A new party system?
Interesting analysis by Sebastian. I’m not certain why the evangelical vote is going for Trump, since Cruz, as Sebastian points out, is tailor made for them. But that does mean that they don’t just vote their religion, which people presumed was Romney’s undoing. This will election will be interesting. A clusterfuck. But an interesting clusterfuck.
March 9th, 2016 at 9:59 pm
But I didn’t WANT to live in interesting times!
March 9th, 2016 at 10:39 pm
Hint: the number of Christians in your local church is 20%.
March 10th, 2016 at 3:47 am
A clusterfuck. But an interesting clusterfuck.
Yep. Sad, but true.
Hint: the number of Christians in your local church is 20%.
In the same category of “sad, but true.” But the politicians have been catering to that 20%. Trump figured out that 80% was pretty good for votes if he could pander to it, and set them against that 20% that looked down on them, and he was right.
March 10th, 2016 at 9:48 am
Kinda like that “Christian conservative”, George W. Bush, when confronted by the unconstitutionally of renewing the Patriot Act by a Congressman, reportedly said, “stop throwing the Constitution in my face, it’s just a G– d—– piece of paper”.
March 10th, 2016 at 12:15 pm
Evangelicals (socially conservative Christian GOPers) and Catholics (mostly liberal social justice warrior Dems except for a few Repub anti-abortion zealots) are entirely different species of human beings.
March 10th, 2016 at 4:10 pm
Sebastian is trying to marginalize the evangelicals, as usual. Drive them out of the party and there will never be another conservative President. I have many issues with their policy positions but I long ago came to the conclusion that they are necessary for conservative victory.
Like you, I don’t know why the evangelicals split the way they did and neither does he. I would guess that you are right that they are not just voting their religion. Huge portions of both parties are very angry with their establishments. And popular culture hugely advantages an entertainer.
March 10th, 2016 at 10:31 pm
What I wrote over there…
Sir, Nice little essay. Thanks.
“Like Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman will always have Paris, the Dems will always have “free” shit.”
That’s funny.
“A protectionist economy would be economically devastating to implement.”
Not if you throw the Federal Register on a bonfire. Mere months, maybe a year before BOOOOOOM, the largest economic expansion in the history of the planet would be off like a rocket. Yeah, it would hurt, a lot of people, a lot, at first. People will even, likely die, at first. This of course will never happen. Pity, all government seeks more control, always.
“The real long term threat to working class (and even some upper middle class) jobs is automation and robotics.”
Disagree, The greatest threat we face is from government. Robots are only a threat because almost all avenues to prosperity have been cut off.
Oh and .gov can’t freakin’ wait to crush the trucking industry. Bunch of gun toting, good ‘ol boys. yeah, they will do truckers what they’ve done to the coal industry and relish in it.
March 12th, 2016 at 10:21 am
Because Evangelical Christians have a long and inglorious tradition of falling for someone who promises to take their pain away, that’s why. It’s in our DNA.