Posted on 08/16/2016 11:06:23 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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About Those Loser ‘Trumpkins’ What is it that the much-vilified Trump voters are trying to tell us?
By William McGurn Aug. 15, 2016
In the land of NeverTrump, it turns out one American is more reviled than Donald Trump. This would be the Donald Trump voter.
Lincoln famously described government as of, by, and for the people. Even so, the people are now getting a hard lesson about what happens when they reject the advice of their betters and go with a nominee of their own choosing. What happens is an outpouring of condescension and contempt.
This contempt is most naked on the left. No surprise here, for two reasons. First, since at least Woodrow Wilson progressives have always preferred rule by a technocratic elite over democracy. Second, today’s Democratic Party routinely portrays its Republican Party rivals as an assortment of nasty ists (racists, sexists, nativists, etc.) making war on minorities, women, foreigners and innocent goatherds who somehow end up in Guantanamo.
Thus Mr. Trump confirms to many on the left what they have always told themselves about the GOP. A New York Times writer put it this way: “Donald Trump’s supporters know exactly what he stands for: hatred of immigrants, racial superiority, a sneering disregard of the basic civility that binds a society.”
Still, the contempt for the great Republican unwashed does not emanate exclusively from liberals or Democrats. Thanks to Mr. Trump’s run for office, it is now ascendant in conservative and Republican quarters as well.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
"Start with the fondness for the word “Trumpkin,” meant at once to describe and demean his supporters. Or consider an article from National Review, which describes a “vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles” and whose members find that “Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin.” Scarcely a day goes by without a fresh tweet or article taking the same tone, an echo of the old Washington Post slur against evangelicals as “largely poor, uneducated and easy to command.”
I only read the excerpt, but it sounds like the author is a trump supporter.
“...reject the advice of their betters...”
George Washington and his army did the same thing, and built a new country.
Trump and his army of voters will do the same.
Vote TRUMP
For Freedom!!!!
“What is it that the much-vilified Trump voters are trying to tell us? “
I’m telling them that its my turn to drive. Our leaders run the nation for the benefit of banksters, multinationals, and crime syndicates like the Clinton foundation.
The nation is being flooded with Mexicans, Africans, and Moslems.
I told you to quit it, and you flipped me the finger. Now nothing the GOP says will win me back. Their words no longer matter because they have been proven to say anything to win my vote with no intent on follow through.
Advice, advice, huh? By my "betters" you say!? And what qualifies them to be providing advice or being my "better"? Democrats will never be my better anything.
“I only read the excerpt, but it sounds like the author is a trump supporter.”
I don’t think so.
McGurn is just one of many Wall Street Journal (i.e. ‘ANTI-TRUMP MEDIA’) writers, except that McGurn attempts to be objective unlike the WSJ Editors and other WSJ -GOP, Jeb loving writers at that rag.
“What happens is an outpouring of condescension and contempt.”
You can also add backstabbing, sabotage, lies, etc to the list as well.
This country really is steam rolling down skid row. Trump really isn’t a great candidate, but by ignoring the voter and the damage that those who are the top have caused over the decades, he looks impeccable when contrasted by the field around him. All he had to do was say and address the concern of the voter who still cares about what is left of their country, it really was that simple even a cave man could get it, but alas those who live in there ivory towers of filth and corruption are incapable of even coming up to the level of that cave man. Its rather ironic when you consider all the epitaphs being spewed forth by the decaying corrupt system and its supporters.
-—A New York Times writer put it this way: “Donald Trump’s supporters know exactly what he stands for: hatred of immigrants, racial superiority, a sneering disregard of the basic civility that binds a society.”
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And here I thought he was describing Muslims....
Is Trump flawed? Hell yes! Trump combines the singular boorishness of the American nouveau-riche with uniquely American blue-collar values. In other words, he is the antithesis of the elitist Washington ideal.
Trump is the unapologetic embodiment of the brash, capitalist, unvarnished, virile American dream. Trump is unassailable because those very flaws make him a perfect messenger.
Trump voters have a simple message for our would-be potentates and their sycophants, from an American spokesman synonymous with one phrase:
“You’re fired.”
The elites always have contempt for the masses, even when the masses are compliant sheeple. When the sheeple rise against the elites, their contempt turns to fear disguised as hatred.
This voter is telling them we are waking up to their Ponzi scheme - “give us more money, vote us in, once we control x and y we promise we will do this and that ......”
The business-as-usual plot is not working this time, and hopefully that’s the end of that.
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