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Charles M. Blow: Soul Survival in Trump’s Hell
The New York Times ^ | September 11, 2017 | Charles M. Blow

Posted on 09/11/2017 1:04:01 PM PDT by EveningStar

You could stay in hell for a little while if you knew that you were going to get out.

My mother always told me that when I was going through something tough and dispiriting. It was her way of saying that trouble doesn’t last forever, that even in your darkest place, hold fast to the hope and the light, that though today you are in the valley, tomorrow you shall scale the peak.

Well, Mama, this is hell. Indeed, Donald Trump’s America is the Ninth Circle.

And while I know that a president is limited to two terms, and I highly doubt that Trump could be re-elected to a second term and think that Robert Mueller’s investigation may curtail the first, I am still struggling to maintain optimism and perseverance.

I don’t think that this is even a matter of fatigue, but rather of the capacity of rage and the length of mourning. Hopelessness is a very human response when the feeling of persecution intersects with the feeling of powerlessness.

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KEYWORDS: charlesblow; charlesmblow; trump
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Mr. Blow, you're whacko even by NYT standards.
1 posted on 09/11/2017 1:04:01 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
Memo To Charles M. Blow:

Click the Pic

2 posted on 09/11/2017 1:05:35 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: EveningStar

I bet he had a difficult time in HS.....................


3 posted on 09/11/2017 1:05:37 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: EveningStar

Poor Mr. Blow. Probably lives in a great NYC apt. and vacations in The Hamptons. But he’s in 9th ring of hell. Yeah, I believe that.


4 posted on 09/11/2017 1:07:55 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: EveningStar

Wow, how awful for him. I don’t see how he survives such horror. (yawn)


5 posted on 09/11/2017 1:07:56 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: EveningStar
Well, Mama, this is hell. Indeed, Donald Trump’s America is the Ninth Circle.

Mr. Blow is well named. Be blows, of course ... his drivel also leads me to wonder how much blow he has snorted.

6 posted on 09/11/2017 1:09:10 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: EveningStar

Living in a world of self-imagined fears.


7 posted on 09/11/2017 1:09:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: EveningStar

The Blow as in Charles shall pass once the public gets tired of him.


8 posted on 09/11/2017 1:10:38 PM PDT by CptnObvious (uestion her now.)
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To: EveningStar
The author:


9 posted on 09/11/2017 1:10:47 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: EveningStar

>>Well, Mama, this is hell. Indeed, Donald Trump’s America is the Ninth Circle.

>>And while I know that a president is limited to two terms, and I highly doubt that Trump could be re-elected to a second term and think that Robert Mueller’s investigation may curtail the first, I am still struggling to maintain optimism and perseverance.

He’s finishing the first and gettin re-elected Charles. Your mother should be one of those “abortion heroes” the Left admires so much.


10 posted on 09/11/2017 1:11:27 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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Hey, we toughed it out for eight years of obama without catastrophizing over it; surely, you can do the same.


11 posted on 09/11/2017 1:14:26 PM PDT by Salvey
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These people are angry, enraged, depressed and and sad because all because of their inability to accept defeat.

The hell they’re living in is of their own making. Charles Blow has a problem dealing with reality.

The rest of us don’t. That’s what makes America great.


12 posted on 09/11/2017 1:14:34 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: EveningStar

If you are in the US military, you have sworn an oath to sacrifice your life on behalf of the likes of Mr. Blow. If you are a devout, committed Christian , your faith prepares you to make a similar sacrifice. Mr. Blow if nothing else leads individuals to question their ideals and values.


13 posted on 09/11/2017 1:16:43 PM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: EveningStar

Mr. Blow Blows.

5.56mm


14 posted on 09/11/2017 1:17:32 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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They can’t tough it out. What will they do when they lose the next election?

They don’t confront their problems and they can’t fix them.

So liberals run around constantly blaming America for rejecting them.

Charles Blow thinks America is hell? He should follow his own advice and move abroad.


15 posted on 09/11/2017 1:19:19 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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What a blowhard that Charles is.


16 posted on 09/11/2017 1:19:36 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: EveningStar

AA Journalist (both of ‘em, African American and affirmative action).


17 posted on 09/11/2017 1:24:05 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: NorthMountain

Liberal tears taste the sweetest!


18 posted on 09/11/2017 1:24:24 PM PDT by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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To: EveningStar

Chalres M. Blow. He needs the money.


19 posted on 09/11/2017 1:25:16 PM PDT by canalabamian
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To care at all I’d have to believe (1) that something Charles Blow writes is worth reading, and (2) that Leftards have souls.

Since I’m pretty sure (1) and (2) are both false, I won’t bother reading his column.


20 posted on 09/11/2017 1:25:30 PM PDT by Enchante
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