T. Belman. McCarthy is remiss in not mentioning Sarah Palin. She started the movement when she ran for Governor of Alaska. You will note that she won that election due to her attack on the establishment for its corruption. When she was the Republican nominee for VP, her wings were clipped by McCain who refused to let her fly.
When she was considering running for the Republican nominee for President for the 2012 campaign, she laid out her platform in many of her speeches. Remember such phrases as “Drill, Baby, Drill”, “all the above” and crony capitalism and “drain the swamp”. She was for “constitutional conservatism’. She was for getting the government off the backs of the people and removing regulations. She was firmly against amnesty for aliens. She favoured simplifying the tax code. She never failed to remember the vets. She gave rise to the Tea Party and her endorsement in political races in 2010 and 2012 were much sought after. She also was a staunch supporter of Israel and mentioned this in all her speeches.
You may recall that very early on in the primaries, she endorsed Trump before anyone else did.
Trump simply embraced all her positions and ran with them. He even aligned with Breitbart and hired Steve Bannon who ran it. You will recall that Sarah Palin very early on developed a close association with Breitbart himself. Brietbart and Bannon made a movie on Palin at their own expense. Trump also hired many of her advisers.
So I was very disappointed when Trump didn’t acknowledge her in his speech on election night.
By Andrew R McCarthy, NATIONAL REVIEW
It will take a long time to analyze exactly what happened in the extraordinary election of 2016. It is already clear, though, that what propelled Donald Trump to the presidency was his grasping, before others caught on, that the contest was far less about right versus left, or even Republican versus Democrat, than about the country versus Washington.
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