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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Wow. Well said...
I like the liberal mantra that polite women seldom make history applied to him.
And us.
bkmk
Or like Islam.
Hate anybody that’s not you.
Neither speaks of love.
They hate him because he is a threat to the ruling class.
“Why They Hate Trump..”
It’s displacement and re-diection of there own richly deserved self loathing.
Good summary explanation, and the number of Trump haters evident from both sides of the aisle and elsewhere reveals just how many are part of the rigged state of affairs imo.
He’s still an outsider. They hate that he did not pay his party dues, get in line and wait his turn. Nobody likes a line-jumper!
He’s still an outsider. They hate that he did not pay his party dues, get in line and wait his turn. Nobody likes a line-jumper!
Exactly.
Remember when he said something to the effect of, it’s not me they’re after; it’s you; I’m just in the way.
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