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Trump Is Sabotaging Himself (and His Party) by Pandering to His Base
Townhall ^ | 12/19/2018 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 12/19/2018 9:19:53 PM PST by Signalman

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To: Trumpisourlastchance

As a conservative, I opine that one may always speak the truth.


41 posted on 12/20/2018 1:58:42 AM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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If he would pander a little more to his base, he might even be able to actually save the nation.


42 posted on 12/20/2018 2:11:35 AM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: Signalman
this dipweed goldburg actually believes what he's writing, that's the sad part.
43 posted on 12/20/2018 2:31:58 AM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: Widget Jr

President Trump threw the Democrats a bone. While they are occupied with their table scrap, Trump is going to get what he wants. Hint: Why do you think he is pulling troops out of Syria?


44 posted on 12/20/2018 2:47:42 AM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: Signalman

Jonah, how about removing yourself from the swamp and getting to know and understand the people who make the country work? Try to understand that we still value freedom and genuinely do not like the poverty, crime, and drug abuse that are coming through the unsecured border? Does it occur to you that the destruction of the country will eventually affect you? What will you do when the socialists take over and destroy the productive base of the country? Those of us you like to think of as Trump’s ignorant base who are looking ahead to global socialism are not engaging in paranoid fantasies: there is ample historical evidence of the massive death and misery caused by socialists whenever they get into power. We don’t want it.


45 posted on 12/20/2018 3:37:32 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Signalman

Is Jonah still living in his Mommy’s basement?


46 posted on 12/20/2018 3:46:29 AM PST by montag813
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To: mass55th
His base is what elected him doofus.

His base, many independents, and a large assembly of "Anybody but Hillary" voters.

He'll still have his base in 2020, even if they're pissed over no wall. If his base is all he keeps, he loses.

47 posted on 12/20/2018 4:03:54 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

I feel for Lucianne

Parents across the nation have one or more children who hate Trump, even or in spite of their parents are supportive of him

But Lucianne has to take this publicly from her only child!

Sad


48 posted on 12/20/2018 4:58:12 AM PST by Guenevere
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To: Signalman

Figures. Jonah Goldberg is the ultimate Cuck.


49 posted on 12/20/2018 4:58:52 AM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Signalman

Jonah is just another ‘never Trumper’ like Bill Kristol and Stephen Hayes. Every time I’ve seen him on a panel on TV he is ‘spinning’ everything toward bashing Trump.


50 posted on 12/20/2018 4:59:21 AM PST by octex
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To: Signalman

Gee pandering to the base used to mean listening to your constituents.


51 posted on 12/20/2018 4:59:22 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Signalman

Jonah is nothing but a butt boy for Schmuck Schumer and the democRATS. Ignore the bastard.


52 posted on 12/20/2018 5:05:46 AM PST by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: Drew68
Actually, he's just fine. Along with his "base", he's got enough support from the existing GOP voters to reelect him.

He'll lose only if people like Jonah here convinces a large portion of GOP voters that Trump is a reprobate deserving to lose. Or that Thump, not people like himself, are responsible for not reforming immigration or draining the swamp.

That's what Jonah keeps hoping to do, suck away as many Trump supporters as possible. That's his entire purpose in life. He's a very sick human being.

53 posted on 12/20/2018 5:07:00 AM PST by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. Stay the course!)
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To: Signalman

And to think he used to be conservative and a FReeper (along with his mother).


54 posted on 12/20/2018 5:08:29 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Signalman

When you don’t like someone, he is “pandering to his base.” When you like him, he is “doing what he was elected to do.”


55 posted on 12/20/2018 5:14:26 AM PST by djpg
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To: Signalman

By undermining Donald Trump Judas Goldberg is aiding and abetting the Democrat Socialists and Marxists.


56 posted on 12/20/2018 5:14:54 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Trumpisourlastchance; Signalman

I’ve always maintained that it isn’t Donald Trump that establishment talking heads (like Jonah Goldberg) hate, but rather Trump’s base of supporters. Goldberg and Kristol detest us “deplorables” every bit as much as Hillary Clinton does. The point of Goldberg’s op-ed is “stop keeping campaign promises to those repulsive deplorables, Donald, and get on board with us and our agenda for America!” Unfortunately, with many of Trump’s cabinet appointments, this mindset does seem to prevail at times.


57 posted on 12/20/2018 5:18:39 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: Signalman

Jonah who now? Go away NeverTrump ass hole.


58 posted on 12/20/2018 5:32:04 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberal is lies.)
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To: jmaroneps37

He’s making a name for himself, but Jonah’s continual screeching rant against Trump makes visiting NRO a pain.


59 posted on 12/20/2018 5:38:00 AM PST by qwertyz
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To: mbrfl
I totally agree with your post. What GOP base is he referring to? John McCain, who with great fanfare, and just his one vote, destroyed Obamacare reform? McCain was typical of the No Trump globalist deep state that works full time to destroy this Republic and replace it with a one world govt. No boundaries or national identity. Just one big global govt peopled with elitists who claim moral and intellectual superiority over all earthly human beings.The Republican party has a limited future if it continues to support the democrat communist party via the uniparty they are a part of. Jonah and his ilk will have to compete with the entrenched scribblers who will leave them ground into nothingness.
60 posted on 12/20/2018 5:38:54 AM PST by mountainfolk
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