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‘I alone can fix it’: What Trump’s speech revealed about the future of the GOP
Presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, July 21, 2016. (Photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP)
CLEVELAND — When Donald Trump took to the stage of the Quicken Loans Arena to deliver his nomination acceptance speech, he was hoping for a repeat of 1968.
That was the year, of course, that “a chip-on-his-shoulder, knife-fighting white man” appealed to the United States’ racially anxious silent majority by promising to restore law and order — and won the White House over an establishment Democrat as a result.
And so, on Thursday night, Trump used his moment in the spotlight to portray the world around us as a terrifying hellscape, with hundreds of thousands of law-breaking illegal immigrants “tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens,” and murder on the rise because of this “administration’s rollback of criminal enforcement.”
“The situation is worse than it has ever been before,” Trump added.
And the only solution, according to Trump, was Trump.
“The attacks on our police, and the terrorism in our cities, threaten our very way of life,” the real estate developer told the tens of millions watching at home. But, he added, “I have a message for all of you: The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon — and I mean very soon — come to an end. Beginning on Jan. 20, 2017, safety will be restored.”
The story of the 2016 election won’t be the story of 1968, no matter how much Trump might want it to be. Trump isn’t Nixon; Hillary Clinton isn’t Hubert Humphrey. History doesn’t repeat itself.
But there were rhymes this week. And thanks to Ted Cruz’s dramatic mutiny Wednesday night —the boos and back-turning it provoked; the division and doubt it exposed — the most revealing was the way Cleveland rhymed with the GOP’s rancorous 1964 convention in San Francisco.
It hasn’t gone unnoticed that Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater was, in some respects, the Trump of his day. He was a Republican insurgent. He was running against the establishment. His views — on the New Deal, on the Cold War — weren’t considered mainstream. He was seen as impulsive, hot-headed, ill-informed — not someone to be trusted with the nuclear codes. The press was hostile. He opposed the Civil Rights Act, and white supremacists were drawn to him.
In the primaries, Goldwater vanquished his main rival, moderate New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, along with several lesser competitors. But the moderates did not give up. In June, they launched a “Stop Goldwater” movement. They even drafted a candidate: Pennsylvania Gov. William Scranton. And when Scranton’s 11th-hour challenge fizzled, Rockefeller decided to go to San Francisco himself and propose a platform amendment repudiating Goldwater’s extremist followers.
“During this year, I have crisscrossed this nation fighting … to keep the Republican Party of all the people, and warning of the extremist threat,” Rockefeller said from the convention stage. “These things have no place in America.”
The delegates threw paper at the stage. “We want Barry!” they chanted.
“Some of you don’t like to hear it, ladies and gentlemen, but it’s the truth,” Rockefeller said.
“You goddamned Socialist!” cried a young Goldwater supporter.
The booing was so loud, Rockefeller could barely finish his remarks. Historian Rick Perlstein later described the event as the “ugliest of Republican conventions since 1912.” And with the GOP divided — Rockefeller, like Cruz, refused to endorse his party’s nominee — Goldwater went on to lose 44 states on Election Day.
The scene Wednesday night was similar. When Cruz urged listeners to “vote your conscience,” thousands of delegates booed and turned their backs, choosing instead to face Trump, who had materialized on the other side of the Quicken Loans Arena in silent, seething protest.
“Vote for Trump! Vote for Trump!” they shouted. “Go home, Ted!”
And yet a rhyme isn’t a repetition. Trump could win in November, or he may lose in a landslide, with party discord playing a part. But for anyone looking to answer the big post-Cleveland question — Where does the GOP go from here? — it’s worth remembering what happened after Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Goldwater: Conservatism took root. The movement blossomed. Eventually, Ronald Reagan won the White House and Republicans recaptured Congress after decades in the wilderness.
Was Cruz’s rebellion the last gasp of the old guard? Has movement conservatism lost its grip on the GOP? Is the inward-looking “Americanism” that Trump touted in his address ascendant?
Or is Trump a party of one, without the infrastructure or ideological integrity to sustain the kind of movement that could remake the GOP?
We’ll know more in a few years’ time. Still, an early clue came Thursday night, in the middle of Trump’s address. He was bemoaning America’s political system — how it permits “the powerful” to “beat up on people that cannot defend themselves;” how it’s “rigged against our citizens.” He claimed to know the system well. And then Trump uttered a telling line:
“I alone can fix it.”
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Missed the big speeches? We’ve got you covered.
