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Press targets voters for fueling Trump's rise
The Washington Examiner ^
| May 31, 2016
| Eddie Scarry
Posted on 05/31/2016 7:32:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Columnists are starting to blame voters for the rise of Donald Trump, and say their collective decision to make him the presumptive Republican nominee is a terrible mistake.
Liberal columnist Richard Cohen wrote in the Washington Post on Monday that the election has filled him with a sense of "fear of my fellow Americans."
"I don't mean the occasional yahoo who turns a Trump rally into a hate fest," he wrote. "I mean the ones who do nothing. Who are silent. Who look the other way
I always knew who Trump was. It's the American people who have come as a surprise.
Conservative writer Michael Gerson, also of the Post, blamed GOP voters for thrusting Trump into the general election....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
TOPICS: Conspiracy; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 2016election; demagogicparty; districtofcolumbia; election2016; media; memebuilding; michaelgerson; newyork; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; richardcohen; trump; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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Who do they think they are?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
They (the DC political class and their press minions) think we are lower than pond scum. I mean how dare we not pay attention to them?
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posted on
05/31/2016 7:34:34 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Wow! Talk about a disconnect from personal and professional responsibility? I would guess all mirrors have been removed from the surroundings of these hacks?
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posted on
05/31/2016 7:35:13 PM PDT
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
For criticizing people for supporting Trump PRECISELY because he has stated a certain religious group which wants to kill us should be banned entry into the United States is why these people are my permanent enemies.
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posted on
05/31/2016 7:35:59 PM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so that others don't have to do it for you.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yeah, those voters have a pretty lousy record of late. They elected the worst President ever in the Kenyan and now they’re trying to correct their mistake. Offhand, I’d say the voters are making a pretty good recovery!
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posted on
05/31/2016 7:36:18 PM PDT
by
Rembrandt
(Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
To: Nifster
Communists Columnists are starting to blame voters for the rise of Donald Trump
there. fixed it.
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posted on
05/31/2016 7:36:27 PM PDT
by
Eddie01
To: 2ndDivisionVet
And electing Obama wasn’t a mistake?
Where were these clowns in 2008?
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posted on
05/31/2016 7:38:50 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Are they claiming that the voters played a role in selecting the party’s nominee??
Has this ever happened before??
An amazing occurrence!
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posted on
05/31/2016 7:39:02 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Nation States seem to be ending. The follow-on should not be Globalism, but Localism.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Liberal columnist Richard Cohen wrote in the Washington Post on Monday that the election has filled him with a sense of "fear of my fellow Americans."
Good! The Communists should be afraid. Very afraid.
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posted on
05/31/2016 7:39:08 PM PDT
by
Parmy
(II don't know how to past the images.)
To: All
“...Columnists are starting to blame voters for the rise of Donald Trump...”
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Uhhhhh....Well, yeah.....
Those darn pesky voters......
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posted on
05/31/2016 7:39:13 PM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well they are correct, but it was the Obama voters that energized the GOP voters to thrust Trump into the general election, along with the weak-kneed Republican establishment.
To: Parmy
These are the same ones that cheer on the exhortation of “(l)et the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution” as written in the Manifesto’s fourth chapter, too.
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posted on
05/31/2016 7:42:29 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: 2ndDivisionVet
....the election has filled him with a sense of "fear of my fellow Americans."
Reads like satire.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Actually it’s the traitorous leftist Praetorian Guard media members such as Cohen that necessitated the rise of Trump or someone like him by their perversion of the trust and protections afforded to journalists.
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posted on
05/31/2016 7:42:55 PM PDT
by
Free in Texas
(Member of the Bitter Clingers Association.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Cohen? Kristol? Gerson? I’m starting to think they just look at America’s role in the world as going to war against Islam to help Israel. Trump threatens that role.
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posted on
05/31/2016 7:43:54 PM PDT
by
Vic S
To: 2ndDivisionVet
the ones who do nothing......................... Aren’t they committed to Hillary? WTF gave us Hillary? The media! It was the best they could find and they are still trying to jam her down our throats regardless of her incompetency. I can see a Biden/Warren Ticket coming, they have to do something, Hillary is an albatross around the Dem’s neck.
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posted on
05/31/2016 7:45:10 PM PDT
by
Bringbackthedraft
(HILLARY 2016 - SERIOUSLY? What are they thinking?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Liberal columnist Richard Cohen wrote in the Washington Post on Monday that the election has filled him with a sense of 'fear of my fellow Americans.'"
Sensing the distant storm approaching. Does it smell like vengeance?
To: clearcarbon
"Liberal columnist Richard Cohen wrote in the Washington Post on Monday that the election has filled him with a sense of 'fear of my fellow Americans.'" Be afraid, Richard, be very afraid.
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posted on
05/31/2016 7:49:04 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"fear of my fellow Americans."
Maybe it's time he feared "his" fellow Americans.
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posted on
05/31/2016 7:49:32 PM PDT
by
glaseatr
(Father of a Marine, Uncle of SGT Adam Estep. A Co. 2/5 Cav. KIA Thurs April 29, 2004 Baghdad Iraq)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The inside the beltway criminals, liars, thieves create the environment for Donald Trump to rise to the top. Hillary takes money from muslim countries where woman are slaves and have no rights. Where gays are killed. She is void of morals and ethics. She can't get near 1600 Pemmsylvania Ave again.
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posted on
05/31/2016 7:49:48 PM PDT
by
Kozy
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