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Lynette Villano’s grandson doesn’t speak to her because of it, but she’s still one of the president’s most die-hard supporters. Are there enough Lynettes for Trump to win in 2020? The day after the 2016 election, Lynette Villano, a 72-year-old widow and clerk for the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, sent her grandson Connor Mulvey a text message: “I guess you can probably figure out that I’m very happy today,” Lynnette began. “Donald Trump is to your generation what Ronald Reagan was to ours. I am so fortunate to have been part of both. … He defied conventional...

Welcome to the new “Democratic norms,” the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board warns today — as if the lesson could possibly have escaped anyone’s notice. Now that the FBI has found no corroboration for the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, the entire process — especially last night’s particularly despicable and McCarthyist smear from Dick Durbin and his fellow Judiciary Democrats — has been exposed as a character-assassination strategy in service to power politics, the WSJ’s editors write. If the left can do this to a well-regarded, mainstream, center-right jurist, they warn, it can happen to any of us: Don’t think for...

The Wall Street Journal has published a lead editorial Wednesday evening in which it argues the Democrats’ effort to destroy Brett Kavanaugh has reminded anti-Trump conservatives that the left hates them even more than it hates the president. The Journal further argues that the left has unified Republicans — a seemingly impossible task, given internal divisions over Trump — by reminding them that Democrats’ hatred is not about Trump, but about the raw desire for power at any cost.

A GoFundMe campaign has raised more than $550,000 to support Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his family, in the wake of allegations of sexual assault being leveled against him. John Hawkins, who owns conservative blog, Right Wing News, said he created the GoFundMe eight days ago because he was "disgusted" by Kavanaugh's treatment throughout his nomination.... ...Hawkins went on to say that he that all of the money collected "will go to Brett Kavanaugh's family or alternately, if they refuse to accept it, to a charity of their choice." In a recent update to the crowdfunding page, Hawkins wrote...

“You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff” ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of WrathI understand Kurt Schlichter has a new book out called THE MILITANT NORMALS and it sounds like a fun read, for us “normals” anyway.From the Amazon blurb: (highlights mine) Written by one of the conservative movement's wittiest commentators, is a no-holds-barred takedown of the preening elites who have all but made normalcy a crime in America.Donald Trump is only the beginning of a mighty disruption in American politics and culture, thanks to the rise of the militant Normals in America. They built this...

MOUNT LAUREL, New Jersey–The Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), a leading Republican super PAC, continues to lead the charge to deploy the Republican grassroots to defy history and hold the House Republican majority, as seen by their efforts in New Jersey’s third congressional district and documented by Breitbart News. The Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC endorsed by the House Republican leadership, announced on Saturday that they held their fourth “Super Saturday” to reach a record number of Republican voters across the nation. CLF is using its 40 field offices to engage with over 500,000 targeted voters in key congressional districts...

DONALD Trump supporters act like brainwashed members of a cult, an expert has sensationally claimed. Retiring Republican Senator Bob Corker recently described the party as a “a cultish thing” – and his insight appeared to chime with many. The word cult conjures the idea of a brainwashed sect defined by a common deviant goals – the most notorious of which are known by a single word – such as Manson, Jonestown or Scientology. Dr. Janja Lalich, an expert on cults and extremist groups, argues “Trump” fits with this list. “It is a very troubling time for America right now, and...

I’m a hardcore lefty. I also live in Texas and have spent most of my career working for nonprofits. That means a lot of red-state right winging. Not the nice, necktie, Laffer-curve, “fiscal conservative, social liberal” guys either. Nice conservatives don’t run charities. They’re comfy where they are. You want to do good in Texas, you need full-on deplorables. You need the churches, the phone trees, the mailing lists. They’re the boots, or at least the sensible shoes, on the ground, knocking on doors and passing out leaflets and stacking donations til 4 in the morning. Let’s be clear. Philosophically,...

Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump supporters a “bucket of deplorables” and “irredeemable”. I never quite envisioned what Hillary meant by that expression until the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. If redemption is unavailable regardless of a person’s lifetime accomplishments how does anyone qualify?

First lady Melania Trump has apparently had enough. In a fundraising memo to GOP supporters, the soft spoken Trump has ripped the media and Democrats for lying about her husband and his supporters. “Democrats and the opposition media are doing everything they possibly can to discredit Donald with false accusations by spreading their fake news and making it appear that he does not have the support of America’s voters,” she penned....

