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Democrats Should Court the Economically Anxious Trump Voters Who Don’t Exist
New York ^ | April 22, 2019 | Eric Levitz

Posted on 04/22/2019 10:17:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

A couple of very long years ago, 62.9 million Americans voted to make a racist reality star — who, by his own account, had no experience at governing, but plenty at groping random married women — their president. By the time these votes were cast, Donald Trump had called for banning all Muslims from the United States, led a movement contesting the first black president’s legitimacy, insinuated that the bulk of Mexican-Americans were drug dealers or rapists, praised his supporters for assaulting (nonwhite) protesters, and vowed to subject each and every one of America’s 11 million undocumented immigrants, including those brought to the U.S. as children, to deportation.

Nevertheless, 46 percent of the U.S. electorate thought him worthier of the White House than a former senator and secretary of State (who just happened to be the first major-party nominee with the kind of genitalia that Trump boasted about grabbing).

For many liberals, it is difficult to reconcile this set of facts with a magnanimous view of their Trump-voting compatriots. And it is harder still to hear nonpartisan political analysts — and even some putatively progressive pundits — attribute the demagogue’s victory to motives as innocent as “economic anxiety,” or even to his opponent’s failures of empathy. As if Republican voters’ decision to rally behind a self-professed pussy-grabber had somehow discredited Hillary Clinton’s suggestion that there were “deplorables” among them. For decades, progressives had been begging the mainstream media to acknowledge the centrality of racial animus and misogyny to the GOP’s appeal. Now, the party had traded its dog whistle for a foghorn; “self deportation” for a Muslim ban; and the patriarchy’s polite, paternalistic superego for its bawdy, hateful id. The mask was off. The unsightly (and oddly orange) face of reaction fully exposed.

(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...


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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Author is a toxic clown.


21 posted on 04/22/2019 10:49:27 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

PA unemployment is at the lowest levels since they started tracking it in 1976.... The story is similar across the upper midwest.....

https://www.wesa.fm/post/pa-unemployment-hits-record-low

The Dems are headed into a buzzsaw next November... Up and down the ballot.

Trump will not only win handily, and by the largest marge since Reagan, unless the GOP is beyond stupid (and given the behavior of folks like Romney and others, that’s always a possibility) the GOP should retake the house, and gain more seats in the Senate as well.


22 posted on 04/22/2019 10:50:20 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let’s google his comments on Bill Clinton’s RAPEs

Oh wait- he has none?


23 posted on 04/22/2019 10:50:24 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Your candidate was so bad ... that this (*QW#&4&(#*&)(*%&_(*$%&_(*#&Q#(*&_(Q*#%&983$@@#@#*(@#*(&)_#$(*_&_Q%(*&^#_%^*+^*+)(09*%##&_+(*%#Q^&Q_(#56Q_*&#$$^+)%(#&+)Q#(&%_(*#%_(#*Q&%+)#(Q&%+)(Q#&%_(*^%_Q#&%+ man ... beat her.

Now go suck your thumb for another 6 years and be quiet.

24 posted on 04/22/2019 10:54:58 AM PDT by dartuser
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a load of fanciful crap.


25 posted on 04/22/2019 11:00:28 AM PDT by arthurus (hy---ooo----/\--///--?-------|-----^vw)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

the first black president’s legitimacy
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Obama is not a natural born citizen.

No one born with multiple nationalities is one.


26 posted on 04/22/2019 11:06:30 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: RayChuang88

It worked out!

That is/was one of the worse anti Trump bs articles posted on FR!


27 posted on 04/22/2019 11:10:07 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( AG Barr didnÂ’t defend the President! Barr just reported the findings! President Trump, Not Guilty)
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To: Grampa Dave
Thank you Grampa Dave
AND here's the FR "barf Bag" for those who need it.

Presented as a Public Service
Certain FReepers may need this


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28 posted on 04/22/2019 11:10:15 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Didn’t get past the first sentence. I refuse to read such excrement.


29 posted on 04/22/2019 11:13:30 AM PDT by Qiviut (McCain & Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMP!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A cavalcade of slanderous lies.

About par for the NYTimes.


30 posted on 04/22/2019 11:20:00 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This Space For Rant)
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To: mbarker12474
the most serious psychotic cases of psychiatric delusion

How much of this is psychiatric delusion, and how much is sociopathic/psychopathic connivance?

31 posted on 04/22/2019 11:23:35 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This Space For Rant)
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To: rdl6989

You’re right - the whole piece is so stupid it takes a person breath away... We are blessed that the people who hate us are this stupid. They will lose again and not have a clue why it’s happening.

Here’s a quote pulled from this garbage by Eric Levitz - one on many that could have been pulled :
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“Donald Trump is an immensely unpopular president. The less distance there is in the popular imagination between his illiberalism and extremity and the Republican Party’s, the better off Team Blue will be.”
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Here’s the truth: Rasmussen has the popularity of Obama and Trump AT THE SAME TIME IN THEIR PRESIDENCIES - at exactly the same place:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_apr22

April 22 2019 Trump’s approval rating - 47%

April 22 2011 Obama’s approval rating - 47%


32 posted on 04/22/2019 11:32:26 AM PDT by GOPJ (If illegals voted Republican, Pelosi herself would be down at the border laying bricks.freeperbk1000)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The butthurt is strong in young Eric, here.


33 posted on 04/22/2019 11:33:26 AM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Piled on a lot of bald-faced lies right in the 1st paragraph.


34 posted on 04/22/2019 11:38:20 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: rdl6989

Imagine, this rag is called the “Intelligencer”!! Ha ha ha. Total reflection. I know people that believe this. Most of the people I know, even the more progressive one will be infuriated like me.

What a bunch of hateful bigots.


35 posted on 04/22/2019 11:52:51 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The author:

Eric Levitz

36 posted on 04/22/2019 11:56:38 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

An entire army of straw men.


37 posted on 04/22/2019 12:19:14 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
and vowed to subject each and every one of America’s 11 million undocumented immigrants, including those brought to the U.S. as children, to deportation.

Deportation, he said? I'm surprised the writer did not say extermination. What a nut case!

38 posted on 04/22/2019 12:21:44 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Windflier

I’ll bet his boyfriend really loves him!


39 posted on 04/22/2019 12:22:30 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: GOPJ

Nice! We all know what happened with Obama the following year.


40 posted on 04/22/2019 12:29:51 PM PDT by rdl6989
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