Ms. Coulter explains the journey of myself and so many other voters into Trump’s camp. It captures the essence of Trump as a personality and Trump on the issues.
Trump’s opponents want us to believe that he is AGAINST everything that they say is necessary for success in the modern “politically correct” world --- such as destroying middle class jobs by importing manufactured products from low-wage countries; legal immigration of the least desirable people; and citizenship for illegals. They seek to frame Trump’s opposition to these PC agendas by denigrating him and his supporters as “racists, sexists, anti-gay, and economic Luddites”
Ms. Coulter explains that Trump’s support is based on what he is FOR, which is to optimize America to be the best country possible for the people who already live here. It means promoting the prosperity and safety of the hard-pressed American Middle Class of all races. It means making our government represent the interests of the majority of Americans, not just the interests of the Crony Capitalists who manipulate each party’s “Establishment” leaders.
People who understand what Trump is FOR tend to support him. I’ve heard many people, including a Liberal tell me, “Trump says what needs to be said.”
I’ve voted Republican in every election going back to Reagan in 1980, except for 2012 when I supported President Obama’s re-election. I’ve either voted for, or financially supported many “Establishment Republicans” like Mitt Romney and John McCain in 2008. I’ve also supported some Conservative ones like Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani. In this election I’d been planning to vote for Jeb Bush, a superb governor when I lived in Florida.
Then Trump announced his candidacy. I had seen hints of that happening as far back as 2012. In my Amazon reviews in 2012 I said that many voters weren’t pleased with Obama or the Republican Establishment. So the question became: “Who do you vote for if you don’t favor the agendas of either party’s legacy candidates?” In November 2013 I commented on the book DOUBLE DOWN: GAME CHANGE 2012 by Mark Halperin and John Heileman:
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Mr. Trump occupies an important place in the political spectrum --- that of being a Republican Populist.
He understands that if we're ever going to get our economy back on its feet the wage-earning middle class will have to prosper along with investors, who are recovering our fortunes in the stock market.
IMO whichever party nominates a candidate like Trump that really "gets" the idea that the economy is suffering because the middle class can't find employment at livable wages, will be the party that rises to dominance. Mr. Trump, despite his flakiness, at least understood that essential fact of American economic life.
November 7, 2013
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Ms. Coulter says it more eloquently: “The Republican establishment has no idea how much ordinary voters hate both parties.” Like me, she’s especially annoyed with Republicans, because we think of the Republican Party as being our political “family” that has turned against us:
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The RNC has been forcing Republican candidates to take suicidal positions forever…They were happy to get 100 percent of the Business Roundtable vote and 20 percent of the regular vote.
…when the GOP wins an election, there is no corresponding “win” for the unemployed blue-collar voter in North Carolina. He still loses his job to a foreign worker or a closed manufacturing plant, his kids are still boxed out of college by affirmative action for immigrants, his community is still plagued with high taxes and high crime brought in with all that cheap foreign labor.
There’s no question but that the country is heading toward being Brazil. One doesn’t have to agree with the reason to see that the very rich have gotten much richer, placing them well beyond the concerns of ordinary people, and the middle class is disappearing. America doesn’t make anything anymore, except Hollywood movies and Facebook. At the same time, we’re importing a huge peasant class, which is impoverishing what remains of the middle class, whose taxes support cheap labor for the rich.
With Trump, Americans finally have the opportunity to vote for something that’s popular.
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That explains how Trump won my vote --- and held on to it through a myriad of early blunders and controversies that almost made me switch my support to other candidates.
I’m no “xenophobe isolationist” stereotype. My first employer was an immigrant from Eastern Europe. What I learned working for him launched me on my successful career. I’ve developed and sold computer systems to subsidiaries of American companies in Europe and Asia. My business partners have been English and Canadian immigrants. My family are all foreign-born Hispanics. Three of my college roommates were from Ecuador, Germany, and Syria.
BECAUSE of this international experience I agree with the issues of trade and immigration that Ms. Coulter talks about that have prompted Trump’s rising popularity.
First, there is the false promise that free trade with low-wage countries would “create millions of high-paying jobs for American workers, who will be busy making high-value products for export.” Quite the opposite happened:
American companies used free trade with low-wage countries as an opportunity to close their American factories and relocate the jobs to lower-paying foreign workers. Instead of creating product and exporting it to other countries, our American companies EXPORTED American JOBS to other countries and IMPORTED foreign-made PRODUCTS into America! Our exports have actually DECLINED during the last five years with most of the 20 countries we signed free trade with. Even our exports to Canada, our oldest free trade partner, are less than what they were five years ago.
