DAVID BREWSTER: Trump vs. the GOP / The-Ave.US

DAVID BREWSTER: Trump vs. the GOP

David Brewster

Donald Trump is a grave threat to the GOP, by splitting off the “radical middle” voters who normally go along with the wealthy, elite leadership of the party. This happened before with Ross Perot. Here’s the key paragraph in this essay by Matthew Continetti: “There are two Republican parties, an elite party of the corporate upper crust and meritocratic winners that sits atop a mass party of whites without college degrees whose world-views and experiences and ambitions could not be more different from their social and economic betters.

The former party enjoys the votes of the latter one, but those votes are not guaranteed.

This is pretty arrogant for a woman who is Brahman but campaigned as a "person of color" against as Black woman. to some artifact. The criticism, moreover, is consistent with my subjective POV that most of the achievements are in the past and that our ranking is going to down as those events are further away. The criticism is likely valid as Reuters does this sort of thing .. that is how it sells its stuff! However, even if you use other rankings ... more subjective .. systems, the UW is pretty much unique among public universities in being among the top of all world universities but in a state where we are the only significant research university. The closest comparables are Michigan and Wisconsin but both have more research universities. I suspect that ten years from now, the uW will be much lower on all lists .. watch for the UC campuses and Univ. Texas campuses. I think it would be good if someone here were to look critically at the Reuters' rating. This is now complex because of the union issue. If AAUP were to run this, I suspect it would come across as an atatck on the UW Excellence crew. On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Robert Wood wrote: Hi Steve, What do you make of this?

David’s view of history is too short. Trump may be the crowning legacy of Nixon’s wooing of the Dixiecrats .. the creation of a Confederate wing that has become the GOP’s masses. Starting with Reagan the GOP went further, adding the illiterati, the no nothings who felt left out by the growth of America’s scientific, intellectual class. Now that class has become America’s most wealthy class …leaving the old wealth GOP behind. The best historical analogy my be to the destruction of the Whigs by the Know Nothings and Radical Democrats .. the wind up to the Civil War! Who Belongs to the Whigs Today?

What so worries the GOP about Donald Trump is that he, like Ross Perot, has the resources and ego to rend the two parties apart. If history repeats itself, it will be because the Republican elite was so preoccupied with its own economic and ideological commitments that it failed to pay attention the needs and desires of millions of its voters. So the demagogue rises. The party splits. And the Clintons win.”

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