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After Trump loses: An ominous American future imagined (Barf Alert)
theweek.com ^ | October 18, 2016 | Damon Linker

Posted on 11/02/2016 6:16:18 AM PDT by BDParrish

Here we are in July 2019. The country is wracked by violence, hatred, and economic despair. President Hillary Clinton just declared martial law. And rumors are swirling that the 2020 presidential election might need to be suspended.

How did it come to this?

In retrospect, the country's direction should have been clear since before the 2016 election. All of Donald Trump's (widely believed) talk of the election being rigged, the mischief-making by WikiLeaks, the sporadic left-wing violence against the right. As Trump careened toward defeat, I think most of us naively hoped that he'd back away from his inflammatory rhetoric and the political unrest would die down once the results of the vote were clear and overwhelming.

But of course it didn't happen. Certainly nothing about Trump's behavior up to that point gave us any reason to think he'd suddenly become civically responsible. And besides, he needed to stoke the anger and resentment of his followers to ensure maximum ratings for the launch of Trump TV. People had been speculating about Trump's possible media ambitions throughout the summer and fall of 2016, but few understood at the time that the presidential campaign itself made such a venture absolutely essential for Trump. All of the bad press had decimated his brand. By Election Day, the Trump hotels and golf courses were empty and losing a fortune. He needed another revenue stream, and populist politics was his only option.

Hence Trump's poisonous rant of a "concession" speech after the votes were counted. It was all a marketing ploy — and boy did it work. Sure, it was ridiculous. A nine-point landslide loss a result of election fraud? It was utterly implausible, but that didn't keep millions of Trump voters from believing it — and from vowing to remain loyal to the cause...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: liberals; panic; violence
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So they are afraid whether Trump wins or loses?!
1 posted on 11/02/2016 6:16:18 AM PDT by BDParrish
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Damon Linker ought to be afraid. Slimy opportunist. Can’t think of a better candidate for the gulag myself.


2 posted on 11/02/2016 6:19:17 AM PDT by madprof98
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So they are afraid whether Trump wins or loses?!

As long as they are afraid. We owe Mr. Trump a debt of gratitude for that.


3 posted on 11/02/2016 6:20:24 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: BDParrish

One of the plethora of the problems with the lest is that they think the right is as uncivilized as they are.


4 posted on 11/02/2016 6:20:30 AM PDT by lrdg
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Left not lest


5 posted on 11/02/2016 6:23:18 AM PDT by lrdg
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To: BDParrish

Damon Linker is skeeeeerd!

6 posted on 11/02/2016 6:24:57 AM PDT by simpson96
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July 2019. Hillary will be 72.


7 posted on 11/02/2016 6:25:36 AM PDT by lurk (TEat)
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With hillary clinton possessing the launch codes and having her finger on The Button, we’ll be lucky to see the sun rise in July, 2017 - let alone 2019.


8 posted on 11/02/2016 6:27:49 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Right the WORDs are the problem not the wide spread documented corruption and lawlessness of the Clinton/DNC/Media machine.


9 posted on 11/02/2016 6:34:07 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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Nobody...not Rush Limbaugh...not Sarah Palin....not William F Buckley...and not Donald Trump...tells me what to think.There are,however,various individuals with whom I largely agree on important issues of the day.

Donald J trump is one such individual.

10 posted on 11/02/2016 6:34:28 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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Note how often the left talks up excuses for oppression.


11 posted on 11/02/2016 6:36:11 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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http://www.unz.com/freed/the-loosening-grip/


12 posted on 11/02/2016 6:43:57 AM PDT by Bogie
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They should be.

A giant has awakened. Trump losing will only embolden the movement.


13 posted on 11/02/2016 6:44:44 AM PDT by JenB987 (#NeverHillary)
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Not entirely a bad scenario.
The key misunderstanding here is that Congress matters. It really doesn’t.
That’s just the liberal excuse for the last 6 years.
The administrative state rules perfectly well without it, it makes all the laws it needs simply by reinterpreting existing ones, or getting courts to do so.


14 posted on 11/02/2016 6:46:21 AM PDT by buwaya
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Hillary is damaged goods no matter what happens.

If she wins, she will have no mandate to govern.

And that’s with possible criminal indictment looming over her head...


15 posted on 11/02/2016 6:53:51 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: simpson96

He looks gay


16 posted on 11/02/2016 7:05:07 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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(Here we are in July 2019. The country is wracked by violence, hatred, and economic despair)

Is this writer been trapped in a cave for the past 8 years?
Here we are November 2016. The country is wracked by violence, hatred and economic despair!


17 posted on 11/02/2016 7:12:12 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: madprof98

If that’s what he REALLY thinks a Trump lose would bring, why on Earth would you vote for SWMNBN?


18 posted on 11/02/2016 8:03:42 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: simpson96

Why are these a$$holes aways bald with facial hair?


19 posted on 11/02/2016 9:26:30 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: BDParrish; Impy; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; Clintonfatigued; Clemenza; campaignPete R-CT; ...

Therefore, in order to avoid the disaster outlined, we must decisively elect Trump in a landslide. Thanks, Damon !


20 posted on 11/02/2016 4:18:55 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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