3 Mar 2020 4:05 pm
Termin8tor » 03 Mar 2020 3:23 pm » wrote:Trump absolutely is a Republican, but holds the Republican Establishment in contempt and wants to dis-empower them.Misty » 03 Mar 2020 1:40 pm » wrote:Trump is not a Republican and Sanders is not a Democrat.
Sam Nunberg was one of Sniffles' earliest advisers.Trump registered as a Republican in Manhattan in 1987 and since that time has changed his party affiliation five times.
In 1999, Trump changed his party affiliation to the Independence Party of New York.
In August 2001, Trump changed his party affiliation to Democratic.
In September 2009, Trump changed his party affiliation back to the Republican Party.
In December 2011, Trump changed to "no party affiliation" (independent).
In April 2012, Trump again returned to the Republican Party.
In a 2004 interview, Trump told CNN's Wolf Blitzer: "In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat," explaining: "It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans.
Now, it shouldn't be that way. But if you go back, I mean it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats.
But certainly we had some very good economies under Democrats, as well as Republicans.
But we've had some pretty bad disaster under the Republicans."
In a July 2015 interview, Trump said that he has a broad range of political positions and that "I identify with some things as a Democrat."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politic ... nald_Trump
Nunberg became convinced that a candidate who could blend Ross Perot’s billionaire populism with a hard-line stance on undocumented immigrants could capture the Republican presidential nomination.
And that's exactly what Trump did, and why he was able to take over the Republican party.
Nunberg advised Sniffles to listen to Mark Levin's show, so much of what Sniffles said during his campaign was just him parroting Mark Levin.
It was all a **** act, and you bought it.
You were conned and you're too stupid to even realize it.
Sniffles also tapped into the racist portion of the Republican party by becoming a Birther.In the early to middle part of the previous decade, Trump’s proto-political operation was essentially a two-man team—there was Roger Stone, now a felon, and there was Stone’s protégé, Sam Nunberg.
One of Nunberg’s self-appointed tasks was to help Trump understand what the masses on the right really wanted.
And one way he did that was by listening to Mark Levin’s increasingly popular radio show.
The people who were tuning in most intently to Levin, Nunberg thought, were the people most likely to vote for Trump if he launched an actual bid.
“Donald Trump,” Nunberg told me, meaning his candidacy, meaning his victory, “would never have happened without Mark Levin.”
Nunberg’s frequent emails to Trump, sent via an assistant in Trump’s office and which have not been reported on before, were accounts of the many grievances that animated Levin and his listeners.
Union members resented union leaders.
Republican rank and file loathed Republican elites.
The Tea Party, in the estimation of Levin and his listeners, didn’t start as a reaction to the liberal outrages of President Barack Obama—it started as a reaction to what they viewed as the inconsistently hard-line conservative policies of President George W. Bush.
Amnesty for immigrants, for instance? An absolute no-go.
Trump, Nunberg stressed when we talked, didn’t want to be told what to say, but Nunberg nonetheless made his pitch for him as an insurgent outsider: “This is all marketing and you’re a great product … in a new type of market,” he said he told Trump.
“Help me help you sell gold to these people that normally buy gold.”
And a man who probably never set foot in a church or cracked open a Bible, managed to convince Evangelicals that he was some kind of a religious icon.And Trump in 2011 seized on what people, some people—misguided, bigoted or both—thought about the country’s first black president.
The birtherism campaign he began to wage was the distillation of his scattershot but resolute education as the kibitzer, the gossip hound, the insurgent outsider, the nascent politician, the feeder off the fever swamps. The follower.
“I’m starting to wonder myself whether or not he was born in this country,” he said on Fox News in March of that year.
“He doesn’t have a birth certificate,” he told talker Laura Ingraham two days later. “Somebody told me …”
“A lot of people do not think it was an authentic certificate,” he said on CNN in 2012, long after the White House released Obama’s “long form” birth certificate.
“Was it a birth certificate? You tell me,” he told ABC News in 2013.
“Some people say that was not his birth certificate.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... eal-096841
