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Trump maintains solid support because the Democrat alternative is a nightmare
The Washington Examiner ^ | October 7, 2019 | Eddie Scarry

Posted on 10/07/2019 11:41:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Frustrated liberals have been asking for the last four years what it’s going to take for President Trump’s supporters to abandon him. Because, like, don’t they know he’s about to be impeached!?

New York Times columnist David Brooks attempted to answer the question last week by imagining a conversation with someone he simply referred to as “Flyover Man,” because apparently he didn’t know a single real Trump supporter.

It never seems to occur to liberals that perhaps the real problem isn’t that a lot of people continue supporting the president even though he can be strange, vulgar, and sometimes even stupid. The real problem just might be that even if Trump is a gleeful liar and a petty narcissist, the alternative is so much worse.

It’s supposed to be unthinkable that Trump has even one supporter at all, because aren’t they ashamed to vote for someone that the media have called a white supremacist? And don’t forget, he’s about to be impeached!

But if 40% of the country can stomach all of that, shouldn’t that say something about the choice we’re given?

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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1 posted on 10/07/2019 11:41:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Trump maintains solid support because he's doing a great job.

ML/NJ

2 posted on 10/07/2019 11:43:45 AM PDT by ml/nj (eeter hope ther are no statue)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
But if 40% of the country can stomach all of that, shouldn’t that say something about the choice we’re given?

That 60% might?

3 posted on 10/07/2019 11:44:46 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This! Bump Bump Bump


4 posted on 10/07/2019 11:45:10 AM PDT by iamright (Support FR, freedom's voice!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
They still don't get it.

He fights. For America and it's constitution and our values. He fights for us and his opponents don't.

5 posted on 10/07/2019 11:45:14 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

PDJT is trying to do a great job

he has not achieved a great deal because of all the awful obstructionism from the DNC types

it is shocking just how hostile they are behaving

i do agree also with the article that the D’s don’t have a credible, sale-able candidate.. the ones they have are doing the D party a trememdous amount of damage


6 posted on 10/07/2019 11:46:07 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not , born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Democrat plan is easy to predict.

During the election they (and the so-called “news” media) will tell people that they are voting against Trump.

After the election (if they win) they (and the so-called “news” media) will tell people that they voted for collectivism.


7 posted on 10/07/2019 11:46:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Trump maintains solid support because the ANY Democrat alternative is a nightmare

They make it sound like the problem is that the Rats are running bad candidates, which they are. But it's not that Trump is the lesser evil, like they seem to think. Any candidate that could get nominated in today's Rat party would be a degenerate loon with no idea how to do anything but talk down to voters and break important stuff.

8 posted on 10/07/2019 11:48:07 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“the Democrat alternative is a nightmare”

Ain’t that the truth!


9 posted on 10/07/2019 11:49:52 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Personally I don’t give a shit if he’s a blowhard or if he lies about his wealth or if he calls leftists and other assorted moron’s who don’t like MAGA bad names. I support him not because the other choices are so bad, I support because I love the job he’s doing as President. Greatest. President. Ever. That’s why I support him.


10 posted on 10/07/2019 11:51:49 AM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: faithhopecharity

He got two conservative Supreme Court justices installed, hundreds of federal judges, slashed onerous regulations, lowered taxes for all Americans, brought back manufacturing, improved the economy, improved the VA, passed criminal justice reform, strengthened the military, built some border wall sections, lowered unemployment and destroyed ISIS.


11 posted on 10/07/2019 11:52:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: iamright
...David Brooks attempted to answer the question last week by imagining a conversation with someone he simply referred to as “Flyover Man,” because apparently he didn’t know a single real Trump supporter.

David Brooks was right up there will Hillary calling us deplorables... What an intolerant jerk.

I remember when the press didn't hire blacks (for general news), or women (except for 'women's stories'), and now they don't hire conservatives... Don't they ever 'get it'?

12 posted on 10/07/2019 11:57:48 AM PDT by GOPJ (<img src=https://i.imgur.com/WjoG6dB.png width=500> Dems are taking a leaf out of old KGB handbooks)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I think the innate reaction to the title is “Yeah, no sh*t!l” - LOL!

How did we ever permit these leftist swine to infest out government?!?

13 posted on 10/07/2019 12:00:41 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Caipirabob
How did we ever permit these leftist swine to infest out government?!?

That's easy. 28 years of worthless politicians stealing everything not nailed down.

14 posted on 10/07/2019 12:08:06 PM PDT by SanchoP
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trumps numbers go up every time the Dems debate :P


15 posted on 10/07/2019 12:09:02 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: GOPJ

Of course David Brooks knows Trump supporters. He just doesn’t know who they are because there is no point in engaging a Nevertrumper with TDS.


16 posted on 10/07/2019 12:34:32 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is this simple: people have figured out that Democrats, the Deep State and the media are a million times more corrupt than Trump could ever imagine being.


17 posted on 10/07/2019 12:36:29 PM PDT by RatRipper
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To: ml/nj
Anytime I hear some Jaybird bad-mouthing Trump, I ask "What is not to like about a full employment economy and a growing retirement account? I am X years old and have seen that combination so rarely in my lifetime."

If I get anything other than a blank stare, it is usually some nonsensical jibberish about why the economy really sucks or has nothing to do with Trump.

18 posted on 10/07/2019 12:36:49 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t forget the increase in real wages the working classes have seen under President Trump; the first improvement since the 70’s.


19 posted on 10/07/2019 1:09:25 PM PDT by Company Man (AGITPROP IS ALL THEY'VE GOT)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks Iron Munro:

Clinton: Being a Capitalist Probably Hurt Me in 2016 Because So Many Democrats Are Socialists | freebeacon | Posted on 05/02/2018 2:55:43 PM PDT by Sub-Driver | 58 posted on 05/02/2018 4:18:34 PM PDT by Iron Munro

20 posted on 10/07/2019 1:13:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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