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Conrad Black: Why Donald Trump will win big in 2020
The National Post ^ | September 27, 2019 | Conrad Black

Posted on 09/27/2019 12:09:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

FDR in 1936, Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Richard Nixon in 1972, Ronald Reagan in 1984, all won by over 20 points. Trump will gain a victory on that scale next year, and he will have earned it

Just as I was pulling my chair up to my desk and preparing to pounce clumsily upon my keyboard and pound out something about the current Canadian election campaign, an email from an old and valued friend popped up enclosing the dumbest column from the Globe and Mail I have seen in 65 years as a frequent reader of that newspaper. By Lawrence Martin, it is entitled: “Donald Trump’s Luck Has Run Out.” I will not engage in another effort to invite Canadian readers to contemplate the fact that just because Trump repels most Canadians as a caricature of a boorish and boastful and loutish American, that does not mean that he is unlikely to be successful. A great many Canadians want the United States, if it doesn’t have a leftish and diffident president like Jimmy Carter or Barack Obama, to have in the White House someone they can disparage like Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, or George W. Bush (though Reagan, retroactively, has enjoyed grudging admiration). My problem isn’t what Canadians think of Trump, it is the stupefying purblindness of current Canadian journalistic political comment on the United States.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Politics
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bump.


22 posted on 09/27/2019 1:08:07 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: DoodleDawg

The democrats fraud machine is already running...Trump will have to win

every swing state by seventy five thousand vote to beat back the vote fraud..

A fifteen thousand margin is not enough..

The democrats believed the polls in 2016...


23 posted on 09/27/2019 1:18:51 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Chasaway
I've got a new word. That is practically useless to me.

You never know when you might need just the purrfect word.

24 posted on 09/27/2019 1:20:27 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: DoodleDawg

No Way NJ or OR, Long shot VA, NH. The rest likely!


25 posted on 09/27/2019 1:35:50 PM PDT by gr8eman (Only the mediocre are always at their best)
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To: gr8eman
No Way NJ or OR, Long shot VA, NH. The rest likely!

All of them are unlikely. Trump needs to hang on to what he got last time.

26 posted on 09/27/2019 2:22:32 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Hardastarboard

Well that is actually true too, however, I do not see that as a bad thing. Safety nets should be limited in scope so as to not dull productivity.


27 posted on 09/27/2019 2:59:17 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: DoodleDawg
I can see it that way too. It's a crap shoot. It's anybody's guess about what will happen though I see him keeping everything he won in 2016.

If he does, that's all he needs to do.

28 posted on 09/27/2019 3:27:32 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no oither sovereignty.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It was never a war for the rights of man, and Americans had no more rights after the Revolution than before, nor more than the British or several other countries, but they were a sovereign country.

Ah, yes.

Which is why Englishmen no longer have the right to arms, or free speech, or, for the most part, jury trials.

It is why, in England, the police no longer need a warrant to search your home.

The UK is a pretty civilized place, but without a written Constitution, they have lost much.

Of course, the Constitution was written several years after the end of the Revolutionary war.

29 posted on 09/27/2019 4:27:01 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Conrad is so entertaining in this article. Thank you the read.


30 posted on 09/27/2019 4:41:17 PM PDT by balk
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I am hoping he gets the popular vote too so that Colorado and the rest of those Blue States that have laws to give the popular winner all the electoral votes implodes.


31 posted on 09/27/2019 5:48:31 PM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Trump cannot win Colorado. This place is LOADED with idiots.


32 posted on 09/27/2019 5:49:04 PM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Conrad must not have heard of the impeachment inquiry.


33 posted on 09/27/2019 7:13:59 PM PDT by damper99
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To: Destroyer Sailor

I absolutely intend to do so first chance in the AM.


34 posted on 09/27/2019 10:28:57 PM PDT by matthew fuller ( Trump's new immigration policy- Manifest Destiny!)
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To: Tallguy
"the Left will not leave our civil liberties alone if they take power. "

And they will not allow President Trump to operate a normal government. They are nihilists, ISIS.

35 posted on 09/27/2019 10:34:42 PM PDT by matthew fuller ( Trump's new immigration policy- Manifest Destiny!)
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To: DiogenesLamp

There are WAY too many variables that will occur between now and then to predict anything, except chaos is guaranteed.


36 posted on 09/27/2019 10:43:22 PM PDT by matthew fuller ( Trump's new immigration policy- Manifest Destiny!)
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