Posted on 02/05/2016 1:45:29 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
The initial stupefaction and dismay with which liberals greeted Donald Trump's candidacy have slowly given way to feelings of Schadenfreude- reveling in the suffering of others, in this case the apoplectic members of the Republican Establishment. Are such feelings morally wrong? Or can liberals enjoy the spectacle unleavened by guilt? As Republican voters start actually voting, is it okay to be sad - alarmed, even - by the prospect that the Trump hostile takeover of the GOP may fail?
There are three reasons, in descending order of obviousness, for a liberal to earnestly and patriotically support a Trump Republican nomination. The first, of course, is...
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Because he’s one of them? What do I win?
From the article (sound familiar?):
“What has most horrified conservative activists about Trump’s rise is how little he or his supporters seem to care about their anti-government ideology.”
A longer quote is in order!:
“What has most horrified conservative activists about Trump’s rise is how little he or his supporters seem to care about their anti-government ideology. When presented with the candidate’s previous support for higher taxes on the rich or single-payer insurance, heresies of the highest order, Trump fans merely shrug.”
Because he’s a Democrat. That was easy.
Why does the Left keep saying stuff like this over and over? Because from their totalitarian perspective, it’s true!
From the article:
“The third reason to prefer a Trump nomination: If he does win, a Trump presidency would probably wind up doing less harm to the country than a Marco Rubio or a Cruz presidency. It might even, possibly, do some good.”
I'm not a Cruz guy - I'm Rubio, but I will at least admit that his immigration position concerns the hell out of me. A lot of the Trump people don't even seem to care.
The best point in the article, but it’s largely shrouded in Chait’s usual “I hate republicans, republicans is so stupid” nonsense, is that at the first sign of political trouble, Trump will probably revert to his “moderate” or even liberal leaning ways. This is my biggest fear of a Trump presidency.
More from the article...do you so the very REAL and PRESENT danger folks???
“The Trump campaign may feel like an off-the-grid surrealistic nightmare, The Man in the High Castle meets Idiocracy. But something like it has happened before. Specifically, it happened in California, a place where things often happen before they happen to the rest of us, in 2003, when Arnold Schwarzenegger won the governorship. At the time, the prospect of Schwarzenegger governing America’s largest state struck many of us as just as ghastly as the idea of a Trump presidency seems now. Like Trump, Schwarzenegger came directly to politics from the celebrity world without bothering to inform himself about public policy. He campaigned as a vacuous Man of Action in opposition to the Politicians, breezing by all the specifics as the petty obsessions of his inferiors.”
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“But then something funny happened. When his legislative agenda stalled and his ballot measures failed, Schwarzenegger reversed course. The new Schwarzenegger compromised with Democrats on the budget, raising taxes and funding new public infrastructure. He abandoned his opposition to gay marriage, passed redistricting reform, and enacted cutting-edge legislation to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. He proposed sweeping health-care reform based on Mitt Romney’s successful Massachusetts plan. It failed, but when President Obama passed a national health-care law (also based on Romney’s plan), Schwarzenegger defied furious Republicans and eagerly hopped aboard, which enabled his state to roll out its Obamacare exchange smoothly. By the end of his tenure, it was impossible to deny that Schwarzenegger had become a highly effective governor.”
liberalnationalists around. I don t see Trump as a Liberal. I see him as a right of Dem center Dem who either has to move a bit more right or go all in with progressives as most other Democrats have.
Looks to me like he s moved a bit right. That s okay with me. I take the recently converted over the standard establishment.
Yep...Carter was one of the first to recognize how beneficial a Trump presidency could by...TO THE DEMOCRATS.
I have said the same thing - Arnold is the only template we have for a Trump presidency, and a President Trump will likely govern much as Arnold did.
As mentioned in related threads, patriots please bear the following in mind.
The president has only signature / veto power for domestic policy issues under the Constitution. So patriots need to support the next conservative president by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support the president, but also protect the states from unconstitutional federal governent overreach.
Such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
Attack Trump.
Attack Cruz.
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Oopsie. Not working.
Support Bush, support Kasich, support Christie, support Graham, (Grimace) support Fiorina, (grimace) sort-of-not-attack-Carson.
Oopsie. Not working.
Support Bush, support Rubio, support Rubio, support Rubio.
Oopsie. Not working.
(Grimace) Sort-of-support Trump so he can defeat Cruz.
See ya in the Caucus.
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