Donald Trump, the Sensible Party and the Silly Parties

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Posted on 03/08/2016 1:55:20 PM PST by snarkpup

What we have in Washington are two Silly Parties. The reason both parties are silly is because within each party the sensible people (defined below) are being outvoted by silly people (also defined below). This explains why 1) no matter which party wins an election, the downward spiral continues and 2) neither party has been able to reform itself.

We need to break out of this cycle; and I think this is what Donald Trump is trying to engineer, by doing the following:

1. Recruit as many sensible people as possible from both parties and create a new, Sensible Party. Stripped of their sensible people, the Establishment Factions of the two existing Silly Parties become Very Silly.

2. During the primary season, use this new sensible coalition to outvote the silly remnants of the Republican Party.

3. In the general election, use this new coalition (augmented by those former opponents in the Republican Party who will go with the flow) to outvote the silly remnants of the Democrat Party.

By creating a virtual Sensible Party within the physical Republican Party, he prevents the Republicans from running a spoiler candidate against the coalition.

Trump is breaking up both the Democrat and Republican parties into small fragments, some sensible and some silly, and trying to recruit just the sensible ones. What follows lists these and implies the definitions of "sensible" and "silly" that I think Trump is using.

From the Republican Party:

• Recruit entrepreneurs and business owners who do not want to be micromanaged by the government. Omit crony capitalists and the "cheap labor express."

• Recruit little-L libertarians and others who want limited government. Omit doctrinaire big-L libertarian anarchists who want open borders, etc.

• Recruit national defense hawks who want the federal government to prevent foreign invasions. Omit "nation builders."

• Recruit Pluralistic Christians and others who don't care about your religion is as long as you exhibit civic morality (work ethic, don't vote yourself largess from the public treasury). Omit Dominionist Christians and others whose displays of bigotry drive regular people away.

From the Democrat Party:

• Recruit the blue-collar workers (including union rank-and-file) who make things and do things. Omit the leftist union bosses.

• Recruit self-respecting unemployed and working poor who want to make something of themselves. Omit the collectivist central planners and the "moocher class" who are their myrmidons.

• Recruit those minority members who want to participate in the Greatening of America. Omit those who want to remain in "victim" classes created by Identity Politics activists (race-baiters, thugs, etc.)

From both parties:

• Recruit conservation-minded people like recreationists (hunters, etc.) and others who don't want all scenic lands paved and urbanized. Omit misanthropic environmentalists who want all scenic lands off-limits to everyone but backpackers. Also omit the James Watt Faction—those who don't care if all scenic lands are paved and urbanized. (Note that all this is compatible with Trump's statements on public lands.)

This coalition, like Donald Trump himself, is non-ideological. The loaded and nebulous term "true conservative" is a political marketing buzzword that does not need to be used.

In order to assemble a coalition that is both sensible (in the sense implied) and large enough to win elections, it is necessary to organize quite a number of quite different groups. But as long as the silly people are kept out of the sensible coalition, then these groups—entrepreneurs, little-L libertarians, Pluralistic Christians, blue-collar, white-collar, etc.—will have no quarrel with one another. They may have various purposes; but they will be non-conflicting.

However, these groups have little reason to organize themselves into the specific coalition that 1) builds a majority and 2) excludes the silly people. Eric Hoffer said that every mass movement needs a vivid devil. The sensible people indeed have their devil—the silly people. But this devil is amorphous, dispersed and may try to barge its way into the coalition. For the movement to form properly and take off, we need to add a vivid leader, which is where Donald Trump comes in.

If this is done right, the sensible people will be concentrated in one majority Sensible Party, while the silly people will be split between two Very Silly minor parties—the Republicans and Democrats.

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To: snarkpup

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(Michelle Obama, The Early Years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBYGxBlFOSU)

To: Byron_the_Aussie

Silly or CRIMINAL?

I report, you decide.

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(My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))

To: stephenjohnbanker

That was my thought, too. There’s nothing “silly” about crooked politicians who shovel money out of working people’s pockets and hand it around to each other.

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(Marcus Tullius)

To: Cicero

That is all they do.

The deeply entrenched Criminal Class.

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(My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))

To: snarkpup

That's a good plan, but how many of those people are going to be alienated by all of the silly talk at the debates?

Donald being Donald is going to lose you some voters.

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To: snarkpup

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("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)

To: snarkpup

Sensible Party? You really mean the Trump Party, don’t you?

Pure cultism. :(

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(It's a cult.)

To: EveningStar; snarkpup

well, the OP is not far off. Trump has always described himself as a “sensible conservative”, and the post is not a bad analysis of those who tend to support Trump, and it’s intelligently written

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(Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)

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