Kevin Dowd Summarizes Populism: Trump Has 43.2M Twitter Followers; NYT Has 3.1M Subscribers

Breitbart ^ | 24 Nov 2017 | by REBECCA MANSOUR

[drewh]

In keeping with her annual holiday tradition, liberal New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd let her Republican brother Kevin write her Thanksgiving Day column this week. Kevin Dowd has been delighting conservatives and outraging Dowd’s limousine liberal readership for years now. (Personal favorite: Kevin’s Christmas 2009 column when he told Sarah Palin: “Keep up the good work. Anyone who annoys Keith Olbermann that much is a friend to all of us.”)

This year, Kevin found a pithy way to summarize why President Trump’s tweeting “can be an effective defense” – Trump, he writes, “has 43.2 million Twitter followers. The New York Times has 3.1 million subscribers.”

Trump got into office because of Congress’s inability or unwillingness to do its job. The voters were so fed up, they turned to a reality television star instead of the 20 politicians on the menu. (Or 20.5 if you want to count Martin O’Malley.)

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But the Republicans cannot let large egos — theirs and Trump’s — get in the way of this opportunity. They are also facing a rear-guard attack by Steve Bannon, who brings his own army of candidates with him. He’s holding Republicans’ feet to the fire, which should be done.

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The Democrats have their own issues. Their leaders are all on Medicare and cling to power like a drunk hugging his bottle of schnapps at last call. Liz and Bernie want the party to be more liberal, as if that were possible. If they move any further left, they will be driving in Britain.

Their more pressing problem is Hillary, now in exile on her endless book tour. She continues to hover above the party like some giant pterodactyl of Christmas Past.

[BenLurkin]

Populism?

Or popularity?

[x1stcav]

>Liz and Bernie want the party to be more liberal, as if that were possible. If they move any further left, they will be driving in Britain. Pretty good.

[Ciexyz]

😅😂😊

[drewh]

Kevin probably drove MoDo crazy as a kid..

[mylife]

LOL! Poor old Keith Olbermann LOL Thanks for the memories!

[bigbob]

Thus the nevertrump mantra “I wish he’d just stop tweeting!”

[GOPJ]

This year, Kevin found a pithy way to summarize why President Trump’s tweeting “can be an effective defense” – Trump, he writes, “has 43.2 million Twitter followers. The New York Times has 3.1 million subscribers.”

Kevin speaks the hard truth...

[budj]

...and we’re still not tired of WINNING!!!!!!!

[Aevery_Freeman]

>>" 43.2 million Twitter followers"

Wish there was a way to count those that follow Trump but have never joined Twitter.

[Revolutionary]

The struggle is between populism and elitism. The new populism is that the government serves and is responsible to the people instead of the other way around.

[EvilCapitalist]

You can add me to that number. I follow President Trump on Free Republic, but I would never join Twitter.

[GOPJ]

I’m not on twitter - you can count me in that group. I suspect there’s a whole lot of us...

[editor-surveyor]

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Or more likely, sheer recognition of the massive threat to this nation posed by “politics as usual.”

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “ I suspect there’s a whole lot of us” <<

Yep, probably another 150 million or so.
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[GOPJ]

You’re right - maybe more...

[DoodleDawg]

The New York Times has 3.1 million subscribers and 40.3 million Twitter followers. That puts them pretty close to Trump.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks drewh.