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Coarsener-in-Chief (Donald Trump)
City Journal ^ | January 28, 2016 | Heather Mac Donald

Posted on 01/29/2016 2:46:07 PM PST by reaganaut1

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Trump is the most gratuitously nasty public figure that this country has seen in living memory. He is the very definition of a bully: at every opportunity to kick someone when he's down, Trump takes it, while shamelessly trumpeting his own dominance. Long after former Texas governor Rick Perry had withdrawn from the primary race, Trump was still sneering at Perry's glasses and intelligence during campaign rallies and gloating about how he had forced Perry's withdrawal. New York governor George Pataki held out longer in the campaign, but he was never a threat to Trump. Yet nearly every Trump stump speech still includes a mean-spirited reference to this nonentity. Trump followers defend his penchant for ceaseless, obsessive attack on the ground that he lashes out only when he has himself been criticized. But there is virtue in proportionality. Trump escalates a conventional campaign sally into the excuse for nonstop, self-aggrandizing war.

Trump is the embodiment of what the Italians call "maleducato"--poorly raised, ill-bred. Indeed, judging by the results, his upbringing seems to have involved no check whatsoever on the crudest male instincts for aggression and humiliation. Trump is unfailingly personal in his attacks. Nor is his comportment merely a refusal to be politically correct. Trump was on solid ground when he responded to Fox News's Megyn Kelly during the first Republican debate that he had no time for political correctness. A repudiation of political correctness means truth-telling, however. Trump's personal sneers are not truth-telling but merely the self-indulgent gestures of someone who makes no effort to control his desire to humiliate.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016trump; strumpets; trump
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She has Trump nailed. He shows little sign of growing up, and I won't vote for an utter jerk.
1 posted on 01/29/2016 2:46:07 PM PST by reaganaut1
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Wow you go to the Socialist Media to find a supporter? lol


2 posted on 01/29/2016 2:47:30 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (how many laws has Cruz sponsored that have become law?)
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There is nothing I can add to this assessment.


3 posted on 01/29/2016 2:47:31 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: reaganaut1

Wow you go to the Socialist Media to find a supporter? lol


4 posted on 01/29/2016 2:47:47 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (how many laws has Cruz sponsored that have become law?)
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Trump hasn't been part of the eGOP "scene" in DC and those that have spent their entire lives climbing the social ladder in the eGOP are scared they won't retain their positions if Trump wins. Period. THAT is why they oppose Trump.

"Don't look now, but while our best conservative is running a political campaign, Trump is leading a rebellion. Not as a liberal or a conservative politician, but as a successful red-blooded, can-do American capitalist.", Jim Robinson


5 posted on 01/29/2016 2:48:22 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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She has Trump nailed. He shows little sign of growing up, and I won’t vote for an utter jerk.

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Yeah. Right. Sure.

But the Trumpers LOVE him for those qualities and are supporting him because he is all that and more.


6 posted on 01/29/2016 2:48:29 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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Obama is much nastier. He hates America and Americans.


7 posted on 01/29/2016 2:48:29 PM PST by TigerClaws
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I know, ain’t it great to see an actual man in the race.


8 posted on 01/29/2016 2:49:42 PM PST by The Toll
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I take it you want the same pleasant, always say “sorry”, wimp the eGOP puts out. Liberals are the most mean-spirited winners and take your lunch money, yet, you want to lose.

Go lose somewhere else.


9 posted on 01/29/2016 2:49:48 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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You just nailed yourself.

We do not want your ilk voting for Trump! Thanks!

Enjoy the lonely life down the road of life with the liberals you have quoted.


10 posted on 01/29/2016 2:50:07 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Trump is the wrecking ball destroying GOPe, FAUX & their bs mediot conspirators & beltway pundits!)
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11 posted on 01/29/2016 2:50:20 PM PST by sergeantdave ( If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again ... I’ve been around NYC enough, and I’ve seen enough of Donald Trump over the years, to know what we’ll be getting if he’s elected.


12 posted on 01/29/2016 2:50:33 PM PST by Alberta's Child (My mama said: "To get things done, you'd better not mess with Major Tom.")
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As someone mentioned earlier:

If you think pen and phone obummer is bad, just wait till you get your wish and we have pen, phone, twitter account trump.


13 posted on 01/29/2016 2:52:04 PM PST by corbe (mystified)
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Rand Paul is piling on....


14 posted on 01/29/2016 2:53:22 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Trumpbots Vs. Cruznadians - the struggle is real.)
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Heather is the type of teacher that demands all boys be placed on ADHD meds. After she wrote this she probably flew to Copenhagen to hand out roses.


15 posted on 01/29/2016 2:53:52 PM PST by The Toll
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It's so much nicer when everyone refers to each other as “my very good friend from the great state of XXXX.” And after they accidently say what they are thinking, they spend days scratching their beards or clutching their pearls figuring out a way to apologize.

All the while our country is being invaded & savages are beheading people.

16 posted on 01/29/2016 2:54:41 PM PST by gubamyster
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TRump doesn’t need your vote anyway. He’ll still win in a landslide. Don’t go away mad. Just go away.


17 posted on 01/29/2016 2:55:08 PM PST by Godebert
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Another boo hop article that means nothing.


18 posted on 01/29/2016 2:55:13 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Lol. Nailed it.


19 posted on 01/29/2016 2:55:44 PM PST by Godebert
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You should count your lucky stars that Trump is running - and winning. If he hadn't shown up we would have had the usual choice between Establishment Hack (Jebbie, Rubio, et al..) or just unelectable (Cruz, Carson, and so on.).

We would have had Hillary with no chance at all of winning and 4-8 more years of socialist insanity, not to mention lefty supreme court justices.

If you find Trump "coarse", you wouldn't survive long in a man's environment!

20 posted on 01/29/2016 2:56:38 PM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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