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Does Trump Really Want to Be President Again?
American Greatness ^ | t Dec, 2022 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 12/08/2022 5:01:45 AM PST by MtnClimber

Given events since Trump’s departure, he should be in the driver’s seat. But he is not.

Team Trump has sometimes compared Donald Trump’s current quest for a nonsequential second term to two-term President Grover Cleveland’s similar three election bids.

Cleveland remains our only elected (1884) president to have lost a reelection bid (1888)—in a disputed vote—only to be reelected four years later (1892).

Yet Trump seems determined instead to follow a different, and bullheaded, Teddy Roosevelt model.

Roosevelt left the presidency (1908), sat out four years, and then lost a reelection bid in 1912, split and alienated the Republican Party, and ensured the election of the progressive Woodrow Wilson.

Joe Biden’s first “corrective” two years have been an utter disaster.

Biden birthed hyperinflation. He destroyed a secure border and Trump’s energy self-sufficiency. Crime is now out of control. The United States was humiliated abroad in Afghanistan. Rising interest rates will soon spark a recession.

After promising to unite the country, Biden smeared half the voting population as “un-American” and “semi-fascist.”

In addition, almost all of Trump’s prior complaints, predictions, and assertions that the media dismissed as conspiratorial, or crackpot have proven eerily prescient.

Hunter Biden’s laptop was all too authentic.

The FBI was compromised and acted as an agent of the Democratic Party. Anthony Fauci proved a partisan.

Russian collusion was an utter hoax. It was engineered by Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, and the FBI.

The Wuhan lab did likely birth the engineered COVID virus. That fact was covered up by the media and public health establishments.

Donald Trump did not take “nuclear codes” to Mar-a-Lago. He did not plan on hawking his presidential papers for profit.

Germany did weaken NATO. Berlin was foolish to mortgage its future with energy dependency on a hostile Vladimir Putin.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 2024; desantis; nevertrumper; trump; vdh; victordavishanson
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To: MtnClimber

Thanks


81 posted on 12/08/2022 10:55:07 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: entropy12

“Ronald Reagan was 10 times smoother than Trump will ever be.”

True enough. I think the only meaningful choice is between Trump and some Democrat. “A time for choosing” applies now more than it ever has:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY


82 posted on 12/08/2022 11:01:52 AM PST by ChessExpert (Dem mandates: slavery, segregation, Indian removal, experimental vaccines)
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To: Flick Lives

He’s just getting started, it’s still early in his day…lol.


83 posted on 12/08/2022 11:04:12 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It! lol)
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To: ChessExpert

Like I said in another post, if Trump is the nominee, I will vote for him for sure, but my betting money will be on his democrat opponent.


84 posted on 12/08/2022 11:09:05 AM PST by entropy12 (Food is most popular anxiety drug, exercise is the least popular.)
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To: WalkerinSC

Be like not votng for George Washington in 1796.


85 posted on 12/08/2022 11:35:27 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Hostage
Anecdotal

I always ask why and some give bs answers like you stated but others answer more fully. They don't like him even if I point out all the good he did in office.

Trump has to become more likable to more in some way to win in my opinion.

86 posted on 12/08/2022 12:14:07 PM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: frogjerk

Here’s the bigger picture:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4114867/posts?page=43#43

Your homework assignment is to have as many of your liar media viewing persons watch the following, taking care to note how much media is owned by two globalist asset managers, explained around time 20:45:

MONOPOLY Who Controls The World?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/2tFstBs61PE5

You should also discuss the enormous threat to freedom coming with the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) or “Biden Bucks”. Tell them I said no threats will be evident until after they rig the 2024 election if they able. Instead the CBDC will be innocuous at first, then gradually take control over time of our lives.


87 posted on 12/08/2022 1:28:57 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: frogjerk

Trump can’t fix this one party rule swamp.
He still has my vote though because, I believe he is the only one who would try.

Everyone else is owned.


88 posted on 12/08/2022 1:33:58 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: right way right

I agree with you. I’m voting for him still.


89 posted on 12/08/2022 1:48:36 PM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: subterfuge
Which republican is going to do things “different” to your satisfaction?

I am waiting for one.

So far, it is not DeSantis. He changed election laws in Florida properly, but he cannot do that prior to 2024 for the entire nation. He needs to lay out a strategy for combatting ballot harvesting to win my vote in the primary, just like Trump.

90 posted on 12/08/2022 2:27:05 PM PST by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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To: MtnClimber

Some of the posts on this thread address “electability.” I think we tend to outsmart ourselves on this. Al Gore was once asked who he wanted the Republicans to nominate. He said Ronald Reagan; he’d be easy to beat.

I think we should focus on who would be best for the country. I think that person is Donald Trump.

One approach for evaluating politicians would be a consideration of style and substance. Perhaps on this, Pence and Trump are opposites. I gather that Pence is almost perfect on style but lacks substance.

Trump’s style is an acquired taste. At one time, I would have been horrified. Now I simply smile. The substance of his decisions as President was very good, especially considering all the efforts to sabotage his Presidency.

President Trump has many ankle-biting critics. He also has an army of enthusiastic supporters. Is there another politician who can say the same?

Of course, all is moot if we continue to allow election theft by the Democratic party. Republicans should go full on election integrity. As for public relations, we should repeat that the Democratic party was the slavery party, the segregation party, the Jim Crow party, the KKK party, the party of Indian genocide, and the party of stolen elections.

