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Millions of ordinary Americans support Donald Trump. Here's why
The Guardian ^ | Tuesday 8 March 2016 04.12 GMT | Thomas Frank

Posted on 07/04/2016 10:00:24 PM PDT by vannrox

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Rather winded, and begins disparaging Trump, but he gets it in the end...
1 posted on 07/04/2016 10:00:24 PM PDT by vannrox
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Trump may lean a bit to the psycho side, but he comes across as human — good, bad, admirable, ugly, right, wrong, bright, stupid, nice and mean, sometimes smart, sometimes crazy. That’s the appeal. All the other candidates act as if — well, as if they’re acting. They’re calculated and planned. That’s harder and harder to sell.


2 posted on 07/04/2016 10:01:32 PM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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Wow, talk about backhanded compliments.

Liberals truly do scream in the light - it hurts them.


3 posted on 07/04/2016 10:14:31 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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Americans, especially white Americans, are sick and tired of Obama treating them as less than citizens. His racial vengeance policies, his gay uber alles policies, and his ultra marxist hate of working Americans is getting old to a heck of a lot of people. I’ve listened to a couple Trump speeches. People like the energy. And he’s enjoying himself and gives an optimistic message. I’m not much of a fan for various reasons but by God if Hillary wins, which I think is likely from shenanigans, the country will be irreparable.


4 posted on 07/04/2016 10:19:56 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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So hard to understand, when they could support that citadel of virtue and wisdom, Hillary Clinton. /s. When did people forget politicians are bufoons and crooks?


5 posted on 07/04/2016 10:22:20 PM PDT by Williams (If Trump is not the nominee ... The party's over.)
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It ain’t just the lyin’ king. It’s nearly the whole cadre of elite d.c. scumbags who assume they know what’s best for us. LMTFA. If I need your help, I’ll let you know. A lot of people feel like that.


6 posted on 07/04/2016 10:23:03 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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“Liberals truly do scream in the light - it hurts them”.

Every day, I read about them. Maybe they are just not very bright. They tend to cluster in groups. Cut off from real people.

I sense their glory days are over. They are in the bunker.


7 posted on 07/04/2016 10:24:28 PM PDT by FreeperCell
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The GREAT MYSTERY is actually how the media covered (and still covers) the Trump campaign from the start. Almost every report tries to show that they typical Trump supporter is an unemployed, southern drawl, blue collar, redneck person who, (by their standards) is a primitive simpleton.

In November, we will see the Trump SHOCK AND AWE as he takes the country, the experts, the pundits, the talking heads, the orators, the Liberals, the Democrats and elements within the Republican party all by storm as the American people wake the heck up after these last, disastrous 8 years.

8 posted on 07/04/2016 10:29:51 PM PDT by Netz
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All politicians are anethema to normal people. This is news? Working people have two choices - begin to stop the bleeding (Trump) or continue down the path of special interest politics and end up in Gary, freaking Indiana (Clinton)


9 posted on 07/04/2016 10:43:50 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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Liberalism: Salvation through false accusation.


10 posted on 07/04/2016 11:05:08 PM PDT by TChad
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I am getting so sick of condescending, racist leftists calling the very people who built the greatest country on earth. They need to be banished to the fringes of political life this election.


11 posted on 07/04/2016 11:09:23 PM PDT by WMarshal (Trump 2016)
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Cockroaches always scurry off. That’s why you’ve got to squash them quickly and at every opportunity!


12 posted on 07/04/2016 11:25:37 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
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Just as it was with Reagan, a substantial portion — possibly as much as half — of Trump’s support is absolutely invisible. They do not put signs on their yard (they’d just get stolen and attract vandals), they do not put bumperstickers on their car (who wants to pay for a new paint job due to key wielding fascists), they keep their mouth shut in bars, stores, and offices (who can win an argument with a leftist fanatic?) — but inside the privacy of the voting booth, they are quietly looking forward to kicking the political establishments of both parties, the MSM, and every one of the freaky flaky leftist SJW set right in the nuts.