Donald Trump kisses his daughter Ivanka as he arrives to speak during the final session at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo: Brian Snyder/Reuters)
Holly Bailey on Donald Trump: “In a surreal moment befitting an unconventional candidate at one of the most unusual conventions in recent memory, the arena’s speaker system began playing the Rolling Stones’ ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want.’ The song is one of Trump’s favorites and a mainstay of his raucous campaign rallies, but it also seemed to be a message from the candidate to a divided party.”
Lisa Belkin on Ivanka Trump:“Her speech tonight was not big on personal anecdote — the few that she did offer included stories of sitting on the floor building towers with Legos while her father sat at a desk designing ones from concrete, or of having her dad exhort to her ‘think big’ — but it was filled with personal reassurance, one mother to millions of others, that her father would represent women in particular.”
Michael Isikoff on Peter Thiel: “Maverick Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel delivered a speech tonight that would have been unheard of at a Republican convention not too many years ago: He proclaimed himself ‘proud to be gay,’ decried ‘fake culture wars’ and called for an end to ‘stupid wars’ in the Middle East.”
Hunter Walker on Joe Arpaio: “Arpaio suggested the cornerstone of Trump’s immigration platform, a massive wall the developer promises to build along the U.S. border with Mexico, would help guard against ‘the dangers of illegal immigration and drugs.’”
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Overheard
“It was very interesting — but it was different than ones I’ve been to before.”
– A deadpan #RNCinCLE operations volunteer, summing it all up as 10,000 delegates, donors, politicians and journalists streamed out of the Quicken Loans Arena Thursday night.
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The RNC wanted to reach out to minorities. Then along came Trump.
California delegate Eddie Inamdar celebrates at the Republican National Convention, July 21, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo: Khue Bui for Yahoo News)
By Jon Ward
CLEVELAND — Before RNC Chairman Reince Priebus spoke Thursday night at the Republican convention he had presided over, his young staffers played a video on the big screen that demonstrated what they’d hoped their party would represent this year.
The video was skillfully produced, with slick graphics. It showed young, earnest men and women walking up to homes to knock on doors. There was a young Latino shaking hands with a couple, and an African-American man in a stylish hat telling a voter about the greatness of the Republican Party.
If only.
This year’s convention was as white and as old as ever, and was punctuated by outbursts of resentment against the Black Lives Matter movement and undocumented immigrants. Several speakers stood at the podium nodding and smiling as thousands of delegates chanted, “Lock her up! Lock her up!” in reference to presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
One year ago, young Republicans looked at Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., or former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, or Ohio Gov. John Kasich, or Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., or New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and thought, “We’re headed for a young, positive, hopeful campaign.”
A Rubio or Bush nomination, in particular, held the prospect of winning over millions of Latino voters and young voters. It was one of the goals set forth in the 2013 autopsy report that Priebus sanctioned and released from the RNC.
That report laid out the demographic facts — the diminishing percentage of white voters in each consecutive presidential election — and said, “If Hispanic-Americans perceive that a GOP nominee or candidate does not want them in the United States … they will not pay attention to our next sentence.”
“It does not matter what we say about education, jobs or the economy; if Hispanics think we do not want them here, they will close their ears to our policies,” the report said.
One of Priebus’ favorite lines is that Republicans are “the party of the open door.”
On Thursday, Priebus started his speech with that same phrase. And then he ceded the stage to a nominee whose central idea is to build a giant wall.
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A tale of two protests
Medea Benjamin of Code Pink is taken away as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention, July 21, 2016. (Photo: Matt Rourke/AP)
As Trump spoke Thursday night, he was briefly interrupted by veteran Code Pink activist Medea Benjamin, who began shouting and waving a banner that read “Build Bridges Not Walls.” Yahoo News National Correspondent Hunter Walkercaught up with Benjamin after security dragged her out of the arena:
Benjamin and other members of Code Pink plan to travel to Philadelphia to protest next week’s Democratic convention. She said they get inside the conventions because the party activists and delegates in attendance “just give us their badges.”
“There are a lot of Republicans who don’t like Donald Trump. I mean, we’ve been out on the streets all these days, and we’ve just seen so many people who come up and say — you know, they agree with us that Donald Trump is not fit to be president,” Benjamin said. “There seemed like a lot of enthusiasm tonight, but from what I’ve seen, there’s a tremendous crisis in this party, and I think it’s going to be a very difficult electoral season for them.”
