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The Post's View: Donald Trump is a poison pill for the Republican Party
The Washington Post ^ | December 5, 2015 | The Editorial Board

Posted on 12/06/2015 12:18:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

“I’M A negotiator like you folks; we’re negotiators,” Donald Trump said to the Republican Jewish Coalition on Thursday. “Is there anybody that doesn’t renegotiate deals in this room? Perhaps more than any room I’ve ever spoken to.” At another point, he remarked, “I know why you’re not going to support me — because I don’t want your money.”

These comments aren’t as objectionable as Mr. Trump’s talk of registering Muslim Americans, a proposal he has toyed with in the weeks since the Paris terrorist attacks, or when he mocked the physical disability of a New York Times reporter who dared challenge him. But they are of a piece with Mr. Trump’s near-constant use of cheap stereotypes and insults.

Mr. Trump is corrosive to the U.S. political debate in at least two ways. One is his basic contempt for facts. Mr. Trump simply made up his recent claim that he watched “thousands and thousands” of Muslims celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11, later justifying it by claiming some of his supporters remember similar events. Mr. Trump’s approach to truth — it is whatever I want it to be — uniquely threatens the notion that people of different identities and experiences can nevertheless conduct a civil dialogue based on the universal language of observable fact. Without this rudimentary principle, the American experiment in multi-ethnic, religiously diverse democracy is doomed....

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: borders; concerntroll; concerntrolling; elections; god; guns; guts; lockandload; makeamericagreat; mediabias; sovereignty; trump; trumprevolution; trumpwasright
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1 posted on 12/06/2015 12:18:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Geriatric Old Plotters dying out would trouble me not at all.


2 posted on 12/06/2015 12:20:23 PM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Islam is a nuclear-strength poison pill for the Democrats, who are cozying up to it.


3 posted on 12/06/2015 12:21:13 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The truth is corrosive to the MSM. So 2ndDivVet are you a Hillary supporter?


4 posted on 12/06/2015 12:21:13 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (When the MSM and GOPe want your opinion they will give it to you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Jane Long; BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; Black Agnes; djstex; mkjessup; RoosterRedux; ...

ping


5 posted on 12/06/2015 12:21:55 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (TRUMP SUPPORTER 100% from day ONE!!!)
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To: Psalm 144; vette6387; flat; MinuteGal; seekthetruth; bevperl; Kaslin; Albion Wilde

http://www.donaldtrump2016online.com/

Live Steam and Repeats - look at the size of the crowds and the enthusiasm. Silent no more.


6 posted on 12/06/2015 12:22:29 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WaPo is a poison pill for freedom-loving Americans. Those jackasses at the WaPo need to worry about their own candidate. Clinton isn’t off the hook yet. It appears that she has committed crimes and it’s only a matter of time before she’ll be interviewed by the FBI instead of those fools on The Hill.


7 posted on 12/06/2015 12:22:40 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Who is fact checking the state controlled, leftwing media's fact checkers?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who cares about the Republican party? I care about America.


8 posted on 12/06/2015 12:22:52 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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Feel the fear... I love it.


9 posted on 12/06/2015 12:23:14 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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Trump will be the salvation of the Republican party. But he will be the death of the GOPe.


10 posted on 12/06/2015 12:23:48 PM PST by DannyTN
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Oh, the Post is so concerned..........
11 posted on 12/06/2015 12:24:14 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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12 posted on 12/06/2015 12:25:05 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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The Post's View:
13 posted on 12/06/2015 12:25:07 PM PST by inkfarmer
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So the Whapo... the transcriptionist for the democrat party... wants to tell the conservatives who to vote for right?


14 posted on 12/06/2015 12:26:42 PM PST by Samurai_Jack (War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.)
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The Choice is Clear: Obama going on TV tonight promoting Gun control as the way to stop terror attacks.
Trump on “Disgrace the Nation” says...We have to kill the terrorists, profile if necessary and go after thier wives...
Now which do you think will save America?
well we will find out next November
Freegards
LEX


15 posted on 12/06/2015 12:27:13 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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Dear WaPo,

If this editorial is any reflection on the level of accuracy in your articles, then I do not want to subscribe to your newspaper—ever.

Basing an editorial on non-fact-checked memes is about as fair as asking someone, “Have you stopped beating your wife? (Yes or no).” If you want to say something about Donald Trump, fact-check first, okay? You are not convincing when you base your arguments on lies.

Sincerely,

Mom


16 posted on 12/06/2015 12:30:56 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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Within 4 years SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN...either “A” or “B”, below:

1) Illegals by the 10s of millions will be on their way to being citizens, thus spelling the end the Republican Party as a national party. And millions of terrorists and potential terrorists will also be on that same path.

- or -

2) The Illegals will go home (and/or be sent home), with some returning as guest workers, and the terrorists and potential terrorists will simply be sent home.

We WILL get one or the other...we are no longer able to kick the can down the road anymore.


17 posted on 12/06/2015 12:31:07 PM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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The socialist and Islamic dogs are whimpering and running scared.

LOL

18 posted on 12/06/2015 12:31:37 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is Ronald Reagan vs Jimmy Carter vs John Anderson all over again.

In 1980 the media and the “then establishment” were also 100% vicious against their view of an eeeevil outsider.


19 posted on 12/06/2015 12:32:21 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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Those Post editorial folks are as sharp as marbles, aren’t they?

The neat thing about Trump is that if the GOPe refuses to swallow the piil, it will kill the GOP. And if they swallow the pill, their days of sleeping with the Democrats are over.

Bless their hearts.


20 posted on 12/06/2015 12:34:58 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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