… If there’s a new “silent majority” in the nation, they are not tea party activists or Millennials feeling the “Bern.” They are the tens of millions of Americans who are not angry, but remaining silent.
In Iowa this year — despite all the buildup, the TV commercials and the opportunity to go and hear any candidate speak in person — when all was said and done, just 180,000 Republicans and 170,000 Democrats participated in a caucus — which is a mere fifth of the 1.6 million Iowans who voted in November 2012!! And it’s an even smaller percentage of the Iowans eligible to vote in a general election.
My conclusion is that those who have participated, especially on the right, are over-reflective of anger in America, and Donald Trump has been the beneficiary. CONT.
Michael A. Smerconish, CNN