{"id":83739,"date":"2017-09-13T20:57:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T00:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=83739"},"modified":"2017-09-13T20:57:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T00:57:37","slug":"evidence-indicates-trumps-election-was-a-victory-for-populism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=83739","title":{"rendered":"Evidence Indicates Trump&#8217;s Election Was A Victory For Populism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Philomath OR<br \/>\nSept 13 2017<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>Eight months after his upset victory in the 2016 presidential election, more signs<br \/>\nare emerging that Trump&#8217;s defeat of Clinton represents the triumph of populism.<\/p>\n<p>I have long asserted the need for a new party to replace the existing two-party<br \/>\ntyranny which created a Washington Consensus that includes the leadership<br \/>\nof both major parties and which has led to massive corruption.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=57250\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=57250<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That theory was supported in recent years by the rise of the Tea Party Right and the<br \/>\nOccupy Left which were represented by Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>When the DNC conspired to deny Sanders the nomination, it opened a huge space<br \/>\nfor Trump to emerge as the true champion of populist sentiment in the center where<br \/>\nthe alt-left and alt right merged on TPP; an end to bank bailouts; no more illegal wars<br \/>\nbased on lies; and curtailment of NSA spying.<\/p>\n<p>Now out of the White House, Steve Bannon confirms my theory in a powerful interview<br \/>\nwith Charlie Rose. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/47791.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/47791.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He strongly condemns the Republican Establishment whom he states are working to<br \/>\nnullify the 2016 election while confirming that Trump made a huge mistake at the start of<br \/>\nhis Administration by allowing himself to be co-opted by the very forces he ran against.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/47791.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/47791.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Voters are also showing their preference for more civility and a centrist approach<br \/>\nby applauding Trump&#8217;s outreach to the DEMs on the budget<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/trump_administration\/september_2017\/most_voters_welcome_trump_s_outreach_to_congressional_democrats\">http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/trump_administration<br \/>\n\/september_2017\/most_voters_welcome_trump_s_outreach_to_congressional_democrats<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Rand Paul&#8217;s defeat in attempting to get Congress to take responsibility for<br \/>\ndeclaring war also confirms that it is the two-party tyranny of NeoCon warmongers<br \/>\nthat opposes the populist (antiwar) Trump of the 2016 campaign.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_WAR_AUTHORIZATION?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2017-09-13-12-56-26\">http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_WAR_AUTHORIZATION?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2017-09-13-12-56-26<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Hillary reduced to a whining sore-loser willing to blame everyone but herself<br \/>\nand Pelosi coming off as slightly demented, the Left&#8217;s disgust with its leadership<br \/>\nmeans the populist center is strengthening under Trump despite the endless assault<br \/>\nby the mass media, the Deep State and the swamp creatures still inhabiting the Capital.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanmirror.com\/video-nancy-pelosi-repeatedly-slurs-flubs-name-hamilton-playwright\/\">http:\/\/www.theamericanmirror.com\/video-nancy-pelosi-repeatedly-slurs-flubs-name-hamilton-playwright\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even after Charlottesville, many alt-left are fed-up with the media&#8217;s racist hype and the<br \/>\nefforts by their leaders to paint the president as a white supremacist. They are switching<br \/>\ntheir support to Trump&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..consistent with his original populist image.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2017\/09\/13\/liberals-sick-alt-left-are-taking-red-pill.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2017\/09\/13\/liberals-sick-alt-left-are-taking-red-pill.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cynthia McKinney and Robert David Steele have done their best to pick up the fallen<br \/>\npopulist banner that Trump dropped quickly after entering the White House. But despite<br \/>\ntheir good intentions and brilliance, #UNRIG needs to be modified to resonate more<br \/>\npowerfully with the broader electorate rather than with the only media and academia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=83690\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=83690<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With even Russia and China apparently on board for more wars, a strong pro-peace<br \/>\npopulist party is needed now more than ever.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/2017\/09\/13\/behold-a-pale-horse-and-its-rider-is-death\/\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/2017\/09\/13\/behold-a-pale-horse-and-its-rider-is-death\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the likes of Bannon, McKinney, Steele, Paul, Tulsi Gabbard and countless other<br \/>\nwell-meaning citizens falls short of &#8220;draining the swamp&#8221; the prospects of endless<br \/>\nwars and an oppressive national security state will only grow stronger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}