Posted on 06/22/2016 9:10:15 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Straight top God’s ears, please
Only thing I don’t like about this article is he spelled HYUUUUUGE incorrectly :)
Thanks for the reminder. I haven’t picked up The Rise of the Republic in a few years. It is very good.
Trump needs the economy to take a dive this summer. Otherwise Hillary will be hard to beat. Regretfully,any Democrat already has about 225 electoral votes before the campaign even starts.
Last summer I was watching the MLB All-Star Game with a latino pal of mine. This was shortly after Trump’s announcement that he was running for President, and my pal asked:
“So what do you think of Trump?”
me- “I like him”
him- “Me too. I know that he’s a racist but I can deal with that.”
Now this friend of mine has immediate family who are illegals, so it’s not like the Wall won’t affect him. But a lot of latinos like winners and they like a strong leader, a jefe, and Trump has that in spades. So while it’s just anecdotal it is interesting. He and his wife are both still on Team Trump as far as I know.
Everything you said is true.
Hispanic culture does not respect wimps. No one mistakes Trump for that.
Law abiding Mexicans - many of them refugees from the lawlessness of Mexico and points south - know that mass illegal immigration is a scam where the people doing it believe that the Gringos are weak, and so they can get over on them. They wouldn’t allow it to happen to their country.
So notice the lack of screaming when he put his foot down. Gulp. New sheriff in town, and this one’s not a fool.
Since the pollsters won’t survey enthusiasm levels, a reasonable gauge of Republican versus Democrat enthusiasm can be derived by comparing the level of voter participation in the March 2 “Super Tuesday” primaries. On that day Republicans saw a 99.58% increase in turnout and Democrats had a 24.53% decrease in turnout. Clinton does not engender enthusiasm.
Fear and hatred are also great motivators. Not many people loved Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon, but they won by landslides. I don't think Hillary will win by a landslide, but she's going to be playing the fear card from now until November, and that will offset her high negatives
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