We ran trade SURPLUSES with Mexico until 1994, when NAFTA was signed. The very next year the surplus turned to deficit, now $60 billion a year. Given that each American worker produces an average of $64,000 in value per year, that is a loss of 937,000 American jobs to Mexico alone. The problem is A) that Mexicans are not wealthy enough to be able to afford much in the way of American-made product and B) there isn’t much in the way of American-made product left to buy, since so much of former American-made product is now made in Mexico or China.
Trade with Japan, China, and South Korea is even more imbalanced, because those countries actively restrict imports of American-made products. We run a 4x trade imbalance with China, which cost us $367 billion last year. We lost $69 billion to Japan and $28 billion to South Korea. Our exports to these countries are actually DECLINING, even while our imports soar!
Thus, free trade, except with a few fair-trading countries like Canada, Australia, and possibly Britain, has been a losing proposition. Is it coincidence that our economy has weakened with each trade deal we have signed? Our peak year of labor force participation was 1999. Then we had the Y2K collapse and the Great Recession, followed by the weakest “recovery” since WWII? As Trump would say, free trade has been a “disaster.”
Why do Establishment Republicans join with Democrats in wanting to diminish the future with the WRONG kind of “free trade” that removes jobs and wealth from the USA? As Ms. Coulter reminds us, it is because Republican Establishment, like the Democrat establishment, is PAID by the money and jobs they receive from big corporations to believe it. Ms. Coulter says:
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The donor class doesn’t care. The rich are like locusts: once they’ve picked America dry, they’ll move on to the next country. A hedge fund executive quoted in The Atlantic a few years ago said, “If the transformation of the world economy lifts four people in China and India out of poverty and into the middle class, and meanwhile [that] means one American drops out of the middle class, that’s not such a bad trade.”
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Then there is immigration. My wife, son, and extended family legally immigrated to the USA from Latin America. The first family members were recruited by our government during the labor shortage of the Korean War. They, their children, and grandchildren became successful professionals and business owners. Some volunteered to fight in Korea, Vietnam, and later wars. They came here LEGALLY, some waiting in queue for up to 12 years. They were supported by the family already in America until they were on their feet.
Illegal immigration has been less happy. Illegals are here because the Democrats want new voters and the Republicans want cheap labor. Illegals cost Americans their jobs. A colleague just old me, “My son returned home from California because he couldn’t get construction work any longer. All those jobs are now done off the books by illegals.”
It’s the same in technology. Even while our high-tech companies are laying off 260,000 American employees in 2016 alone, they are banging the drums to expand the importation of FOREIGN tech workers from 85,000 to 195,000 to replace the Americans they let go. The H1-B visa program is billed as bringing in only the most exceptional, high-value foreign engineers. In truth most visas are issued to replace American workers with young foreigners of mediocre ability who’ll work for much less money than the American family bread-winners they replaced.
Both parties express their “reverse racism” against the White Middle Class. Democrats don’t like them because they tend to vote Republican. The Republican Establishment, who takes their cue from the donations of our beknighted business leaders, doesn’t like them because they cost more to employ than overseas workers and illegal aliens.
Ms. Coulter says “Americans are homesick” for our country that is being lost to illegal immigration and the removal of our livelihoods overseas. We are sick of Republican and Democrat Party hidden agendas, reverse-racism, and economic genocide against the American people. That’s why the Establishment candidates who started out so theoretically strong collapsed like waterlogged houses of cards when they met Donald Trump.
Coulter keeps coming back to Mr. Trump’s “Alpha Male” personality that speaks to Americans as nation without pandering to specific voter identity groups. She contrasts his style to the self-serving “Republican (Establishment) Brain Trust that is mostly composed of comfortable, well-paid mediocrities who, by getting a gig in politics, earn salaries higher than a capitalist system would ever value their talents.” She explains how Republican Establishment political consultants wrecked the campaigns of Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz by micromanaging with pandering.
She says the Republican Establishment lost because it served itself --- becoming wealthy by serving the moneyed interests of Wall Street. Trump won because he is speaking to the disfranchised American Middle Class who loves our country, is proud of our traditions, and believes that Americans have as much right to feed our families through gainful employment as do overseas workers and illegal aliens.
“I am YOUR voice,” says Trump to the Middle Class that until now has been ignored and even sneered at by both parties' establishments.
The full delight of the book is found in its details, as only Anne Coulter can tell them. I’ve quoted a few snippets of her words, that relate most specifically to my views on Trump and the issues. I wish there were space to quote many more. Alas, you’ll need to read the book to glean them all!
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