Posted on 08/09/2017 2:12:03 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Anyway. The main point of the article was a list of four issues where, Friedman says, “Trump has a point.” I assume Friedman is safely sequestered in Martha’s Vineyard this week and beyond the reach of pitchfork-wielding Times readers. (Actually, since most Times readers wouldn’t know which end of a pitchfork to pick up, just what do angry Times readers brandish? An old Smyth & Hawken trowel perhaps?)
Heeeere’s Tommy:
What issues? Here’s my list:
• We can’t take in every immigrant who wants to come here; we need, metaphorically speaking, a high wall that assures Americans we can control our border with a big gate that lets as many people in legally as we can effectively absorb as citizens.
• The Muslim world does have a problem with pluralism — gender pluralism, religious pluralism and intellectual pluralism — and suggesting that terrorism has nothing to do with that fact is naïve; countering violent extremism means constructively engaging with Muslim leaders on this issue.
• Americans want a president focused on growing the economic pie, not just redistributing it. We do have a trade problem with China, which has reformed and closed instead of reformed and opened. We have an even bigger problem with automation wiping out middle-skilled work and we need to generate more blue-collar jobs to anchor communities.
• Political correctness on college campuses has run ridiculously riot. Americans want leaders to be comfortable expressing patriotism and love of country when globalization is erasing national identities. America is not perfect, but it is, more often than not, a force for good in the world.
Friedman goes on to suggest that Democrats need to acknowledge these four points. Good luck with that, Tom.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
He better stay away from college campuses unless he wants to experience “liberal tolerance” up close and personal.
This is part of the effort to repair relations with The Little People, who left the Democrat ranks to vote for Trump. It will take a lot more than these few crumbs to win back the Middle Class, Tommy.
...metaphorically speaking, a high wall that assures Americans we can control our border ...
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A wall is one issue but today many more are also here illegally after coming
in via a legal visa but not leaving after it has expired. Many of these are
from Asia, far east, etc.
exactly - he is a slave to
the deep state
I guess I’ll just have to wait for Friedman’s
“Yah, But” article.....on second thought F Fman!
The democrats gave us Trump mainly because they would not acknowledge the obvious truth of these four points, along with some other obvious truths.
Geeez, YOU are on to something. Otherwise, I don’t believe Friedman even wrote this.
What POSSIBLE reason would Tom have to say such things that are 180* off message from his radical opposite tales and those of every other Leftist he pals around with?
VOTES from the rubes! That is the reason.
PS: Guess he won’t be on with Mika and Joe any time soon, after this.
TF’s mother used to play bridge at least weekly with an older woman I knew. Tom Friedman’s own mother was horrified at his anti-American and anti-Israel rants.
Their well-used and highly-polished sense of entitlement.
Tom Friedman had a moment of clarity while passing a stool.
No, we have a problem with ever-louder demands for ever-higher minimum wages, which in turn leads to automation of low-skilled jobs.
Skilled jobs are increasingly being done via automation primarily because of a distinct shortage of skilled people, e.g., machinists, tool & die makers, etc.
Dems campaign slogan:
Vote for us! We have adopted the Republican platform.
Is that right? That’s amazing, there.
After this he’s actually still employed by the Slimes??
This is 10 times worse than what D’Amore said that got him canned at Goolag.
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