Donald Trump predicted that he would transform the Republican Party into a “worker’s party” if he wins the 2016 election.
“Five, 10 years from now—different party,” Trump told Bloomberg Politics during an extended sit-down folded within the magazine’s profile on Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus. “You’re going to have a worker’s party. A party of people that haven’t had a real wage increase in 18 years, that are angry. What I want to do, I think cutting Social Security is a big mistake for the Republican Party.”
Trump’s comments immediately caught attention on social media, given that “worker’s party” is a term adopted by many left-wing socialist political organizations. The term has also been used by right-wing groups like the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, or Nazi Party.
In the Bloomberg interview, Trump outlined a new vision for the GOP vastly different from the laissez-faire, hawkish, inclusive-to-minorities plan the party set forth after losing the 2012 presidential election. Trump’s Republican Party would restrict free trade, protect Social Security and push the U.S. to turn inwards.
As the billionaire mogul told Bloomberg, his new model for the party came from his own opinions and from chatting with Republican voters on the campaign trail rather than from “deep analysis.”
His signature promise to build a wall along the southern U.S. border, he said, came not as a rejection of the GOP’s autopsy report but from an “instinctive” feeling that something had to be done about immigration.
“When I made my [announcement] speech at Trump Tower, the June 16 speech,” he told Bloomberg, “I didn’t know about the Gang of Eight. … I just knew instinctively that our borders are a mess.”
Trump told the magazine that his well-attended rallies and presumptive nomination prove that he has the right ideas to move the party forward.
“All these millions and millions of people,” he said. “It’s a movement.”
The workers party. Plus we’ll keep the hispanics and muslims out. We’ll all come together as One People.
Make America great. We’ll close our borders, unite as One Country.
I will be the bestest President ever. You can rewrite the Consitution. You’ll never need nobody but me. One Leader.
I’ve heard this song before.
BEWARE of racism cloaked in the mantle of populism that presents itself as
“(White) workers rights”.
EDIT TO ADD; This is one of the biggest mistakes that some of the so-called progressives make. They think that the demo that Rump is targeting is all about economic issues. Don’t be fooled, look past the slogan. It’s the racism that he’s pushing to the fore NOT the economic issues.
David and Charles Koch are in danger of having fatal strokes… from laughing. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of Sanders supporters are now furiously emailing each other…“See, I told you he wasn’t that bad… he’s on our side! He’s one of us! Hillary’s the real Republican! We can trust Trump!!”
So the Republican party is going to become one big happy “union”? LOL, they sure picked the wrong guy this time…
Power to the proletariat! Down with the bourgeoisie! Oh, wait. Donnie, are you sure?