Authored by Frank Lutz, originally posted at The FT,
Outraged by what Donald Trump says? You are not alone. No high-polling presidential candidate in the modern era has so intrepidly drawn the ire of so many within the American electorate. And there remains no end in sight.
Yet in rendering one voting bloc utterly apoplectic, he has appealed viscerally to another. The balance of middle ground politics is not, shall we say, Mr Trump’s bailiwick. But America is no longer a middle ground country. We are already scared by our division — and it is getting worse.
The simple truth is, the more provocative his language, the deeper and more passionate his support. He is no dummy; there is a method to his proverbial madness. Mr Trump says — to the growing legions who will listen — what tens of millions of Americans are already thinking. Respect or revile him, the man has hit a vein.
I spent three hours in a deep dialogue focus group with 29 Trump supporters. The phenomenon of “The Donald” is rooted in a psyche far deeper and more consequential than next November’s presidential election. His support denotes an abiding distrust in — and disrespect for — the governing elite. These individuals do not like being told by Washington or Wall Street what is best for them, do not like the direction America is headed in, and disdain President Barack Obama and his (perceived) circle of self-righteous, tone-deaf governing partisans.
Trump voters are not just angry — they want revenge.
Mr Trump has adroitly filled the vacuum of vitriol, establishing himself as the bold, brash, take-no-prisoners megaphone for the frustrated masses. They see him as the antidote to all that Mr Obama has made wrong with America. So to understand why millions love Mr Trump so much, you have to take a step back and listen to why they hate Mr Obama so much.
Here, my Trump voter focus group was particularly illuminating. Some still believe the president is not Christian. Many believe he does not love America. And just about all of them think he does not reflect the values the country was built upon. Indeed, within this growing faction, Mr Trump has licence to say just about anything. As we have seen repeatedly, the more outrageous the accusation, the more receptive the ear.
Mr Trump delights in unleashing harsh attacks on Jeb Bush, the Republican establishment and the “mainstream media”. His childlike joy in ridiculing his critics is tantamount to healing balm for the millions who have felt silenced, ignored and even scorned by the governing and media elite for so long. Is it any wonder that his declaration of war against “political correctness” is his most potent and predictable applause line?
Straight-talking candidates are nothing new in American politics. From Ross Perot in 1992 to John McCain in 2000, from Howard Dean in 2004 to Sarah Palin in 2008, they rise like a rocket on the fuel of their seemingly fresh and unencumbered aversion to traditional politics. They purport to say what they mean and mean what they say — bucking established electoral trends and ruffling established political feathers. Then they crash. The media turn sour. The message grows stale. The electorate gets bored.
Mr Trump is different. The media attacks on him have been fast and furious. Yet he has defied electoral gravity because the blows are delivered by an institution that is distrusted and an elite political and business establishment that is detested.
Meanwhile, voters consistently tell pollsters like me that negative attacks do not work; they hate the ad hominem assaults. Mr Trump? He dines out on them. As his devotees see it, it is not Mr Trump going negative. It is him telling the truth. And when he fights back, he’s throwing punches on their behalf. He said something outrageous? “He’s simply raising an important issue nobody else has the courage to talk about.” He insulted someone? “That’s just him campaigning. He won’t do that as president.” He changed his position? “That was a long time ago. Everyone’s entitled to change their mind.” He doesn’t have many policy specifics? “He doesn’t need them. He’ll surround himself with smart people.” They will justify any action, explain away any contradiction, and dismiss any criticism because they are so personally and passionately invested in him.
And here is the prediction that will furrow brows on both sides of the Atlantic. Mr Trump’s supporters today will be Mr Trump’s supporters next November if he is still a candidate — no matter what party banner he runs under. Half will follow him out of the Republican Party if he breaks his promise and declares as an independent. For better or worse, his supporters will follow him to the ends of the Earth — or to the White House. Whichever comes first.
A lot of people realize they have been lied to , sold out and betrayed by these treasonous son of a bitches. The Central Bankers , Wall Street , Corporate America ,the Mainstream media and the politicians in Washington have got this country in a situation that is leading to our destruction. Most elites are traitors .
After the Rep. CONgress gifts to Obama on the Budget ‘deal’ (complete cave-in), I’ve now become a 100% Trump voter.
It’s worth citing a few lines from an opinion piece by James Kirkpatrick a couple of weeks ago:
“Trump’s supporters are beginning to understand politics is about who, not what, and seem to trust that he use the state to protect them from perceived enemies, rather than unleashing it on them, as Obama has done. The rise of Trump isn’t ‘fascism,’ but long overdue resistance and self-defense from an occupied people tired of being treated like enemies of the state in the country they built.
