{"id":13637,"date":"2019-10-22T11:29:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T15:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=13637"},"modified":"2019-10-22T11:29:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T15:29:35","slug":"wsj-trump-is-converting-gop-to-populist-pro-employee-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wsj-trump-is-converting-gop-to-populist-pro-employee-party\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Trump Is Converting GOP to Populist, Pro-Employee Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-22-WSJ-Trump-Is-Converting-GOP-to-Populist-Pro-Employee-Party-Breitbart.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-22-WSJ-Trump-Is-Converting-GOP-to-Populist-Pro-Employee-Party-Breitbart.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-22-WSJ-Trump-Is-Converting-GOP-to-Populist-Pro-Employee-Party-Breitbart-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>BREITBART<\/strong>, by  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/author\/neil-munro\/\">Neil Munro<\/a> &#8212; October 19, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>President Donald Trump is converting the former \u201ccountry club\u201d GOP  to the party of blue-collar Americans, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal:<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Mr. Trump accelerated the movement of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/democrats-labor-to-stem-flow-of-union-voters-to-trump-11567422002?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">working-class voters<\/a>&nbsp;into\n the Republican Party, creating a GOP that now represents more middle- \nand lower-income Americans \u2026 He has reframed much of the Republican \nagenda to appeal to these voters, particularly on trade, immigration and\n foreign affairs, in many cases upending 40 years of GOP policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I<em>n turn, the Democrats are increasingly the party of America\u2019s  wealthiest cities, post-industrial business leaders, and the \u201cwoke\u201d  professional class.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This  political transformation, however, means that U.S. college graduates  have few friends in Washington, D.C., to protect their economic  interests in a shifting economy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image, links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/10\/19\/wsj-trump-is-converting-gop-to-populist-pro-employee-party\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/10\/19\/wsj-trump-is-converting-gop-to-populist-pro-employee-party<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BREITBART, by Neil Munro &#8212; October 19, 2019 Excerpt: President Donald Trump is converting the former \u201ccountry club\u201d GOP to the party of blue-collar Americans, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal: Mr. Trump accelerated the movement of&nbsp;working-class &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wsj-trump-is-converting-gop-to-populist-pro-employee-party\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13639,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13637\/revisions\/13639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}