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Bill Barr: Trump Will Burn Down the GOP. Time for New Leadership.
Common Sense ^ | 11/21/2022 | William P. Barr

Posted on 11/21/2022 1:03:23 PM PST by Grandpa Drudge

The Republican Party has a historic opportunity to revive the old Reagan coalition. The person standing in the way is the 45th president, writes the former attorney general.

During the Republican primaries in 2016, I supported, in succession, every alternative to Donald Trump. I did not see him as our party’s standard-bearer. He was not my idea of a president. I could see that he was grossly self-centered, lacked self-control, and almost always took his natural pugnacity too far. While he could be compelling, I found myself cringing at his frequently juvenile, bombastic, and petulant style.

I also saw Trump’s strengths. I liked the clear and direct way he staked out a position and his willingness to state unpleasant truths that many were afraid to say. I appreciated that he was willing to confront head-on difficult issues—like unfair trade deals, or our allies’ paltry defense spending—that other politicians dodged. Above all, Trump had accurately diagnosed, and given voice to, the deep frustration of many middle-class and working-class Americans who were fed up with the excesses of progressive Democrats; the shameless partisanship of the mainstream media; and the smug condescension of elites who had mismanaged the country, sold them out, and appeared content to preside over the decline of America.

But it is now clear he lacks the qualities essential to achieving the kind of unity and broad election victory in 2024 so necessary if we are to right our listing republic. It is time for new leadership.

(Excerpt) Read more at commonsense.news ...


TOPICS: AMERICA - The Right Way!!; Conspiracy; History; Society
KEYWORDS: bagpipes; billbarr; dogdukie; dukiedoo; dukieduke; election; gasbag; politics; propaganda; rino; stayoutdabushes
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To: Grandpa Drudge

Hilarious that Fatso re-emerges 2 years after he ducked out from fighting the 2020 fraud.

Now he’s apparently the point man for the Never Trump chattering campaign. Wonder what Ditch promised him: AG again? A new Toyota?

The funny part is that he apparently thinks people give a crap about what he thinks.

We don’t. Traitors and backstabbers are always considered scum.


41 posted on 11/21/2022 1:23:49 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Grandpa Drudge

Some things just need burnin’.


42 posted on 11/21/2022 1:23:51 PM PST by dforest
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To: Grandpa Drudge
Bill Barr, useless bastard.


43 posted on 11/21/2022 1:23:58 PM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: Grandpa Drudge

Bill Barr cashes another deep state check.


44 posted on 11/21/2022 1:25:02 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: RedMonqey
If the GOP wasn’t a bunch of nihalist, belly button gazing, wimps and sell outs, a Trump wouldn’t be necessary

True, but the GOP has failed over and over so only an outsider has a chance to course correct, but it's looking doubtful.

45 posted on 11/21/2022 1:25:26 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Grandpa Drudge

He has the nerve to say this after retaining McConnell as Senate leader? GTFO!


46 posted on 11/21/2022 1:27:18 PM PST by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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To: Grandpa Drudge

Burn 🔥 the entire stinking mess down 🇺🇸✌️😂


47 posted on 11/21/2022 1:27:24 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: Grandpa Drudge

The Core Battle Within the Republican Party


48 posted on 11/21/2022 1:27:42 PM PST by Bratch
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To: Grandpa Drudge

Barr is just another mediocre lawyer. They are a dime a dozen and are under every rock you kick in DC. They have no creativity and are marginally intelligent.


49 posted on 11/21/2022 1:27:43 PM PST by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: 1Old Pro

The GOP needs it.


50 posted on 11/21/2022 1:27:46 PM PST by cp124 (80% of everything is fake or a lie.)
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To: neverevergiveup

Nicely said!! Learn to code...priceless.


51 posted on 11/21/2022 1:28:42 PM PST by Bubbette
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To: All

Oh no! Not the GOP!!! Who will open our borders and start wars now ?!


52 posted on 11/21/2022 1:28:55 PM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: Grandpa Drudge

Trump revived the Reagan coalition. duh The RHINO establishment Republicans sold us out. I want a pugnacious fighter representing me. Not gracious loser perfumed girl men.


53 posted on 11/21/2022 1:28:55 PM PST by DeplorablePaul ("..)
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To: DugwayDuke
Why not explain where/why Barr is wrong?

No need. Trump does that very well, himself.

54 posted on 11/21/2022 1:29:01 PM PST by Grandpa Drudge (Just an old man, desperate to preserve our great country for my great grandchildren.)
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To: Grandpa Drudge

Burning down the GOP will bring new leadership, I agree.


55 posted on 11/21/2022 1:30:03 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: DugwayDuke

Sure the claims he makes against Trump on style issues can be made about pretty much any politician. Trump is not unique in being narcisistic, or petulant, ect


56 posted on 11/21/2022 1:30:53 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Grandpa Drudge

They don’t see who Trump is

He made his fortune tearing down infirm old structures and putting up new ones using the help he was dealt. He always acted honestly surrounded with... In NYC- not always their best

Metaphorically that’s what he’ll do. These ‘not our best’ creeps in DC will continue to detract. It won’t stop him. It’s how his mind wirks

Raze the corrupt, rebuild with what’s left.


57 posted on 11/21/2022 1:31:27 PM PST by stanne
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To: Grandpa Drudge

Bill Barr is no friend to Truth or America.


58 posted on 11/21/2022 1:32:54 PM PST by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: Grandpa Drudge

The Uniparty, establishment GOP needs burned down…


59 posted on 11/21/2022 1:34:21 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Grandpa Drudge
I expect President Trump (and all of us) to either turn the Republican Party into an America First, Make America Great Again party, or make ourselves a new Party.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/21/the-core-battle-within-the-republican-party/

"Before Donald Trump entered politics there was no home for people voting on the issue of a national economic agenda. Both Democrat and Republican candidates had essentially the same worldview on national economic policy because they are all getting money from the same multinational corporate trough. However, President Trump changed that dynamic by presenting an alternative national economic policy called America-First."

60 posted on 11/21/2022 1:34:52 PM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGAA)
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