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Ten Reasons Why Trump Could Win
National Review Online ^ | July 19,2016 | by VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

Posted on 07/19/2016 2:58:03 PM PDT by Hojczyk

1. Not a Typical Populist

2. Obama Nihilism

3. Two Sorts of Elitists

4. Election Formulas

5. Crimes and Misdemeanors

Trump struggles with embarrassing misdemeanors, Clinton with high crimes.

6. Four Months until the Election

7. Extremism

Trump seems extremist in speech, but as the campaign wears on, Hillary may confirm that she is more extremist in fact.

8. Polls

9. Converts and Apostates

10. The Screech-Owl Factor

she still comes off not as reassuring, much less engaging, but rather as artificially trying her best not to revert to her natural screech-owl elocution. Heartfelt recklessness can sometimes wear better than packaged sobriety

Finally, it is suicidal to descend into the muck to battle Trump. Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz all tried and failed, despite the fact that they had every moral justification in hitting back in like kind. Elizabeth Warren is trying to be an anti-Trump street-fighter; but her incoherent venom suggests that Harvard Law professors should stick to academic jousting in the faculty lounge.

Brawlers know the rules of the street far better than establishmentarians. The Senate is not The Apprentice, and politics is not New York real estate. Ask the trash-talking Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg if she came out on top in dueling with Trump — or whether she virtually destroyed a quarter-century’s reputation in minutes and ended up no better than an elderly version of Rosie O’Donnell in a Supreme Court Justice costume. Hillary is stepping up her crude attacks on Trump. But as in the past, such hits are more likely to make the Trump mode suddenly seem normal, and to make Trump a target of those who claim they are more sober and judicious but in extremis prove no more measured than Trump himself.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: trump

1 posted on 07/19/2016 2:58:03 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Hansen has to take care to wrap any pro-Trump observations inside a cloud of insults, or else the post-American globalist cheap-foreign-labor lunatics at National Review would cut him off at the knees.


2 posted on 07/19/2016 3:02:25 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Hojczyk

1. Stop the illegal alien inundation

That’s all


3 posted on 07/19/2016 3:03:20 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I agree. If the only thing Trump accomplishes is to halt the invasion of this country, he is worth our strong support. Hillary would be a nightmare.


4 posted on 07/19/2016 3:07:09 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: Hojczyk
Wait til they get a load of Hillary front and center in a way she never has been before.

People will ask themselves, 'Do I want that in my living room every night?'

5 posted on 07/19/2016 3:10:53 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Hojczyk

Macy’s took on Trump. Then tanked.

Fox took on Trump. Tanking.

Don’t mess with the Don!


6 posted on 07/19/2016 3:14:07 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Hojczyk

Congratulations, you’ve posted the first thing in a few years that actually made me go the NR site to read the article. BRB, gotta take a shower.


7 posted on 07/19/2016 3:15:45 PM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Dante3

That’s all he needs to win.
Hillary is clearly on the side of the illegal aliens.
All of the previous GOP candidates were too.
The citizens have been waiting for someone to represent them.


8 posted on 07/19/2016 3:16:00 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Hojczyk

VDH is going to get kicked out of National Review if he writes stuff that is any way positive towards Trump... What was he THINKING?


9 posted on 07/19/2016 3:17:09 PM PDT by Borderline
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To: Hojczyk

Hillary’s “The Screech-Owl Factor” alone might drive my wife to a sanitarium. I can ignore noise from working in industrial noise.


10 posted on 07/19/2016 3:26:59 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Hojczyk

11. NRO is 100 % behind Hillary


11 posted on 07/19/2016 3:27:25 PM PDT by Donglalinger
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NRO is 100 % behind Hillary

Have you seen the latest issue? Every article is an attack on Hillary.

12 posted on 07/19/2016 3:33:23 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Dante3
I dont thinb even Trump can stop the tsunami of immigration that has just begun

Immigration is a part of free trade agreements. Mass immigration is the cornerstone of the globalist agenda.

Politicians can promise the world but delivery is another matter

13 posted on 07/19/2016 3:34:24 PM PDT by KTM rider
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To: Lurking Libertarian

“Have you seen the latest issue? Every article is an attack on Hillary.”

Have I seen the latest issue? No and I won’t see the next issue or the one after that


14 posted on 07/19/2016 3:38:58 PM PDT by Donglalinger
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To: Hojczyk
I think VDH still underestimates The Donald. I think Trump as the edge and the momentum right now.

If Trump has fought the Hildebeast to a draw in the polls (which are oversampling Democrats) with only spending a fraction of the money, then what will happen when he starts spending money?

Trump is getting more disciplined and less gaffe-prone.

15 posted on 07/19/2016 3:47:02 PM PDT by Lysandru
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>> “then what will happen when he starts spending money?” <<

Donald has already admitted that he doesn’t have the cash to spend.

If you want him to spend money, then send him some to spend.


16 posted on 07/19/2016 3:59:06 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Hojczyk
On the domestic scene, Donald Trump will stop the war on police--and on law-abiding citizens. Regarding foreign policy, he will stop Onambla's incipient and Hillary's promised Merkelization of America.


17 posted on 07/19/2016 4:06:06 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Onambla: Marxist-Muslim crack-smoking closet queen Exp 1-20-17)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

They look like petulant children at NRO. On one hand they trash the Hag and on the other turn around and act like 1st graders going after Trump, especially Williamson. They want Hillary to win but don’t have the courage to say how they really feel. Cowards in every sense of the word.

The next cycle these snobs will snort derisively, toss their elitist noses in the air and demand the entire base support every Republican running regardless of their positions or numerous sellouts as Vichy Republicans.


18 posted on 07/19/2016 4:22:42 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: Hojczyk

12. Disenfranchised Bernie Sanders (”we want an outsider”) supporters.


19 posted on 07/19/2016 4:35:20 PM PDT by lightman (I'm nobody special...just a follower of the siren call of the Ison.)
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