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The Meaning of Donald Trump - An American Conservative's Perspective
h/t Instapundit
Understanding the rise of Donald Trump requires an understanding of America’s unique political culture, a political culture that is very different from that of Europe in general and that of Germany in particular. It is easy to try to place the rise of Trump in unrelated contexts and to try to wedge it into paradigms that may make the observer more comfortable, but this provides little insight into the reality behind this important phenomenon.

The rise of Donald Trump is not a fascist phenomenon, nor is it conservative in the American sense. Rather Trump, along with the rise of defeated Democrat nominee and self-described Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders, represents a power shift among the coalitions making up the American political parties. These two movements represent the rise of Americans who feel that they have been voiceless and subject to rule by a self-dealing, dishonest, and corrupt elite that controls the narrative through lies, ignores their concerns, and holds them in contempt.

...Perhaps most important, Trump represents both a repudiation of the liberal demands for conformity of thought, often lumped generally under the label "political correctness," and a rejection of the "rigged system" that sees one set of laws for the elite and another for regular citizens.

...But Trump is no traditional American conservative. He defies much of what the Republican Party had stood for in recent decades. He brought to the surface previously marginalized views within the party. The Republican Party had defined itself with free trade, but in doing so ignored many of its constituents who have seen their solid, working class manufacturing jobs moved overseas.

...Finally, while aggressively honoring America’s military and veterans, he has turned traditional Republican hawkishness on its head. He still embraces the general consensus that America must remain militarily unchallenged, but he rejects the unlimited use of American power.
To some of us outside USA, America's "world policing" - especially under dem presidents - looks like bull in china shop. And, of course, a lot of it is done on behest EU's tranzi elites - a European ideology I personally consider on par with Communism or Nazism, only more insidiously dangerous.
...Furthermore, Trump has given voice to the feeling that those America has fought to free ‐ and keep free ‐ are ungrateful and unwilling to shoulder the burden of their own defense.
They neither willing to invest in defense, or to give up their beloved sport of bear baiting
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-10-06
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=469494