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Trump’s Not the Problem – He’s the Reaction to the Problem
American Thinker ^ | 10/09/2023 | Brian C. Joondeph, MD

Posted on 10/09/2023 7:10:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Former President Donald Trump is blamed for more of the world’s problems than even global warming, climate change, extreme weather, or what we call 'weather' these days.

Trump is also blamed for much of the dysfunction in Washington, D.C., such as the recent ousting of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Perhaps if McCarthy was a contestant on The Apprentice and Trump told him “You’re fired!”, then blaming Trump would be appropriate.

Here’s ABC News, tying Trump’s campaign catchphrase MAGA to McCarthy’s ouster: 

MAGA-inspired House rebellion against McCarthy leaves chaos on Capitol Hill.

The Hill agreed with this headline: 

McCarthy’s ousting a result of his appeasement of MAGA enablers.

The poorly named left-leaning Lincoln Project piled on: 

The Republican party of Trump cannot govern at any level; the Maga parasite is eating them alive.

Trump didn’t cause this mess, the Republican Party did, long before Trump appeared on the political scene.

Rather than causing the problems, he is the voters’ response to decades of feckless GOP leadership and broken promises to their voters.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and the GOP offered up a decades-long vacuum of leadership and principles. Trump filled the vacuum as did Rep. Matt Gaetz last week.

Although it probably began much earlier, a notable starting point for Republican duplicitousness was from George H.W. Bush in his 1988 presidential campaign against Michael Dukakis. He uttered those famous six words, “Read my lips, no new taxes.”

As Time reported, Bush as president, “Signed into law a stealth budget that, while leaving the income tax alone, raised various fees and levies.” Promises made, promises broken. He dropped like a stone in the polls, ushering in eight years of Bill Clinton.

From a Democrat like Clinton, lies are normal and expected.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: reaction; statusquo; trump

1 posted on 10/09/2023 7:10:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump didn’t cause the division, he revealed it.


2 posted on 10/09/2023 7:10:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Now the DUmmies believe he sold Hamas his super secret documents out of his bathroom.


3 posted on 10/09/2023 7:13:14 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump’s not the problem. The unconstitutional government is the problem.

Ultimately, Trump’s not the solution although he’s a midwife to the solution. The solution is

- Reinstating the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land
- Dismantling the 80%+ unconstitutional portio fo the federal government which has now become totalitarian and threatens our lives, liberties, and free pursuits.

This is EXACTLY what needs to happen for the restoration of our Free Constitutional Republic and wellbeing - MUCH LESS government, MUCH MORE individual freedom.


4 posted on 10/09/2023 7:13:48 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Kari Lake: The entire world right now
5 posted on 10/09/2023 7:15:25 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Donald Trump is blamed for more of the world’s problems.

The lefts propaganda is in trouble they know Trump is the best bet for 2024 the last thing they want is their destruction of the country ended.

They are the toothless lion that roars.


6 posted on 10/09/2023 7:16:51 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Jim W N

Not just federal.

Every level of bureaucracy from federal to state to local has been weaponized.


7 posted on 10/09/2023 7:17:51 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Golden Eagle

Here ya go.


8 posted on 10/09/2023 7:20:05 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: mewzilla

The $3 trillion unconstitutional portion of the federal government which has become totalitarian is the 800 lb gorilla in the room. No state govnet is nearly as threatening as our own federal government.

And OBTW, reinstating the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land not only requires dismantling the 80%+ ot eht unconstitutional portion of the feds, but also requires the States to assert their constitutional sovereignty and independence from the feds including not taking federal aid.

ALL of the depends on We The People turning away from trusting in man and his government and turning to trusting the Divine Providence of God Almighty and his Son Jesus Christ.


9 posted on 10/09/2023 7:27:30 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N

Now Trump has a mandate from his voters to do just that via the campaign promise and mandate to:

Obliterate the Deep State

That wasn’t a mandate in 2016.

That was still a conspiracy theory


10 posted on 10/09/2023 7:32:22 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: SeekAndFind

They will not let Trump have a second term (March, 2017 by me).

Yawl gonna haft to move on.

Jes sayn


11 posted on 10/09/2023 7:43:55 AM PDT by Badboo (A fascist is the one who wants to take your guns. That's how it always starts.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Trump’s Not the Problem – He’s the Reaction to the Problem”

That’s something the GOP Leaders simply cannot get through their heads. Most Trump voters prefer someone else that understands their concerns about the country, given all the drama associated with Trump. Unfortunately Chris Christie just doesn’t seem to be up to that task. Of course the rest of the candidates are clones of Christie, so same problem.

So it’s not a cult - in fact if one randomly chooses a GOP voter, at least from the South, you’d get a person FAR BETTER than Chris Christie or his clones. But that’s not allowed, as the GOP would never assist that person, and that random person would not come close to having the money needed to be a credible candidate - so we’re left with Chris Christie and his clones to choose from (if we exclude Trump) and are told WE, THE GOP BASE, ARE THE PROBLEM.


12 posted on 10/09/2023 7:48:12 AM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: Darksheare

GE was telling whoppers yesterday about Trump and got the boot.


13 posted on 10/09/2023 8:24:37 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: BlackbirdSST
GE was telling whoppers yesterday about Trump and got the boot.


14 posted on 10/09/2023 8:26:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

If history is any guide, he’ll be back.


15 posted on 10/09/2023 8:34:54 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: dfwgator

NEEDS TO BE A BUMPER STICKER

His campaign should use this


16 posted on 10/09/2023 9:06:06 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Jim W N

I would rather that we have 360,000 NEWLY unemployed FED workers than a phony number of 360,000 “New jobs”


17 posted on 10/09/2023 9:07:56 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: SeekAndFind

Very true. Today I’m reading the DS is trying to blame President Trump for the attack on Israel just because he shared classified Israeli info with Lavrov and Kislyak in the Oval Office in 2017. As President, he had the absolute right to do so, and no doubt the enhanced US relations with Putin prevented problems we’ll never know about it.


18 posted on 10/09/2023 10:20:49 AM PDT by Observator
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To: SeekAndFind

Two of the 8 are apparently Nancy of SC and Elaine of NY...not the typical MAGA type.

The media seems to be ignoring the reality:

The US has unsustainable debt and cannot afford to increase its debt.

With or without a Speaker, the House should pass appropriations bills, as is their duty. Each appropriation bill should be less than previously. The cuts selected could be those that split the Democrat politicians, or those that split Democrat voters, or those that split spending hungry Republicans.

Appropriations for each and every alphabet agency should be cut. Appropriations to FBI, ATF, DOJ, SEC, FTC, XYZ should all be cut.

I’m on Social Security. The “normal” increase in social security should not happen. The way to keep up with inflation is to kill inflation, not increase spending.

We all need to be willing to face small cuts in our pet programs.

Will this be the final solution? No. But it is a necessary step.


19 posted on 10/09/2023 11:40:56 AM PDT by spintreebob (ki .h )
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To: BlackbirdSST

I know.
Saw that.
They’ll be back, eventually.
In some form.


20 posted on 10/09/2023 4:25:31 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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