JEFFREY CARTER: A Different Framing of Trump Supporters: Independent Contractors.

Haley speaks to the Establishment. I met her at a fundraising party for Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo. It’s clear she put the groundwork in to try and curry support for her run. It was transparent at the party. She came, gave a well-rehearsed stump speech, and then left. There was no mingling.

But, while she hits some points well, like abortion, she is tone-deaf on others. Kind of like the Republican Establishment.

Trump connects with regular people. No one understands why. The Democrats that write for Bari Weiss’s Free Press don’t get it either. What they don’t get is that Trump is the Republican version of Obama. Obama was a terrible president, but he could talk to “the people”. Obama’s instincts and policies were anti-capitalistic and anti-American. Obama believes America has many many fatal flaws that can only be overcome through strong centralized government solutions, or socialism.

Obama and his cadre are weak on crime, and strong on division by race. It was Obama by his behind-the-scenes defense of Claudine Gay at Harvard who made it drag out so long. Penny Pritzker is a long-time Obama acolyte.

MSNBC and other mainstream outlets preach division and only see things through the lens of race or religion. Trump doesn’t. Neither did Reagan and the Republican Establishment hated Reagan.

Trump sees the best in America. “Make America Great Again” resonates. He relates to what the college-educated press calls “blue-collar workers”. However, those blue-collar workers aren’t what they used to be. Many of them own their businesses. They are self-directed and self-employed. They should be referred to as “independent contractors”.

Since he was in commercial real estate, Trump has worked extensively with these kinds of people. They are smart, though most didn’t go to college. Their unions have abandoned them.

Interesting.