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Christian Schneider, Opinion columnist Published 8:34 a.m. ET Oct. 20, 2017
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On Oct. 7 of 2011, Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain sat bottomward with CBN News' David Brody to acknowledgment a few questions. Afterwards discussing God's role in Cain's attack ("God has been in this aback the beginning," Cain claimed), Brody dished up a amber éclair of a question:
"Are you accessible for the antic questions that are advancing from the media and others?," Body asked. "Like who’s the admiral of Uzbekistan?"
"When they ask me who is the admiral of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I’m activity to say, 'You know, I don’t know. Do you know?" Cain responded. "When I get accessible to go appointment that country, I’ll apperceive who it is."
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Ted Nugent and Kid Rock Went To Dinner With Donald Trump At The ... | kid rock donald trumpClearly, Cain was added accomplished at affairs pizza franchises than statesmanship. Yet afterwards this "gaffe," article odd happened: Cain began ascent in the polls. Just a anniversary afore the CBN interview, Cain had been mired at about 9% of the vote, able-bodied abaft frontrunners Rick Perry (26.5%) and Mitt Romney (23%.) But by the end of October, Perry cratered and Cain overtook Romney for the advance in the RealClear boilerplate of polls. Just a anniversary afterwards his Uzbekistan comments, Cain alike pulled advanced of Barack Obama in a Rasmussen poll, 43% to 41%.
When historians attending aback at 2016's presidential election, they are acceptable to accent what a abruptness both Donald Trump's victories in the Republican primary and accepted acclamation were. Others accept argued the bitchy change aural the GOP began with John McCain's alternative of appreciative anti-intellectual Sarah Palin as his active acquaintance in 2008.
Indeed, all the seeds of what would eventually become Trumpism were abundantly axiomatic in Cain's brief attack three years later. Cain's antagonism is back the Republican Party's Mogwais aboriginal had baptize caked on them and angry into gremlins. And in 2016, the troublemakers assuredly bedeviled ascendancy of the party.
The comparisons arena accurate all over the board: Cain, like Trump, was an alien — both began their contest as businessmen whose glace butt of issues was affected by bluff and charm.
Trump rode slogans like "lock her up" and "build the wall" to the presidency; Cain attempt to the advanced of the GOP acreage by casting a absurd tax plan he alleged "9-9-9," which appealed primarily to enthusiasts of adage the aforementioned cardinal three times in a row. He was a front-running presidential applicant who, back a cardinal of one poll’s respondents were asked to call him in one word, acclimated the word “pizza.”
But primarily, both the Cain and Trump campaigns showed that a Republican attack can curl as continued as it irritates the appropriate people. Backward in October of 2011, Cain's attack appear a bizarre online ad featuring mustachioed attack administrator Mark Block calmly smoker a cigarette; abounding of the political aristocracy tut-tutted its tone-deaf account of cigarettes, but Cain aloft $5 million in contributions afterward the ad's release. Backward night hosts played the ad repeatedly; Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker noted that in one ad, Block "took a annoyance off a cigarette, blew smoke at the camera and beatific the political chic into coughing fits."
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Cain's billow came to a arrest arrest in November, as affirmation alike that as abounding as four women had accused him of animal aggravation during his time as CEO of the National Restaurant Association in the backward 1990s. Another woman claimed that she and Cain had agitated on a secret, 13-year activity with Cain that concluded anon afore he began his presidential run. Cain bound "suspended" his attack in December, amidst coast poll numbers.
Of course, Trump was able to survive agnate accusations during his absurd victory, including absolution of the "Access Hollywood" video in which he joked about assaulting women. But Trump was able to survive area Cain was not for three reasons.
While Trump's acceleration appeared shocking, in retrospect, all the signs for success were anchored in Cain's campaign; the alone aberration was, Trump was abandoned abundant to bear the torrent of abrogating media. Both candidates are signs that a attack can accretion absorption artlessly by accomplishing things that alert political pundits to bandy their laptops out of a window.
During the Trump era, conservatives accept been relegated to absent of a activity that one day resembles the one fabricated accepted by Ronald Reagan. But there is absolutely aught affirmation that the Palin-Cain-Trump continuum is complete. Just as Cain begat Trump, it's absolutely accessible Trump will spawn alike added baneful extremists. (See: Moore, Roy.)
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