In one of Donald Trump’s recent rallies, he made the claim that the “Republican Party has lost its way.” Sadly, that is the truth. Whoever the ‘leadership’ of the party may be, they have lost touch with Republican voters. The proof is there; some of the largest voter turnouts in history have been registered, and credited to the candidacy of Donald Trump.

“The Republican Party now, something has happened, you can call it a miracle, you can call it whatever you want to do, but they’re talking about it all over the world, it’s one of the biggest stories in all of politics one of big stories of the world — the millions of millions of people pouring into the Republican Party, not to the Democrats.

“These are people that are disenfranchised. These are people that haven’t had a pay increase in twenty years, these are people who have seen their jobs go to China, and to Mexico and to Japan and to Vietnam and to every other country but us. It’s going to all end,” said Trump.

Trump is obviously talking about trade agreements which have taken millions of our nation’s best jobs and placed them in foreign nations, but is he also talking about ‘income inequality?’ None of the other Republican candidates have even mentioned one of our nation’s greatest problems. Does Trump admit that the middle class is being destroyed as the numbers of Americans living in poverty grow?

After President Obama won his second term in 2012, the Chairman of the RNC, Reince Priebus, promised that the Republican Party would evolve. Sadly, in more than three years it has actually devolved thanks to a small group of radicals and extremists who now control the party.

Our Democratic Republic was intended to accomplish two things by our founding fathers. Those elected were supposed to represent the people who elected them, and the parties would deliberate the issues important to the electorate, eventually reaching a compromise which would satisfy the majority. Neither of these happen today on the right side of the aisle.

Republicans now represent special interests rather than the majority. Obstructionists, led by Ted Cruz, have refused to talk to Democrats, insisting that their policies represent the American people. Polls prove that he is fabricating his ‘facts.’ The majority of Americans disagree with everything Ted Cruz proposes.

Trump is wrong about far more than the few times he is right. But when it comes to the trade deficit, or the anger directed at the Republican establishment, he is 100 percent correct.

It appears that Trump may be the only ‘Republican’ in the race, and defines true conservatism, instead of those of a radical reactionary, more closely than Cruz or Rubio.

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By James Turnage

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