Forces of intolerance remain determined to undermine and roll back the progress you have made. This time they – not you – have an ally in the White House. They’re a small percentage of the American people, virulent people. Some of them, the dregs of society. Joe Biden—Monica Showalter “Hey, dregs of society! Joe Biden wants your vote” So here I was, trying to decide if I should get a new shirt to replace my rather worn-looking “Irredeemably Deplorable” T-shirt, when along comes Joe Biden to the rescue and hands me a brand-new meme to sport around town. What a...

In his speech at the annual Human Rights Campaign dinner in Washington, D.C., September 15, 2018, former VP Joe Biden attacked the millions of Americans who support President Trump, calling them "intolerant", “virulent people” and “dregs of society”, and of committing a “crime” of prejudice against LGBTQ people.

He also used his remarks to rally the crowd to ‘demand more of our leaders.’ ‘What has become of us?’ he said. ‘Our children are listening and our silence is complicit.’ He also told the crowd of LBGT supporters that they have a fight ahead of them, point out it’s those against them who have a friend in the Trump. ‘Some of them are the dregs of society,’ Biden said. ‘They, not you, have an ally in the White House.’ ‘Those who try to excuse this kind of prejudice in the name of culture, I say, ‘Prejudice is prejudice and...

"Black-ish" creator Kenya Barris is the latest public figure refusing to be owned by our current political climate. Like Colin Kaepernick, he will not sacrifice his voice to conform to a system that caters to President Donald Trump and his supposedly profitable fan base. Barris recently told The Hollywood Reporter he is departing ABC, a network the magazine describes as led by executives "forthright about their desire for more red-state programming since Trump's win," for Netflix. Barris revealed that his last straw with ABC was the network's shelving -- and as the magazine adds, all but erasing from existence, with...

President Trump celebrated the second anniversary of Hillary Clinton’s famous remarks calling his supporters a “basket of deplorables” this morning with a tweet. He tweeted simply, “Happy Anniversary!” captioning a video of the former Democratic presidential nominee speaking at a fundraiser in New York City, saying half of Donald Trump’s supporters belong in a “basket of deplorables” characterized by “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic” views. The video, which has been edited to play circus clown music as Clinton speaks, then cuts to the president at an event declaring, “We’re all proud deplorables.”

The study, published in the journal Leadership, suggests that the Republicans viewed Trump as strongly representing what they stand for creating party unity and success in the election. Hillary Clinton may have lost out to Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential elections because the Democrats were too willing to welcome others with differing views into their party, a study has found. The study, published in the journal Leadership, suggests that the Republicans viewed Trump as strongly representing what they stand for creating party unity and success in the election. However, Democrats' greater inclusiveness and willingness to integrate members of...

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Happy Anniversary! #ProudDeplorable

The anonymous New York Times op-ed piece trashing Trump sent Democratic hopes soaring. The loyal opposition prayed the story would steel the spines of Republican bigwigs to speak truth to power and finally ‘fess up that the emperor has no duds. Instead, White House insiders are falling all over themselves to deny authorship. Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan and the rest of the GOP brass are still aboard the Trump clown car. “The root of the problem is the president’s amorality,” warned the unnamed author, who claimed to “work for the president” and allying himself or herself with “like-minded colleagues…to thwart...

Former President Obama gave the nation some insights into the Democratic Party’s midterm election strategy Friday with a political speech demonizing Americans who elected Donald Trump as president and doubling down on the failed liberal ideology that devastated our economy. In a moment reminiscent of Hillary Clinton’s outrageous characterization of Trump voters as “deplorable” and “irredeemable,” President Obama said: “I have to say this … Over the past few decades, the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party.” Labeling the 63 million Trump voters as “deplorable” and “irredeemable” didn’t work out...

Here's my updated Rules For Radicals by Alinsky for today's time and our side: ***** "Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have." The Establishment and the Deep State perceive they hold all the cards and right now they are basically right. The only way to fight it is to be able to go around what they control and play guerilla warfare. Social media was designed for this, which is why they are so desperate to censor the popular sites. Use multiple accounts and be willing to play their game until they lose control,...