Trump’s Lies Are a Loyalty Test for His Followers

National Review ^ | April 2, 2016 | Jonah Goldberg

[DrewsDad]

By embracing and enlarging the lie, Trump gives his most ardent fans no escape. They must either fall in line with yet another comfortable story about how their leader is both supremely right and a victim of deceit or open themselves up to the possibility that this one instance of deception and boorishness isn’t unique but utterly representative, which it is.

[DrewsDad]

Ouch! He does make some valid points.

[DoughtyOne]

And yet when Ted does it, it’s with God’s blessing.

Do any of you folks own a mirror?

[DrewsDad]

I have no delusions that Cruz is without fault.

[Bon mots]

[boycott]

And yet when Ted does it, it’s with God’s blessing.

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Teddy boy is such a hypocrite fraud.

[SubMareener]

Oh Noes! Trump is done!

[Talisker]

You forgot the barf alert.

What an utterly contrived screed.

[Aria]

Oh...well then I’ll vote for Ted....he is so honest and accomplished and has We The People as his first concern and not the Globalists. /s

[Busta Rhymes]

Jonah acts like the daughter his mother wished she had. We all know from he hates Trump. He makes it known every time he’s on Bret Baier’s show.

I personally don’t care what he thinks. He can go kiss Hillary’s big fat booty.

[boycott]

Even Ted’s mother knows he’s full of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zDmURYy2hs

[blueunicorn6]

Some people say that National Review has become out of touch and unreadable.

They are right.

[CaptainK]

Still, what happened to Fields was not Kristallnacht and Lewandowski should not, in my opinion, stand trial or be sent to even five minutes of jail. I think he’s a boorish lout and he behaved stupidly. If Lewandoswki had common sense or decency, he would have apologized for overreacting and thrown Fields an interview with Trump to make amends. The whole thing would have been over without any of us having heard a word about it.

If Fields had any common sense she would have contacted her bosses at Breitbart first to contact the Trump campaign instead of immediately posting on twitter.

[DoughtyOne]

Got that right...

Have you ever been unfaithful to your wife?

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh... let me think?

[DoughtyOne]

I read what you posted there.

Complete horse stuff...

[DrewsDad]

Tell me something. What kind of person would make this quote?

Trump is NO conservative. He’s a self-dealing charlatan and he’s got a lot of fall-for-anything chump types fooled.

[miss marmelstein]

Jonah’s looking very bloated these days.

[Robert DeLong]

Largely gone, except let me take one more whack at it, says Jonah.

Fields was wrong. After being asked twice by Secret Service to back off and ignoring those requests she was lightly removed. Women bruise easily, and some more than others.

I'm glad he will no longer be distracted by this non story from the very start so he can now focus on the really important issues.

More blame laid at the feet of Trump instead of who really deserves the blame.

[ifinnegan]

I’d bet he’s paid more abortion bills than he will ever sign

boom.

[Steelfish]

What loyalty test? Trump himself says he can shoot at a pack of Trumpkins in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and they’s take the bullets and roll over for him. Chumps for Trump. Trump can be a conman (Trump University); a snake oil salesman (Taj Mahal Casino;Trump Shuttle; Trump Steaks); outsource his clothing to China, bring in hundreds of foreign workers to Mar-a-Lago and two wives on H2B visas (you know, to do the kind of work Americans won’t do); stand by a thuggish Campaign Manager; and switch major policy positions all within 24 hours.

Trumpkin loyalty is like the three proverbial monkeys. Never mind, that only 23% of women who make up 53% of the electorate have a favorable view of him, and he’s losing in a landslide toHillary and Bernie by double digits. All this would have been comical reality show, if it weren’t for the fact that the future of this nation is at peril.