What do you call an electorate that seems prone to acting out irrationally, is full of inchoate rage, and is constantly throwing fits and tantrums? You call it teenaged.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
It's a very angry electorate out there. I think Trump is tapping into that.
And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
There's so many politicians who have given politics a pretty poor name... their actions have been demonstrated to be part of their over-enthusiasm to get reelected.
But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.
Most people perceive moderates as timid middle-of-the-roaders who can't take a stand.
Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.
We all know that an angry electorate is a voting electorate.
Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise.
During my campaign, people of my age and younger said consistently that they would not vote because their votes simply no longer matter and because no government or member of Parliament cared a whit about their problems and their striving for employment.