Why Trump Haters Really Hate Trump
It’s not the hair.
Or the bad manners.
Or the “beautiful” wall he says he’ll
build.
There’s a different, more subtle reason why
the Republican establishment, donor class, political operatives, and the news
media in general hate Donald Trump.
The reason can be found in a New York Times
best selling business book, Stacking The Deck, by Wharton professor
David Pottruck.
Pottruck, the Charles Schwab CEO who took
the genial brokerage house online and into the big time, says that
organizations hate change.
Hate it with a PASSION!
That’s because when there’s a new way of
doing things, a new way of solving problems, a new way of relating to
everything, they feel threatened as a deep personal-loss.
Change renders meaningless the value of
their hard-won experience and know-how. In politics, it may mean family
member lose their cushy jobs and perks.
Student loans of government employees get
automatically paid off by government – TAX-FREE.
Those in government have done things one
way forever. Change is NOT FAIR to them
Everything they have done to line their
pockets is threatened. The rules of the game may no longer apply.
So they dig in their heels and will do
whatever it takes to resist change.
They resist perpetually until forced
otherwise.
They subvert any process that would lead to
change.
Until they lose, it becomes open warfare
against the people to sustain the establishment and its perks.
And so it is with Donald Trump.
Like him or not, he has completely
rewritten the rules of Presidential politics.
He bypasses the media, taking his message,
raw and unfiltered, to the millions of people who follow him on Twitter.
The party establishment went from
underestimating him and laughing at him to fearing him breaking out in night
sweats.
They fear all power and their relevance
will vanish into thin air.
Donors gave Jeb Bush $120 million and he came
in dead last.
The money, like Jeb, is gone and it could
not save their fiefdom.
Now
wealthy donors have a choice. Oppose Trump and he wins and they are out in the
cold. Understand there is a change in the wind and shift sides to the people.
How
ironic. It took a billionaire to neuter the billionaire donor class.
Most of
the media hate Trump to the core and dislike the fact they are no longer able
to play kingmaker losing their power fearing they will be irrelevant with the
internet displacing them.
The political
class have lost the power to rule behind the curtain from paid operatives and
cronies who cannot transition to the new world where the old rules of
campaigning don’t apply.
Trump has spent more on hats than he has on
polls so the pollsters also have lost their importance.
Diplomats worldwide are running scared
because Trump will renegotiate everything from a business standpoint that
cannot be bought like Hillary & her foundation.
The handwringing, the dire predictions of
doom, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth have little to do with Donald’s
positions, but their loss of power.
They complain Trump is bringing in new
voters who are not Republican. And this is bad?
The Trump
threat isn’t to the Constitution, to America’s standing in the world, or even
to Republican Congressional candidates, it is to the establishment.
If you
think Trump’s supporters are angry about the way the government and the
business world colluded, you are right. The establishment fails to appreciate
the anger.
They’re
just furious. Even if Trump fails to win, there will be more in the
wings. He is inspiring a change and he doesn’t even understand how profound.
Reprinted from Armstrong
Economics.