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I Was Wrong About Trump. He Didn’t Destroy the GOP, He Saved It
The Federalist ^ | 08/25/2020 | John Daniel Davidson

Posted on 08/25/2020 7:14:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Buckeye McFrog

>>if the Democrats weave their crooked magic with mail ballots in Philly<<

I believe there is ample evidence to petition the courts for a stay on mass mail in ballots. Absentee...yes, mass mail...no.

Jim Jordan illustrated the massive hiccups in a hearing with the postal service director. It was brilliant.

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/jim-jordan-goes-postal-in-postmaster-hearing/


41 posted on 08/25/2020 8:39:37 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Buckeye McFrog
How would you define the Chicago School wing?

From what I've seen, most of the GOP defectors to Biden were either in the cheap labor wing or the warmonger wing.

"Invade the world; let the world invade us!" pretty much sums up the Globalist philosophy of these two wings.

42 posted on 08/25/2020 8:43:40 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: SeekAndFind
"John is the Political Editor at The Federalist."

Amazing how so many of these conservative luminaries are profoundly shocked to discover what was glaringly obvious to so many of us little people four years ago.

43 posted on 08/25/2020 8:44:35 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“For all his obvious faults, Trump wasn’t a professional politician”

Trump isn’t perfect. Nobody is. But the fault most of his former and current critics refer to - his tone- is an asset, not a fault. It helped him get elected and continues to allow him to get the truth out over opposition noise and lies.


44 posted on 08/25/2020 8:55:49 AM PDT by mbrfl
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To: SeekAndFind
If the title is correct, then we have to admit to a new subdivided Republican party. There's the GOPe which, for the sake of clarity, from henceforth is the Repugnant party.

And then there's the conservative branch. Trump's branch. The Republican party.

Jorge Busho and people like him. Mitch McConnell. They belong to the Repugnant party. As well as all of our Kongressional Kreeps.

45 posted on 08/25/2020 8:56:22 AM PDT by LouAvul ("..it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps..")
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To: SeekAndFind

Amen. I was a Cruz supporter and voted for Trump because I would never vote for a Democrat for President. I saw Trump as full of promise and a fighter. As Herschel Walker said (paraphrased), when referring to the complaints about Trump’s rough style, “When I knocked down the linemen and ran over them on the way to a touchdown, they didn’t like it either.” We can’t spare this man; he fights!


46 posted on 08/25/2020 9:05:27 AM PDT by Savage Rider
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

47 posted on 08/25/2020 9:30:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: cdcdawg
Clinton embodied nearly everything voters had come to hate about America’s political class: the falsity, the naked hypocrisy, the barely disguised disdain for ordinary people.

For all his obvious faults, Trump wasn’t a professional politician, had no record to defend, and was unconstrained by the conventions of ordinary political rhetoric. He was uniquely positioned to call out and exploit Clinton’s faults and shortcomings, and expose the contradictions at the heart of the Democratic Party.

You're right - the GOP Establishment was NOT aligned with the people... seems some of them are starting to see that now...

48 posted on 08/25/2020 9:38:01 AM PDT by GOPJ (The Democrat Convention Theme was suppose to be 'Chaos Under Trump' - riots are backfiring ...)
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To: SeekAndFind

John Daniel Davidson - excellent piece. Best I’m read in weeks... but the term is ‘shoo in’...


49 posted on 08/25/2020 9:45:28 AM PDT by GOPJ (The Democrat Convention Theme was suppose to be 'Chaos Under Trump' - riots are backfiring ...)
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To: cdcdawg

I agree, it is time to reshape the Republican party. If the Democrats take Black and Latino votes for granted, the GOP has taken conservative votes for granted and then screwed us at every turn. The GOP is not conservative. A person who is conservative on fiscal issues and liberal on social issues is a Libertarian of sorts. That is the establishment GOP. It is time to reshape the party, be honest about what it is and what it believes. I went Independent years ago because of how disillusioned Bush left me with the GOP.


50 posted on 08/25/2020 9:55:52 AM PDT by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angles will sing for me)
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To: SeekAndFind

bttt


51 posted on 08/25/2020 9:56:47 AM PDT by timestax
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To: timestax
TRUUMPpray
52 posted on 08/25/2020 9:57:12 AM PDT by timestax
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To: OldGoatCPO

But how many fiscal conservatives are there really out there?

Sure, they all talk about cutting spending, but when it comes time to cut their pet programs, they balk.


53 posted on 08/25/2020 9:57:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Chickensoup

Next person that says “shoe-in” instead of “shoo-in” gets subjected to marshall law!


54 posted on 08/25/2020 10:03:31 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump’s victory is transforming the Republican Party, by driving out moronic RINOs from the party.


55 posted on 08/25/2020 10:09:39 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorableamily...even the dog is, too. :-) Trump 2020)
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To: dsc

You’re right. She has a tradition of leaving bodies in her wake. IMO, I think Obama is continuing that Democrat tradition.


56 posted on 08/25/2020 10:16:14 AM PDT by JustaCowgirl (ItÂ’s either Trump or Communism. There are no other choices.)
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To: dsc

You’re right. She has a tradition of leaving bodies in her wake. IMO, I think Obama is continuing that Democrat tradition.


57 posted on 08/25/2020 10:16:17 AM PDT by JustaCowgirl (ItÂ’s either Trump or Communism. There are no other choices.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Pretty much sums up the way a lot of people thought about it.


58 posted on 08/25/2020 10:22:53 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Democrats plan a REgency. Biden will be President in name, with the title and the perks, unless and until he is so far out of it that he can’t even function in the ceremonial duties (waving, shaking hands, getting on the airplane.)

Jill and Kamala and the Cabinet, Establishment all, will exercise the real power, and Joe will sign what they tell him to.


59 posted on 08/25/2020 10:25:03 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Trump’s policy agenda in July 2016 might have been ill-defined

While I'm fine with this guy announcing he finally got clued in enough to support Trump, and while I'm happy with his publication, which is excellent, he's clearly slow.

Trump's "policy agenda" was beyond obvious to anyone who tuned in to a single rally in 2015-16. It's not Trump's fault that this guy was too dense to understand plain English.

60 posted on 08/25/2020 10:39:23 AM PDT by M. Thatcher
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