In my view the mRNA vaccine is an awkward topic. Of course, Biden’s mandates were authoritarian and fundamentally un-American. I hope President Trump and his team will take the high road. He gave the American people an option. He should extend that option with some “shall dispense,” or other similar language, for HCQ and Ivermectin. The guiding principle which should be enunciated at every turn is medical freedom. Trump should let go of “his” vaccine. It was just another option made available to the American people.


91 posted on 12/08/2022 3:25:26 PM PST by ChessExpert (Dem mandates: slavery, segregation, Indian removal, experimental vaccines)
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To: central_va

I don’t think equating Donald Trump with George Washington is a good argument. Of course Washington put the country ahead of his ego. Trump seems to have a hard time doing that.


92 posted on 12/08/2022 4:41:04 PM PST by WalkerinSC
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To: WalkerinSC

Donald Trump in many ways is just as brave and just as important as Washington. We are lucky to have him.


93 posted on 12/08/2022 8:14:52 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Golden Eagle

I choose has to be President again. My folks are Anons and Trump had to be President to go after child traffickers (even though he knew who they were with Epstein’s first arrest). Your idea of choosing a few and using his voice to bring attention to the issue is a great one.


94 posted on 12/08/2022 8:32:59 PM PST by M_Continuum
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To: texas booster

Without the insults and spats? Coward talk. The Dems do worse.

Love VSH, but I don’t agree


95 posted on 12/08/2022 8:51:51 PM PST by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion; subterfuge

An attack by narrow minded newbies is a problem for Free Republic.

Those incapable of actual thought must and do ride what I think of as settled, doctrinal, bandwagons. To participate on Free Republic, one must ride the doctrinal band wagon and restrict thought and resultant thought to the hivemind.

Any post that is longer than a sentence or a few words is disregarded as antidoctrinal, nonconforming the settled dogma, and therefore the posting of a heretical crank.

The result of this doctrinal and dogmatic narrowmindedness has and continues to be the reason many good minds of real thinkers have fled.


96 posted on 12/09/2022 6:33:24 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: Fledermaus; fieldmarshaldj; MtnClimber; Georgia Girl 2; ChessExpert; frogjerk; wardaddy
The Democrats' current values, as pushed by their usurping Executive Branch regime, are diametrically opposed to our nation's best interests and success.

They're trying to kill off the oil and coal industries (which we have in vast abundance) for a fantasy of "renewable energy" that doesn't exist. It follows that the price of everything tied to fuel costs has to rise just to survive. They have no regard for how most manufacturing depends on petroleum and it's byproducts to provide all the wonderful things we take for granted. That includes the highly flammable electric cars they're pushing despite lack of a real support grid for them. You can buy a good used gasoline vehicle for the price of replacement batteries but hey, to trend-zombies price is no limit.

They've dismantled our border security and reward the invaders with benefits and support unavailable to actual citizens while transporting them into predominately conservative areas. They wouldn't do this if an eventual mass amnesty wasn't planned to make the aliens new Democrat voters. Adding insult to injury, they've given criminal cartels total freedom to profit from human trafficking, sex slavery and good old-fashioned drug smuggling - now with especially toxic fentanyl. That'll teach you right-wingers for voting wrong! Enjoy your declining home values and personal safety while insurance costs rise.

Replacing education with indoctrination from college down to kindergarten, disincentivizing military service, churches ditching true evangelism for "positive messaging", pushing pseudo-religions of climate crisis and the new racism of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (die, Whitey, die!), big government's expansion into every aspect of our lives without Congressional involvement (our Deep State now needs to know if you have $600 or more handy), and nearly all media either lying, propagandizing or pushing agendas contrary to morality and what was called common sense.

Now we have, thanks to their mowing over our rights for a fake epidemic over a 99% survivable bug, institutionalized voter fraud through mail-ins and ballot harvesting enhanced with untrustworthy machines and Soros-backed administrators in charge of them wherever he could put them. The worst part is the Democrat representatives, from locals up to congress, usually vote together with very few exceptions following their party line like hive bees doing their queen's bidding.

If we're going to stand any chance of correcting all of the above WE HAVE TO UNITE ENOUGH TO BACK ONE INDIVIDUAL STRONG ENOUGH TO GET THE JOB DONE. Obnoxious and egotistical as he is, Trump is financially or favorably beholden to no one and should have learned from the grave errors of his first term. With the power of hindsight and readjusted judgment he could do even better than his first term when he didn't know how deeply the system was working against him.

As he's willing to spend the last years of his life in our service I'm with him. Considering the obstacles to getting a fair election these days anyone not backing him might as well vote with the evil party or not vote at all.

97 posted on 12/09/2022 9:08:19 AM PST by MikelTackNailer (Certain people high up need to be testing ropes while they're up there.)
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To: bert

Bert, back at ya bro


98 posted on 12/09/2022 9:10:32 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: MikelTackNailer

Amen


99 posted on 12/09/2022 10:39:16 AM PST by wardaddy (Biden Fetterman 2024 ..it’s a no-brainer!)
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To: MikelTackNailer

Agreed.


100 posted on 12/09/2022 10:43:34 AM PST by ChessExpert (Dem mandates: slavery, segregation, Indian removal, experimental vaccines)
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