The great part was where Sneed criticized Trump for that and said he sounded like a Democrat.
Yes, I'm proud to say the Donald sounded like a Democrat there. We believe in investing this country. We believe you have to spend money to make money and we know there is a crumbling infrastructure that needs to be built back up. America has had these generations where infrastructure took leaps, the building of the transcontinental railroad, the great dams and the TVA in the New Deal, the highway system, etc. It's time for another.
And, it's so illustrative that Republicans hate that idea. They represent these vulture capitalists and old, angry Fox News watchers who will be dead in 20 or less years, so no real investment in the future. Their vulture capitalist class sees America as a distressed asset, a takeover target for their Republican corporation. Cut the "labor costs" IE jobs and quality of life for the people, rack up the debt, reward the CEOs and people at the top, use creative accounting, propaganda and lies to win over the media, and then get your golden parachute out when it all goes to hell. Sneed did that with HP, Romney did that like 50 times at Bain, and Republicans want to do it to America, again.
The worst tactics of corporate America's worst, Enron, Bain Capital, Goldman Sachs, Phillip Morris, those are the tactics of this GOP. They want short term rewards for the rich people and they believe in creative accounting and fraud, because that's quicker than building it honestly. It's easier to use creative accounting to make your Q3 earnings look good, than it is to take the hit and deal with your problems. It's easier to pretend climate change doesn't exist and sweep it under the rug, than it is to deal with it honestly.
Or, if you don't like the leveraged buy-out and Wall Street metaphor, how about this. Republicans want to treat the government like a pinata, break it and give all the candy inside to their friends. Screw Republicans, they're garbage.
Trump's core supporters are the Perot/Buchanan Republicans, most of whom can be classified as "paleoconservatives". These are the Republicans who have called out the party for their corporate sell-outs on behalf of the "Cash Out America" program. That's essentially what Bushism (as opposed to Reaganism) was; policies that allowed the investor classes to take their money and run from America without penalties.
BTW, Fiorina's comment on Trump's analysis shows that she's a complete and dangerous moron on domestic policy as well as foreign policy.
Oh, what a bunch of BS.
Face it: these guys have always went along with whatever idea coming out of conservative America that is conveyed in the strongest and loudest terms possible. They're not "paleoconservatives" or "populists": they're know-nothings and low-info voters. When Reagan was the strong man, they went along with him. When Buchanan was, they went along with him. When Bush II was, they went along with him. Now, they're going along with Trump. Perot was never a strong man - he merely had the support of know-nothings and disengaged, low-information voters because neither candidate was appealing to their cretinous tendencies in the general election (however, for that reason, it is a very apt comparison).
It has nothing to do with the ideas so much as it has to do with blind partisan hatred and whoever can present the most concentrated form of messaging that taps into their raw emotions.
Trump is the best at doing such in a very long time (maybe ever), whereas low-energy losers like Buchanan never got anywhere in the end. Buchanan never had a near-majority of GOP voters in his corner.
There is arguably nobody who better embodies the vulture-capitalist, government bribing, outsource-loving elements of the Republican Party in the race today than Trump, based on who he actually is and what he has actually done - not what his chose du jour happens to be in terms of talk. Hell, he may be the best embodiment of that ever; even Romney didn't make
billions off of moving capital to and fro around the world and artificially generating value in arbitrary ways back home, conflating it with wealth...only to lose it all and make billions right back again because the people to whom he owed money didn't want their own fortunes to be harmed by his utter failures spilling over into even more into their own finances (and into the collective psyche of the public, further showing the people that they're all nothing more than vultures).
Donald Trump was the original bailout.
