Thread: Why a Stanford grad joined the Trump revolt: Column

Why a Stanford grad joined the Trump revolt: Column
Charlotte Allen 7:10 a.m. EDT March 28, 2016

Trump's reversal of GOP's anti-American free trade and immigration policies is drawing voters.

I went to Stanford, and I voted for Donald Trump. So did my husband. He went to Yale.

And so we spent more than three hours standing in line to vote in Washington, D.C.’s Republican presidential caucus on March 12. We suspected that this would be time spent quixotically, as Washington is the bullseye of the anti-Trump GOP political and intellectual establishment. Sure enough, establishment favorite Florida Sen. Marco Rubio won the majority of the delegates, and Trump finished a poor third. Still, we wanted to be part of the nationwide rebellion against the establishment that has resulted in Trump’s becoming the clear GOP front-runner practically everywhere else in America. And we weren’t alone. Trump is actually enjoying surprisingly strong support among highly educated people like us — and for good reason.

The common wisdom is that the majority of Trump’s supporters are barely literate knuckle-draggers. They’re “low-information,” in the words of Trump’s leading GOP rival nationwide, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. And it’s true that the largest education-level cohort among the Republicans who have consistently given Trump a double-digit lead in the primaries consists of people with high-school educations or less.

But in Massachusetts, home of Harvard and MIT and ranked as the No. 1 state in the union for residents possessing at least a bachelor’s degree, a CNN exit poll for the March 1 Republican primary showed Trump winning over 46% of voters with college degrees and even edging out Ohio “moderate” Gov. John Kasich (29% to 28%) among voters with postgraduate sheepskins. Exit polls in other states show similar results

For nearly 25 years — since President George H.W. Bush lost his bid for a second term in 1992 — the Republican Party has been unable to field a presidential candidate who could excite enough of its own party members to the ballot box so as to secure a majority of the popular vote. (In the lone exception, George W. Bush squeaked by with 50.7% in 2004 in a patriotic surge following 9/11.) The main reason: the GOP establishment’s suicidally inexplicable but intractable commitment to “comprehensive immigration reform” (amnesty for 11 million illegal immigrants and continued mass migration) and so-called free trade.

Voters of both political parties cite the U.S. economy, faltering since 2008, as one of their top concerns. And Republican voters can see perfectly well that it makes no sense to import around 400,000 illegal immigrants annually, the vast majority of them unskilled, into a labor market where, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the real unemployment rate is close to 11% if you count people who have given up looking for work because they can’t find it, or who are working part-time because they need the money but would prefer to work full-time. Furthermore, only the most Pollyanna-ish of economists would argue that unlimited immigration in a weak economy doesn’t depress wages.

Free trade is an elegant concept in the 18th-century pages of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. The Portuguese export wine to Britain, and the British export woolen goods to Portugal — a win-win situation, your Econ 101 professor would say. In the real world of the 21st century, “free trade” means 25 years’ worth of treaties and arrangements in which the U.S. hews to the Adam Smith playbook while China, for example, puts its thumb onto the scales via rock-bottom wages, allegedly ignored labor violations, poison-level air and water pollution and a manipulated currency. And “free trade” hasn’t exactly delivered Smith’s promised export benefits to the U.S. We currently run an almost $366 billion trade deficit with China alone and a $484.1 billion trade deficit worldwide.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...lumn/82071844/

Thank you Charlotte Allen! Thank you so much for standing in line for 3 hours to vote for Trump in DC! Thank you for standing up for Trump Supporters and yes, many of us have college degrees. It should not matter in our country whether one has a college degree or a high school diploma or no degree or diploma when you choose a President or any other politician.

When candidates like Cruz talk about "low information" voters, that is disgusting!! That is like dismissing their opinion because of education level. Terrible.

Americans live in our country. This is our home, young, old, rich, poor, educated or not so much. One doesn't need a degree or diploma to know our country is in trouble and needs fixing. One doesn't need a big education to know we have illegal aliens here who need to go. One doesn't need a college education to know we're losing our jobs and manufacturers because of free trade. These workers who lost their jobs know first-hand before it hits the news and funnels to WaPo or the NYT elites that we've lost our industrial base because they were laid off when the plant closed and there's not been a new one come to take its place. This is very simple arithmetic for Americans who live here.

The reality is those with big educations are responsible for causing the problem. It's the well-educated who claim immigration is good for America when it's the complete opposite. It's the think tanks and MBA's who claim "free trade is good for America". It's lawyers who claim "we're a nation of immigrants".

It's the so-called "scholar" class that's destroyed our economy, ruined the lives and dreams of 94 million Americans and bankrupted our country for generations.

So, we thank you and your husband Charlotte and all the other Trump Supporters who have stood in line to vote, who have spent hours and hours in lines to get into Rallies to hear Trump first-hand, who have put yard signs on their front lawn and bumper stickers on their cars and wear Trump's famous hat, "Make America Great Again".

Americans are taking back their country, long over-due and in the nick of time. This is an election where we truly will become one to win. Not all Americans see it, not all are going to vote for Trump, but hopefully enough will see and enough will vote for Donald Trump that he wins the nomination and the General Election so he can do the hard work and undertake the arduous task of fixing our country.

The PAC and Republicans make this excuse and call us all uneducated that follow trump. This is an insult to everyone following trump and to be honest it just makes us madder. Yes I have an degree hanging on my wall too not that it does much good in this economy. They don't get it and never will because this is how out of touch they are with American citizens.

Exactly, posylady, exactly. I was so glad this woman Charlotte Allen write her column.

When candidates like Cruz talk about "low information" voters, that is disgusting!! That is like dismissing their opinion because of education level. Terrible.

cruz is a disgusting & deceitful hypocrite. He uses smear tactics as well as intimidating voter fraud tactics seen in Utah & Iowa - not presidential material.

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