According to Merriam-Webster a populist is “a member of a political party claiming to represent the common people…” The populist movement has been around since the Jacksonian era and since then we have seen populist politicians rise and fall from power. One of the most notable populists in American history is William Jennings Bryan, a young Democrat from Nebraska, ran for President in 1896 against William McKinley a Gilded Age Republican. Jennings campaigned to those who thought the American economy was corrupt and pushing them out of the system. Similarly, Donald Trump told a similar narrative. Trump preached the idea to make “America Great” once again. His goal is to return America to its former glory and to make sure the common man has his …show more content…
This is not merely our opinion, and is not merely a party opinion. It is the profound belief of patriotic men without distinction of party and in every section of the country” (New York Daily Tribune, 1896). In 1896 American was dramatically changing. This was the start of the industrial revolution, the capitalist elites rising to power, and debatably the first modern campaign. The era of the Republicans using the Civil War to mobilize voters was slowly coming to an end, hence the change of the platform. Republicans were to party of the common folk until Mark Hanna, McKinley’s campaign manager and representative from Ohio, introduced campaign financing to American politics. They relied on the elites, like Rockefeller, to help fund their campaign and used that to their advantage. Even Hanna said himself that “There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is” (Hanna, …show more content…
Both of these men both ran a populist campaign, which begs the question: what made Trump successful and not Bryan? Like Bryan Trump preached that the government needs to fix the economy to help the average American because it is “so unfair”. Additionally, Trump’s “indifference to the issues of sexual orientation that animate the declining religious right, even to the point of defending Planned Parenthood. Trump’s platform combines positions that are shared by many populists but are anathema to movement conservatives—a defense of Social Security, a guarantee of universal health care, economic nationalist trade policies” (Lind, 2016). On Trump’s website he has short clips explaining how he feels on certain issues. For his “Jobs” video he states that “…I will tell you this and I can say it with certainty, I will be the greatest jobs producing President that God ever created. I love the subject, I love doing it, and I love helping people and there’s nothing like helping people like getting them and their family great jobs” (Trump 2016). Additionally, his tax plan and trade policy appeals to both upper-class and working class Americans. Trump’s vision for his trade policy is to “negotiate fair trade deals that create American jobs, increase American wages, and reduce America’s trade deficit” (Trump 2016). His promise to cut of trades with China, the Trans-Pacific Partnership,
The first political parties in America began to form at the end of the 18th century. "The conflict that took shape in the 1790s between the Federalists and the Antifederalists exercised a profound impact on American history." The two primary influences, Thomas Jefferson a...
The Effects of American Reform Movements in the 1900s Living in the United States of America is all about opportunity. The opportunity to get a good job, make money, and lead a life of good quality; in other words, the opportunity to live, live, and live the Pursuit of Happiness. However, the opportunity for many people was not around throughout the 1800s. Certain groups of people did not hold the basic rights that were guaranteed by the Constitution. In fact, most of the people that had opportunity were the wealthy white men, and few other people ever had any chance to lead a good life.
Trump assures voters he will defend their second amendment right to bear arms, an issue many Republicans feel very passionately about. Other issues such as his tax reform plan are designed to appeal to middle class workers frustrated with their jobs or lack of jobs as trump assures voters if elected he will bring business, trade, and jobs back to America. One issue Trump addresses that is also a huge stance the Republican party overall has taken is that he will repeal the Affordable Care Act, and overall he will save our nation from the turmoil and trouble that President Obama and a Democratic executive branch has gotten this nation
Trump built an Empire and will run America like a business. Trump is an experienced and tough dealmaker. Trump has led large organizations before. Not too many people look beyond his bankruptcies and the fact that he inherited large sums. However, he leads an enormous, diversified organization that is worth billions of dollars. This takes loads of Leadership, which is very different from knowledge. Leading a large organization makes you set vision, goals and expect results. You do not know the little details of every level of your organization just like the president does not know. (You mentally couldn’t know all that) That is why you delegate and empower and get information when it is needed and the president will have no shortage of people ready to educate him on issues. Trump is a negotiator. One of his most under discussed attributes, but yet one of his greatest assets. Trump’s spent his entire life and career making and negotiating deals. In his own words, he negotiates to win.
