{"id":29508,"date":"2015-08-25T19:37:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T02:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29508"},"modified":"2023-09-29T02:18:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T09:18:56","slug":"be-afraid-following-trump-focus-group-fox-news-word-doctors-legs-are-shaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29508","title":{"rendered":"Be Afraid: Following Trump Focus Group, Fox News Word Doctor’s ‘Legs Are Shaking’"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a palpable fear within the Republican Party that is directly attributable to the alleged popularity of their resident loudmouth blowhard and racist demagogue, Donald Trump. The fact that Trump’s offensive reality show antics has dominated the GOP primary, effectively suppressing the media presence of every other candidate, is causing the party regulars to tremble at the notion that he might actually have a shot at the nomination (he doesn’t<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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While their fear of Trump prevailing in the primaries is largely unfounded, they are right to be mortified by what Trump’s success with some Republican voters means to the party and its prospects in the general election next fall. He is cementing the party’s reputation as antagonistic to minorities and political moderates, but even worse, he is appealing to an ignorance that is rampant on the right.<\/p>\n

To illustrate the frightful attitudes of Trump’s supporters, Fox News “Word Doctor”<\/em> Frank Luntz conducted a focus group to find out what drew them to the cartoon-brained billionaire. The results<\/a> painted a picture of a community of dunces who have mistaken being vulgar and obnoxious for straight talk. After listening to the group, Luntz, who Trump has called a “a low class slob,”<\/em> told the assembled reporters that…<\/p>\n

“You guys understand how significant this is? This is real. I\u2019m having trouble processing it. Like, my legs are shaking. I want to put the Republican leadership behind this mirror and let them see. They need to wake up. They don\u2019t realize how the grassroots have abandoned them. Donald Trump is punishment to a Republican elite that wasn\u2019t listening to their grassroots.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What a load of bull. If Republicans have anything to fear it is the Frankenstein monster of their own making. If they need to wake up it is from the nightmare doomsday scenarios that they have been promulgating for the last seven years that portrayed President Obama as a dictator who would destroy the economy, confiscate their guns, outlaw Christianity, and declare the country the new capital of the Global Islamic Caliphate.<\/p>\n

The grassroots of the GOP didn’t abandon the party. They were shuffled into a Tea Party subdivision that has been whining about exactly the same things that Trump’s supporters are whining about. In fact, Trump has assumed the mantle of Tea Party leadership that Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and others tried and failed to assume. He isn’t punishment for not listening, he is the manifestation of having listened and taken their idiotic yammering seriously. Some of the reasons given by the group for supporting Trump were indistinguishable from the bellyaching of the Tea Party. For instance…<\/p>\n