Posted on 10/02/2024 5:34:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber
If you’re old enough to vote in the United States, then you’re old enough to remember a time when Americans of all political stripes liked Donald Trump. A public figure for most of his adult life, a businessman with a taste for luxury, and a showman who embodied the “American dream,” Trump appeared in television shows and movies because people enjoyed seeing him. For decades, he was an American icon with universal name recognition, a global brand, and even a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Then he moved into the political arena, and everything changed. Actors, musicians, and politicians who had once jumped at the chance to be photographed with him pretended they had never met. Writers and entertainers who had always praised him for his generosity began calling him filthy names. Television networks that had made boatloads of money from his goodwill with the public started slandering him as a “wannabe dictator,” a “Nazi,” and a “threat to democracy.”
What happened? Donald Trump dared to challenge the political status quo. By publicly questioning the economic and foreign policy decisions of the Establishment Class in Washington, D.C., he became an existential threat to a system that has long worked against the interests of the American people. As David Plouffe, one of Barack Obama’s closest advisers, inveighed before the 2016 presidential election: “It is not enough to beat Trump. He must be destroyed thoroughly. His kind must not be allowed to rise again.” Plouffe had harsher words for the guy with a wholesome cameo in Home Alone 2 than he ever had for the leaders of China, Hamas, or Iran.
Why is this one American’s voice so threatening to the old guard? It’s simple: President Trump is (1) a political outsider who (2) rejects the supremacy of the administrative
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They hate him enough to try to kill him.
radical liberalism demands there be a lightning rod to focus their outrageous and deeply held belief that there always, ALWAYS be someone or something to HATE! President Donald J Trump IS that lightning rod.
“They” hate everybody who wants to stop the roll of Communism and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
When you read that, Plouffe may indeed be talking about Trump, but by extension Plouffe is talking about YOU.
Pres Trump should have so eone make a video with kamala and biden and a reporter who asks
Reporter: “Mrs Harris, what would you tell someone who wants to vote for you?”
Harris: ‘Don’t’.”
Reporter: “And you Mr biden?”
Biden: “Don’t”
Like Emmanuel Goldstein in '1984'.
They hate Trump because he’s brash, loud mouthed and effective. He does bring a lot of criticism on himself by his behavior
That's a pretty accurate assessment.
I’ll tell you why a lot of them hate Trump. Pure, 100% eye watering, teeth baring jealousy. And the richer or more powerful they are the more jealous they are. They know they will never have what Trump has, despite their money and power. A gorgeous wife, a beautiful and successful family, the love of millions of people, and the honor of having been the president of the United States. They will never have those things, and it tears them apart. Mark Cuban is the epitome of this.
1 because he actually will implement conservative principles and appoint real conservatives.
2 because he has the hutspa to fight back instead of just rolling over when attacked like Republicans always did before.
They hate him because he can NOT BE BOUGHT and SOLD like a $2 Whore like every other Politician in this Country. No Offense intended towards $2 whores, they provide a valuable service.
They are so angry that a non-establishment guy, not part of their special club, came out of the woodwork, that they want to ensure no other regular person ever tries again. In that, they may have succeeded. People like Donald Trump are one in a million. It's going to be hard to find somebody from the outside who is willing to go through what Trump did.
Same reason Ronald Reagan did not do away with the department of education.
Same reason why even through they grumbled about Bush they actually DID very little.
We are ruled by unelected bureaucrats.
As long as the president does not cut into their power they will be allowed to stay.
But the moment that it looks like their power will be reduced the big guns come out.
That was Trump's Unforgiveable Sin.
Basically the Deep State hates a “Peoples’ President” and will do anything to stop him.
Trump is a typical builder. Yes he’s brash and loud and bragadoshus but all of them alway have huge hearts and are genuinely good men. They yell when you screw up but are the first to give you a hand when you are in trouble. This country doesn’t realize how fortunate we are that he’s willing to fight so hard for us. Half the country sees that in him, the other half have never been exposed to anything like him and complain about his personality because they are too ignorant to realize that hard cover protects a really good heart that will do anything, ANYTHING, to protect what he loves.
This is an incisive article. A must read!
The more they fail to destroy him, the more they hate him.
TRUMP is a business man who sees what needs to be done to prosper. He probably stopped the flow of money to various personal congressional pet causes.
They hated him as much as Ross Perot who also was a business man.
Even Silent Calvin Coolidge said, in 1925, “The chief business of the American people is business.” so it seems we should have a business man in that position, not a a political hack who has NEVER run a business.
I will admit, I was a Ted Cruz man, and when TRUMP first announced his run for President I thought he was just “grandstanding.”
No way I was going to vote for the Hillarybeast so I voted for Trump. He hit the ground running and I knew he was not “grandstanding”. He was definitely serious about his job.
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