Maggie's Farm

For every threat there is an opportunity. Trump is almost universally despised by Republican politicians for his threat but they should be loving him for the opportunity he dropped in their lap.

Not even a year ago I remembered stories of the demise of the Republican party. Trump is turning that around by appealing to the large center of America who has been completely ignored by the left and the right. He is pulling in millions of the silent majority and turning the Republican party into the party of the broad middle class - upper, lower, and center - who believe in America, in hard work, in their families, in a hope for their children's future, and in traditional American values and, importantly, the value of the individual American citizen. Many of these people would have been Kennedy Democrats in the 60's but today's Democratic elite have no use for them. If the Republican establishment would quit worrying about dividing up the pie and instead took this opportunity to grow the pie, they could all benefit.

I would gladly trade the intelligence of the average Chicago voter (Axelrod's and Obama's stomping ground) for the intelligence of the average Georgia voter. When the Tea Party was popular, the parties and the press categorized them as crazies. It worked. Many people did not want to call themselves Tea Party members because they did not want to be thought of as crazy. That's not working this time because Trump and his followers are winning big. The establishment parties and media try a new slur almost daily to see if something will stick but it isn't working. In fact every slur is just working to reinforce Trump's followers' belief that it it us against them. And "them" are panicked. One day they go with the KKK story, the next with a Mussolini quote (the quote did not originate with Mussolini, BTW, it was a popular Italian phrase long before), tomorrow it will be something else.