Posted on 01/13/2016 4:25:57 PM PST by TBBT
It is hard not to feel protective over Donald Trump while the political classes are seething and scornful.
They are unacquainted with such powerlessness. Control was never supposed to stray this far from their grasp. And their rage, manifested in every hapless attack on Trump and his supporters, actually seems to be improving the likelihood of that outcome they fear most of all.
How tempting, under these circumstances, to rush to his defense, as so many in the conservative movement have already done. The Donald has boldly made himself a standard bearer of unpopular (…within the political bubble), yet critical policy positions concerning national security, from the urgency of immigration enforcement to the potential implications of refugee resettlement.
He has played a pivotal role in dragging these and other issues from the shadows that the media might otherwise have not been so quick to shine a light on. He has made the case against birthright citizenship, spent countless campaign hours pledging to build a wall, and talked tough to the politically correct mafia at a time when its fascistic influence has left millions of citizens feeling voiceless.
Trump’s style and substance—brazen, unapologetic and quite popular—have upended equanimity on the left, leaving the “public intellectuals†screaming over one another to denounce his absurdity, the effrontery, the horror.
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The FR primary season circular firing squad is assembling right on schedule.
There is nothing questionable about it. The man is a liberal.
Awfully chippy this time around!
people can change, i was a hardline liberal atheist and i am now a Lutheran christian
The answer is WAS a liberal. I was once a liberal atheist people can change.
He’s slippery eel but he’s our slippery eel.
Everybody agreed he did a great job on Doral. That actually turned me around, because those golf guys are a tough crowd. It made me think that he really was able to look around, take input, find the right people ... all that stuff.
That is liberal.
I could support either Trump or Cruz. Have no interest in tearing down either as long as they keep taking the fight to the libs.
He advocates total ban on muslim immigrants , hes the only candidate who says that.
No authors on the article... Levin and his gang hiding his finger prints over this hit piece.
CR/Mark Levin just come out and say you endorse Ted Cruz, be intellectually honest!
‘Lifelong liberal Donald Trump still supports liberal causes including single payer healthcare’
That is not Trump’s healthcare position. Are you so uninformed about his platform that you believe this is his current position? If you refuse a candidate the right to change positions, then Cruz still supports anchor baby citizenship.
Same here. Cruz or Trump is a step in the right direction. The others, not so much.
Mark Levin’s “punish lesson” for TRUMP’S questioning of CRUZ eligibility.
I know liberal Trump has flip-flopped on nearly every issue to try to convince the gullible into supporting him. Obviously that has worked with some but it hasn’t worked with me.
Trump and Cruz about the ONLY ones being honest, at least. Trump says that he’s not a conservative, and he’s not (but I’m voting for him, for lots of reasons), Cruz says he’s a conservative, and he is.
But man, every damn publication, every adviser, and every other Republican candidate seems to DEMAND OPEN BORDERS, yet has the gall to call themselves conservative.
That grates me.
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