Sarah Palin, Rage Whisperer

by Nicolle Wallace

Jan 25, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/opinion/sarah-palin-rage-whisperer.html?comments&_r=0#permid=17340017

As a GOP campaign adviser, you not only should have seen the conservative rage coming, but you are complicit in generating that irrational rage. Rage is most often based on fear and resentment, and Conservative campaign strategies have long been based on accentuating, magnifying, and if necessary creating new and unfounded fears and resentments among American voters.

The GOP is now reaping what it has been sowing for decades. The Conservative voter has now fully internalized the GOP rhetoric that "government is the problem", and they are coming back with a vengeance to punish the "establishment", that is ALL the people, not just Democrats, who are part of that establishment, part of the government. 

Sarah Palin is an ideal shill for that any, vengeful voice against "the establishment" as she is not hampered in her speeches by facts, rationality, intelligence, or even an intelligible English sentence - as long as the correct trigger words are spouted, the crowds will roar.

Donald Trump, being the very smart, intelligent person that he is, recognizes already, I think, that, like McCain, he may have let loose a very destructive genie inside his campaign. I'm betting that we won't see too much more of Palin at the side of Trump.