In addition to his short-form Trump-fluffing on Newsmax TV, Dick Morris has continued to serve up long-form Trump-fluffing on the Newsmax website. Morris gushed over Donald Trump’s isolationism (but don’t call it that) in a March 4 column:
In the fast-moving American political scene, a new movement is bursting onto center stage: Global-skepticism.
It’s not isolationism but its not globalism either.
It is born of a healthy caution about total involvement in foreign wars.
Spawned in the ranks of MAGA, it resists the endless commitment of American lives we saw in Vietnam and Iraq or of our money that is evident in Ukraine.
[…]Only 40% of pro-Trump Republicans want the U.S. to “play an active part in world affairs” while 59% prefer that we “stay out of world affairs and focus instead on domestic issues.”
Isolationism — the extreme form of Global-skepticism — is a potent force in our political history. It has never been defeated in a general election.
It fell into disrepute after Pearl Harbor and during Stalin’s conquest of Eastern Europe.
The Republican Party split to its core in 1952 when internationalists, led by Eisenhower, defeated Ohio Senator Robert Taft at the national Republican convention and led the U.S. into the UN and NATO.
But now, clothed in MAGA garb, the global-skeptics are increasingly dominating the modern Republican Party
They are being driven by doubts about the wisdom of emptying our national treasury and denuding our stockpiles of weapons to help Ukraine.
[…]Europeans are scared to death of the new globo-skepticism.
American distrust of European cafe society globalism runs deep and is exacerbated by the left’s dogmatic and rigid positions on environmental issues.
As Trump runs for president, he will add recruits to MAGA and will elaborate his views on global issues.
Global-skepticism is a fast growing movement in the United States and Donald Trump is bringing it to the fore.
Morris claimed tjhat Trump is attracting young and minority voters in his March 11 column:
Normally, when one party gains ascendancy over the other or one candidate moves ahead in the race, he does so by nibbling away at the soft supporters of the other side, swinging the undecided voters and those who are only mildly committed to the opposition to his ranks.
But this is the exact opposite of what Donald Trump is doing to President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.
Rather than nibble at swing-voters they are taking gigantic bites out of the Democratic base of young voters, Hispanics, and Blacks.
While the head-to-head numbers between Trump and Biden have shown a steady increase in Trump’s vote, this increase has largely come from the former Democratic core voters.
Now that that the racism that used to cripple the Republicans has largely passed, we are dealing only with its artifact — the solid support it left in its wake among young people and minorities for the Democratic Party.
At least Morris admits that Republicans are (or have been) racist. Morris served up another demographically oriented column on March 13, fretting that Trump isn’t attracting enough old people:
A comparison of the actual results of the 2020 election and the results of the New York Times /Siena Poll of February, 2024 indicates huge gains for Trump across the board, particularly among voters under 30.
But Biden still leads among these younger voters by 13 points, a huge drop from his 2020 lead of 43 points.
The only trouble spot for Trump is among voters over 65.
They now back Biden by 6 points, a gain for Trump of 10 points but which still leaves Biden in the lead.
Morris commented further on election demographics in his March 18 column, cheering that young men are allegedly flocking to Trump:
The startling reversal of Roe v. Wade 410 U.S. 113 (1973), by the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215 (2022), has moved young women decisively against Donald Trump and for Joe Biden.
In fact, of all the age groups in our country, young women is the only one that shows a gain for the Democrats.
But, now, it appears that there is a counter-trend, which is seemingly going the other way: Young men are moving to Trump in big numbers.
According to McLaughlin polls, as of March 18, Biden led among young women under 40 by 21 points.
Meanwhile Trump has widened his lead among men under 40.
While Biden leads among women under forty by 55-34, but Trump leads among young men by ten points — 51-41.
And abortion seems to have little to do with the male backlash.
[…]Ipsos, the survey research firm now reports that nearly one in four Gen Z men say they have experienced discrimination or were subject to mistreatment simply because they were men, a rate far greater than older men.
Another Ipsos survey found that 60% of Gen Z men agreed that “we have gone so far in promoting women’s equality that we are discriminating against men.”
It’s becoming clear that Gen Z men — a group that includes men aged 18 to 26 — are charting their own distinctive course on gender, sexual orientation, and identity issues and that they are moving in the opposite direction from the course young women are taking.
This male backlash is helping Trump overcome the gender gap against him kindled by the reversal of Roe v. Wade and may be pivotal in helping Republicans win in 2024.
So it’s dubious grievances driving young men to the grievance-oriented Trump campaign. Nnot surprising.