Posted on 09/06/2024 10:10:30 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Donald Trump is stuck.
He is a brutally transactional politician who represents a coalition of ideologues. His instinct is to promise the moon, and he’ll say anything to get a vote — or just to get out of a room. He also knows, however, that he has no choice but to dance with the date that brought him. He can’t abandon the groups, interested parties and constituencies that put him in the White House to execute their agenda — to exercise their will.
The problem comes when most voters don’t want what your partners hope to do with the power they helped you get.
Such is the case for abortion.
Trump represents the movement to outlaw abortion, restrict contraception and severely limit the scope of reproductive health care. Under rules issued by his administration, employers who had a religious or moral objection could refuse to cover birth control for their employees. He appointed hard-line anti-abortion activists to help lead the Department of Health and Human Services and, of course, nominated the justices who voted — with three other Republican members of the Supreme Court — to overturn Roe v. Wade and end the constitutional right to an abortion.
All of this, especially the end of Roe, is deeply unpopular, and Trump knows it. This is why he has tried the two-step of celebrating his appointments to the court but distancing himself from the consequences, both practical and political, of his anti-abortion accomplishments. Even the most gifted rhetoricians would struggle to sell this to the public. That, obviously, is not Trump. Unsurprisingly, he has floundered.
When asked about Roe during his debate with President Biden, Trump said, falsely, that “everybody wanted to get it back to the states.” He said that...”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Tell me you ain't black Jamelle. Stay on that RAT-infested Plantation son, while the rest of the country moves ahead.
Affirmative action figure reporter. Jemelle wanted a job where you didn’t have to work to get a paycheck.
The NYT IS STUCK !!!
Bkmk
Music playing: “Jamelle the magic negro...”
Why give this commie rag a forum to spew their lies and hate?
Notice the sermonizing tone of the article? Labeling Trump supporters in a negative way, as a coalition of ideologues. As if he himself wasn’t a flaming leftwing hack ideologue.
Pinch Sulzberger had to have searched long and deep in the Papua New Guinea troglodyte jungle to find this pygmy cannibal dancing around a boiling vat of human flesh. The perfect candidate, having such gravitas and distinction, to write articles for the Gray Crippled Lady.
Just goes to show how the mighty have fallen. /spit
And that partially explains the lies.
You should just stick to watching Bugs Bunny cartoons so you don't have to worry your poor little head about what the enemy is up to.
Lots. But they try to set them up on group at a time. That way their “lid sets” don’t conflicts.
promise the moon? you mean like kamala I didn’t change my views but I will say I am now for much of the same as Donald Trump, just so I get elected since my views are more radical?
Jamelle has lack of standing and his opinion is not credible.
You see, Jamelle wasn’t born with a uterus.
And, the lower colon is a diseased substitute.
:: And the alternative is... same stuff — continued inflation ::
Why am I paying so much for eggs?
Zelensky.
Same answer for everything else...
It was a good column.
Hopefully RFK and Tulsi can improve the campaign.
“Donald Trump Is Stuck” Yes, no matter what he does Trump can’t shake the weight of being the frontrunner.
“Reproductive Health Care” = Keep your knees together.
Jamelle,
Total racist pig of a human.
Shortly after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, he wrote an article for Slate arguing that there was “no such thing as a good Trump voter.” Several days earlier, he compared Trump voters to the “angry, recalcitrant whites” who resisted the Reconstruction era after the American Civil War.[37][38] He has criticized the media for an unwillingness to label racism in the United States as “racist,” opting instead for terms such as “racial” and “racially charged.”[39] He also criticized the media for its “horse-race” coverage of the 2016 presidential election.[40] He said the NPR interview between Noel King and Jason Kessler was “absolute journalistic malpractice.”[41]
“brutally transactional politician”
“coalition of ideologues”
“promise the moon”
“say anything to get a vote”
“dance with the date that brought him”
Five cliches in the opening paragraph. Weak sauce.
Rest of article complains that abortion laws are now determined state by state, by the people who will be directly affected by those laws. The horror!
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