[…]
“Trump simply shows [that] the American Right is finally learning what every young boy discovers on the playground: A bully will keep beating you up and taking your stuff, day after day — until you finally punch him back.”
— “Trump’s Fascism is Just White America Finally Hitting Back” (15 December 2015)
(see http://tinyurl.com/hpkgkq9 )
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Frank Lutz, a Jewish Neo-Con, is right. Winning this time is not enough. We want to see treason and criminality punished – harshly. We want to see Holder, Jarrett and the whole stinking bag of assholes arrested and imprisoned. We want to see the so-called Progressive institutions of all kinds investigated for their seditious and corrupt activities. We want to see everything they have done for the past 40 years rolled back and those responsible hounded from public life. And we will not settle for anything less. If they stop Trump, we will be back and we will just be less inclined to extend any pity at all to the Domestic Enemy.
Please go to donaldjtrump.com and volunteer to distribute bumper stickers, yard signs, and buttons. Consider him a Third Party Candidate that can win.
The entire system is rigged. Trump is part of that system. It’s ALL show biz, merely entertainment to keep your eyes off what is really going on. The elections are nothing but computerized scams controlled before the “voting” even begins. WE ARE ALL BEING PLAYED. The puppets in DC have no respect for the people they represent. Once the majority finally understands this then we can start real change.
Go SS
Split the country
Sure I’d like to find out who made Obama’s fake birth certificates. Sure I’d like to find out who murdered Donald Young – and Michael Hastings. If Sandy Hook was a fake, I’d like that to come out and see the perpetrators imprisoned. Aside from that, though, I just look at the issues: it’s 29 years after Simpson-Mazzoli. The invaders kept coming and the border is still wide open. Para ingles, marque número dos. Trump and only Trump will seal the US-Mexico border. It’s the raison d’être of his campaign. He can’t not do it. Trump and Rand Paul are the only candidates who would stop arming Sunni jihadists. Trump and Rand Paul are the only two candidates who would deal rationally with Russia. Trump opposes TPP. His tax proposals are a good starting place. I think he knows they’d leave too big a fiscal hole, but he’s actually already negotiating as though he plans on being president. In other words, he’s asking for the whole loaf, hoping to get half a loaf. Eliminating deductibility of state and local taxes is a huge deal – and unremarked upon. All of our taxes are high here in MN, so Trump’s plan would hose (or schlong) us relative to low-tax states, but it’s the right thing to do. I don’t think all illegals would actually be deported under President Trump. That’s a negotiating chip. See, he’s about 17 times smarter than most Republicans – who routinely give away the whole store upfront. He’s brought major issues to the fore: who we want to admit as immigrants (countries’ best and brightest or their dropouts and rapists), whether non-US citizens (like Muslims) have some right to come to the US (they don’t), whether birthright citizenship is required by the Constitution (it isn’t). So he’s wrong on Snowden. Nobody’s perfect. With Trump being right on so many issues, I honestly don’t understand how so many are so strenuously opposed to him. He’s a big fat chauvinist pig. How can you not like that?
I recently sent a little note to the Republican Party:
I have been a Republican since the ’60’s. This year marks my departure from your corrupt, dishonest organization, as it no longer represents any of my interests in terms of the current state or future of this nation (although it pretends to). I will spare you the painful litany of my complaints, as they are the same that you have heard from many commentators and ordinary citizens recently.
For a long time I have been assuming and hoping that you would turn the nation in a different direction, always to no avail. I can only hope you are receiving millions of e-mails similar to this one, and that you will pay a heavy price for the selling out of your soul to the Democratic Party.
Party leadership is upset by Donald Trump. Congratulations: you have only yourselves to blame for the conditions leading to his ascendancy. If all this results in the election of Hilary Clinton, congratulations again. I’m sure you will work well with her.
Sincerely, blah blah
I’ve been meaning to do this for too long.
if I voted , I would vote for trump simply because he is giving the appearance of giving the establishment the big ole f … you . But I think it is just another type of theatre ,to get the pissed off masses to participate in the game for a little while longer.
I wish he would actually be able to do what he says!!
But if he aint bought off before he started running , he will be bought off in some fashion after he is elected .
How can anyone maintain any semblance of honor or integrity when the POCB’s can create whatever currency units in whatever amount that is needed?
Or even worse, withholding that miracle medical cure that your most loved one needs to live?
How the fuck can anyone withstand the leverage that can be applied at that very highest level ?
Does anyone really believe that those that are pulling the strings are going to say , ‘shit we cant influence this person , they are too honest? or has to much money ? or whatever ?
