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Russell Mercer: Blind rage won’t beat Trump
The Gainesville Sun ^ | September 5, 2017 | Russell Mercer, Special to the Sun

Posted on 09/05/2017 11:28:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

I am shaking with frustration at the lack of a coherent, national strategy to defeat Donald Trump. I’m surrounded by liberal and progressive echo chambers that are deaf to the reality that we’re facing.

If you think Trump is seconds away from impeachment or implosion, let me ask you this: When is the last time you watched Fox News? Try Sean Hannity or Fox & Friends, not Shepard Smith or Chris Wallace. Or when is the last time you looked at Breitbart News? How about the last time you watched Trump or somebody from his administration speaking more than five minutes, and not a clipped segment from an opposition source?

If you don’t have regular exposure to any of these (or similar) avenues for understanding the pro-Trump world, how in the world can you credibly say you have any idea what is happening (or what is going to happen)? You’re probably like me, which is somebody who was utterly shocked by Trump’s November victory. But, unlike you, I refuse to be surprised again. So I fixed my problem. Have you done anything about yours?

The current Democratic strategy (more like complete lack of one) revolves around the false assumption that Trump has somehow lost support since November. But riddle me this: What’s the approval rating of the people who voted for him? Any idea? Probably not if you didn’t vote for him, but I’ll help you out: more than 80 percent. Know what that means? He’d win again. Approval ratings mean nothing if you aren’t measuring the block of voters that won Trump to the presidency.

I’m not predicting a wave of Republican victories in 2018. But I am shocked at the complete obliviousness of just about everybody who didn’t vote for Trump. People are so blind with rage that they can’t see clearly. And while I find it hard to condemn that (I certainly loath his utter lack of integrity), it’s time to get over that. Because if you can’t accept him for who he is, we will never be able to organize ourselves in the coherent manner necessary to beat him.

I want to see wins at the state and congressional level. But right now we’re simply setting ourselves up for another “upset” (this time predictable, at least in my humble opinion). Are you ready to change? Are you ready to accept reality so we can win and stop this nonsense?

Prove it.


TOPICS: Issues; State and Local
KEYWORDS: 2018; 2020; polls; trump
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1 posted on 09/05/2017 11:28:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, blind rage will beat him, sure it will. Keep doing it...you’ll win big. Besides its all a bad dream, Hillary really won, all the polls said so. Its not that the Left lives in an alternate reality and its not that the Left is a bunch of spoiled brats...its that you guys are so smart and reality is dumb.


2 posted on 09/05/2017 11:33:00 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Love this. He knows he won’t be listened to and nothing will change. You don’t change when you are perfected and only see a horrible world full of horrible people.

Welcome to hell, Russell.


3 posted on 09/05/2017 11:40:18 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (CNN IS ISIS.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hehe. Oh, the tears. The magnificent salty tears!


4 posted on 09/05/2017 11:41:55 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More riots, more tears, more protests I say!


5 posted on 09/06/2017 12:00:04 AM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“I certainly loath his utter lack of integrity”

But I wanted Crooked Hillary.


6 posted on 09/06/2017 12:10:05 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: SaxxonWoods
Screw you Russel... Really. Choke on it beyatch.


7 posted on 09/06/2017 1:49:24 AM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I’m not predicting a wave of Republican victories in 2018.

I am. The Dems are going to get spanked in 2018. once again.

8 posted on 09/06/2017 1:54:11 AM PDT by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dumb ass he has already won the election. He is the President. All you are doing now is trying to defeat America and the people!


9 posted on 09/06/2017 2:24:46 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: AndyTheBear

The left has been loosing ground for 70yrs.in the US. That is why they are getting violent. They have no other choice, same failed policies for ever..... Never a different outcome, the dreamed of utopia never came to be. It won’t, only so much of other peoples resources to go around.


10 posted on 09/06/2017 2:25:25 AM PDT by foundedonpurpose (Prayers for Gods People! Salvation & Restoration!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
“I certainly loath his utter lack of integrity”

actually, the left has no idea how to understand a man who Is honest. President Trump did not get to be a multi-billionaire by lying in contracts. There are consequences for dishonesty in the world of contracts but not in the world of politics.

11 posted on 09/06/2017 2:38:10 AM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever.)
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To: wastoute

Tears of Ultimate Sadness! Delicious!


12 posted on 09/06/2017 2:49:05 AM PDT by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: RC one

I Hope the RINOS do as well, the whole lot of those turncoat weasels!


13 posted on 09/06/2017 2:55:15 AM PDT by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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To: Shady

You will always have the RINOs among you.


14 posted on 09/06/2017 3:26:39 AM PDT by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Blind rage won’t win, but Antifa will win hearts and minds! /s


15 posted on 09/06/2017 4:01:11 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He does have a point. We were in the same boat for Obama’s second election. We believed after the real train wreck that was Obama’s first term, that nobody could possibly vote for him again. But he had the support of his original voters and the Republicans put up the weakest RINO possible as his opponent. Voila! 2nd term win.

An incumbent president has a lot of advantages over an outside challenger. Trump has many real accomplishments and will have many more by the time of the 2nd term voting. I predict an even higher EV total defeat of Al Franken and Jill Stein. (you know ... the Franken/Stein ticket.) ;>}


16 posted on 09/06/2017 4:15:04 AM PDT by JohnEBoy (O)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trouble for them is all they got is deaf, dumb and blind rage to work with....


17 posted on 09/06/2017 4:17:35 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: foundedonpurpose
The left has been loosing ground for 70yrs

Now there is an alternate reality. Except for Reagan and Trump, the left has been gaining ground Post WWII.

18 posted on 09/06/2017 4:18:14 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

” . . . not Shepard Smith or Chris Wallace.”

HA HA HA HA

Even the Libtards recognize that Ms Shep and Red-Diaper Chris are Libs!


19 posted on 09/06/2017 4:43:25 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: wastoute
"...I am shaking with frustration at the lack of a coherent, national strategy to defeat Donald Trump..."

Hahahahahahahahahahaha! They have long since become unhinged! Does anyone else find as much humor in the quaking rage of this unhinged moonbat as I do?

Now, I understand how dangerous these people can be, because they have no self control and will resort to murder, but this tool sounds like he is spending all his time blogging.

The Enraged Snowflake.

20 posted on 09/06/2017 4:52:04 AM PDT by rlmorel (Those who sit on the picket fence are impaled by it.)
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