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Trump Is an Open Book for Closed Minds
The New York Times ^ | Sept. 25, 2024 | Thomas B. Edsall

Posted on 09/25/2024 8:24:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The mystery of 2024: How is it possible that Donald Trump has a reasonable chance of winning the presidency despite all that voters now know about him? Why hasn’t a decisive majority risen up to deny a second term to a man in line to be judged the worst president in American history?

The litany of Trump’s liabilities is well known to the American electorate. His mendacity, duplicity, depravity, hypocrisy and venality are irrevocably imprinted on the psyches of American voters.

Trump has made it clear that in a second term he will undermine the administration of justice, empower America’s adversaries, endanger the nation’s allies and exacerbate the nation’s racial and cultural rifts.

John Podhoretz, in a 2017 Commentary article, “Explaining Trump’s Charlottesville Behavior,” offered up one piece of the puzzle, addressing the question, “Whose early support for Trump itself played a key role in leading others to take him seriously and help propel him into the nomination?”

Podhoretz’s prescient answer: a conspiracy-oriented constituency with little regard for truth:

If there’s one thing politicians can feel in their marrow, even a non-pol pol like Trump, it’s who is in their base and what it is that binds the base to them. Only in this case, I’m not talking about a base as it’s commonly understood — the wellspring of a politician’s mass support. I’m talking about a nucleus — the very heart of a base, the root of the root of support. Trump found himself with 14 percent support in a month. Those early supporters had been primed to rally to him for a long time.”


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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: barfalert; dnctalkingpoints; gaslighting; johnpodhoretz; libel; mediawingofthednc; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; slander; slimes; smear; thomasbedsall
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The mystery of 2024: How is it possible that Donald Trump has a reasonable chance of winning the presidency despite all that voters now know about him?

Because we are on to your corporate globalist media gaslighting, Astroturf, projection and lies.

1 posted on 09/25/2024 8:24:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

why do people still read this gas lighting drivel?


2 posted on 09/25/2024 8:26:30 AM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Where is the mega barf alert? Lol


3 posted on 09/25/2024 8:26:58 AM PDT by Reddy (BO stinks)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sheesh...so much crap in such a small mind.


4 posted on 09/25/2024 8:27:05 AM PDT by goodnesswins (DEI....Divide, Enslave, Indoctrinate.....OR ......Didn't Earn It)
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To: Reddy

“Where is the mega barf alert?”

Em… it’s the New York Times


5 posted on 09/25/2024 8:30:45 AM PDT by stanne
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To: hillarys cankles

why do people still read this gas lighting drivel?

When one is successfully gaslighted this is red meat.


6 posted on 09/25/2024 8:35:58 AM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

this from the “vote blue” clowns....


7 posted on 09/25/2024 8:36:03 AM PDT by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The New York Times...a gilded ladle in a turd filled punch bowl.


8 posted on 09/25/2024 8:36:48 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

An article written by a deranged POC who works for a failing communist propaganda newspaper, overcome by hatred for one of the best Presidents this nation has ever had.


9 posted on 09/25/2024 8:37:58 AM PDT by Signalman (I am not a snob. Ask anyone who matters.)
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To: hillarys cankles

The mystery of 2024: How is it possible that Kamala Harris has a reasonable chance of winning the presidency despite all that voters now know about her? Why hasn’t a decisive majority risen up to deny the Presidency to a woman in line to be judged the worst vice president in American history?
The litany of Kamala’s liabilities is well known to the American electorate. Her mendacity, duplicity, depravity, hypocrisy and venality are irrevocably imprinted on the psyches of American voters.
Harris has made it clear that in her first term she will undermine the administration of justice, empower America’s adversaries, endanger the nation’s allies and exacerbate the nation’s racial and cultural rifts.


10 posted on 09/25/2024 8:39:30 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Exactly.


11 posted on 09/25/2024 8:40:23 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A temper tantrum in print.


12 posted on 09/25/2024 8:41:24 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well, they are correct about my mind being closed. I will not open my mind to perversion of any sort.
So any leftist ideology of any type generally gets disregarded.


13 posted on 09/25/2024 8:43:34 AM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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His mendacity, duplicity, depravity, hypocrisy and venality are irrevocably imprinted on the psyches of American voters.

I need some help here because I can't think of anything that fits this. And neither can the "journalist".

14 posted on 09/25/2024 8:44:20 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: hillarys cankles

The New York Times had a bunch of liberals quit their subscriptions because they were allegedly treating Biden unfairly.

The Times has been running “hit piece” after “hit piece” against Trump to try and lure them back.


15 posted on 09/25/2024 8:46:32 AM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This leftist fossil (Edsall) is old enough to still be thinking that the New York Times is the “paper of record” and is respected throughout the world, blah, blah, blah.


16 posted on 09/25/2024 8:46:35 AM PDT by Gaffer
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How is it possible that Donald Trump has a reasonable chance of winning the presidency despite all that voters now know about him?

Because we know all about Harris as well and have decided that he's the better choice.

17 posted on 09/25/2024 8:47:48 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: ClearCase_guy

“empowering adversaries” is the first among many that got me asking;

WTH is he smoking ?


18 posted on 09/25/2024 8:50:01 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“His mendacity, duplicity, depravity, hypocrisy and venality are irrevocably imprinted on the psyches of American voters.”
Should read: The NYTimes mendacity, duplicity, depravity, hypocrisy and venality are irrevocably imprinted on the psyches of American voters.


19 posted on 09/25/2024 8:50:12 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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That’s a long piece of drivel.. but at the end, they got one thing right:

First, MAGA loyalists believe “the investigations against Trump are witch hunts and baseless.” Taking this logic a step further, “people think that the other side is dangerous and that we need someone willing to do whatever it takes to stop them. That is, they think they are protecting democracy by supporting Trump.

What they get wrong is…. They think they above is not true. It is.

20 posted on 09/25/2024 8:52:01 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim (C )
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