Everyone has a button that can be pushed . Mine? kids, family . I’m easy to influence.
Offer me a cure for my kids , I’m your bitch.
Trump’s button? unsure , but I bet he has a few .
Just the rambling thoughts of a cook who narrowly survived a small issue a few weeks ago .
Which is of no importance . Why ? I made it .
Rocked my world tho lol , gotta get in better shape , those 4 made me try harder than I should have to . Getting old . was very depressed at my poor reaction speed . Wont fucking happen again lol whatever
The author recently tweeted-
“Thank you Mr President for giving me a ride on your private jet.”
He meant Air Force One, which technically isn’t private.
This is a seriously compromised individual, not that there’s anything wrong with that, but whatever he writes should be taken with that in mind.
Frank Putz channels his inner Bernays and inflects the essence of his seeming objective essay with such descriptive words assigned to candidate Trump as “madness ,vitriol, outrageous, harsh, childlike, negative, insulted, criticism and contradictions , but he has no dog in this hunt right….just another neutral pollster looking to sound out the mood of the American voters , right?
Bullshit. Frank Lutz eats shit. This is an attack piece if there ever was one, and it not only attacks Trump but insults the intelligence of those who support Trump as well. Putz,along with the Two party establishment think they can bully people back into party line, but this time it ain’t gonna work.Conservatives are sick to the point of despair over being lied to and double crossed by the GOP on every vote and yes, they want revenge and rightly so.
I said it at the beginning of Trumps campaign , when everyone else here was pooing pooing the campaign saying it wouldn’t last , Trump is not the Rights candidate, he is the GOPs murder weapon. It’s time for those backstabbing corporate bitches to go …and fuck you Frank Lutz and your psycho-babble bullshit.The right may no longer have a voice in government, but we still have a vote in the GOP and with matches and gas in hand , we mean to make it heard.
And, the promise not to run third party was in the from of a singed contract with the GOP, which by any reckoning, an attempt by the GOP to shut Trump via a brokered convention will make that contract null and void, freeing Trump to pursue the interests of himself and his supporters.
The GOP would do well to think on what the loss of their base will do for their continued benevolence of their corporate campaign sugar tits..no base, no campaigns , no cash.
I like Trump. He reminds me of my youth, when a school mate had the idea that it would be fun to punch me in the stomach. After 3 of these and I recovered from my shock, I had him by the foot and was stomping his balls. Both he and his parents were furious that I had done this. Apparently fighting back makes you the bad guy…somehow…
“Yet he has defied electoral gravity because the blows are delivered by an institution that is distrusted and an elite political and business establishment that is detested.”
Yet Frank isn’t curious why these institutions are distrusted and detested.
That’s the story.
“He said something outrageous? “He’s simply raising an important issue nobody else has the courage to talk about.” He insulted someone? “That’s just him campaigning. He won’t do that as president.” He changed his position? “That was a long time ago. Everyone’s entitled to change their mind.” He doesn’t have many policy specifics? “He doesn’t need them. He’ll surround himself with smart people.” They will justify any action, explain away any contradiction, and dismiss any criticism because they are so personally and passionately invested in him.”
Replace the pronoun “he” with the MSM or political establishment and that would be completely accurate. And yet someone else has the temerity to try that themselves? Outrage!
Maybe some call it revenge, I call it common sense:
Let’s start E-Verify and fine every employer $50,000 for hiring an illegal, build a Visa entry and exit system, end H1-B visas, build the wall, cut off all entitlements to Somali’s, refugees, any non-citizen.
Any citizen who wants an entitlement needs to report for work.
That would be a good start.
Go Donald Go.
Geez, I don’t want revenge I just want to ” Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women. “.
That would satisfy me, leave revenge to others.
While most of the comments are goo, Southern Sage sums up the essence of Trump supporters perfectly. I still don’t know if Trump is the man or not. What I do know is that we have a system that is a corrup tand foul decomposing corpse. When this baby snaps it is going to be really ugly because a lot of us want some of that REVENGE.
are people getting Frank Lutz and Frank Luntz mixed up?
I did, then verified, these are two are different men.
Trump is not PC…thus we are happy to hear him. Will he change
things? Would he change things? David and Goliath. Donald and
Goliath. The machine is HUGE. If Trump is real? his plane will go
down in an unfortunate accident or terror attack.
We need to disengage.
