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Donald Trump, America’s first independent president
wapo ^
| 11/19
| balz
Posted on 11/19/2016 4:11:12 PM PST by RummyChick
Viewed through any conventional lens, President-elect Donald Trump’s candidacy was improbable from start to finish. Today, two things about his victory seem to be in sharper focus: one, that Trump’s victory might best be understood as the success of the country’s first independent president, and second, that the Trump coalition may be even more uniquely his than President Obama’s has turned out to be.
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To: RummyChick
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posted on
11/19/2016 4:12:23 PM PST
by
RummyChick
(Trump Train Hobo TM Rummychick. Example - Ryan Romney Kasich. Quit trying to Jump on the Train)
To: RummyChick
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posted on
11/19/2016 4:14:14 PM PST
by
tophat9000
("flyover country" aka "f--ked-over country")
To: RummyChick
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posted on
11/19/2016 4:15:54 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: RummyChick
David A. Clarke, Jr. @SheriffClarke Nov 9 I have had many achievements in life but none more satisfying than helping @realDonaldTrump become the 45th President of the United States.
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posted on
11/19/2016 4:16:37 PM PST
by
RummyChick
(Trump Train Hobo TM Rummychick. Example - Ryan Romney Kasich. Quit trying to Jump on the Train)
To: RummyChick
David A. Clarke, Jr. @SheriffClarke 6h6 hours ago The next positive thing @nytimes @washingtonpost says about a @realDonaldTrump cabinet nominee will be the first. Haters gonna hate.
David A. Clarke, Jr. @SheriffClarke 3h3 hours ago Incredibly @nytimes wants Pres-elect Trump to be a "centrist". They did not ask that of Obama with his ultra left-wing socialist agenda.
David A. Clarke, Jr. @SheriffClarke 6h6 hours ago The next positive thing @nytimes @washingtonpost says about a @realDonaldTrump cabinet nominee will be the first. Haters gonna hate.
David A. Clarke, Jr. @SheriffClarke 8h8 hours ago US Rep John Lewis says those opposing Pres-elect Trump are justified in raising their voices. When people object to Obama he cites racism. 0----------------------- David is on fire on his twitter
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posted on
11/19/2016 4:18:08 PM PST
by
RummyChick
(Trump Train Hobo TM Rummychick. Example - Ryan Romney Kasich. Quit trying to Jump on the Train)
To: RummyChick
The results of this year’s election can be summarized in 5 Words. . . To God Be the Glory. Considering everyone’s next breath is in His control. . .we as a country would do well to get it right this time and turn from our evil ways. . .sooner rather than later; and under God’s direction “make America great again.”
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posted on
11/19/2016 4:20:10 PM PST
by
Maudeen
(No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
To: RummyChick
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posted on
11/19/2016 4:23:13 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
As an Independent myself I am happy to have an “independent” president. I used to be a Republican but March 2003 changed that for me.
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posted on
11/19/2016 4:27:31 PM PST
by
Degaston
To: RummyChick
Trump independent? He had no help from the Democrats (of course), the Republicans, Wall Street, the Media, the lobbyists, ex-presidents, Republican pundits or well-heeled donors. Donald Trump owes nothing to nobody.
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posted on
11/19/2016 4:28:09 PM PST
by
fhayek
To: BenLurkin
Not the first. George Washington was pretty much independent.
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posted on
11/19/2016 4:33:03 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
([VOTE FRAUD] == [CIVIL WAR])
To: Steely Tom
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posted on
11/19/2016 4:34:38 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: RummyChick
My favorite thing about Trump: He's not a Lawyer.
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posted on
11/19/2016 4:48:48 PM PST
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: RummyChick
The author here is late to the game. A bunch of us have been saying this for months.
Before 2016, the last Republican presidential candidate who got my vote was George W. Bush in 2000.
I'm not a Republican. I'm a conservative. I supported Trump because he wasn't beholden to Beltway insiders that have run this country into the ground over the last 25 years.
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posted on
11/19/2016 4:49:00 PM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
To: RummyChick
Actually the second independent president.
George Washington was first. He became president due to sense of duty and honor and abhorred the idea of being king, which he was offered. He fought for freedom and watched many of his men die. If he had become king it would have been no better than the king he had just defeated with the help of the French.
You may hate the French or love the French, but without France there would be no United States of America. I lean toward love the French. Actually outside of the big cities they are conservative and really good people.
George Washington saved the Republic twice.
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posted on
11/19/2016 4:52:44 PM PST
by
cpdiii
(DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
To: RummyChick
I have felt this way from the beginning. He was another Ross Perot but he was smart enough not to openly run as an independent. The two parties are too firmly embedded within the system for a openly third party candidate to have any chance of success in an Presidential election. He had to execute a hostile takeover of one of the two parties. the GOP made the most sense.
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posted on
11/19/2016 4:52:45 PM PST
by
RC one
(The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
To: RummyChick
Yanno.... Ann Coulter said to vote for Trump, at least, because it will humiliate the media; however, it appears that the media are not only humiliated, but have gone berserk. And not just the media, but the whole (leftwing) culture. There is now a pseudo scientific study that says that people who swear are actually more intelligent than those who don’t. Why is such moronic counter intuitive nonsense being spouted now? The reason this idiocy is promulgated now is to set the stage for hysterical attacks upon Trump and even Conservatives who get in the way. I have a very suspicious nature and I think that is the reason swearing is being touted now is because the lib/commies want a scientific veneer for their revolting behavior (I read this story on AOL, which prominently features Arianna Huffington’s Huff Po).
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posted on
11/19/2016 4:55:52 PM PST
by
Stepan12
(go)
To: All
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posted on
11/19/2016 4:59:40 PM PST
by
pluvmantelo
(Boomer Presidents:The Grifter, The Midget & The Traitor. Hoping Trump is The Boss)
To: RC one
EXACTLY.
I think you nailed it. I also supported Perot, and was a very early supporter of Trump. For the very same reasons I supporter Perot.
Good post.
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posted on
11/19/2016 5:02:09 PM PST
by
cba123
( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
To: RummyChick
well, there was George. i’d call him an independent.
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posted on
11/19/2016 5:14:15 PM PST
by
dadfly
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