No Longer the Party of Reagan? (interview, wages, illegal, nationalist)

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Trump adviser tells House Republicans: You're no longer Reagan's party | TheHill



Donald Trump’s economic adviser Stephen Moore told a group of top Republicans last week that they now belong to a fundamentally different political party.

Moore surprised some of the Republican lawmakers assembled at their closed-door whip meeting last Tuesday when he told them they should no longer think of themselves as belonging to the conservative party of Ronald Reagan.


They now belong to Trump’s populist working-class party, he said.
A source briefed on the House GOP whip meeting — which Moore attended as a guest of Majority Whip Steve Scalise — said several lawmakers told him they were taken aback by the economist’s comments.

“For God’s sake, it’s Stephen Moore!” the source said, explaining some of the lawmakers’ reactions to Moore’s statement. “He’s the guy who started Club for Growth. He’s Mr. Supply Side economics.”

“I think it’s going to take them a little time to process what does this all mean,” the source added of the lawmakers. “The vast majority of them were on the wrong side. They didn’t think this was going to happen.”

Asked about his comments to the GOP lawmakers, Moore told The Hill he was giving them a dose of reality.

“Just as Reagan converted the GOP into a conservative party, Trump has converted the GOP into a populist working-class party,” Moore said in an interview Wednesday. “In some ways this will be good for conservatives and in other ways possibly frustrating.”

Moore has spent much of his career advocating for huge tax and spending cuts and free trade. He’s been as close to a purist ideological conservative as they come, but he says the experience of traveling around Rust Belt states to support Trump has altered his politics.

“It turned me more into a populist,” he said, expressing frustration with the way some in the Beltway media dismissed the economic concerns of voters in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

“Having spent the last three or four months on the campaign trail, it opens your eyes to the everyday anxieties and financial stress people are facing,” Moore added. “I’m pro-immigration and pro-trade, but we better make sure as we pursue these policies we’re not creating economic undertow in these areas.”

Do you believe this? I don't. The GOP is still very anti-union and supports Wall Street deregulation.

[ShiverMeTimber]

Trump's message this entire time has been the forgotten American worker. He's doing it for the little guy and he's been pulling for them since day 1. When he came down the escilators and said mexico was sending us their rapist and murderes and SOME ARE GOOD PEOPLE, the whole purpose of bringing up this issue is how illegal immigration negatively affects American's wages, crime in the cities, and the like. The media on the other hand jumped right towards "bigotry" and "racism" as if that was the whole purpose for bringing it up. Then people hear what he says and agrees and then they too are labled -ist and -phobes. Rarely any of the people who hurl these insults listened to what Trump actually said. They just read thir biased media headline or 5 second sound bite and made up their mind. Anyway point is, Trump has been pulling for the beaten down American worker since his first day on the trail. You can call it populist, nationalist, or whatever you like. It's not new. Also many (most) of the democrats are wall street puppets just like the establishment Rs.

[SuperOscar]

Sounds like a great message for the foundation of Nazi America as the Republican Party becomes the Republican White Nationalist Party. It is going to be a very interesting four years to say the least....