Donald Trump is a republican politician and businessman who was elected on November 8, 2016, as the president of United States taking the power in January of 2017. Trump brought many worries to a lot of people in the U.S.A and abroad which made them unhappy, but his presidency also made many people happy, especially Christians and republicans. I personally did not watch the debates, but I was able to hear about it on people around me, as most of the people that I know wanted Hillary Clinton to win because they saw so much of discrimination on Trump. Trump focused his campaign and debates on focusing on changing America for better, but the better changes were saying was only to give the opportunities to Americans only, cutting off the opportunity
He is going to reform the national debt problems with many different resources. Hopefully, he is going to raise taxes for the richer and leave the taxes in a moderate area for the working class. He is going to crack down big time on illegal immigration. He is going to make the processes to buy guns more thorough and make sure to focus on mental illness more, which he believes is the reason to the mass shooting and school killings, not the guns. I believe that his main voter group will be working white males, because of his views of reformation. He isn’t going to raise their taxes, they will be allowed to keep their guns, and he is promising to make illegal immigration ceases. All of these issues are targeted to working white men, which 77% of America is Caucasian and 49.2% of the population is male. If Donald trump sticks to what he has said when he is elected president, I believe he may actually make America great
The course began in the year 1789, a significant year of transition for the United States. A decade or so prior, the United States was embroiled in a conflict over the inability of a foreign power to govern an overseas territories without proper representation in the foreign power’s government. This conflict, The American Revolution, may be the first significant radical movement in the history of the United States. However, the American Revolution led to unprecedented reforms in North American society. The Civil War, another significant example of a radical movement in the United States, began as a conflict over the issue of states rights. However, it quickly escalated into an issue of the legality and morality of slavery and once that was deemed amoral and illegal, the overthrow of the system that benefited from the institution the most was attacked. Consequently, the movement that responded to that overthrow sought to change the reasons for the radical overthrow. This response or rather reform manifested itself the Civil Rights Movement (1890s-1920). The relationship between radical and reform movements in American history is akin to a cause an effect factor. The radical movements of specifics cause leads to the effect that develops into a reform movement. Radicalism is the process by which change is forced. An aspect or aspects of the society or system is found flawed and action is taken to correct that flaw. The determinate factor in the success of the radical movement in contingent upon the ability of true reformers to create and enforce change. Therefore, radical and reform movements, work in conjunction with each other, as one cannot exist without the other.
The Wizard of Oz has many references to political symbols that I overlooked until now. According to Quentin Taylor, “In the late 1880s and early 1890s, Populism spread rapidly throughout the Midwest and into the South, but Kansas was always the site of its most popular and radical elements. In 1890, Populist candidates began winning seats in state legislatures and Congress, and two years later Populists in Kansas gained control of the lower house of the state assembly, elected a Populist governor, and sent a Populist to the U.S. Senate. The twister that carries Dorothy to Oz symbolizes the Populist cyclone that swept across Kansas in the early 1890s.” Dorothy’s silver shoes are a major symbol in the story, representing silver coins.
The harsh conditions experienced in the United States prompted the Americans to seek ways of improving the society. The populist movement is among the attempts made by a section of the American people to make desirable sociopolitical changes. City workers and farmers united under the Populist Party with the aim of mitigating the excesses of huge business firms (Piott, 2011). The Populist Party aimed at attaining the objective by electing a populist president. During the 1896 elections, the Populist Party candidate William Jennings Bryan lost the election, which caused a huge blow to the party. This development led to the collapse of the populist movement, but the ideas fostered by the movement remained. Even with the collapse of the progressive movement, the American populat...
As a country, the United States is in a major slump for being considered a world superpower. The United States is trillions dollars in debt, has a flawed education system, has a shrinking middle class, growing unemployment, police brutality, racism, and corruption inside the government of the United states. To fix these problems things must change. A democratic candidate, or candidates corrupted by big business and wall street must not be elected into the white house. The only candidate capable of facing off against the presidential candidates is the frontrunner of the republican party, Donald J. Trump. Trump, a man of many successful businesses should be President because he is a businessman, he cares about the American people, and he will undoubtedly make America great like it was in many years past.
This brought a lot of new people to Trump in the campaign, who like that he is the anti-establishment candidate who might bring about real change in Washington. Specifically, he can appeal to a group sometimes referred to as “Brick Voters”, a group noted as wanting to “throw a brick” at establishment politics (Hains). The fact he is an outsider appeals to these people who feel neglected by their government and traditional politicians. This point can be emphasized be doing two things: painting Clinton as a very establishment candidate, as she has been in politics her entire career, and associating Trump’s lack of political involvement with being an outsider and thus being capable of bringing change to
He throws people off by discriminating them and hurting their feelings, he hardly put himself in someone shoes. Even though he doesn’t do these things people believe his words. Words can be put into action, but they should actually listen to him without him making so many promises. “Promises are made to be broken,” so while he’s making those promises people should think of that quote. Donald Trump might not make a good speech but, he does know a lot about business, but that’s not all a president should know, a president should know how to talk to someone without hurting their feeling or discriminating them. According to USA Today, “Trump leads the presidential election with men by, 50%-39%, Trump also leads Clinton with white voters by, 51%-40%. Trump is doing great for his first time running, he’s impressing a lot of people. He makes speech and tries his best people honor that in a
Donald Trump has many good ideas if he does become President of the United States. The citizens just need to give him full support so he can defeat Hillary Clinton and win the nomination. Donald Trump is the best bet and there is evidence of that in in his leadership abilities, financial abilities, and his promise to protect this great country. Let's make America great
What it the appeal of “The Donald” and who is he really? Does he really want to “Make America great
Our country is underperforming and needs new leadership. Leadership is also what the world needs. Donald wants our country to move forward in the most positive of ways. Everyone wants change. Donald is the only one that can deliver it. We should not be satisfied with stagnation. Donald wants prosperity for all Americans. We need new programs to help the poor and opportunities to challenge the young. There has to be a plan for growth — only then will fairness