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The Rise of Donald Trump is a Terrifying Moment (Libs literally quaking in their boots!)
Vox ^ | 2/10/2016 | Ezra Klein

Posted on 02/10/2016 11:46:49 AM PST by 20yearsofinternet

The Donald Trump phenomenon is a riotous union of candidate ego and voter id. America's most skilled political entertainer is putting on the greatest show we've ever seen.

It's so fun to watch that it's easy to lose sight of how terrifying it really is.

Trump is the most dangerous major candidate for president in memory. He pairs terrible ideas with an alarming temperament; he's a racist, a sexist, and a demagogue, but he's also a narcissist, a bully, and a dilettante. He lies so constantly and so fluently that it's hard to know if he even realizes he's lying. He delights in schoolyard taunts and luxuriates in backlash.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; newyork; trump
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Some pro-Cruz FReepers will likely empathize, while many pro-Trump folks might laugh heartily. :D
1 posted on 02/10/2016 11:46:49 AM PST by 20yearsofinternet
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To: 20yearsofinternet

After BHO, nobody is terrifying. Anything will be an improvement. Cruz is my first choice, but I will be quite happy with Trump.


2 posted on 02/10/2016 11:48:45 AM PST by Blennos
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Lol. If Trump is terrifying to any Cruz supporters it is only about the fact that Trump has exposed just how many thoroughly fake “conservatives” infest this site.


3 posted on 02/10/2016 11:49:16 AM PST by Goldsborough (Damn the torpedoes! FULL SPEED AHEAD!!!)
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To: 20yearsofinternet
"He pairs terrible ideas with an alarming temperament; he's a racist, a sexist, and a demagogue, but he's also a narcissist, a bully, and a dilettante"


4 posted on 02/10/2016 11:49:33 AM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Even Rush is ranting against Trump and pushing Rubio. Amazing and wierd at the same time.


5 posted on 02/10/2016 11:49:36 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Blennos

The thought of the lying, corrupt, criminal, godless (unless you count satan, the god of this world) and incompetent H-Beast as president is terrifying to me.


6 posted on 02/10/2016 11:51:42 AM PST by Cecily
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To: 20yearsofinternet
What does Kid Rubio know?

Rubio: Trump Will Not Be the GOP Nominee

Gowdy: Trump Tapped Into Anger, But 'Marco Is Our Best Chance to Win'

7 posted on 02/10/2016 11:51:49 AM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Ezra shouldn’t worry,we won’t send him to a camp like he would love to do to us.


8 posted on 02/10/2016 11:52:15 AM PST by Farmer Dean
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To: 20yearsofinternet

I read this same kind of drivel from leftards when Ronald Reagan was running.


9 posted on 02/10/2016 11:52:56 AM PST by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

The political establishment, good old boys network, are the ones quaking. It isn’t just because of Trump but of the anger, disdain and resolve of those backing him. This election could amount to the bloodless coup many of us have been hoping for. Should Trump win the election, it will depend on the team he puts together whether or not we were successful.


10 posted on 02/10/2016 11:53:06 AM PST by upsdriver (I support Sarah Palin.)
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To: TexasCajun

If they play with a brokered convention to oust Donald then Republicans will cease to exist IMO.


11 posted on 02/10/2016 11:53:11 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.d)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Trumps other gift, the one that gets less attention but is perhaps more important, is his complete lack of shame. Its easy to underestimate how important shame is in American politics.


And impossible to over-estimate the utter and completely shamelessness of the lying, always-lying, ever-lying, constantly-lying media.


12 posted on 02/10/2016 11:53:29 AM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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To: Cecily

Agreed - its bad enough that people support this sociopath. If she actually becomes president, I have little hope for this country.


13 posted on 02/10/2016 11:54:38 AM PST by No_More_Harkin
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Guess the Libs will get a little taste of what we’ve had to eat for 8 years.

Payback’s a bitch.


14 posted on 02/10/2016 11:55:26 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Christians want their RAINBOW back. I'm offended the gays use a Biblical icon as their flag.)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

.....and he’s going to take away enough of the black vote that the Democrats will be REALLY SCROOOOOOOD!


15 posted on 02/10/2016 11:55:29 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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He lies so constantly and so fluently that it’s hard to know if he even realizes he’s lying............... What a choice we have, liar vs liar, but that’s always been the problem with most elections, so nothing new here. Its also clear that the MSM controls the roost as to who is the greatest liar, and usual the one they fear the most is the one they’ll label as the biggest.


16 posted on 02/10/2016 11:56:02 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (I'm an old grumpy guy that wonders what the hell has happened to our country?)
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To: A CA Guy

One has to have priorities.

Beating Democrats is a potential priority. Perhaps that’s Rush’s priority. It is not mine.

My priority is DEATH TO THE UNIPARTY!

I want to see them crushed. Cruz can do that best with conservatism. Trump can do that next best with populism.

But the Republican Party has to exorcise and excise the Uniparty Faction that imports infinite labor undermining Americans, spends as much as 0bama wants, and funds crony capitalists on the backs of the middle class.

DEATH TO THE UNIPARTY!!!!

In the primaries, that is the only fight worth having.

I don’t mind losing the general. 0bama was horrible. Hillary will be horrible. But they are only as horrible as the Uniparty enables. We must as our first priority:

KILL THE UNIPARTY!


17 posted on 02/10/2016 11:56:06 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Marco "Stepford" Rubio.)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

Why yes, I can see that a Pro American candidate who is destroying 30 years of Politically Correct Leftist progress in dictating the terms of political discussion in the USA would be terrifying to Fascist wanna bees like Klein.


18 posted on 02/10/2016 11:56:21 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: No_More_Harkin

There already is no hope for the country. Trump is a hail mary, the only one we’ve got.

Don’t you get it, that’s why so many are supporting him because all of the others will conduct “business as usual”.


19 posted on 02/10/2016 11:57:30 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Christians want their RAINBOW back. I'm offended the gays use a Biblical icon as their flag.)
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I seriously wonder what libs would think of Trump if he were exactly the same only had a (D) after his name.


20 posted on 02/10/2016 11:57:38 AM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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