trans-pacific partnership and the u.n. climate accords. trump comes in and rejects both. because he believes, rightly they ceded to watch american power and decision-making too far-flung foreign bureaucracy. but biden, oh, he would return things to the old status quo. the trans-pacific partnership is another disaster. done and pushed by special interests who want to rape our country, expect other countries to pay their fair share for the cost of their defense. americans will be the captains of their own destiny once again. laura: trump actually goes to brussels and he declares thau the era of free riding from nato is over, the american taxpayer is fed up, and the foreignri policy elites gathered, just bristled.
again, we just freeze mark halperin on the economy, 67% to 7%. you take that in any election at a time of unrest economically in this country. of stagnant wages, the rich getting richer, poor getting poorer, middle class feeling squeezed, a guy has a 67% to 7% lead over the rest of the field. that s just that s just dominance like i don t think we ve seen. you know, policy elites the editorial boards don t like his tax plan. they say it s not specific. what is driving trump and carson is not the specifics. the voters don t care. it s the style of leadership they represent. i know i ve said it already. you ve got to the overtake trump on things like if you re a republican and want to beat him for the nomination on the economy, a better leader on the economy. cares about people like me. ability to beat hillary clinton. these are things that are going
higher tariffs on imports and something that policy elites hate. do republican rank and file voters care that much about trade policy? i don t know. donald trump running around saying that hedge funders need to pay more in tax and outrageous how much they pay and not clear to me this is a problem for the republican base. especially because trump has a credibility that certain other politicians don t have with them. if they say raise taxes on the rich an you re barack obama, conservative voters hear that and assume raise taxes on the rich and spend it on a program i don t care. when donald trump says cut taxes for the middle class, he has credibility with some of the voters to believe he ll do that and allow him to sell that. yes, donald trump is not really a conservative. the question is, are republican voters really conservative in the way that republican donors and elites are on the issues and trump isn t a conservative? whether he is a policy trojan
upon a time not that many years ago, the elites, at least in the republican party, tried to dampen down the craziness of some of the nuts at the grass roots level. for example, we have the john burke society, essentially tee party of its day and bill lu buckley, most respected conservative publication, read them out of the republican party and conservative movement because he knew it was damaging in the long run. this is a view no longer shared by the policy elites in the conservative movement in the republican party. now, ronald reagan used rhetoric as well as any president. but i don t remember him ever being anywhere near as extreme as people like bobby jindal today. and frankly, on policy, he would be barely even considered a
done about it. and by the way, tom freed man and joe klein and the rest of the w elite mainstream media you just showed, they never gave president bush the benefit of the doubt when it came to national security issues that got, in tom freedman s words, messy. they paw lit sized iraq and afghan n stay. for them to say somehow conservatives are politicizing benghazi, which this is a disgrace. the personal representative of the president of the united states is dead in the street in benghazi and dragged through the streets and these policy elites in the media saying it doesn t matter. there are a lot of different facets to this. they requested security beforehand on numerous occasions . that security was denied. they knew what was happening in realtime. they they ever told the american people. then there is the cover up aspect that was ran very deep within government circles all to protect the president so he can cruise to re-election. it worked. well, i think another aspect is what