Donald Trump in The Courage to be Free, by Ron DeSantis


On Free Trade: Listen to voters: fight outsourcing manufacturing to China

In June 2015, the press dismissed Trump's candidacy as a publicity stunt. But Donald Trump was filling the void that GOP leaders had left by ignoring the preferences of their own voters. Trump promised to get serious about the problem of illegal immigration. He also rightly ripped American failures at home, notably the outsourcing of manufacturing from our heartland to mainland China; and abroad, the endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Trump was not running to be the next great establishment hope.

Some DC commentators have opined that Trump's nomination represented a hostile takeover of the Republican Party. But this analysis gets it exactly backward. Since Ronald Reagan [retired in] 1989, the GOP grass roots had been longing for someone who rejected the old-guard way of doing business and who could speak to their concerns and aspirations. Trump supported policies that appealed to the base in a way that GOP leaders in the DC swamp had been either incapable of doing or unwilling to do.

Source: The Courage to be Free, by Gov. Ron DeSantis, p. 33 Feb 28, 2023

The above quotations are from The Courage to be Free
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