Populist Republicans – Can traditional
conservatives adapt to this movement?
Fox News,
by
Fmr. Gov. Bobby Jindal
Original Article
Posted By: DVC,
6/27/2020 12:29:58 PM
Joe Biden is already positioned to be the most liberal president in America's history, if he were elected, and yet is still moving further to the left after winning the primary. Yet, the more interesting changes are actually happening within the Republican Party, as conservative populists are attempting to reshape the party away from traditional corporate-friendly economic policies. Traditional economic conservatism has long been grounded in the secular trinity of free markets, less regulation and lower taxes. Whereas Republicans have historically embraced free trade and legal immigration as a natural expression of these principles, Donald Trump famously upended both these positions on his way to winning the Republican nomination. Correction*
*Byline corrected.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rob_NC 6/27/2020 12:31:32 PM (No. 459158)
NUTTS
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Polecat49 6/27/2020 12:40:25 PM (No. 459171)
As always, Anti-American, never Trumper, so-called conservatives are more than ready to KISS BUTTS and give BJs to democRATS who ARE and have always worshipped karl marx.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/27/2020 12:45:36 PM (No. 459174)
Witnessing the 'Never Trumpers', I doubt it. These people, our representatives and previous thought-leaders, have so poisoned the well with their visceral hate of Trump and his supporters, that they announce day-by-day their willingness to abandon principles and intent to vote for BIden and his next VP-to President. One either defends one's principles or one never believed in them anyway.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/27/2020 1:01:09 PM (No. 459188)
We're singing a hymn to RINO Heaven. Sorry RINO's we the people will be VOTING and PAYING ATTENTION. Look for some interesting primaries.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 6/27/2020 1:50:59 PM (No. 459222)
Anybody else have trouble following this article like I did? I felt dizzy after reading it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
texsupreme 6/27/2020 2:01:23 PM (No. 459230)
I surely am getting tired of writers saying that Joe Biden is moving to the left. The truth is he has no idea where he is or where he is moving to. Anything that he says or does is coming from someone else. He does not possess the mental ability to put any thoughts together in a cogent manner.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
beancounter 6/27/2020 2:06:20 PM (No. 459233)
1. You can’t have a welfare state with open borders. It bankrupts the citizens.
2. Free trade would be nice, but we keep getting “free trade” in name only.
3. Europe in particular should start paying for the goods we give them (e.g. national security and pharmaceuticals). They could cry poverty 70 years ago, but not anymore.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Delilah 6/27/2020 2:08:57 PM (No. 459236)
Where in Hades has Jindal been living? Trump definitely believes in LEGAL immigration. I stopped reading there.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/27/2020 2:18:26 PM (No. 459245)
Please do not be disrespectful and dismiss Trump or his supporters as "populists". You use the "p" word, and you get thrown out of the room, and are not allowed to speak further. Thank you.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 6/27/2020 2:19:59 PM (No. 459247)
"Traditional conservatives" need to start by listening to us. Jindall sure doesn't seem to have his ears open, just like my senior senator cornyn. They don't need to tell us more stories about how their idea of "free trade" is so good and how helping the big corporate america of theirs is so good for us lowly uninformed serfs. They need to learn that they are there to represent us, if they don't like it, they can get the heck out!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/27/2020 2:28:24 PM (No. 459258)
I always wondered what the ''third party'' would be named; whomp there it is. Populist Republican.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/27/2020 2:49:12 PM (No. 459275)
More and more, I wonder why the United States does not have more political parties and more factions. Both the Republicans and Democrats have a similar problem where they have competing factions within them that have conflicting goals. How can they co-exist if they are going in different directions?
Trump supporters want more businesses and jobs in the United States. The globalists and hardcore lefties would see those jobs moved overseas. The globalists want cheap labor. The lefties want to make lefty countries stronger economically while weakening the United States.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 6/27/2020 3:02:58 PM (No. 459283)
I am absolutely amazed by the number of 'traditional conservatives' who have had serious problems with Trump using tariffs against the Chinese thieves. The concept of 'free trade' internationally with massive wage and currency manipulation being done (which destroys the real free market) will just be a sucker's market where the cheating side (China) wins and sucks up all our jobs.
It can't work....it literally destroys the people of the USA, the average worker. The problem is that there are lots of top folks in big businesses who DON'T CARE if the average American worker has a job. They don't care about harming the country. These globalists are people that I want away from any power, and the Senators and Congressmen who support them will NOT get my support.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
CallMeHank 6/27/2020 10:55:56 PM (No. 459544)
Mr. Jindal's piece reads as a foggy fairy tale. Too long "conservative principles" have amounted to "look, a squirrel!" while in the seats of power the supposed conservatives join with supposed liberals to build bureaucracies and policies that steal, kill, and destroy the many while enhancing and enriching the few. "Drain the swamp" is a gentle phrase for desperate work. Mr. Jindal of Louisiana should know about swamps, but his pirogue must have never ventured forth.
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I would just like to know who they are and if they still have a pulse. The silence is deafening.
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Jindall asks if it is possible for 'traditional conservatives' to incorporate concerns for working class Americans.
I was concerned about working class American jobs disappearing overseas, and massive illegal alien numbers for years, and Trump is the first person running for president to support those views.
It took me a very short time to see that my long-held concerns, as a traditional conservative, were supported by Trump, and NOT by any of the RINOs and globalist fools who the Republicans put up against him.
For me it was intuitive, the only question I had was "is this Trump guy for real?" since so many pukes like Romney and McCain and the Bushes were NOT for real. Certainly the open borders, pro-China globalists were not anyone I could support.