Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

Of course but everyone was scared to death in 2009 and, for millions of Americans, they haven't come back from it.

 

Nope. A non-factor:

Bernie Sanders heaped praise on Fidel Castro in 1985 interview

Bill de Blasio honeymooned in Castro's Cuba. New York congressman Jose Serrano loves Castro.

Congressional Dems have sought out Castro's counsel:

Fidel, Raul Castro meet with US lawmakers

Rahm Emanuel just vacationed there.

There is no shame in being associated with Castro if you are a dem.

 

Nice photo.

 

No shame in palling around with Castro:

Deirdre Griswold, Fidel gets hero's welcome in Bronx and Harlem

 

Oklahoma has a closed primary.

Guess who won the Oklahoma Republican primary?

 

In the upset of the century, it was the guy from the state next door.

 

You're being very selective today.

You should be a lawyer.

 

It's La Raza, ese.

 

Tim Miller was Jeb! spokesperson. Now he's joined an anti-Trump super-PAC.

He's doing a #NeverTrump media circuit this morning.

He told MSNBC that he would never vote for Trump. Bashed him on CNN too:

 

In particular, I'd like to know more about the people in Vermont and Massachusetts who voted for him yesterday. Is this the closest parallel we've had to the 19th-century populist movement? Increased economic pressure on those in the margins, with a hint of racism thrown in?

I can't figure out if there's a legitimate beef behind the Trump wave. It's easy (and maybe accurate) to dismiss it all as racism, but I can't help but wonder if that doesn't obscure a more substantive set of concerns. Look at the criticism of Bernie always pivoting back to income inequality...people who appreciate a more socialist perspective have long been frustrated about the tendency to miss the class struggle while defaulting to the race narrative. (I'm not agreeing with that perspective, but I understand the thinking behind it.) Obviously, Trump is an unlikely populist hero, but he's what's available.

I read a RealClearPolitics piece that I thought was insightful. This line about the Iowa results caught my attention: "...we see Mike Huckabee and Trump running well in counties of self-described 'Americans,' people of Scots-Irish descent (which overlaps with 'American'), and high levels of unemployment. This is consistent with our understanding of Trump as the continuation of the Buchananite tradition of insurgencies within the Republican Party, rather than what we might call religious or libertarian Tea Party-ism."

My sense is that people in rural America are struggling and nervous about the security of their $9/hour jobs. Turning to Donald Trump seems utterly bizarre to me, but the sense that the existing establishment doesn't care about them does not.

 

McKay? Coppins? That's a real name?

 

Mormon dude. Wrote extensively about Romney.

He's also the guy who four years ago spent time with Trump, and then wrote what was perceived as an unflattering article that got the guy who arranged it fired.