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Charles R. Shetron: Trump taking on big business, liberals, one-world promoters

In Republican precincts there has been a great deal of unease about their collective inability to advance their very mainstream ideas. To explain the lack of progress, rhetoric about the bias of the mainstream media and the untold millions of dollars off the backs of union members to promote the propaganda of the Progressive/Democratic cause is offered, which is true, but doesn’t fully explain their lack of progress. Until Donald Trump!

Big business and big, intrusive, progressive government get along very well together and both promote the idea of one-world government. Trump doesn’t support that idea, and his stance has resonated with the uneasy Republican Party members, and some others in the electorate, including some objective Democrats. Trump’s success has caused great concern with the progressive, political elite, but the most interesting aspect of the situation is the statements and actions of the leadership of the Republican Party and some of their big-money backers.

From their responses, it appears the elite of the political and business classes are all of the same progressive mind, which explains why the Republican leadership hasn’t seriously followed their own party platform and disappointed and frustrated their members.

Charles R. Shetron, Oakdale

This story was originally published June 28, 2016 at 5:51 PM with the headline "Charles R. Shetron: Trump taking on big business, liberals, one-world promoters."

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