@Amanda Matthews
The Dems did it too. And continue to do it (at least in New York).

But that doesn't excuse the Repubs, who have voter suppression as one of their core values.

#4.1.1
100,000 voters removed in NY. Failure to finish counting the primary vote in California. Disenfranchisement of Sandets supporters when the Clinton Creature took over the DNC in 2015. Telling Sanders Bernie Bros and Bitches to go away because ‘they got this’.

As the old saying goes, a pox on both their houses.

@FreeSociety Priebus, McMaster, et al.

The Trump administration is firmly in Adelson's pocket these days, he even has monthly meetings (in person) with Trump, wherein he tells him what he wants done.

How else do psychopaths like Bolton get to influence policy? He goes against everything Trump ran on, yet there he is, crafting policy, exactly as he did for Bush. Policy never really changes, because the same parasites run the show.

The idea that Trump is a populist is fake news. The only real populists have been politically marginalized or exiled.

#5.1.1

You are correct that both the so-called "left" and right Political Party Establishments are essentially the same (aside from a few fringe social issues), and are both corrupt, Globalist sell-outs and Warmongers through and through.

But...there are populist movements for both these Parties that reject these policies and the Globalist Institutions in key ways (to the extent that they are educated).

Trump is the charismatic face of "Trumpism" which grew out of the Ron Paul movement, and the first grassroots "Tea Party" movement (before that was hijacked). The "Trumpism" movement, and also the "Brexit" movement are both efforts to escape the shackles of these Global Government Structures and Global Rules that have been built up for years -- and reclaim National Sovereignty and direct control by the people.

The Bernie Sanders movement was also a populist movement that was critical of the exact same Oligarchs and Oligarch structure but which focused more on income inequality and government services - while Trumpism focused more on Economic Independence and Economic Security (from Foreign interests), Balanced Trade, sustainable Industry and Manufacturing, not being the World's Piggy Bank anymore, local Border security, and a direct rejection of 'political correctness' and World Government concepts (and Bush-Clinton-Soros elitism).

Neither populist movement is without having some good ideas of real merit, and also some false hope involved and weakness.

But the Globalists did not want Trump to win, and they are trying real, real hard to take him down - which is in of itself very instructive here.

The extent that Trump can remake, redefine, and reshape the Republican Party and wrest it away from the Globalist and Neocon controllers will determine whether or not he is a transformative, historic President. If so ... the Republican Party could return back to something more like it was in the mid-late 1800s and early 1900s (as the Democrats brought about bad things like Slavery, the corrupt Federal Reserve Cartel Money Monopoly, the Income Tax, World War I, the KKK, the CIA-Complex and Warfare State in 1947, and pushed for the first World Government concepts both before and after WW-II).

I always root for the populist wing of both parties to cast out their corrupt Establishment Core, and also for Brexit to win out over the E.U.

But it likely that growth in 3rd-Parties will also be necessary to keep that pressure advancing. In the meantime I want to see Trump make good on as many campaign promises as he can, and use this moment to remake what the Republican Party is.