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Tom Frank: On the Road in Trump Country: How Trump won, and why Clinton lost.
The Nation ^ | April 14, 2017 | Jon Wiener

Posted on 04/14/2017 8:45:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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Tom Frank has been touring red states to talk about the new paperback edition of his book Listen, Liberal, or Whatever Happened to the Party of the People? He’s the author of several earlier books, including the classic What’s the Matter with Kansas? He’s been a columnist for The Wall Street Journal and Harper’s, and a contributor to The New York Times and The Nation.
1 posted on 04/14/2017 8:45:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He sounds pretty clueless to me.


2 posted on 04/14/2017 8:51:24 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s just great to listen to a delusional talk about the delusions they have about their own delusions. On the other hand, I got other stuff to do.


3 posted on 04/14/2017 8:52:29 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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LOL.

Well said.

4 posted on 04/14/2017 8:55:37 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. Be resolved to help!)
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To: A_perfect_lady

I agree, clueless.


5 posted on 04/14/2017 8:56:34 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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He sounds pretty clueless to me.

First time I've visited the Twilight Zone by accident.

6 posted on 04/14/2017 8:59:16 PM PDT by publius911 (I SUPPORT MY PRESIDENT?)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Where’s the barf alert?! I made it to “she tried to never offend anyone” before I started gagging and retching. Come ON! Don’t spring that kind of journolistic carrion on us without SOME kind of warning.


7 posted on 04/14/2017 9:06:43 PM PDT by Tucker39 (In giving us The Christ, God gave us the ONE thing we desperately NEEDED; a Savior.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He still doesn’t get it.

Which is fine.


8 posted on 04/14/2017 9:08:27 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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“Yeah she cheated”

“Oh she was so well qualified to be president “

Cognitive dissonance.


9 posted on 04/14/2017 9:09:26 PM PDT by Persevero
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She tries so hard to not offend people.

this deplorable, from the basket of deplorables, is not buying it.
10 posted on 04/14/2017 9:15:51 PM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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Yep, what a joke, that she tries so hard not to offend people.

Basket of deplorables was simply one of many such statements, in which it is clear, that in Hillaryland, you have to be liberal. And if you are not liberal, you are persona non grata to Hillary.... Facts are stubborn things. They don’t give a blank who they offend. Hillary is quite offensive in many of her speeches, if you go back and watch and read the transcripts.


11 posted on 04/14/2017 9:19:20 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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this kind of scolding liberalism that’s better than you.


This sums up Hillary and many liberals pretty well. Hillary has a scolding hectoring speaking style, which grates on many of us. Apart from what she’s saying, her mannerisms turn a lot of us off.


12 posted on 04/14/2017 9:21:12 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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This looks like a good demonstration of the idiocy of lefties.

Amazing, this guy is the "author of several books" yet as he "tours the Red States" (for him, like exploring the home of Martians), he didn't listen at all to what people were telling him.

He misunderstood the very reason for his big revelation: Why people really hate Hillary in Red State land.

Hey let me be real frank with you Tom Frank: People could care less that she went to Wellesley and all that bunk. The reason is this:


13 posted on 04/14/2017 9:21:25 PM PDT by poconopundit
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Yep, I’m happy if the liberals don’t get why this election got away from them. Because it means they won’t be making changes in 2018, 2020 or beyond, in elections. They will hit rock bottom.

It’s not just the 2016 presidential election that has caused Democrats such losses. Since Obama’s election in 2008, Democrats have lost over 1000 seats in state legislatures, Congress, and governorships combined. Democrats control fewer than 10 states, in which they have the governor and state legislature in their control. The Democrats are on their way to being a liberal, but regional, party.

Hillary won only 50 electoral votes from states in the interior of America. The vast majority of her support came from the liberal anchors in the northeast and Pacific coast states.


14 posted on 04/14/2017 9:24:54 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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And then they stupidly blew up the filibuster over Gorsuch of all the silly things that they could have done.


15 posted on 04/14/2017 9:38:04 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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I talked about her goodness and her righteousness. I kind of made fun of her for it. But people hate that stuff. Hate it

So we hate Hillary because she's GOOD and Righteous??? Hahahaha.

Thank God the Dems are still delusional.

16 posted on 04/14/2017 9:43:12 PM PDT by weston (SO HERE'S THE STORY: As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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She is so professional, she is so polished, and she’s such a wonderful lawyer. She went to Yale law school, and was so brilliant, and was the best in her class. People hate this.

When she went to Yale Law School it was a Pass/Fail system so how can he know where she rated? She could have been at the bottom of her class if there had been a GPA system. We'll never know so Frank doesn't know either.

However she showed a distinct lack of brilliance when she failed the DC law boards.

17 posted on 04/14/2017 10:14:05 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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This guy could have saved some gas,people hate Hillary because she is a leech,a liar and a crook.
End of story


18 posted on 04/14/2017 10:16:36 PM PDT by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
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Didn’t learn anything, did he?


19 posted on 04/14/2017 10:24:02 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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This is my #1 favorite Ctrl-Left excuse of the year. It goes at the top of my list:

People hating Hillary because she is so professional, so polished, such a wonderful lawyer, so brilliant, so good, so righteous, and so much better than us elected Trump.

Robby Mook selecting the wrong travel stops for Hillary and spending heavily in the wrong states elected Trump.

Hillary’s lack of likability and lack of trustworthiness elected Trump.

Self-hating women elected Trump.

Hillary’s campaign team failing to hone her message and get voters to the polls elected Trump.

Wikileaks elected Trump.

FBI investigation elected Trump.

Email scandal elected Trump.

Men elected Trump.

Misogyny elected Trump.

FBI Director Comey elected Trump.

Lower-level FBI agents pressuring their Director (because that’s how professional relationships work) elected Trump.

Tim Kaine gave Hillary Virginia, but he also elected Trump.

White women elected Trump.

The Russians elected Trump.

Racists elected Trump.

Sexists elected Trump.

Rural voters elected Trump.

The working class voting against their own interests elected Trump.

Fake news elected Trump.

Facebook elected Trump.

Supermarket tabloids elected Trump.

Celebrity (The Apprentice) elected Trump.

White male resentment elected Trump.

Over-shaming Trump supporters elected Trump.

Rejecting Bernie elected Trump.

Reagan democrats elected Trump.

Gary Johnson and Jill Stein voters elected Trump.

Backlash against political correctness elected Trump.

There are many terrible reasons for President Trump’s victory, but there are two things that were not a factor. First, Hillary was the perfect candidate; nothing she did harmed her candidacy in any way. Second, President Trump was the worst candidate imaginable; nothing he did helped his candidacy at all, except with racists, sexists, bigots, and the rest of the basket of deplorables.


20 posted on 04/14/2017 10:43:15 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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