Trump Is an Open Book for Closed Minds

The New York Times ^ | Sept. 25, 2024 | Thomas B. Edsall

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The mystery of 2024: How is it possible that Donald Trump has a reasonable chance of winning the presidency despite all that voters now know about him? Why hasn’t a decisive majority risen up to deny a second term to a man in line to be judged the worst president in American history?

The litany of Trump’s liabilities is well known to the American electorate. His mendacity, duplicity, depravity, hypocrisy and venality are irrevocably imprinted on the psyches of American voters.

Trump has made it clear that in a second term he will undermine the administration of justice, empower America’s adversaries, endanger the nation’s allies and exacerbate the nation’s racial and cultural rifts.

John Podhoretz, in a 2017 Commentary article, “Explaining Trump’s Charlottesville Behavior,” offered up one piece of the puzzle, addressing the question, “Whose early support for Trump itself played a key role in leading others to take him seriously and help propel him into the nomination?”

Podhoretz’s prescient answer: a conspiracy-oriented constituency with little regard for truth:

If there’s one thing politicians can feel in their marrow, even a non-pol pol like Trump, it’s who is in their base and what it is that binds the base to them. Only in this case, I’m not talking about a base as it’s commonly understood — the wellspring of a politician’s mass support. I’m talking about a nucleus — the very heart of a base, the root of the root of support. Trump found himself with 14 percent support in a month. Those early supporters had been primed to rally to him for a long time.”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The mystery of 2024: How is it possible that Donald Trump has a reasonable chance of winning the presidency despite all that voters now know about him?

Because we are on to your corporate globalist media gaslighting, Astroturf, projection and lies.

[hillarys cankles]

why do people still read this gas lighting drivel?

[Reddy]

Where is the mega barf alert? Lol

[goodnesswins]

Sheesh...so much crap in such a small mind.

[stanne]

“Where is the mega barf alert?”

Em… it’s the New York Times

[TiGuy22]

why do people still read this gas lighting drivel?

When one is successfully gaslighted this is red meat.

[God luvs America]

this from the “vote blue” clowns....

[Frank Drebin]

The New York Times...a gilded ladle in a turd filled punch bowl.

[Signalman]

An article written by a deranged POC who works for a failing communist propaganda newspaper, overcome by hatred for one of the best Presidents this nation has ever had.

[sjmjax]

The mystery of 2024: How is it possible that Kamala Harris has a reasonable chance of winning the presidency despite all that voters now know about her? Why hasn’t a decisive majority risen up to deny the Presidency to a woman in line to be judged the worst vice president in American history?
The litany of Kamala’s liabilities is well known to the American electorate. Her mendacity, duplicity, depravity, hypocrisy and venality are irrevocably imprinted on the psyches of American voters.
Harris has made it clear that in her first term she will undermine the administration of justice, empower America’s adversaries, endanger the nation’s allies and exacerbate the nation’s racial and cultural rifts.

[No name given]

Exactly.

[AppyPappy]

A temper tantrum in print.

[vpintheak]

Well, they are correct about my mind being closed. I will not open my mind to perversion of any sort.
So any leftist ideology of any type generally gets disregarded.

[ClearCase_guy]

His mendacity, duplicity, depravity, hypocrisy and venality are irrevocably imprinted on the psyches of American voters.

I need some help here because I can't think of anything that fits this. And neither can the "journalist".

[unclebankster]

The New York Times had a bunch of liberals quit their subscriptions because they were allegedly treating Biden unfairly.

The Times has been running “hit piece” after “hit piece” against Trump to try and lure them back.

[Gaffer]

This leftist fossil (Edsall) is old enough to still be thinking that the New York Times is the “paper of record” and is respected throughout the world, blah, blah, blah.

[Lizavetta]

How is it possible that Donald Trump has a reasonable chance of winning the presidency despite all that voters now know about him?

Because we know all about Harris as well and have decided that he's the better choice.

[chiller]

“empowering adversaries” is the first among many that got me asking;

WTH is he smoking ?

[Bookshelf]

“His mendacity, duplicity, depravity, hypocrisy and venality are irrevocably imprinted on the psyches of American voters.”
Should read: The NYTimes mendacity, duplicity, depravity, hypocrisy and venality are irrevocably imprinted on the psyches of American voters.

[SomeCallMeTim]

That’s a long piece of drivel.. but at the end, they got one thing right:

First, MAGA loyalists believe “the investigations against Trump are witch hunts and baseless.” Taking this logic a step further, “people think that the other side is dangerous and that we need someone willing to do whatever it takes to stop them. That is, they think they are protecting democracy by supporting Trump.

What they get wrong is…. They think they above is not true. It is.