13 posted on 07/04/2016 11:32:23 PM PDT by Ronin (Blackface or bolt-ons, it's the same fraud. - Norm Lenhart)
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When white working class Americans find their voice it’s considered racism. I’m getting sick of it too. I no longer care about race relations since the other side is not willing to listen, and is only being programmed to hate whites from cradle to grave. It doesn’t do any good. It won’t end peacefully.


14 posted on 07/04/2016 11:54:55 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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We have a friend who is a democrat. Dyed in the wool.

This year for the first time in his life he is planing to vote for a Republican.

Part of it is Benghazi Hillary. As a veteran the most despicable thing you can do is abandon your people to die when you could have at least tried to save them.

But the other thing is Trump himself.

Finally someone is addressing the issues that have meaning to him and that every other politician has blown off or called him names for worrying about.

15 posted on 07/05/2016 12:02:32 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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Millions of ordinary Americans support Donald Trump.

That can't possibly be true. My liberal friends tell me nobody is supporting Trump.

16 posted on 07/05/2016 12:03:13 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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Hillary Clinton is a bit psycho too. A sociopath. A criminal. I don’t mind a little madness, really. It’s the anti-social ones I don’t like. The WH will be kick back central under Clinton.


17 posted on 07/05/2016 12:03:21 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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>>> Just as it was with Reagan, a substantial portion — possibly as much as half — of Trump’s support is absolutely invisible. They do not put signs on their yard (they’d just get stolen and attract vandals), they do not put bumperstickers on their car (who wants to pay for a new paint job due to key wielding fascists), they keep their mouth shut in bars, stores, and offices (who can win an argument with a leftist fanatic?) — but inside the privacy of the voting booth, they are quietly looking forward to kicking the political establishments of both parties, the MSM, and every one of the freaky flaky leftist SJW set right in the nuts.

Simply to add to your screed - and it’s a valid start - it is not worth the effort to teach a pig to fly because in the end you’re both exhausted, the pig still can’t fly and you find yourself with even less time to recover rest before going back to the crappy job you nevertheless feel lucky to have at all, the job at twice the time and a third the pay of the one from which you were downsized in 2008. In theory at least, I can earn back my money that is stolen or wasted by another. Not so, my time.

So you avoid disputing the biased rumors repeated by otherwise well-meaning, enjoyable coworkers and friends, because it turns into a time suck. It takes time to argue logic because it *is* logic; not so the slings and arrows of absurdities and outright lies.

For those who have the ears to hear, let them hear.

Me, I’m going to the voting booth. Got no time to waste.


18 posted on 07/05/2016 12:49:31 AM PDT by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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Maybe the writer does, in some small way, get it at the end, but I gave up trying to translate after just the first paragraph...

I call it a "mystery" [1] because the working-class white wide variety of ordinary people who make up the bulk of Trump's fan base show up in amazing numbers for the candidate, filling stadiums and airport hangars, but their views, by and large by design, do not appear in our prestige newspapers Marxist propaganda sheets aka toilet-paper. On their opinion pages, these publications take care to represent demographic categories of nearly every kind to present only the Mainstream Media agenda, but "blue-collar" is one they persistently overlook ignore. The views of working-class people are so foreign to that universe alien to our own rose-tinted world-view that when New York Times columnist overpaid propagandist Nick Kristof wanted to "engage" [2] a Trump supporter last week , he made one up, along with this imaginary person's responses to his questions [3]

[1] a "mystery", dear brain-washed Guardian readers, so you don't need to indulge in original thought, I've done all the thinking on your behalf; all you need to do is read along with me and know how clever you are to be able to share this understanding
[2] "engage", of course, because you can't simply talk to a Trump supporter, they are too stupid, you have to make the effort or at least feign the interest to engage with them
[3] because he couldn't bear to hear the real honest down-to-earth truth nor even less would he dare report it

19 posted on 07/05/2016 1:17:08 AM PDT by Mr Radical
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Mr radical.....thank for the clarification!
Nicely done, IMO.


20 posted on 07/05/2016 2:22:58 AM PDT by polly-put-the-kettle-on
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