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NeverTrumpers: Condescension is Not A Strategy
Canada Free Press ^ | 11/02/16 | Katy Grimes

Posted on 11/02/2016 8:12:25 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony

Hillary's coercive centralized planning scheme, which will certainly destroy individual liberty, as history shows, versus Trump's capitalism and freedom plan, which has benefitted America the most, as history definitely shows

Bellyaching NeverTrumpers, that group of self-focused “Conservative intellectuals” and “thought leaders,” have done everything possible to sabotage GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign. Short sighted and childishly selfish, they could have helped the Republican nominee construct rock-solid conservative plans… if they were indeed, as Conservative as they profess.

“By conservatives,’ I mean actual conservatives, the people who believe in limited government, a strong national defense, American federalism, and who reject the nanny state in all of its smothering incarnations,” wrote Tom Nichols, a NeverTrumper.


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: clinton; conservatives; intellectuals; nevertrumpers

1 posted on 11/02/2016 8:12:25 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
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To: Sean_Anthony

but the neverTrumpers are so much smarter and more moral than the rest of us.

Just ask them if you don’t believe me.


2 posted on 11/02/2016 8:15:55 AM PDT by Pelham (Cold anger. No quarter)
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To: Sean_Anthony

NeverTrumpers are so conservative they just have to support Hillary...LOL.


3 posted on 11/02/2016 8:18:43 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

NeverTrump is and always was a Cheap Labor Express propaganda operation to deny the citizens their one chance to stop the illegal alien inundation.

Both parties have been protecting their 30 year bipartisan policy of non-enforcement of immigration laws.


4 posted on 11/02/2016 8:19:29 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Self-proclaimed might be more accurate than self-focused.

Most of these traitors are not true conservatives. Turns out they are hallow, short-sighted, pointy-head dweebs seeking only to impress one another in their increasingly shrinking circles of influence. Outing these fakirs has been a valuable side benefit of the Trump movement.


5 posted on 11/02/2016 8:23:03 AM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: Sean_Anthony
No condescension, particularly by not very bright pseudo intellectual poseurs, is not an effective strategy. The never Trumpers remind me of some of the clowns I took apart in my college undergraduate days at Oberlin, who would not understand effective political strategy if it smacked them in the face.

But even granting the ineptitude of the politically correct twits, involved, what strategy could ever make this acceptable to any rational American:

Hillary Clinton

Confused As Well As Corrupt!

In the Presidential Debate, the other night (the 19th of October), Mrs. Clinton explained her approach to job creation. The recital sounded rehearsed & sloganized; but it demonstrated something very different than what she obviously intended. It would be far better described as a path to economic stagnation, than a path to economic progress!

That a woman who has been politically active, her entire adult life, among a people with the most successful history of economic achievement over their first century and a quarter, of any people on earth, under a Constitutional Government designed to protect that people from a bureaucratic pestilence, which has been the bane of most nations; that such a woman has so missed the essential point of the American achievement, is staggering in its implications.

Mrs. Clinton claimed that a Clinton Government would rebuild the "Middle Class." Was she totally unaware that the American Middle Class clearly built itself? That the American Middle Class resulted from naturally energized individuals, aspiring to achieve the good life, who risked everything to first clear a wilderness, work hard, generation to generation, to save & accumulate the attributes of the good life; with the result that by 1913--the year that a graduated income tax first became Constitutional, this Settler built Federation of newly settled States, had already surpassed every one of the great powers of Europe in industrial strength.

To "rebuild" the "Middle Class," Mrs. Clinton vowed to make the most successful Americans--those who had achieved the most--pay increased taxes; she called it "paying their 'fair' share." But it was clearly to be a tax on success--a tax to fund a raft of new programs (a cancer or pestilence of an expanded bureaucracy). She was obviously indifferent to the fact that the biggest impediment to any poor person with ambition, actually launching a small business to improve his status, is an almost incomprehensible explosion in bureaucratic regulations, most of which premised on the same flawed understanding of how people actually advance, which Mrs. Clinton displayed, on the 19th.

