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The Lesson of the Trump Coronation
The New York Times ^ | July 21, 2024 Updated July 21, 2024, 6:00 a.m. ET | Binyamin Appelbaum, Editorial Board Member

Posted on 07/21/2024 10:03:40 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The Republican convention that concluded early Friday was a four-day celebration of the cult of Donald Trump. Night after night, disciples and flatterers portrayed America as a nation in decline and Trump as its savior. But the real focus wasn’t on making America great again. It was on making Trump president again.

To prevent that outcome, Democrats must stage a different kind of convention. They need to focus on the needs of the American people. They have to present a plan for getting to a better place. And most important, they cannot spend four days in Chicago celebrating President Biden. To win, they must nominate a better candidate.

Biden has spent the weeks since his revelatory disaster on the debate stage denying the reality of his limitations. But his attempts at redemption have only served to confirm his decline. The substance of his speeches no longer matters. Everyone is watching to see if he stumbles — or rather, how frequently.

Many Americans have deeply personal experience of watching relatives fade. They know what they are seeing. They know what comes next. And while it is sad to watch a man no longer able to do the things he did so ably for so long, it would be tragic to let him persist in the attempt.

The votes cast in favor of Biden in the party’s state primaries are not an irreversible judgment. As the facts have changed, so have the views of voters. In an A.P. poll released last week, 65 percent of Democrats said they wanted Biden to withdraw from the race — a devastating vote of no confidence.

The president has said he’d leave the race “if the Lord Almighty came down” and told him to go. He said he’d leave if he was convinced that he had...

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The New York Times is a fake news outlet. Every word it publishes is either a lie or projection. Article presented for entertainment purposes only.
The idiot says this as the Democrat Party prepares to coronate a replacement for Biden.
1 posted on 07/21/2024 10:03:40 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

...and let us not forget of the (failed) coronation of Hillary Rodman Clinton...


2 posted on 07/21/2024 10:06:58 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You sure like the NYSlimes.


3 posted on 07/21/2024 10:09:53 AM PDT by norcal joe
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isn’t this the same article written for the magic negro? seem to remember this with just the name changed. clean and articulate...YEAH BOY!


4 posted on 07/21/2024 10:10:17 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

(In my best Beavis and butthead voice) He said Cult!

As Yoda would say, “strong, with this one, the TDS is.”


5 posted on 07/21/2024 10:11:40 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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No, the Republican convention that concluded early Friday was a four-day celebration of renewed faith in God and love of freedom from constitutionally-protected government coercion.


6 posted on 07/21/2024 10:13:05 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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"The Republican convention that concluded early Friday was a four-day celebration of the cult of Donald Trump." Well, the Times should know about the celebrations of cults as Uncle Walter engaged in such activity regarding Stalin (and it won him a Pulitzer no less).
7 posted on 07/21/2024 10:13:45 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To prevent that outcome, Democrats must stage a different kind of convention. They need to focus on the needs of the American people. They have to present a plan for getting to a better place.

Nope. They'll cater to the wackos, weirdos and revolutionaries that all want to destroy the US, not make people's lives better.

8 posted on 07/21/2024 10:13:57 AM PDT by Pollard (Will work for high tunnel money!)
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You sure like the NYSlimes.

I like to know what my enemy is up to. You like to stick your head up your Obama and pretend it's nighttime.

9 posted on 07/21/2024 10:14:00 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The slow learners, like Binyamin Appelbaum, are suddenly expert analysts.


10 posted on 07/21/2024 10:15:07 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Duranty was a damn slime bucket of the lowest order.


11 posted on 07/21/2024 10:16:59 AM PDT by Spacetrucker ("You Missed,BI*CH" Tom MacDonald )
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“the real focus wasn’t on making America great again. It was on making Trump president again”

With this kind of analysis, they must have used a substitute writer they found folding towels at Motel 6.


12 posted on 07/21/2024 10:18:03 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Exactly, the whole left wing is just one big cult, unable to take any criticism or opposition.


13 posted on 07/21/2024 10:22:25 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Jim W N

That’s right.


14 posted on 07/21/2024 10:22:41 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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From “The Conservative Treehouse”:

“He only has 4 years. He will be opposed at every turn like last time. If we the people don’t deliver majorities, good majorities, in the House and Senate, at the very least one branch, he gets nothing accomplished, his appointees will be rejected and he will be contained again, vulnerable to removal.”


15 posted on 07/21/2024 10:24:04 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (*** Help Trump, fund Republican candidates: https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._House_battlegrounds,_2024)
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But the real focus wasn’t on making America great again. It was on making Trump president again.

Its the same thing.

16 posted on 07/21/2024 10:24:23 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LMAO

100% they will focus on the “threat to Democracy”, J6, and Trump, with a little BS about Vance thrown in too boot


17 posted on 07/21/2024 10:24:43 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“It is the unemotional, reserved, calm, detached warrior who wins, not the hothead seeking vengeance and not the ambitious seeker of fortune.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3200649?page=3


18 posted on 07/21/2024 10:26:21 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (*** Help Trump, fund Republican candidates: https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._House_battlegrounds,_2024)
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They need to focus on the needs of the American people.

You mean, stop focusing on themselves?

Good luck with that.

19 posted on 07/21/2024 10:29:20 AM PDT by AF_Blue (My decision-making skills closely resemble those of a squirrel when crossing a road)
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California U.S. House Battlegrounds, 2024

John Duarte
Incumbent
Republican
U.S. House California District 13

David G. Valadao
Incumbent
Republican
U.S. House California District 22

Mike Garcia
Incumbent
Republican
U.S. House California District 27

Ken Calvert
Incumbent
Republican
U.S. House California District 41

Michelle Steel
Incumbent
Republican
U.S. House California District 45

Scott Baugh
Republican
U.S. House California District 47
On the Ballot
General

via:
https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._House_battlegrounds,_2024


20 posted on 07/21/2024 10:36:33 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (*** Help Trump, fund Republican candidates: https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._House_battlegrounds,_2024)
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