This Is Why Trump Imagines He Will Win

The New York Times ^ | Oct. 12, 2024, 7:00 a.m. ET | Katherine Miller

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If Donald Trump wins, the people who voted for him would have a range of reasons for putting him in office. There are a lot of potential Trump voters who don’t like him that much, or who really like only parts of his personality or platform and tolerate the rest.

There are probably also those who have their own understanding of what they’re getting, possibly rooted in the way they felt about the Trump administration or feel about the Biden one. Some of this could be summarized by how Brian Kemp, the Georgia governor, pitched it recently: “Look, you may not like Donald Trump personally, but you’ll like his policies a lot better than Kamala Harris’s. It’s a business decision.”

But how Mr. Trump understands that decision could be different. If he wins like this, how it’s been, how grim he’s taken things across the last two years but especially lately, his explanation for the victory — and the consequences of that reasoning — might be different and darker than even many of the people who voted for him wanted.

The way he’s talked about towns like Springfield, Ohio, and the Haitians who officials have said are there legally to work resembles deeply the rhythms of the 2016 campaign: grim conflation of real and fake problems, real people caught up in the gears of awful scrutiny and abuse, the building pressure on politicians and people often in very normal and modest circumstances, and Mr. Trump weaving everything into a fable to prove that he was right.

In his campaign speeches, intermixed with the jokes and riffs, Mr. Trump often talks about political retribution, the threat of World War III, the ruin that the country’s become. In just one speech, he talked about how he would...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I can make neither heads-nor-tales of the above word-salad gobbledegook.

[econjack]

This is just the ramblings of a dying “journalist” working for a dying newspaper wishing her candidate could speak a cogent sentence.

[Da Coyote]

Proof positive that the Democrat Party’s Official Mouthpiece is worried. Very worried.

[4yearlurker]

What a load of horse crap! The article makes no sense at all. Last weekend we took the grand kids to a little zoo outside of 7 Springs, PA. (The Laurel Highlands.) I saw 99% Trump signs everywhere! Some where huge wooden billboard type signs on folks lawns. Just one,maybe two Harris signs.

[McGavin999]

They just don’t want to admit the American people want Trump back in office so they’re making excuses they can live with in advance

[SteveH]

trump lives rent free in the NYT hive collective awareness

[Deaf and Discerning]

Assuming the writer had an editor look over her work, the editor probably needs an editor...

[SteveH]

this is the NYT giving up on polishing a turd in harris/walz

[Responsibility2nd]

Some of this could be summarized by how Brian Kemp, the Georgia governor, pitched it recently: “Look, you may not like Donald Trump personally, but you’ll like his policies a lot better than Kamala Harris’s. It’s a business decision.”

That's a perfect summation.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Katherine Miller appears to live within the liberal bubble where she has learned everything she knows about Trump. Every lie, every taken out of context comment, every hatefull comment directed at Trump, she believes.

Not knowing Trump or for what he represents to middle America she is confused on how it is possible for him to be ahead of Harris, and might actually win the election.

[SteveH]

nyt “journalist” katherine “i have 9 inches of empty space to fill and nothing to fill it with” miller

[Lake Living]

“But how Mr. Trump understands that decision could be different. If he wins like this, how it’s been, how grim he’s taken things across the last two years but especially lately, his explanation for the victory — and the consequences of that reasoning — might be different and darker than even many of the people who voted for him wanted.”

I’ll take my chances - as will millions of others.

[mairdie]

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[stanne]

I couldn’t get past this first thesis setting paragraph:

“There are a lot of Trump voters who don’t like him that much, or who really like only parts of his personality or platform and tolerate the rest.”

They are describing every work relationship ever created. Every human relationship has elements and periods of this

Is the BS Times, in their panic, revealing how the Democrat (not Harris) voters are lock step with everything their death party stands for?

Is it why they hate hearing information from other sources?

I can read (one bs illogical paragraph ) from the Times without fear. They don’t brainwash me. They hate me for that.

Can my leftist New York family members listen to even a sentence of Tucker or Steve Bannon? No. They treat conservative press like it’s a toxic substance

[higgmeister]

But how Mr. Trump understands that decision could be different. If he wins like this, how it’s been, how grim he’s taken things across the last two years but especially lately, his explanation for the victory — and the consequences of that reasoning — might be different and darker than even many of the people who voted for him wanted.

Does anybody understand what this so called Journalist was intending to write?

[Lazamataz]

The propaganda is flooding off the New York Times keyboards like the Yangtse river would if the Three Gorges dam collapsed.

I’ve seen three Trump hate pieces just this morning alone.

[Phoenix8]

OMG the horror.
Can you imagine deporting 1-2 million illegals who are criminals, deadbeats, deviants or ties to gangs/drugs/trafficking?

How would we ever recover?…sarcasm.

[cowboyusa]

SURRENDER DORTHY. 🤣🤣

[SteveH]

inside the psyche of nyt “journalist” katherine miller:

i hate trump. i just hate him. I HATE him. pure hatred.

cats. i have many. and must buy cat food for all of them. soooo many cats! (I HATE TRUMP.) I want to provide for my cats with canned food, not that cheap dry bagged cat food. my cats are precious, yes? precious cats. never. talk. back. I hate trump!

apartment. queens. 2 br. 1 br is for my cats (who i dearly love). can’t afford flatbush not to mention midtown. or even koreatown. not that i would fit in there. not enough ppl who are like me, ugh. and. i hate trump! it is ALL TRUMP’S FAULT that i cannot get my dream flatbush apartment! I HATE HIM! EVERYONE at the office AGREES with ME!! and they all have cats in their apartments too!

(my lovely kitties, i am coming to feed you soon... besos...)

guys. stinking MEN. can’t live with them, but can’t live without them. Girl has needs. I’m on tinder. But I can’t get laid. I am beautiful! (hate hate HATE hate hate trump) hear me roar! Why can’t I get laid??!! TRUMP! I HATE TRUMP! TRUMP is preventing me from getting laid!! I demand control over my ovaries!!

In summary. I hate trump! maybe if i write enuf anti trump articles then trump will lose. ok, then, f u trump! i hate uuuu! ((sob))

[Joe 6-pack]

"Some of this could be summarized by how Brian Kemp, the Georgia governor, pitched it recently: “Look, you may not like Donald Trump personally, but you’ll like his policies a lot better than Kamala Harris’s. It’s a business decision.”

I'm always wary of people who use the term, "business decision." I see it as a dodge for people who aren't personally invested in, or passionate about their "business," or try to insulate themselves from personal accountability, as in, "I had no choice, just doing business." I've had to lay people off before in prior jobs, and yes, it may have been for, "business," reasons, but as a manager/director I would have never insulted an employee by saying it was a "business decision," when I knew the layoff was going to have a profound impact on them and their families. Any manager or leader who uses that phraseology deserves employees or followers who aspire to do the bare minimum and not invest themselves personally in the job or cause...it's just business, right?

That the worm who is Kemp would use that verbiage simply reinforces my opinion of him and others who use the term.