Romney's Trumpism

Brad Delong:

"... Look at what Mitt Romney says about Barack Obama and Obama voters in his 2012 Secret 47% Video. If there is anybody who is not "economically anxious", it is Mitt Romney, but Romney's views toward Barack Obama and Obama voters when he let his hair down and talked to his donors was Trumpism--pale pink Trumpism compared to the full distilled doses the Republican Party is mainlining right now, but Trumpism:

• Obama himself is an unqualified jealous success-hating jumped-up affirmative action hire: "[His] magnetism and his charm and his persuasiveness... [but he is] extraordinarily naive... "One word: VEAK!".... His attack of one American against another American... [his] division of America... [his] going after those who have been successful... "hope and change".... His policies... haven't worked... he's a bad guy... he did bad things... he's corrupt... He just wasn't up to the task.... "He's in over his head"... "the president's been a disappointment".... He's going to... try and vilify me as someone who's been successful..."

• Obama's voters are the moochers: people who believe they are entitled to free gifts, don't care about the country, and cannot be induced to take responsibility even for their own lives: "We make it hard for people who get educated here or elsewhere to make this their home. Unless, of course, you have no skill or experience, in which case you're welcome to cross the border and stay here for the rest of your life.... 47 percent of the people... will vote for the president no matter what... who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them.... These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax.... And so my job is not to worry about those people--I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.... [Obama] followed the old playbook... especially [to] the African-American community, the Hispanic community and young people.... Focus on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government, and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote.... He made a big effort on small things. Those small things, by the way, add up to trillions of dollars.... Forgiveness of college loan interest was a big gift. Free contraceptives were very big with young college-aged women.... Obamacare... anybody now 26 years of age and younger was now going to be part of their parents’ plan, and that was a big gift to young people.... [FOR Black and Hispanic voters]... making $25,000 or $30,000 or $35,000 a year, being told you’re now going to get free health care, particularly if you don’t have it, getting free health care worth, what, $10,000 per family, in perpetuity, I mean, this is huge. Likewise with Hispanic voters, free health care was a big plus.... The amnesty for children of illegals, the so-called DREAM Act kids, was a huge plus for that voting group..."

Looking at the entire thing--the 47% video and the post-election conference call--it really is quite incredible. "Economic anxiety.""