During the Fox News Channel’s Election Coverage, columnist Charles Krauthammer stated that if Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump wins, “this is an ideological and electoral revolution of the kind we haven’t seen since Reagan. What this means, ideologically, is that Republican Party has become a populist party and the country is going to be without a classically conservative party.”
Krauthammer said, “If…Trump wins, this is an ideological and electoral revolution of the kind we haven’t seen since Reagan. What this means, ideologically, is that Republican Party has become a populist party and the country is going to be without a classically conservative party.”
He added, “Net globalization, trade is always a positive, but net means there are winners or losers. And Trump is a guy who understood that. He’s spoken to those who lost out. he said, I speak for you. I don’t know whether his remedies are going to work, but certainly what we’re seeing is an ideological shift, speaking for the white working class, and also, the non-white working class, and it’s going to be an electoral shift because that means that the old Rust Belt is now in play permanently for the Republicans. As is, on the other hand, with the rise of Hispanic registration, Hispanic voting, the classically safe southern states for Republicans are no longer that classically safe.”
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