Do you think DJT was the cause of the effect?
Damn. That's a hard one. I am not sure. Society is changing, no doubt. No. He is not the cause. He is the product of the effect. I do not think he has dealt with it in the best interest of the nation as an entity, definitely not as a civil society. Remember that movie where Michael J Fox gave that speech to the President saying something like "people thirst for good leadership, like a dying man crawling across the desert and not finding it only the mirage, they'll drink the sand"? That is what happened. We thirst for leadership every 4 years. 2016 there was no leaders that showed up, so we drank the sand.
I meant *or. Stupid typo. I agree. Trump is the effect. Many whom I know did it as a FU to the PC culture Leftists I doubt they are alone who thought that way
Do you have a theory of what happened to the Republican party. I started voting mostly republican starting with Richard Nixon and voting Lamar Alexander for Governor back in 72. I do not recognize that party anymore. It is a party of today, appearing almost totally without honor, moving as a rubber stamp. Do they really support his leadership or is it just agenda goals and power?
I am only 39 and have never belonged to a political party. My theory is that Bush turned a lot of people away from the party due to the Iraq war and the Great Recession. BHO came in and spent monies to fix it. A lot of money. But we were still in the Middle East, meddling and we became soft. Example being John Kerry apologizing to Iran when they wrongly captured one of our boats. The Republicans ran honorable men in terms of McCain and Romney but they were boring and white old wealthy men and the country chose to go with Obama. BHO was young, charismatic and a minority and I thought would be good for the country. But unfortunately the country became more divided and many whites (I am guessing here were angry that they were still seen as racist and privileged when they supported a minority president). ISIS happened. Sequester happened. Black Lives Matter happened.
People were frustrated and looked to the Republican Party to give an alternative to HRC. Trump came out with simple messages. America First. Build that Wall. Curb illegal immigration. Invest in our military. Better trade deals. He had cache as a billionaire businessman and frankly killed it in the debates. Republicans realized that their party had somewhat changed and went along with it because Trump actually won. The country is turning socialist unfortunately and jealous of our successful wealthy people but fortunately we have the EC. Now the Democrats do have strong candidates but their Leftist wing won’t allow them to breathe. My 2 cents.