{"id":464,"date":"2014-06-14T09:45:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T14:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/independentconservativevoters.com\/icv\/?p=464"},"modified":"2014-06-14T09:45:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T14:45:53","slug":"a-populist-path-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/independentconservativevoters.com\/icv\/2014\/06\/a-populist-path-to-power.html","title":{"rendered":"A Populist Path To Power?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If Jeb and Hillary are both in the lists in 2016, it will be God’s gift to pitchfork populists.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and
\nas necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.\u201d<\/p>\n

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If Thomas Jefferson\u2019s benign reflection on Shays\u2019 Rebellion, that
\nuprising of farmers in 1786 and 1787, is not the first thought that
\ncomes to mind today for his fellow Virginian Eric Cantor, surely it is
\nunderstandable.<\/p>\n

For the rebellious subjects of the 7th Congressional District just voted to end Cantor\u2019s career as House majority leader.<\/p>\n

Many lessons are being read into and taken away from Cantor\u2019s defeat.
\nBut that election has also revealed a populist path, both to the
\nRepublican nomination in 2016 and perhaps to the presidency.<\/p>\n

For what were the elements of Randolph-Macon College professor Dave Brat\u2019s victory and of Cantor\u2019s defeat?<\/p>\n

First, the perception that Cantor was willing to do a deal with
\nBarack Obama to provide a partial amnesty to illegal immigrants \u2014 while
\nthe media provided wall-to-wall coverage of the latest invasion across
\nour southern border \u2014 proved devastating.<\/p>\n

Talk radio, led by Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin, pounded Cantor on
\nthe issue of illegal immigration, the emotive power of which our Beltway
\nelites will never understand.<\/p>\n

For like Eurocrats, the leaders of our Beltway parties call to mind
\nthe \u201csophisters\u201d and \u201ccalculators\u201d of Edmund Burke\u2019s depiction.<\/p>\n

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They do not understand people of the heart to whom illegal and mass
\nimmigration means the disappearance of the country they grew up in and
\nthe dispossession of their children of what is most precious to them.<\/p>\n

Then there is populism. Cantor spent $5 million, an astonishing sum
\nin a congressional primary, 50 times what Brat spent. Yet he only
\nreinforced his image as a poodle of Wall Street and K Street.<\/p>\n

Of the bank bailout that Cantor supported, Brat was brutally effective.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the investment banks up in New York and D.C. \u2026 those guys should
\nhave gone to jail. But instead of going to jail \u2026 they went onto Eric\u2019s
\nRolodex. \u2026 And they\u2019re sending him big checks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brat also had going for him that he is an outsider, when those in the
\ncapital are widely disliked, distrusted, or even detested by Middle
\nAmerica.<\/p>\n

Anti-establishment, outsider, defender of national borders \u2014 these
\nwere the cards Brat was holding, even if he had little money or
\norganized support.<\/p>\n

Yet were these not the same issues and stances of the candidates and
\nparties that jolted Europe in May by running first in the EU elections?<\/p>\n

In the endless struggle between populism and the establishment, and
\nbetween nationalists and internationalists, populists and nationalists
\nappear, at least temporarily, to be in the ascendancy worldwide.<\/p>\n

Vladimir Putin\u2019s approval is over 80 percent. Why? He stands for
\nnational sovereignty and the rights of Russians, wherever they may be.
\nAnd in hearing his claim that Crimea is Russia\u2019s, are there not echoes
\nof Reaganite nationalism in the Panama Canal debate:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe bought it. We paid for it. It\u2019s ours. And we\u2019re gonna keep it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The nationalist card is also being played by Beijing with its claim,
\nwildly popular in China, to all of the islands in the East China and
\nSouth China seas. And nationalism is being invoked by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in
\ncalling for rearmament and amending Japan\u2019s pacifist constitution.<\/p>\n

Cantor\u2019s defeat seems certain to halt any Republican move to
\naccommodate Obama on amnesty. Should House Speaker John Boehner try to
\nmove ahead on even partial amnesty, says Rep. Steve King of Iowa, it
\n\u201cwould blow up the caucus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Consider, then, the political terrain six months before the preseason of 2016 begins.<\/p>\n

According to every national poll, Americans believe that our country
\nis on the wrong course, that it is less respected than it has ever been
\nabroad, and that our children and their children will most likely not
\nknow the good life that we have had.<\/p>\n

Americans disapprove of the president and have little confidence in
\neither party or in Congress. Few believe that the government is as
\nwell-run as it was in World War II, or when Ike was creating the federal
\nhighway system, or America was sending astronauts to the moon.<\/p>\n

The landscape looks inhospitable for establishment candidates, such
\nas Jeb Bush, who says illegal aliens crossing our border are engaging in
\nan \u201cact of love\u201d\u2013and who is a proud and principal promoter of the
\nCommon Core curriculum being imposed on the nation\u2019s schools.<\/p>\n

Nor does the terrain seem favorable for former first lady Hillary
\nClinton. Though she may have had to scratch and claw her way out of debt
\nand destitution when she and her husband were \u201cdead broke,\u201d she is seen
\nnationally, and not incorrectly, as the queen of the establishment,
\nsomeone who banks six-figure fees for half-hour lectures.<\/p>\n

No two people ever milked a political office for more than these two
\nhave milked the presidency of the United States. And no two people are
\nmore wired in to the Hollywood, Wall Street, and Washington elites.<\/p>\n

If Jeb and Hillary are both in the lists in 2016, it will be God\u2019s gift to pitchfork populists.<\/p>\n

COPYRIGHT 2014 CREATORS.COM<\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/www.westernjournalism.com\/populist-path-power\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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