There is a deep economic anxiety driving Republican voters toward the blunt-spoken presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump. It is more than just anger at the political class or rebellion against political correctness. It reflects decades of lost jobs and falling wages for a swath of blue-collar Americans, who saw […] Read more »
CBS News poll: Donald Trump leads GOP field
Donald Trump (24 percent) leads a fractured Republican field in the race for the GOP nomination in the latest national CBS News Poll. Behind him are Jeb Bush (13 percent) and Scott Walker (10 percent). Trump leads among a wide array of Republican primary voters. He appears to have tapped […] Read more »
Why They Like Him
Donald Trump is not going to be the next nominee of the Republican party. The flamboyant businessman has made billions in real estate, but politics is another matter. He manifestly lacks the temperament to be president, and his conversion to the Republican party is of recent vintage. As the field […] Read more »
Voters Are More Scared Than They Are Angry
Does the rise of brash speaking candidates like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders suggest a new, more potent level of anger among the American electorate? An anger that has reached a tipping point and threatens to truly upend the system. Or are we seeing echoes of previously angry electorates that […] Read more »
The Trump Conundrum
August is arriving, and we are entering week six of Donald Trump’s rise—first into the double digits, now into first place—in the national polls for the Republican presidential primary race. … The fact that Trump’s very conservative, anti-immigration, militantly anti-establishment, and—most important—angry backers never cared much for the independent and […] Read more »
The Appeal of ‘Trump-ism’
Is the “silent majority” ready to roar again? Donald Trump thinks so. At his big rally in Phoenix recently, the bombastic businessman insisted: “The ‘silent majority’ is back, and we are going to take the country back.” Trump’s future in the GOP presidential race is uncertain after his churlish attacks […] Read more »