Joe Scarborough gives up the game: After 30 years, the GOP base realized ‘it never trickles down’

[UCmeNdc]

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough complained on Tuesday that the Republican Party was fracturing because it had advocated economic policies benefiting the richest Americans for the last 30 years with the promise that the wealth would “trickle down” to others — but it never did.

“The problem with the Republican Party over the past 30 years is they haven’t — and I’ll say, we haven’t — developed a message that appeals to the working class Americans economically in a way that Donald Trump’s does,” the former Republican lawmaker explained. “We talk about cutting capital gains taxes that the 10,000 people that in the crowd cheering for Donald Trump, they are never going to get a capital gains cut because it doesn’t apply.”

“We talk about getting rid of the death tax,” he continued. “The death tax is not going to impact the 10,000 people in the crowd for Donald Trump. We talk about how great free trade deals are. Those free trade deals never trickle down to those 10,000 people in Donald Trump’s rallies.”

“You sound like Bernie Sanders,” NBC’s Chuck Todd pointed out.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/joe-scarborough-gives-up-the-game-after-30-years-the-gop-base-realized-it-never-trickles-down/

[liberal N proud]

1. Reaganomics Dead?

I will believe it when I see it.

[closeupready]

12. It won't matter. Any convenient, plausible-sounding lie that sanctifies greed

will suffice, whether it's Reaganomics or some other kind of bullshit dressed up in fancy language and big italicized words.

[brewens]

2. Chucky Tard would have to accuse him for sounding like Bernie! You can't even discuss having

government work for the average people without being accused of wanting free stuff and all that.

[Jester Messiah]

3. And you, Chuck, sound like a simpering corporate kiss-ass. n/t

[Schema Thing]

4. So Joe Fucking Scarborough said it before Hillary Clinton (has yet to say it)?

Or has she said it? Has she ever lamented the current state of Oligarchy? Plutocracy?

[fredamae]

5. He Dared to Speak Truth to Power?

Did he just make himself M$NBC Next Target?

[Gothmog]

6. Supply side economics do not work

Trickle down economics are a scam

[benld74]

7. developed a message that appeals to the working class,,in a way that Donald Trump’s does??

WTH? Joey drank the koolaid long ago and NOW is drinking trumps as well,,,,

[0rganism]

8. well, either he doesn't get it or he's covering up

“What we’re finding this year is, they’ll even support a guy who says Planned Parenthood is good if he comes with an economic approach that they feels that could actually help them more in the future.” - Scar

part of me thinks he has to know that's not the full reason, but he can't say it on the air. he's still playing up the economic angle, even as he admits that Reaganomics was never going to benefit the primary constituency of his party, socially conservative racists, even though party leadership, investment bankers and other capitalists, got some very nice payouts.

[Marr]

9. Their base never cared about it to begin with.

Krugman was spot on the other day on CNN. He said the GOP leadership has, for decades, leveraged racism and xenophobia to garner votes, then used their power to service a 1%er, trickle down economic agenda that their base never cared about.

So Trump comes along and simply decouples the bigotry from the economic scam, and says, 'look, you can have all this racism and xenophobia WITHOUT the trickle down economics', and the GOP establishment can do nothing but panic and try to prove that they're relevant.

They had a tiger by the tail for years and it just realized it can eat them anytime it likes.

[Populist_Prole]

13. That's exactly what it is

"look, you can have all this racism and xenophobia WITHOUT the trickle down economics', and the GOP establishment can do nothing but panic and try to prove that they're relevant"

The GOP establishment and the business press freaked out the same way back in '92 when Pat Buchanan started resonating with the same base. They dynamic was exactly the same then as it is now. The GOP establishment is not at all blanching due to the ostensibly impolitic nature of Trump's bombast: It's worried that the supply-side dogma they push is getting the legs kicked out from underneath it. All the tsk-tsk-ing at the social issue bombast is just for show.

[Mojorabbit]

10. K&R nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. And a week from now he'll be saying the opposite. These people are nothing more han overpaid hacks.

I'll never understand why people submit themselves to this punishment. I'll never understand.

[flobee1]

14. CHUCKY

Give me
ONE
example of when it has trickled down!

FU'

This kind of thing pisses me off beyond words
Its like they are upset that we dont just shut up and take what they give us!