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Why Some of the Smartest Progressives I Know Will Vote for Trump over Hillary
The Politico ^ | June 1, 2016 | Yves Smith

Posted on 06/02/2016 12:53:16 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 06/02/2016 12:53:17 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Other than the Blacks, Illegals, Feminists and Homos...who really supports Hillary?

All the left-wing wackos in my family HATE Hillary and are big Sanders supporters. I don't know of anyone who supports Hillary.

2 posted on 06/02/2016 1:01:47 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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I don’t think that she has the blacks (those who’ll vote) nearly as sewn-up as she claims. Don Trump is seen as a tycoon and a “player” and that resonates.


3 posted on 06/02/2016 1:04:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

I’m an independent and I refuse to support anything that has her in it.


4 posted on 06/02/2016 1:04:59 AM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dann! They must get paid by the word. It’s 4:00 a.m. I want the Cliff’s Notes version.


5 posted on 06/02/2016 1:06:31 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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Other than the Blacks, Illegals, Feminists and Homos...who really supports Hillary?

Blacks would lean towards Trump if the media fairly stated Trump's positions. Most folks, black and white, want a strong America, and good jobs for their children.

As for the other three on your list, their agenda is, of course, completely different than Trump's.

6 posted on 06/02/2016 1:09:15 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Liberals get to pick the color blue and keep it. Now they get to change the name “liberal” to “progressive” and keep it. And we go along with it.


7 posted on 06/02/2016 1:22:51 AM PDT by Zirondelle ("disce aut discede")
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I am very curious to see the level of Black support for Trump in November. If he can pull 20%, then the Democrat party is finished


8 posted on 06/02/2016 1:28:22 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Why Some of the Smartest Progressives I Know Will Vote for Trump over Hillary”

Probably because they are smart enough to know what every smart person should know before going to the polls in November.


9 posted on 06/02/2016 1:44:07 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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Now they get to change the name “liberal” to “progressive” and keep it

Nothing stopping conservatives calling them what they really are- communists


10 posted on 06/02/2016 1:51:20 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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The highly educated, high-income, finance-literate readers of my website

Why would anybody described as above vote for a Socialist/Communist?

11 posted on 06/02/2016 2:17:31 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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I am thinking these idiots would write in sanders before voting for anybody with an R next to their name.


12 posted on 06/02/2016 2:24:30 AM PDT by barmag25
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I still refuse to believe Hitlery will be the nominee. Democraps are insane but they ain’t stupid.


13 posted on 06/02/2016 3:03:06 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
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Untrammeling?


14 posted on 06/02/2016 3:14:32 AM PDT by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberalsoli o feccia.)
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The really high IQ university educated people all think they are so much smarter than everyone else they can see how to make everyone’s life better, if everyone will just do as these smart people advise then Utopia will bloom.


15 posted on 06/02/2016 3:23:06 AM PDT by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberalsoli o feccia.)
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Hillary might pick a Corey Booker-type (young black) as her VP to try to get blacks to turn out for her.

She’s such a terrible candidate. The more people see of her, the less they like her.

The hardcore lefties hate her. She’s stolen the nomination and if she loses California it’ll be chaos at their convention. Love it.


16 posted on 06/02/2016 3:39:11 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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Great Article, but this maybe the money line:

"I personally know women in the demographic that is viewed as being solidly behind Hillary—older, professional women who live in major cities—who regard Trump as an acceptable cost of getting rid of the Clintons."

We all know professional women, and what do they tell you, they'd rather work for a really good male leader/mgr vs an absolute Beeotch.

I have been saying for eon's Hillary fits that bill of the Boss you don't want to work for, the one that makes you look for an internal transfer to get out from under her.

My guess is women with their amazing intuitive senses know this

If they wouldn't want to work for her, how the h@ll are they gonna vote for her...

Tangent to this. Bill Bennett noted during the Clinton Impeachment that the DNC sold their soul for a mess of pottage by not doing the right thing and removing him ( and her ) on the moral grounds. Clinton's mess begot Obama and all the fakata carnival clowns in the House and Senate all suckling on K-Streets teat. Maybe these professional women discussed in this article also sense the DNC is full of sludge to the core and needs to be flushed.....

17 posted on 06/02/2016 4:42:50 AM PDT by taildragger (Not my Monkey, not my Circus...)
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One more gem...

"Despite President Barack Obama’s Panglossian claim that the economy is doing well, the spike in suicides to levels over those during the financial crisis belies that."

Besty McCaughley was the 1st to discuss this:

http://betsymccaughey.com/how-the-state-of-the-economy-is-literally-killing-people/

This will be part of the Obama legacy and no one will touch it, the fact that the guy that had a poster of "Hope" helped forward a system that did just the opposite. And the folks feeling it are those that "Didn't Build that", that need to "pay their fair share" aka the Joe the Plumber meeting, and who might also be "Bitter Clingers".

18 posted on 06/02/2016 4:51:29 AM PDT by taildragger (Not my Monkey, not my Circus...)
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“Other than the Blacks, Illegals, Feminists and Homos...who really supports Hillary?”

Bill Kristol. Weekly Standard. National Review. Erick Erickson. Glenn Beck. Michael Medved


19 posted on 06/02/2016 4:57:31 AM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama. When being bad is not enough and only evil will do)
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“Why would anybody described as above vote for a Socialist/Communist?”

Secular Jewish political values is my guess. It’s an old phenomenon. For example neocon Bill Kristol grew up in a household that venerated Leon Trotsky, the third member of the Lenin and Stalin triumvirate


20 posted on 06/02/2016 5:04:10 AM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama. When being bad is not enough and only evil will do)
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