Posted on 09/17/2016 7:12:38 AM PDT by rickmichaels
A month ago, Donald Trump stood seven points back of Hillary Clinton in the polls. State-by-state projections gave Clinton as much as two-thirds of the electoral college. Today, an average of recent surveys puts Trump just one point behind; the electoral college is similarly up for grabs.
What once seemed impossible — that Trump could win — is now a very real possibility: roughly two in five, according to the oddsmakers. We are staring into the abyss of a Trump presidency, and all that that would represent, for America and the world.
That it is even close is something of a calamity, a victory for all that is dark and barbaric in the American character. A narrow Trump loss — at this point the most likely result — would confirm his malign influence in Republican circles, opening the party to years of debilitating internal conflict. Perhaps Trumpism would not survive him; perhaps it would.
The election is still weeks away, of course, and much can happen between now and then. But it’s never too early to start laying blame.
Who should we fault for this disaster? Should we blame his enablers in the Republican party? But which ones? The aging opportunists like Newt Gingrich or Rudy Giuliani, who see in Trump their last chance at power and can’t be bothered to worry about what he represents? Or the equivocators, the odds-checkers, once-respected figures like Paul Ryan or Marco Rubio, who know that Trump is the death of everything they claim to care about but sign on anyway, though only after weeks of contemptible public agonizing — as if the choice were truly difficult? As if they were not weak men following their desires, but good men trying to do right? As if their eventual decision were ever in doubt?
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If it makes liberals tremble in fear and loathing, there must be something right about it.
I remember the 1980 election as well. Jimmy Carter and his allies in the media were throwing everything they could at Ronald Reagan. They couldn’t believe that anyone could consider voting for him.
There was a difference - I don’t remember them directly insulting the American voters. They seemed to keep their insults aimed directly at Reagan himself.
That, is a fact.
BWAHAHAHAHA
The Canucks are having palpitations
“Who should we fault for this disaster?”
Hillary of course!! Even to diehard Democrats she is an ill, opportunist without a coherent agenda except Obama’s failures which are obvious even behind the curtain of his MSM cheerleaders.
Stuff it you Canute.
We don’t want Canadians to be our president, and we don’t listen to Canadians or other foreign idiots telling us to vote for!
IRREDEEMABLE !!!
This guy is a laugh riot.
Blame it on Rio, snowflake.
It’s a binary choice this election: Trump or Hillary. Trump loves this country. Hillary WILL destroy this country. It is just that simple.
The world can f*** off. We have too many of our own problems.
Blame this adorable deplorable.
the people are opposed to the disastrous results of the evil policies of oh! bummer and want a negation of them
The left always spouts about “trusting the American people”.
Not in this case I guess because they and the establishment are losing.
They only trust the people if the people vote the way the liberals want them to vote.
Abyss of a Trump presidency? Come now; what could be more abysmal than the prospect of a Hillary regime?
Andrew, the True Conservatives™ are to blame.
You know, the pandering, lying, cringing, sold-out, PC, DC insider GOP establishment True Conservatives™ in Congress who continuously stabs we American workers in the back.
The True Conservatives™ scum in Congress who failed to stand up to Obama and stop his agenda by passing a budget that eviscerated his illegal immigration policies, eliminated the energy-destroying EPA, eliminated the Marxist propaganda Education Department, eliminated the job-destroying Labor Department, eliminated the racist Civil Rights Commission, defunded the FCC until they give back control of the Internet to private industry, defunded Obamacare, defunded enforcement of 99% of Obama’s regulations and Executive Orders?
Trump ripped off their masks of deceit at the same time as the majority of the voters in this country wised up, focusing on alternative news sources and commentary, while eschewing the rotten, lying enemedia.
It’s no longer like the olden days, Andrew, where three TV networks and two newspaper could completely control the narrative. How many “journalists”, Andrew, were slumped over their desks, head in hands, mumbling to themselves over and over again, “If only the Internet didn’t exist; if only digital cell phone cameras didn’t exist” when they first saw the video of Hillary collapsing and being dragged into her wheelchair van?
The world has changed, Andrew; the Internet Genie is out of the bottle, and it’s never going to go back in. Trump lifted up the True Conservatives™ side of the Uniparty coin and the True Conservatives™ vermin came scurrying out, pale from lack of sunlight and blinded eyes blinking madly in unfamiliar sunshine.
As far as I am concerned, the press is to blame. As the press became more and more transparent, I have begun seeing them as the real problem with American politics. They were the root of many problems.
Partisanship for example, with Fox on one side and MSNBC on the other, the networks were just promoting party talking points. Neither side were interested in reporting news. And frankly, they weren’t that interested in conservatism or liberalism either. They would both switch sides if it helped their respective party. For example, a republican who cheated was held to the highest scorn by MSNBC. But President Clinton and Monica were engaging in a private matter. On the other side, Fox would slam Republicans trying to preserve the budget as extremists trying to shut down the government.
So, when Trump came along and I saw the press from both sides attack him shamelessly, I began to root for him. And then when he attacked them, and still retained his following, I thought this could be a movement. And I want in.
Pretty much anybody who attacks Trump is part of a group I dislike. From the conservative talking heads who steered us to Romney, to the Republican party who sells us out every year, to the lobbyists who buy their influence. They all hate Trump. And why? It’s because he is doing it without their money. Not since Jesus, has a person cut such an important new path for others to follow.
In four years from now, its possible that the next set of candidates aren’t bound to the party or the media. And they could get grass root support. Trump has brought back democracy. He has provided another option to the elite. The elite aren’t satisfied with being elected by the American people. And they are not satisfied with running our country for our interests. They have decided we are idiots who can be steered like so many cattle. And they govern for the world or for themselves and their friends. But not for Americans.
You listen to them saying populism is a bad thing. They also say that the constitution is an out of date document. What they are really saying is that we have bad ideas and when the elite get into power they don’t want to have laws restricting what they can do. Its a lot like the pigs in animal farm. “We are all equal, but some of us are more equal.”
One last thing. I don’t care what Trump says or does. I am still voting for him. Every politician in the past 20 years and most before that, has said one thing while running for government and then did whatever he wanted after that. Some did it because they did not know what they could get away with. Some did it because they were just pandering. However, my vote for Trump is not for the best man for the job. Its for the way in which the job is filled. I want the President to be in charge again, not the lobbyists. And I want the President to look to the people for power, not the press, and not the money.
Horror of horrors, he could promote policies that result in true full employment and require that the perpetually unemployed actually work for their check!
Do you hear the people sing?
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