it s not trump. the problem is, other republicans in leadership haven t been supporting trump s policies. that s been the main problem. he couldn t get the votes for getting rid of obamacare. and he hasn t gotten a lot of republican support for tax reform. this program will help people like trump, because when you cut corporate taxes and you cut the top marginal rates. everybody benefits. david: all right. well, that s a good point, e-mack, that make makes is that it s not just donald trump, i mean, there s the whole infrastructure that has to vote on it, congress, et cetera. peggy noonen wrote to this point in the wall street journal this weekend. paul ryan, compare this to 1986 when ronald reagan won tax reform. that s another world. a broadly popular president, both parties were strong each working however reluctantly with the other. in the reagan era, you had democrats on board with the reagan tax cuts.
welcome back. we are so happy to welcome peggy noonen. she s known as the columbusi columnist journal. she worked for years in tv nuew and lived to tell the tale. she will try whenever possible to preview her saturday column on friday nights, peggy permitting. this week s column is entitled under anesthesia, everything was beautiful. kind of hunteresque thompsonesque. welcome to you. thank you for being here. thank you very much, brian. for all you just said and for asking about the column in the wall street journal. it makes me happy. while we want people to read the column, what s the tease you give people, especially coming off that kind of foggy hazy title? yes.
leaking starts when people are dissatisfied that they re not getting heard. so what do they do? they go and try to influence that from the outside. you have to have a team mentality. the general certainly understands that and i think that s kind of team playing discipline he s instilling. leland: team playing if it starts in the west wing, conceivably makes it easier to get things done. reasonable people can agree that it s not been successful in terms of what they want to get done on capitol hill. peggy noonen writing this in the wall street journal about general kelly. generals are not known for a lack of self-confidence. if he goes up against mitch mcconnell it won t be a big dog versus eager puppy, in that i m guessing she is referring to reince priebus. and he has how much, if you w t
it would give credibility to their thought that trump represents the perfect anti-establishment guy. that s why the establishment is trying to kill him. no one would regard peggy noonen as a member of the liberal media. the column you won t for the wall street journal this week helps him. when he s perceived of being under attack, they rally to him. yeah, that s true. i think his supporters feel he has a lot of enemies. once they see somebody pushing back against something he said or did, they they are very good at calling you they see themselves, i think, in a way as a very special and closed group. anybody who doesn t see it their way is a rhino, do you know what i mean? absolutely. i m sure you ve been called them. my god, yes.
my book, peggy noonan, thank you for being here. so who are donald trump supporters? polls keep painting white, older, working class, high school educated, but they are not the only ones. joining me now, an i.t. specialist in the finance industry and micah surah, a data scientist and political policy researchers. i joke to packs, wait a minute, we ordered two angry white guys and you two show up. does the media get it wrong when we judge who the supporters are? largely, i think so. it s not necessarily that it s a body of white angry people, it s also just trump has a message that somewhat affects me and somewhat i can believe with and agree in. what is that message, what is it about donald trump that s affecting you? it s the kind of shining city on the hill, the american exceptionalism idea, america, it s time to kind of go back to a yesteryear when things were somewhat more economically