It's part of his campaign!
The building is an in-your-face expression: "see what I can do for America"
Posted on 02/28/2016 11:40:05 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The stakes in 2016 are huge and the party is fractured. The rhetoric reflects a Trump Derangement Syndrome in which Trump is either a monster or a savior, instead of a politician. On the left, Bush Derangement Syndrome expressed itself in the conviction that he was unalterably and uniquely worse than every other president and would get around to declaring martial law and ruling forever.
The danger of exaggeration is that previously unacceptable views suddenly become acceptable. Bush Derangement Syndrome made it acceptable for Democrats to descend into open treason by making common cause with Saddam Hussein, the Sunni terrorist groups that evolved into ISIS and Assad.
Bush Derangement Syndrome made him seem so terrible that every other evil could be justified by comparison. The exaggeration of Trump Derangement Syndrome is doing that all over again.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is driving some conservatives to call for destroying the Republican Party and conservatism, and even to usher in eight years of left-wing rule, in order to stop Trump.
Under pressure from Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton is now adopting positions well to the left of Obama. On racial issues, she’s already more extreme than he is. Ponder that for a minute. Both Democratic candidates are now airing blatantly racist views about white privilege. Sanders and Clinton are also scrambling to get to the left of Obama on terrorism, socialized medicine and a raft of other issues.
The switch from “Anyone But Hillary” to “Anyone But Trump” is a sign of fundamentally misplaced priorities.
Political campaigns can get ugly and Trump’s style is, at times, to get as nasty as possible, but it’s a sign of misplaced insider priorities to allow personal animus to matter more than the war against the left. It’s not unreasonable for some conservatives to be angry at Trump and his tactics. It is unreasonable to let that anger turn into a petulance that would let the left rule the nation for another eight years.
We are not in the conservative movement to settle our personal scores. Stopping Trump at any cost is not acceptable just as stopping Romney or McCain at any cost was not considered to be acceptable. Conservatives cannot always have conservative candidates or achieve conservative policy goals. But they can still prevent the left from winning a complete victory in any given election.
Bush Derangement Syndrome began when Democrats decided not to accept the results of an election. Everything else emerged naturally, logically and treasonously from that conclusion. Trump Derangement Syndrome is a preemptive call not to accept the results of political primaries in the Republican Party.
Proponents of the “Anybody But Trump” school argue that his nomination would be catastrophic for conservatism. That may be true, but conservatism as a national program is more likely to survive Trump than it is Hillary or Sanders.
There are important lessons in the rise of Trump. Learning those lessons would make conservatives stronger, not weaker. And refusing to learn those lessons will not make conservatism any stronger.
The most basic of those lessons is to fight hard. Voters choose fighters over ideological purists. That’s human nature and conservatives, unlike liberals, have always recognized the reality of human nature. If conservatives want to win ideological victories, they have to fight harder politically, but without losing sight of the things that they are fighting for above the ordinary pettiness of the political contest.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is obsessive and unhealthy. Critics match what they see as Trump’s inflated sense of self-importance with an equal conviction of his importance as a destroyer. But Trump cannot destroy the conservative movement. Only conservatives can do that.
Bush Derangement Syndrome destroyed the Democratic Party. Even moderate Democrats were suddenly willing to make common cause with the most radical elements of the left and Islam out of the conviction that President Bush had to be stopped at any cost. They lost sight of the real threats to the country, handed over their political party to leftist radicals and billionaires, and gave us Obama.
Trump Derangement Syndrome could give the country eight years of Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. Or someone even worse. Conservatives understand human weaknesses and the importance of overcoming them. Trump Derangement Syndrome is not a conservative response. And if it allows the left to win, then it becomes treason against conservative ideals and the conservative movement.
I was responding (as you well know) to another FReeper’s “cherry pick” from the article.
If you are unaware of Trump’s political past, of his recent support for the Clintons, his support for the Democratic Party leadership that gave us Obamacare and other Leftist’ causes, you don’t want to know - you can’t handle the truth.
Dude???
I know. We both read it.
That’s why I asked you about it. It says they didn’t discuss Trump running for President.
You asked this: Why would Bill Clinton tell that to Donald Trump, knowing that his wife would be running for the nomination under the Democratic Party banner and against the GOP nominee?
Were you not implying that Trump would be the GOP nominee ? If not, what would Trump ‘taking a prominent’ role within the Republican Party mean ?
It's part of his campaign!
The building is an in-your-face expression: "see what I can do for America"
I wouldn’t call myself a “fan,” actually. He annoys me most of the time. But he’s the most conservative one who is electable. “Conservative” in the things i care about and see as crucial to saving this country (border security, isis, economy, 2a). The social conservative things are not that important to me because i’m more libertarian-minded in that. So don’t call me a “fan,” please. I see the situation as being drastic enough to require drastic measures, such as sending an obnoxious bulldog to DC to flush out more RINOs from the proverbial closets so the voters can clean house.
As for my previous question, i don’t think you answered it. Are you going to be able to vote for him in November if he’s the nominee?
And at what point are you going to stop posting anti-Trump articles?
Terms of endudement. :)
Wow, that’s beautiful. I had your same thought today when i saw a clip of him reminding the guy on TV about this renovation. It suddenly dawned on me that he’s known this was coming, and that’s why he bought it in the FIRST place!
And here i was thinking i was smarter than everyone else. lol.
If one is not a liberal, and not a conservative, what is the label used to describe that person ?
To the point! Cheers.
Don’t bother. CW is a moron living in an alternative world surrounded by school teachers in the teachers lounge.
Focus, CW, focus.
I simply pointed out that the subject matter within clinton and Trump’s discussion does nothing to support your claim that Trump has a leftist ideology.
I was a hobby and to gain recognition.
(It's. joke)
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Trump was also probably aware that Reagan had a multi-year tv gig with GE prior to entering politics. The gig certainly helped Reagan’s visibity and brand-awareness with his voters.
“Visibity”? Lol! No! “Visibility”. :)
I think Carter’s in better shape than Bill.
A lot of the liberals have white guy derangement syndrome.
Here is Trump, rich white guy, doesn’t apologize for anything. They can’t believe this guy exists that he’s not checking his privilege at the door when he attacks all these people and countries.
So when he doesn’t act politically correct they think it so out of mainstream voters thoughts that he is unelectable.
TPA and TPP suggest to me that Cruz is fairly tainted by free trade and low sincerity on immigration. Session’s turning from Cruz says the same thing. After his campaign started I heard Cruz extol H1B and support illegals being decided after the border is secure. His lack of transparency about his Canadian citizenship is also troubling.
I don’t see him as some kind of pure alternative.
I don't see how taking a critical fact (that was repeated at least twice in the article) to use in debating whether Clinton told Trump to get involved in the Republican Party, and further to run for President as a Republican, 'cherry-picking'.
According to the Clinton 'allies' and Trump 'aide' (who for reasons of anonymity and because they were not authorized to discuss... blah blah blah... are not identified) Bill didn't talk about Trump running for President.
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