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Donald Trump: Man in the Arena
American Thinker ^ | 3 Dec, 2023 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 12/03/2023 6:49:18 AM PST by MtnClimber

Sundance, that tireless intellectual warrior standing guard over at The Conservative Treehouse, occasionally jeers: “You ‘conservative pundits’ still don’t get it. Trump isn’t our candidate. He’s our murder weapon. And the GOP is our victim.”

Recently, he returned to that refrain after highlighting an interview in which Mitt Romney announced his intention to vote for a Democrat unless Republican primary voters nominated Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, or Ron DeSantis for president. Given that Romney tried to remove President Trump from office for Joe Biden’s quid-pro-quo crimes in Ukraine and elsewhere, his continued betrayal of grassroots voters is no surprise. Still, considering how many ordinary Republicans held their collective nose to vote for John McCain in 2008 and then for Ol’ Pierre Delecto four years later, it would be nice to think Establishment Republicans could be convinced to show some reciprocal respect for their voters’ wishes.

Professional Republicans’ sustained contempt for the electorate has been infuriating. For this reason, there was a time when candidate Donald Trump was more “murder weapon” than presidential dynamo in my mind. I loved what he had to say in the lead-up to the 2016 election, and I believed he was a breath of fresh air in an otherwise stale political pantomime. However, confronted with the Establishment’s absurd attempt to saddle voters with another Bush or Clinton eight years ago, voting for Trump felt, first and foremost, like swinging a sledgehammer through a mold-laden Uniparty wall in dire need of being knocked down.

Since his victory over Hillary Clinton — an unindicted co-conspirator in the Russia collusion fraud against the American people — President Trump has proven himself far more capable and consequential than I ever imagined. As evidence for how much the Deep State fears this one political outsider above all others

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1 posted on 12/03/2023 6:49:18 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

RINOs are not Republicans, they are democRATs in disguise.


2 posted on 12/03/2023 6:49:28 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

the good ol’ boys led by senator jubilation t. cornpone should be buried and left in the dust of 2016.

the politics of old have got us into this whole mess, worldwide.


3 posted on 12/03/2023 7:00:58 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: MtnClimber

Excellent article! Worth actually reading !


4 posted on 12/03/2023 7:08:42 AM PST by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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To: MtnClimber

Obama, Biden and the Democraps don’t fear Christie, Nikki, or Desantis. If they did, they’d sic their lawfare Soros DAs and Obama Justice Department clowns on them. Prosecutions galore. With the GOP also-rans, Biden handlers know they can hide him out in the basement and win without campaigning by letting the loonies in the MSM do their free advertising dirty work.

Problem is, President Trump actually gave as a good economy, and, if it hadn’t been for Paul Ryan, we’d have had a border wall, and a budget. President Trump got tough with companies who wanted to move operations overseas, where Obama and Biden were like, “Let ‘em go.” So the clear way of dealing with President Trump for the democraps is to shut him up. If that takes locking him up in one of their gulags, they will do it. It only highlights how far the court system in this country has sunk. Our Department of Justice? is Russia and China.


5 posted on 12/03/2023 7:09:11 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: Terry L Smith

FTA-—snip

Since his victory over Hillary Clinton — an unindicted co-conspirator in the Russia collusion fraud against the American people — President Trump has proven himself far more capable and consequential than I ever imagined.

As evidence for how much the Deep State fears this one political outsider above all others, compromised prosecutors, judges, bureaucrats, and lawmakers have done nearly everything they can to deprive him of his property and liberty.

Still, the man stands with a vim and vigor that is inspiring. Even while fighting one legal battle after the next in courtrooms across the country, he holds back-to-back campaign events and political rallies. The contrast with Dementia Joe’s lethargic attempts to merely walk across a stage without falling down is stunning.

Watching Trump persevere, despite the forces arrayed against him, is like witnessing President Theodore Roosevelt’s 1910 Paris speech, entitled “Citizenship in a Republic,” come to life: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly.”

In the arena, President Trump is a sight to behold.

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6 posted on 12/03/2023 7:11:21 AM PST by Liz (Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it. Sidney Sheldon)
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To: MtnClimber

Calling RINOs vermin is a compliment. They’re useless, disloyal and disgusting. We don’t need them to win.


7 posted on 12/03/2023 7:33:40 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: MtnClimber

There’s very little of the Republican party left. Most have abandoned it for MAGA.


8 posted on 12/03/2023 8:02:33 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: MtnClimber

Good article!


9 posted on 12/03/2023 8:36:05 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

10 posted on 12/03/2023 8:46:26 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: MtnClimber

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11 posted on 12/03/2023 8:48:07 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: MtnClimber

Yup. I wanted Vlad the Impaler, and Trump was as close as we could get.

Still is.

I want to see total fedgov employee headcount reduced to 5% of current, and these agencies shit down completely, their buldings razed, and the earth salted where they were:

FBI
BATFE
EPA
DOE
BLM
And 30 more.

I want all laws passed by Congress apply to Congress. I want Term Limits, Congressional offices reduced to cubicles, no more fancy stuff.

And the DOJ Budget reduced to 1/4 of what it is now.

And all US troops brought home, and their bases shut down.

Ect.


12 posted on 12/03/2023 9:14:27 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Vivek for VP!!!!)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

5% Reduction???? I’d like a 50% reduction!


13 posted on 12/03/2023 12:41:23 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

We need term limits for the permanent bureaucracy moreso than for electeds.


14 posted on 12/03/2023 12:53:23 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Ann Archy; Basket_of_Deplorables

Read his post again. He wants 5% of current, a 95% reduction. Plus many eliminated altogether.


15 posted on 12/03/2023 12:57:50 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Nateman

<>Every four years, two private corporations posing as political parties offer the American people a choice for president that almost always consists of two crooks who have long been on those corporations’ payrolls.<>

Donald Trump is the echo of our Framers’ uncorrupted President.

As such, DJT must be destroyed.


16 posted on 12/03/2023 2:59:23 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: MtnClimber

For later.

L


17 posted on 12/03/2023 3:02:08 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Nateman

AGREED, excellent article and a lot of TRUTH.

GREAT writer.

MAGA !!!


18 posted on 12/03/2023 3:08:21 PM PST by Pearfect
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To: MtnClimber
He's 100% correct.

Anyone the establishment, both sides, hates this much is obviously the right choice.

19 posted on 12/03/2023 3:11:39 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

You can see that by the amount of money the RNC is getting at present. The RNC will, like the past 6 years, will have Trump’s picture somewhere in their beg letters but will openly find ways to undermine him in Congress if they can do it without getting their names specifically labeled to them.


20 posted on 12/03/2023 3:12:34 PM PST by Gaffer
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