A Nervous George Soros Lashes Out At Donald Trump: He Wants You To Be Afraid
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/28/2015 11:15 -0500
It appears The Establishment has decided to bring in the big guns to dislodge The GOP’s nightmare scenario as Donald Trump goes from strength to strength in the polls. Writing in an op-ed for The Guardian, billionaire puppet-master George Soros urges Americans “to resist the siren song of the likes of Donald Trump,” adding that “the terrorists and demagogues want us to be scared. We mustn’t give in.”
Authored by George Soros, originally posted at The Guardian,
It’s not easy to resist the threats and the hysteria that surround us, but we must do, as fear is the greatest danger to open society
Open societies are always endangered. This is especially true of America and Europe today, as a result of the terrorist attacks in Paris and elsewhere, and the way that America and Europe, particularly France, have reacted to them.
Jihadi terrorist groups such as Islamic State and al-Qaida have discovered the achilles heel of our western societies: the fear of death. Through horrific attacks and macabre videos, the publicists of Isis magnify this fear, leading otherwise sensible people in hitherto open societies to abandon their reason.
Scientists have discovered that emotion is an essential component of human reasoning. That discovery explains why jihadi terrorism poses such a potent threat to our societies: the fear of death leads us and our leaders to think – and then behave – irrationally.
Science merely confirms what experience has long shown: when we are afraid for our lives, emotions take hold of our thoughts and actions, and we find it difficult to make rational judgments. Fear activates an older, more primitive part of the brain than that which formulates and sustains the abstract values and principles of open society.
The open society is thus always at risk from the threat posed by our response to fear. A generation that has inherited an open society from its parents will not understand what is required to maintain it until it has been tested and learns to keep fear from corrupting reason. Jihadi terrorism is only the latest example. The fear of nuclear war tested the last generation, and the fear of communism and fascism tested my generation.
The jihadi terrorists’ ultimate goal is to convince Muslim youth worldwide that there is no alternative to terrorism. And terrorist attacks are the way to achieve that goal, because the fear of death will awaken and magnify the latent anti-Muslim sentiments in Europe and America, inducing the non-Muslim population to treat all Muslims as potential attackers.
And that is exactly what is happening. The hysterical anti-Muslim reaction to terrorism is generating fear and resentment among Muslims living in Europe and America. The older generation reacts with fear, the younger one with resentment; the result is a breeding ground for potential terrorists. This is a mutually reinforcing, reflexive process.
How can it be stopped and reversed? Abandoning the values and principles underlying open societies and giving in to an anti-Muslim impulse dictated by fear certainly is not the answer, though it may be difficult to resist the temptation. I experienced this personally when I watched the last Republican presidential debate; I could stop myself only by remembering that it must be irrational to follow the wishes of your enemies.
To remove the danger posed by jihadi terrorism, abstract arguments are not enough; we need a strategy for defeating it. The challenge is underscored by the fact that the jihadi phenomenon has been with us for more than a generation. Indeed, gaining a proper understanding of it may be impossible. But the attempt must be made.
Consider the Syrian conflict, which is the root cause of the migration problem that is posing an existential threat to the European Union as we know it. If it was resolved, the world would be in better shape. It is important to recognise that Isis is operating from a position of weakness. While it is spreading fear in the world, its hold on its home ground is weakening. The United Nations security council has unanimously adopted a resolution against it, and the leaders of Isis are aware that their days in Iraq and Syria are numbered.
Of course, the outlook for Syria remains highly uncertain, and the conflict there cannot be understood or tackled in isolation. But one idea shines through crystal clear: it is an egregious mistake to do what the terrorists want us to do. That is why, as 2016 gets underway, we must reaffirm our commitment to the principles of open society and resist the siren song of the likes of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, however hard that may be.
We eagerly await The Donald’s tweeted retort, which will surely propel him even higher in the GOP primary rankings.
George Soros is a war criminal many times over.
He has admitted to funding #Black lives matter
riots etc.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/14/george-soros-funds-ferguson-protests-hopes-to-spur/?page=all
Which brings us to Black Lives Matter. In case there are people who don’t know, Black Lives Matter is funded by George Soros. Soros supports Hillary and supported Obama as well. Soros also funded Moveon.org. In fact, George Soros and the Clintons have a long and cozy history.
In a 1995 interview with Charlie Rose on PBS, Soros admitted how he controls politics in the this country…or tries to. “I like to influence policy. I was not able to get to George Bush (GHWB). But now I think I have succeeded with my influence…I do now have great access in the (Clinton) administration. There is no question about this. We actually work together as a team.”
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/stock/150902
http://theafricanspear.com/2015/08/13/george-soros-funds-black-lives-matters-movement/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2913625/Billionaire-George-Soros-spent-33MILLION-bankrolling-Ferguson-demonstrators-create-echo-chamber-drive-national-protests.html