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To: Trumpinator
I have been a persistent critic of Donald Trump on these threads and have specifically criticized him for his infelicity of language. Trump has either through boorishness or design repeatedly opened the door for justifiable criticism that he is racist, sexist or just plain obnoxious.

On the issue of banning Muslims from entry temporarily into the United States, Trump has been correct both as to substance and presentation. The United States Constitution with its first, fifth and fourteenth amendments leaves us vulnerable to a fifth column of religious fanatics who will not shrink from murder to gain secular political power and who will, history documents, proselytize by the sword. In other words, once Muslims gain entry into the United States they claim all of the rights of citizens and residents and our Constitution hobbles us from protecting ourselves, our culture and our children. It is constitutional to prohibit them entry but it is not constitutional to discriminate against them once they gain entry purely on the basis of their faith. If the Constitution is not a suicide pact, it is certainly an instrument that leaves us in mortal peril to an internal Islamic threat once Muslim numbers attain critical mass.

So Donald Trump has got this one right and, confining his prescription to a temporary measure, he also got the wording right.

The Britts are playing politics, they know better, the people of the United States whether Trump supporter or not, whether Democrat or Republican, whether for open borders or a cooling-off period simply cannot tolerate this sort of interference in our domestic politics. The precedent is simply intolerable.

On this issue, Trump has my support as he will have in the general election if, God help us, he gets that far.


17 posted on 01/06/2016 7:35:04 AM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford
As someone like myself who reads a lot of Civil War history - yes as a Trump supporter the language used is a little grating. I became a Trump supporter because my wife who is blase about politics lit up when Trump called for the wall, etc.

I figure in today's Twitter world this kind of language is needed to cut through the BS. But having spend 2 decades reading Civil War primary sources like letters and speeches and such it does jar me a little how far we have fallen as a nation in terms of oratory skills. The last great example was JFK. I don't think I can recall any memorable sentences said after that by a president.

Reagan counts but they were more workaday uses of language like "Tear down this wall". Reagan, as a media expert knew that he had to keep it simple and elegant. I am going off on a tangent - I tend to do that - I apologize.

19 posted on 01/06/2016 7:40:53 AM PST by Trumpinator (I regret I have but only one vote to give for Trump for my country.)
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To: nathanbedford

Britt Ekland?


23 posted on 01/06/2016 7:52:22 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard then Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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