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How the Republican Party created Donald Trump

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By Dan Balz March 5 at 4:12 PM

At the core of Donald Trump’s political success this year are the grievances of a sizable and now vocal block of disaffected voters, many of them white and working-class, and a Republican Party that has sought and benefited from their support while giving them almost nothing tangible in return.

The New York businessman’s position as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination has plunged the party into a contentious debate and raised some of the most troubling questions about its future since the Watergate scandal in 1974 or Barry Goldwater’s landslide defeat a decade earlier.

Campaigning on Friday, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), who is seeking to deny Trump the nomination, put the threat in apocalyptic terms. If Trump becomes the nominee, he said, “He will split the Republican Party and it will be the end of the modern conservative movement.”

Trump and so-called Trumpism represent an amalgam of long-festering economic, cultural and racial dissatisfaction among a swath of left-out Americans who do not fit easily into the ideological pigeonholes of red and blue, right and left.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/behind-the-rise-of-trump-long-standing-grievances-among-left-out-voters/2016/03/05/7996bca2-e253-11e5-9c36-e1902f6b6571_story.html

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7 thoughts on “How the Republican Party created Donald Trump

  1. The dissatisfaction comes from a Republican congress that still can’t get anything done.

    Voted to repeal Affordable Health Care Act 50 or 60 times. Idiots! That is the definition of insanity.

    They shut down the government proving that they are incapable of coming up with a budget.

    They made it their goal to obstruct. McConnell said “For the next two years, we can’t let you succeed in anything. That’s our ticket to coming back,’” now he vows to refuse to vote on a Supreme Court justice. Insanity! Continuing the policies that did not work and making Americans angry at the do-nothing congress.

  2. @6.48pm: I can see that you get your political perspective from the main stream media, which is, for all intents and purposes, an arm of the Democrat Party.

    The cause of the rise of Trump is no different to the cause of the rise of Sanders. People are fed up with establishment politics.

  3. I wish NJ voters were fed up with establishment politics in Trenton. The Dumbocrats running the legislature there have led us all down the rose garden path to this fiscal dusaster that is destroying the state

  4. I get my info from a variety of sources. You have no idea what I read, watch or listen to. You just disagree with me.

    Sanders support is mostly from the young. He is going to take care of everyone and make their problems and worries go away.

    Trump has the angry followers. He gives voice to frustrations at politicians. He is not a member of the do-nothing political elite he is the outsider. The Republican Congress has zero accomplishments. Nothing to show for their time in office.

  5. The Republican Congress had its chance to choke off the spending spigot by using its constitutionally – assigned power of the purse but declined to do it for fear of negative political consequences. But now, it has zero credibility and a horrible reputation because it weakly declined to use its power to limit spending! #NotSqueakingByThisTime #CaughtWithPantsDown #ShadowOfFormerSelf #WeakestBranch #SmallHands

  6. So why did the Democrats lose the Senate then?

  7. to anonymous @628 the general feeling is the republican success was a strike back at Obamas failed foreign policy. That said, the republicans failed to accomplish their stated goals despite a favorable outcome in state and federal elections. The fact is Obamacare still stands

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