Posted on 05/15/2018 12:51:02 PM PDT by ethom
In the endless search for the magic key that Democrats can use to unlock the hearts of white people who vote Republican, the hot new candidate is “respect.” If only they cast off their snooty liberal elitism and show respect to people who voted for Donald Trump, Democrats can win them over and take back Congress and the White House.
The assumption is that if Democrats simply choose to deploy this powerful tool of respect, then minds will be changed and votes will follow.
As a voter says in “The Great Revolt,” a new book by conservative journalist Salena Zito and Republican operative Brad Todd, “One of the things I really don’t get about the Democratic Party or the news media is the lack of respect they give to people who work hard all of their lives to get themselves out of the hole.”
“I despise Barack Obama. I think primarily because I don’t think he thinks very much of people like me,” one Republican told The Post’s Dan Balz. “One of the places I would agree with the hard-core Trump people, they’re tired of being treated as the enemy by Barack Obama,” he went on. “His comment, the whole thing, it’s been worn out to death, that clinging to God and guns, God and guns and afraid of people who don’t look like them, blah, blah, blah. Just quit talking down to me.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“And we did it with ballots, not bullets.”
This time anyway.
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no more calls please, we have a winner! lmao
Gotta earn it.
They have been for too long used to winning things like taking away my rights and taxing the hell out of me and choking business and America to death with regulations (pen and phone?) via government.
That shit is over. They will win nothing from me. They will have to earn everything and I don’t much mind saying I am certain that will not happen. They simply hate our Constitution too much as it gets in their way of “winning” stuff from me.
They can piss right off.
/rant off
The thought of still being seen as a “Deplorable” at Rat Party Headquarters has me on the brink of psychiatric collapse.
The author of that piece is neither naive nor delusional. He is a bald-faced liar. Plain and simple. We must stop letting them off the hook by thinking they are mental cases. They are quite clear minded in their goals and their hate.
They want my respect and my vote, work for my preferred policies.
Yikes!
Liberals really are hate-filled towards normal Americans.
It's difficult to find one liberal who *doesn't* consider us deplorable.
The liberal will NEVER coexist with the TRUE Conservative. Nevertrumptards are just as bad.
You make an excellent point. Allow me to demonstrate: I don't see or hear a single left-tard apologizing for the stupid diarrhea that exits Maxine Waters mouth every day.
Case closed!!
How do you get past the WaPo paywall?
Read the comments. They are filled with bile and seething hatred. They accuse conservatives of being hateful. I dare any one of them to go on facebook and make an innocuous positive comment about something inconsequential about trump. Then they will see what hate is.
He thinks condescension is "showing respect", or claims to. No. He's just lying, and that's not respectful.
You need respect, get a dog.
You want validation, ask the valet...
Why is it that I could only get half way through that article before my stomach started to churn?
Respect?? That would only mean something if they would just learn to get off my lawn!!!
Things like threatening MY personal ownership of MY guns, is ‘on MY lawn’.
I think “Get off my lawn!” should be our cry, it means a lot of things to me.
I don’t want the respect of those despicable swine.
Out of curiosity I just did that. Wow. Talk about shooting the entire premise of the article out of the water! That's pure, unadulterated hatred you see there - I wonder if the author has read them?
Why do political philosophies want respect from the other guys? That seems superfluous.
Respect is earned.
Name 1 thing Dems have done in the last 10 years that is worthy of even a nod at respect?
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That’s a hoot. The Leftists who show nobody respect, even their own, now want respect?
OMG those folks are running on empty.
Ditto.
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