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Were You Better Off with Trump?
American Thinker ^ | 31 Mar, 2022 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 03/31/2022 4:35:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber

At some point, the people clamoring for his return will be too much for the Expert Class to hide or overcome.

In the final days before what appeared to be a neck-and-neck 1980 election, Republican Ronald Reagan landed a haymaker against President Carter by asking a simple question: "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" Americans were not, and Reagan ended up beating the incumbent Democrat in a drubbing — carrying forty-four states, taking 489 electoral votes, and winning the popular vote by nearly ten percent. Donald Trump's 2016 campaign slogan — Make America Great Again! — will be remembered as one of the most effective rallying calls in political history. As we near what looks like his return to battle for the 2024 election, though, a potent six-word slogan reminiscent of Reagan's rhetorical thwack is inescapable: Were you better off with Trump?

Only one incumbent president before Trump ever won significantly more votes on the way to losing re-election. That president, Grover Cleveland, left office in 1889 amid allegations that fraudulent balloting in several states had secured his opponent Benjamin Harrison's victory, and four years later, President Cleveland returned to the White House after decisively defeating Harrison in a rematch. The 22nd and 24th president of the United States is the only man to serve two non-consecutive terms. If that changes in 2024, it will reflect the fact that, as with Cleveland, President Trump did remarkably better with the electorate the second time around

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Health/Medicine
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1 posted on 03/31/2022 4:35:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

[only to have the election stolen by the deep state and tech actors.]


2 posted on 03/31/2022 4:35:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on mycreen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

We were better off in every conceivable American way.


3 posted on 03/31/2022 4:38:09 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: MtnClimber

In a head-to-head rematch, I would prefer the slogan “weren’t you better off with Trump?”


4 posted on 03/31/2022 4:39:14 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: MtnClimber

$2.00 gas.....very low inflation....no new wars.....etc. It was HORRIBLE because of a mean tweet about the SCUM LYING MEDIA!


5 posted on 03/31/2022 4:40:09 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: MtnClimber

Trump didn’t lose, he won huuuugely!...they took it from him.
The votes were manipulated......it was obvious that night.

We have been wandering in the wilderness since.....with no representation.


6 posted on 03/31/2022 4:45:38 AM PDT by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do t)
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To: MtnClimber

You can’t say no without being disingenuous


7 posted on 03/31/2022 4:54:50 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: MtnClimber
"At some point, the people clamoring for his return will be too much for the Expert Class and it's 'fact checkers' to hide or overcome."
8 posted on 03/31/2022 4:55:31 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: MtnClimber

He should still be in office. He was robbed. Well we were robbed. By the time the media decides to report it then it will be to late. 2 or so more years and we will be in bad trouble. And imagine if they get him out and we have harris.


9 posted on 03/31/2022 4:55:57 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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HHS is flying the trans flag. Jeopardy Tran and Rachel Levine meeting with trans children today at WH to bash DeSantis law. It’s Transgender Day at the WH.


10 posted on 03/31/2022 5:00:10 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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Were You Better Off with Trump?

Does a cat have whiskers?
11 posted on 03/31/2022 5:09:22 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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Levine has been hidden, so his poll numbers must be in the toilet. Take pictures of this sicko and hand them out like chicklets to all your sicko neighbors.


12 posted on 03/31/2022 5:09:39 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: MtnClimber

My oil company stock wasn’t doing nearly so well under Trump.


13 posted on 03/31/2022 5:14:40 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

It’s a no-brainer when you put it that way. I don’t see why they wouldn’t.


14 posted on 03/31/2022 5:20:12 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: glimmerman70

Does the Senate confirm a new VP? If so, the Dems are going to have to move faster.


15 posted on 03/31/2022 5:27:23 AM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: MtnClimber

Even people I know hated Trump because of mean tweets and voted for Biden are now admitting we are worse off and we are getting poorer under Biden. It’s too obvious and too painful to them to deny any more.

Now the next step will be getting them to focus on the fact that Trump makes them better off…..and hey he doesn’t tweet any more anyway….I think Big Tech will have ended up screwing themselves with his ban. LOL!


16 posted on 03/31/2022 5:39:07 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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The people I know who hated and voted against Trump are suddenly ‘sick of talking about politics’.


17 posted on 03/31/2022 6:22:40 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: MtnClimber

Actually, I made more money under Joe. That’s only because I prepared for it. But, money isn’t everything. The world has gone to crap under a Joe Biden presidency.


18 posted on 03/31/2022 6:52:23 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: MtnClimber

Is that even a question???


19 posted on 03/31/2022 7:58:11 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: MtnClimber

Trump asked what the hell do you have to lose well the last election the chimps found out.
Stupidity is far more dangerous then most people know.


20 posted on 03/31/2022 9:03:52 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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