After protesting at so many major events, Benjamin has become fairly well-known. She was “amazed” security didn’t notice her infiltrating the RNC. “There was a congressman there who came up and said hello,” Benjamin said.
“There were people who winked at me. I’m sure there were people who recognized me, but thankfully they didn’t say anything. I was indeed nervous the whole time that somebody was going to come and pull me out because I had been recognized.”
Benjamin wasn’t sure which lawmaker she saw, but she said he was wearing a congressional lapel pin. She spent about two hours waiting on the convention floor for Trump’s speech, and said she was “very nervous the entire time.”
“It’s scary. I mean, you look out and you see a sea of people who are so enthusiastic and cheering, and you know that the people around you are going to be really upset with you. It is scary,” Benjamin said.
Here, for this night at least, there was no fear on display, no violence — and no arrests.
There were some gun-rights supporters carrying long guns and pistols, but they were outnumbered by people lounging in the grass with their dogs, and in one case, a pet lizard. There were also a few men in Guy Fawkes masks, and flag-waving Trump supporters in “Hillary for Prison” shirts, but their exchanges with the anti-Trump demonstrators never got beyond the occasional taunting shout or intense but mostly cordial political argument.
有沒有人覺得，唐納德??·川普(Donald J. Trump)在喪失理智？他的演講一向以漫無目的、東拉西扯為特色，但最近的幾場演講就如共和黨政治策略師邁克·墨菲(Mike Murphy)所言，已經超出了誇誇其談的範疇，根本就是「醉醺醺的祝酒詞」。
川普的語言特色一直都很鮮明。他其實不太成句或成段地說話。他在演講中常常突然一下撂出五六個詞，它們之間的關聯隻能借助混沌理論來理解：「They want the wall（他們要牆）……I dominated with the evangelicals（我在福音派占優）……I won in a landslide（我壓倒性獲勝）……We can't be the stupid people anymore（我們再也不能當蠢人了）
? 扶清滅洋，減稅排外，川普粗陋搭接共和黨傳統政策，像極了義和團與慈禧太後的聯盟 - easycity - ♂ (3258 bytes) (47 reads) 07/23/2016 13:40:18
? 支持川普的華人呢，說話沒有邏輯的，像一切為了生存不計其他的楊秀清。 - easycity - ♂ (0 bytes) (0 reads) 07/23/2016 13:43:59
? 支持川普的華人,說話非常有邏輯的，就好象被大學種族照顧和第三性別廁所惹的發毛了的石達開。 - easycity - ♂ (0 bytes) (2 reads) 07/23/2016 13:44:46
? 川普的國策是符合中產階級利益的， 外交戰略收縮， 美國利益優先，不強行輸出西方價值觀，強調內政建設等 - zd3y - ♂ (260 bytes) (3 reads) 07/23/2016 13:56:09
? 黑社會山大王保護費：共和黨總統候選人川普稱，如果北約盟國沒有盡責、交夠錢，那麽他當選總統後可能不會再無條件保護北約盟... - TJKCB - ♀ (191 bytes) (1 reads) 07/23/2016 14:00:20
? 扶清滅洋，減稅排外，川普粗陋搭接共和黨傳統政策，像極了義和團與慈禧太後的聯盟 - easycity - ♂ (3258 bytes) (47 reads) 07/23/2016 13:40:18
? 支持川普的華人呢，說話沒有邏輯的，像一切為了生存不計其他的楊秀清。 - easycity - ♂ (0 bytes) (0 reads) 07/23/2016 13:43:59
? 支持川普的華人,說話非常有邏輯的，就好象被大學種族照顧和第三性別廁所惹的發毛了的石達開。 - easycity - ♂ (0 bytes) (2 reads) 07/23/2016 13:44:46
? 川普的國策是符合中產階級利益的， 外交戰略收縮， 美國利益優先，不強行輸出西方價值觀，強調內政建設等 - zd3y - ♂ (260 bytes) (3 reads) 07/23/2016 13:56:09
? 黑社會山大王保護費：共和黨總統候選人川普稱，如果北約盟國沒有盡責、交夠錢，那麽他當選總統後可能不會再無條件保護北約盟... - TJKCB - ♀ (191 bytes) (1 reads) 07/23/2016 14:00:20
川普以全體穆斯林為敵，隻會把更多人推向極端穆斯林，加劇恐襲 - 非否 - ♀ 給 非否 發送悄悄話 非否 的博客首頁 非否 的個人群組 (0 bytes) (9 reads) 07/22/2016 15:30:03