)Or has she said it? Has she ever lamented the current state of Oligarchy? Plutocracy?
fredamae
(4,458 posts)Did he just make himself M$NBC Next Target?
Gothmog
(145,291 posts)Trickle down economics are a scam
benld74
(9,904 posts)WTH? Joey drank the koolaid long ago and NOW is drinking trumps as well,,,,
0rganism
(23,955 posts)What were finding this year is, theyll even support a guy who says Planned Parenthood is good if he comes with an economic approach that they feels that could actually help them more in the future. - Scar
part of me thinks he has to know that's not the full reason, but he can't say it on the air. he's still playing up the economic angle, even as he admits that Reaganomics was never going to benefit the primary constituency of his party, socially conservative racists, even though party leadership, investment bankers and other capitalists, got some very nice payouts.
Marr
(20,317 posts)Krugman was spot on the other day on CNN. He said the GOP leadership has, for decades, leveraged racism and xenophobia to garner votes, then used their power to service a 1%er, trickle down economic agenda that their base never cared about.
So Trump comes along and simply decouples the bigotry from the economic scam, and says, 'look, you can have all this racism and xenophobia WITHOUT the trickle down economics', and the GOP establishment can do nothing but panic and try to prove that they're relevant.
They had a tiger by the tail for years and it just realized it can eat them anytime it likes.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)"look, you can have all this racism and xenophobia WITHOUT the trickle down economics', and the GOP establishment can do nothing but panic and try to prove that they're relevant"
The GOP establishment and the business press freaked out the same way back in '92 when Pat Buchanan started resonating with the same base. They dynamic was exactly the same then as it is now. The GOP establishment is not at all blanching due to the ostensibly impolitic nature of Trump's bombast: It's worried that the supply-side dogma they push is getting the legs kicked out from underneath it. All the tsk-tsk-ing at the social issue bombast is just for show.
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)I'll never understand why people submit themselves to this punishment. I'll never understand.
Give me
ONE
example of when it has trickled down!
FU'
This kind of thing pisses me off beyond words
Its like they are upset that we dont just shut up and take what they give us!