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However it ends, Trump’s surge is historic
Boston globe ^ | 19 August, 2015 | Keith Bedford/Globe Staff/File

Posted on 08/20/2015 8:09:04 PM PDT by 11th_VA

DERRY, N.H. — What was once flippantly deemed the Summer of Trump has evolved into something much bigger: a singular moment in American political and cultural history.

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Trump’s candidacy will be a moment that today’s voters will have to explain to their grandchildren.

“What is happening with Trump is not a fluke,” said Harvard government and sociology professor Theda Skocpol, author of “The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism.” “Yes, he is a great entertainer, but he is able to take advantage of a number of dynamics in American politics as they exist right now. This is an important moment.”

Trump is the personification of a 21st century America fascinated by the super rich and obsessed with celebrity, political historians said in interviews.

In politics, his assets provide massive available financing in a national race where money plays an unprecedented role. A hyper-fast media environment means Trump’s candid comments and jaw-dropping insults, such as his jab at US Senator John McCain’s respected military service, permeate Facebook feeds, quickly making him the most-discussed candidate in the field, according to social media analytics.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: New York
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To: 11th_VA

We are all praying that it’s a successful and peaceful revolution. Back to freedom, back to the moon.


21 posted on 08/20/2015 8:36:45 PM PDT by Fhios (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion. -- Bobby Jindal)
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To: BigEdLB

That is bold - Don't Mess with Trump !!!

22 posted on 08/20/2015 8:37:51 PM PDT by 11th_VA ("We're not gonna take it ANYMORRRRRE !!!")
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Donald Trump is already very RICH...

He doesn't need the job of POTUS to make him rich, like the Clinton's and Hussein Obama has done...

I love it...make them sweat Donald Trump...and clean up the mess the clintons and hussein created...in fact lets celebrate when Hillary gets a GRAND JURY after her...she owns it and deserves it..

LET'S ROLL FOLKS...WE NEED A REAL CHANGE...

23 posted on 08/20/2015 8:38:35 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: kvanbrunt2
not sure where the phrase came from

The phrase, 'no holds barred', comes from wrestling, where certain types of holds were barred by the rules of the sport. No holds barred is essentially, 'anything goes'.

24 posted on 08/20/2015 8:39:06 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: 11th_VA

He hugged the flag at the event in NH. never saw that before in a human being. check the video. He reminds me of a cross between kermit the frog and joe pesci as leo getz in the lethal weapon movies.. ok ok


25 posted on 08/20/2015 8:39:44 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: 11th_VA

Boston Globe. That’s the first tipoff. As I read his stuff, it slowly crept into my psyche that I’d read it all before.

All this dude has done is to scan about the past 30 days worth of publications, with columns by some wizards of smart, giving THEIR take on Trump, and their prognostications as the imminence of his crashing and burning. He has sifted through it, ripping out a phrase here, and an observation there, and an opinion or two on the side; rephrased them a bit, and cobbled them together into a piece, and is passing them off as his own sagacious jewels of wisdom. IMHO.

Pass!


26 posted on 08/20/2015 8:39:53 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Windflier

The media is at war with Trump. He won’t fight on their turf. He won’t accept the PC language they want to engage with; He’s going to call Anchor Babies, Anchor Babies, and illegals, illegals (not undocumented).


27 posted on 08/20/2015 8:40:05 PM PDT by 11th_VA ("We're not gonna take it ANYMORRRRRE !!!")
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To: 1010RD

28 posted on 08/20/2015 8:40:32 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: kvanbrunt2
He hugged the flag at the event in NH.

I saw that !!! I can't remember the last time I wanted to listen to a politician speak - they never answer the questions. But Trump tells it like it is.

29 posted on 08/20/2015 8:41:55 PM PDT by 11th_VA ("We're not gonna take it ANYMORRRRRE !!!")
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To: Windflier

The phrase, ‘no holds barred’, comes from wrestling, where certain types of holds were barred by the rules of the sport. No holds barred is essentially, ‘anything goes’.
thx i think of it as there are no bars on the hold in the ship so everything is flying about. but yours works for me.


30 posted on 08/20/2015 8:42:05 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: inkfarmer

Yep. The elites are always the last people to understand what’s going on in the world, but the first to try and explain it all to the rest of us.


31 posted on 08/20/2015 8:42:58 PM PDT by mbrfl (fightingmad)
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To: 11th_VA

Trump rally at NH High School ...
uh oh


32 posted on 08/20/2015 8:43:29 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: 11th_VA

Fortunately for the Washington elite Trump showed up when the majority of the country was a hair’s width from revolution. He’s convinced many to give the ballot box one more chance.


33 posted on 08/20/2015 8:44:16 PM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: kvanbrunt2
The phrase, 'no holds barred', comes from wrestling, where certain types of holds were barred by the rules of the sport. No holds barred is essentially, 'anything goes'.

The phrase 'Vale Tudo' is what they call it in Brazil, 'Anything Goes'

34 posted on 08/20/2015 8:44:58 PM PDT by Vic S
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To: kvanbrunt2

It’s a WRESTLING term, and refers to a free for all where anything goes. No Holds Are Barred. Biting, kicking, and any hold one could imagine is permitted. Something on the order of cage fighting nowadays.


35 posted on 08/20/2015 8:46:13 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: 11th_VA

I was 17 in 1980 I remember how bad I wanted to vote for Ronald Reagan. I know how these kids feel.
They are looking for a reason to be optimistic.


36 posted on 08/20/2015 8:48:03 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Windflier

I’ll second that. I like Trump in spite of his celebrity, wealth, and brash New York boasting, not because of it.


37 posted on 08/20/2015 8:50:40 PM PDT by Pelham (Without deportation you have defacto amnesty)
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To: 11th_VA

Picture at the link, nice. I counted 4 body guards. 2 black and two white and one looking seniorish. As for the front right? Khakis? Like really?

I’ll make up something really sappy here. Trump walking down that hallway reminds me of William Holden as Pike Bishop in Sam Peckinpah’s “Wild Bunch”.


38 posted on 08/20/2015 8:50:56 PM PDT by Fhios (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion. -- Bobby Jindal)
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To: inkfarmer

They don’t get it because they’re too farking stupid and dedicated to American’s decline


39 posted on 08/20/2015 8:54:11 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: kvanbrunt2
“people Ben Franklyn did air baths in is front window. he”

Are you capable of using proper grammar and spelling? WTF are you saying, here?

40 posted on 08/20/2015 8:55:24 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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