Sunday, January 10, 2016

A Divided Country Gets A Divisive Election


By Dan Balz, Jan 09, 2015 Washington Post

The election year has started as 2015 ended, only more so. If campaigns are always about the future, the 2016 one points to a country that could end this year even more divided against itself than it was after the 2012 election.

The year 2015 will long be remembered as the year of Donald Trump, all the more so because of the unexpectedly strong response his candidacy set off. Other Republican candidates once hoped they could ignore the meaning of Trump’s appeal and ride along their own track. Some still think that way, but in reality, all have been subsumed into Trump’s world, even if not his worldview.

The other Republican candidates, particularly those in the mainstream conservative wing, now appreciate, as they might not have before, how much they are dealing with an electorate fed up with Washington and the Republican Party’s leadership, with economic dislocations that have affected the working and middle classes, and with resentment toward cultural shifts that reflect the diversity and tolerance of a changing country.

 
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