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If you look at Trump's political views over the past 10 years and how his opinions on policy shifted during the election campaign, I don't see how anyone can call him a true Republican let alone call him the dawn of a new age for the Republican party. He already changed his position on Obamacare simply from meeting with the current POTUS. Trump is an opportunist and that makes him look more like a right leaning independent than it does a true Republican. The GOP will kowtow to him because they have nowhere to go otherwise, but Trump is not one of them.
IMO both the DNC and GOP have a lot of soul searching to do. The DNC was pandering to the status quo of "everything's alright in America, nothing to see here, move along" and the standard Republican candidates were touting the usual niche political issues. Trump won because he actually took the pulse of the crowd, which was that of anger and despair. Angry and depressed people don't care about the hotbutton issues so much as they care about someone acknowledging their anger... which is why we now have one of the most unqualified people about to take the most important position in the country.
Look at what he managed to do. 46% of eligible voters did not vote... he disillusioned a lot of reasonable people from having any lasting faith in the electoral system. Angry people always vote, so all he had to do was rile the remaining base. The right wing in our country was ripe for the taking. If the left wing were in that position, Trump would've come up in the DNC instead. That's how he rolls as a business person.
IMO both the DNC and GOP have a lot of soul searching to do. The DNC was pandering to the status quo of "everything's alright in America, nothing to see here, move along" and the standard Republican candidates were touting the usual niche political issues. Trump won because he actually took the pulse of the crowd, which was that of anger and despair. Angry and depressed people don't care about the hotbutton issues so much as they care about someone acknowledging their anger... which is why we now have one of the most unqualified people about to take the most important position in the country.
Look at what he managed to do. 46% of eligible voters did not vote... he disillusioned a lot of reasonable people from having any lasting faith in the electoral system. Angry people always vote, so all he had to do was rile the remaining base. The right wing in our country was ripe for the taking. If the left wing were in that position, Trump would've come up in the DNC instead. That's how he rolls as a business person.