Posted on 10/17/2018 4:41:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Even progressives treat the president as a familiar monster. And he hasn’t destroyed the world yet.
It’s hard to prove intangibles, harder still when they are in motion, like October clouds, moving rapidly across millions of minds.
One obvious but neglected intangible is worth noticing in the weeks before the elections: The country—consciously or unconsciously—has gotten used to Donald Trump. Twenty-one months into his administration, Mr. Trump has been processed, or half-processed—even subtly domesticated—by the large, complicated American mind, which is improvisational and on the whole incoherent except in moments of national crisis.
Even progressives to whom he is a monster treat him now as, at least, a familiar monster, another of the many disruptive, destructive realities of the 21st century. Life is a matter of learning to live with monsters. Mr. Trump hasn’t destroyed the world yet, as his enemies predicted he would.
In fact, life goes on, much for the better in many neighborhoods. To progressives this is disconcerting—anticlimactic. The market is up. Unemployment is way down. North and South Korea are talking. The Mueller thing goes on and on, but who knows about that? It’s off the screen for the moment.
These days, you only rarely see those psychiatric manifestoes on Facebook and Twitter claiming that the man is psychotic or infantile. They were common in the first year of Mr. Trump’s presidency but the diagnosis loses its force when a voter reflects how psychotic and infantile the culture itself has become. Mr. Trump’s peculiarities don’t seem unusual when compared with the extreme bizarreness, not to say pathology, that is routine on the left....
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In summery, it was just a joke bro! Here, let me put my mask back on!
Trump being Trump. I must admit that I was somewhat repulsed by his antics during the primaries but voted for him because I simply could not imagine a Hillary Clinton Presidency. As time has gone on I’ve actually come to like the guy. As Abraham Lincoln said of U.S. Grant amid much consternation from his advisors, “I can’t spare him, he fights”.
Well I feel the same way. Sometimes I wish he would but his Tweeter away but by God, he fights. And that’s good enough for me.
Twitter is one of the main tools he has to fight with.
Democrats demand pretty words from their President, his policies matter secondly. Trump gives us the opposite. I’ll take Trump any day.
We’ve had a rich, smooth, elitest, Harvard layer (Obama) and the good times didn’t come rushing back.
Now we have a New York guy, who, you know, maybe talks a little rough once in a while. But he’s doing all the right things, making people happy, clearly helping the country.
Do I care how he talks? Not at all. He’s better than any of those smooth politicians I have ever seen.
I’ve yet to be satiated about winning....
The media’s lies and spin and conspiracy theories have failed.
but rather than apologize they just claim to have grown “complacent” as they beat down conservatives in the streets
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I was well ahead of the pack. LOL!
We’ve had a rich, smooth, elitest, Harvard layer (Obama) and the good times didn’t come rushing back.
Now we have a New York guy, who, you know, maybe talks a little rough once in a while. But he’s doing all the right things, making people happy, clearly helping the country.
Do I care how he talks? Not at all. He’s better than any of those smooth politicians I have ever seen.
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I’m a lifelong construction guy. He speaks my language, direct, sometimes in your face, say what you mean. Rough sometimes.
He is not a politician. He is a leader. big difference.
I didn’t like the primary stuff either but I voted for him just as you did, because there’s no way I’d want Hillary Clinton in charge of anything, except maybe the prison commissary if she becomes a trustee.
But I really respect him now, because I think, even with his occasional wackiness, he has a plan and he is tough enough to just hold fast and carry it out. I was impressed by his actions during the awful Kavanaugh hearings and I like his willingness to put it on the line to support people when he thinks they’re good. Like a boss ...no, actually, the boss!
When the republicans gain a half dozen seats in the senate, hold the house and increase their presence on a statewide level around the country—the republicans and Trump are going to become much much more powerful.
If that happened, the sudden losses to the prison commissary would be ENORMOUS, and unexplainable.
I’d rather be told the truth in bad English than hear lies with a silver tongue.
Trump is pulling us back from the PC abyss.
“Even progressives treat the president as a familiar monster.”
Was on DU a few weeks ago and they were unhappy about something (maybe Kavanaugh), but someone wrote ‘Cheeto has a horseshoe.’ Thought it was cute coming from them. :)
> Twitter is one of the main tools he has to fight with.
Exactly. Some weak of stomach cringed when he called Stormy “Horseface.” But, face it, the MSM would not cover the story of Trump winning the legal battle against her, so he had to artificially trigger the FakeNews so that, in their frenzy of apoplexy to show outrage, they have to inadvertently tell John Q Public that Trump won the legal battle.
Brilliant strategy.
Do both of you know about the decades long feud between Adams and Jefferson? The vocabulary they used may have been on a somewhat higher level; however, in truth, it actually wasn't! Jefferson called Adams an hermaphrodite, for example. There was no such term as "girly-man" back then, nor even other variations of today's common euphemisms or terms for homosexual. And that was just one of the milder things that Jefferson, under his name, a pseudonym, or through a third party said, wrote, had someone else post under their name for him, against those whom he decided to disparage.
President Trump has to fight the damned Dems, the MSM. the #NEVERTRUMPERS, and the blasted RINOs; not to mention the snowflake pearl clutching GOP voters, who have need of fainting couches.
Glad to see that you both have now come on board; however, the way Trump fights is exactly what this nation has needed for at least the past almost 6 decades! If we had had such fighters, on our side, a lot earlier, none of the garbage we have to face/put up with, today, would NEVER have even seen the light of day.
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