Americans used to learn by experience. What were the experience based lessons of what transpired from the drafting of our written Constitution in 1787, until the passage of the income tax amendment in 1913? Are they instructive or not, for what actually works for human advancement?

The Constitution prior to 1913, absolutely interdicted a tax driven war on the accumulation of individual wealth. Article I, Section 9, which Mrs. Clinton should have remembered from Law School, provided that no direct tax on individual Americans could be applied in any way but per-capita. (That is Warren Buffet would pay the same tax--not the same percentage tax--but the same tax as Joe the Plumber. The Founders had no desire to limit individual success. They sought only to encourage it.

Under their experience based philosophy, there were almost certainly not even 1% of the bureaucratic regulations, with which Americans seeking to improve their lot, must face today. In place of today's pursuit of grievances, real or imagined, there was universal admiration for the high achievers! And the growth rate of a people freed to achieve, was the economic phenomenon of human history.

We do not pretend to know whether it was in her indoctrination by Marxist Pied Pipers in her late teens, or pure confusion in whatever she is struggling with today. But Mrs. Clinton is utterly clueless on how a dynamic economy works; as she is utterly unaware of the dynamic, interactive factors, that drive or stagnate any human aspiration or achievement. What is absolutely clear, even if one ignores her lack of a moral compass in her political dealings; the woman is absolutely unqualified to be President of the United States.

This is one more reason why we must win this election for Donald Trump.

William Flax

6 posted on 11/02/2016 8:23:12 AM PDT by Ohioan
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Great read, thanks so much for posting. I usually don’t read the entire newspaper story links but this one I sure did.


7 posted on 11/02/2016 8:23:39 AM PDT by american colleen
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To: Sean_Anthony
They are not short sighted and selfish.

They are traitors who must be tried and hung.

8 posted on 11/02/2016 8:29:12 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Pelham
Yes, as I just posted. Actually, the self-anointed "enlightened" crowd discovered and glamorized the Clintons, when they were still engaged in mucking up Arkansas in the late '80s. They were supposed to be the coming new leadership.

Personally, as I believe you know, I have never been an admirer of Southern turncoats, and certainly not ones who marry Marxist disciples from Illinois--or wherever the present golden girl was born.

9 posted on 11/02/2016 8:30:16 AM PDT by Ohioan
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There is not a single item on trump’s list that isn’t conservative. In reality the never trumper’s so-called free trade, as they understand it, means our giving away the store to thieves. As Trump understands free trade, that means good deals and open markets. Without those, a nation must protect its security and economic stability. That makes perfect sense and is truly conservative


10 posted on 11/02/2016 8:38:14 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: Ohioan

Hillary people can change their early vote to Trump in several states

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/31/politics/changing-early-vote-cast/

Also, Bernie voters can punish the Witch by not voting for her.


11 posted on 11/02/2016 8:40:15 AM PDT by Zenjitsuman (Y)
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To: Ohioan
The Constitution prior to 1913, absolutely interdicted a tax driven war on the accumulation of individual wealth. Article I, Section 9, which Mrs. Clinton should have remembered from Law School, provided that no direct tax on individual Americans could be applied in any way but per-capita. (That is Warren Buffet would pay the same tax--not the same percentage tax--but the same tax as Joe the Plumber. The Founders had no desire to limit individual success. They sought only to encourage it.

Actually, the way it was envisioned to work, was that the feds would have no power to tax individuals. The way it would work is that, if the revenues from tariffs and excise taxes were not enough, that the STATES would be assessed to pay the balance.

Constitution, Article I, Section 2, Clause 3: Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers

So it would go something like "Pennsylvania, you account for 4% of the population, you are assessed 4% of the money needed. Raise it however you like, and send it in".

12 posted on 11/02/2016 9:10:54 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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