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Notes on a Phenomenom... Mark Steyn
Steyn Online ^ | 9 Jan 2016 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 01/09/2016 5:51:29 AM PST by Rummyfan

On Tuesday night, my daughter and her friends went down to Claremont, New Hampshire to see Donald Trump in action. She and her chums range from the not terribly political to those with the usual enthusiasms of youth, so they went mainly because Trump's a hot ticket, and we don't get a lot of those in the Granite State. Her only other candidate encounter this season was at the North Haverhill Fair last summer when Lindsey Graham pounced outside the 4-H barn, no doubt with an eye to recruiting her for one of his "rotating first ladies".

At any rate, after hearing my daughter's account of the night, my sons said they wanted to see Trump, too. I wasn't particularly enthusiastic, having wasted far too much of my time in New Hampshire on campaign events, going all the way back to the oxymoronic "Dole rallies" of 1996. But they persisted. So we checked out the schedule and discovered that he was due to be in Bernie Sanders' socialist fortress of Vermont on Thursday. Which is how we wound up crossing the Connecticut River and traversing the Green Mountain State, and eventually found ourselves in an unusually lively Burlington

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KEYWORDS: marksteyn; steyn; trump; trump2016; trumprally; vermont
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1 posted on 01/09/2016 5:51:29 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
But he also knows that using the bully pulpit to push back against the remorseless one-way cultural warfare of the left is one of the most powerful tools a president has

Which is why Trump is doing so well. People are sick and tired of hearing the left's side of the story.

2 posted on 01/09/2016 6:09:56 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Rummyfan

Great article.


3 posted on 01/09/2016 6:10:15 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: Rummyfan
This little gem shows why everyone is scared of Trump - even Clintons
"He moved the meter on the "war on women", too. Mrs Clinton pulled out the card, and Trump flung it right back in her face with her sleazy sociopath of a husband's four decades of abuse against vulnerable women. Hillary's now backed off."
4 posted on 01/09/2016 6:13:27 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: Rummyfan

What a writer, huh?


5 posted on 01/09/2016 6:14:06 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: Rummyfan

Thanks so much for posting this! Hilarious and truthful. A must read.


6 posted on 01/09/2016 6:16:52 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard then Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: Rummyfan

The reason I like Trump, is the same reason I listen to Rush and Mark....I am a male and my brain is wired in certain fashion, much the same as Trump, Rush and Mark....


7 posted on 01/09/2016 6:18:24 AM PST by B212
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To: Rummyfan
My personal favorite:

If the national GOP is a vehicle for ensuring that John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan have a car and driver and a Gulf Emir-sized retinue, then it's very effective. If it's a vehicle for advancing conservative principles, then it's a rusted-up lemon on cinder blocks.

8 posted on 01/09/2016 6:19:15 AM PST by pa_dweller (Go ahead Libs, drink the kool-aid. It's got electrolytes!)
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To: Rummyfan

Great read by Steyn. As always, Steyn gets it.


9 posted on 01/09/2016 6:23:36 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light - John Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: Rummyfan

This was fun to read. I was at one of Trump’s first rallys in South Carolina. What Mark described was exactly what I saw and felt...sans protesters ...there were none at our venue. So the message and process is staying the same. That says something to me, it’s not a choreographed show, it a real thing. It made me a little nervous that there is no script...Trump delivers without a net. But when through, you have that same feeling of relief when the daredevil walks away from the feat unharmed. We came away excited and happy. Never walked away from a political rally feeling like that before. Thanks for the post.


10 posted on 01/09/2016 6:24:05 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Thanks so much for posting this!
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Presumptively hoping Mark reads the Free Republic because I want to thank him for writing this great article.


11 posted on 01/09/2016 6:25:27 AM PST by iontheball
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To: Rummyfan

Steyn may not have explicitly endorsed Trump in the article, but he sure didn’t raise any red flags - seems he’s impressed with ‘;The Donald” as his own man who doesn’t need a bunch of folks telling him how to act and talk.


12 posted on 01/09/2016 6:27:39 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Rummyfan

Phenomenom?


13 posted on 01/09/2016 6:27:46 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are. Go Ted.)
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To: Rummyfan

Looks like Mark Steyn’s first-account observations and generally accepted liberal punditry don’t match up. I’ll take Steyn’s.


14 posted on 01/09/2016 6:28:56 AM PST by odawg
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To: Rummyfan
Great final line: It felt good to be taking it to the other side's turf. And they'd like a lot more of it between now and November.

Which is what some of us have been observing since about the third debate...it appears Trump has pivoted to a general election mode.

And he doesn't even have to WIN Vermont or Massachusetts or New Jersey, etc. He merely has to make those states competitive, because that will force Hitlery to spend money there.

15 posted on 01/09/2016 6:29:43 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (Obama hates the three Cs: Christianity, Constitution, and capitalism.)
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To: B212

Ok, I’ll bite, I am a female and I LOVE Trump, Rush, and Mark... ;)


16 posted on 01/09/2016 6:32:20 AM PST by gibsosa
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To: Rummyfan
Nice post!

FReepers will get a kick out of Mark Steyn's humorous analysis of Trump's Burlington rally last night.

The guy's brilliant.

17 posted on 01/09/2016 6:32:30 AM PST by poconopundit (When the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government. Franklin, Const. Conv.)
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To: iontheball

So many people do not get Trump’s amazingly natural comedy chops. Mark, a theater critic, certainly does.


18 posted on 01/09/2016 6:36:31 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard then Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: P.O.E.
He changed the debate on illegal immigration. He said he'd build a wall and close the border and as the months passed and his competitors saw his surge, they too were suddenly, clearly, aggressively for ending illegal immigration.

This is why only Trump can be trusted on immigration. Every other candidate was for some type of amnesty until Trump "changed the conservation".

19 posted on 01/09/2016 6:37:55 AM PST by jpsb
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To: Rummyfan

A MUST READ!!!!!!


20 posted on 01/09/2016 6:38:42 AM PST by Guenevere (If.the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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