Posted on 02/02/2018 4:08:50 AM PST by SJackson
Reflections on the State of the Union.
Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was perfectly pitched for the political moment. He spoke to and for the American people – for all Americans of whatever race, color or creed. He spoke for the poorest and most vulnerable among us, who are the chief victims of the Democrats’ determination to welcome millions upon millions of illegal aliens, who are mainly low wage laborers and who include predatory criminals, to pour into our country; to defy federal law with their “sanctuary” states and cities, and to effectively declare our border and immigration policies null and void. Trump did not use the word “sedition” to describe the law-breaking and Constitution-negating actions of his Democratic predecessor or the Democrats assembled in the chamber of the House. He provided instead an opening to them to abandon their “resistance” – resistance to the expressed will of the American voting public which has led to a relentless sabotage of the democratic process. In sum, he offered a hand to his Democratic haters, and they slapped it away.
When Trump summarized the successes of his first year in office, he emphasized how the prosperity of his first twelve months impacted the lives and hopes of ordinary Americans, wage laborers and others whom the eight years of the Obama presidency had left behind. In doing so he exposed the Democrats in the most dramatic way imaginable. Under his policies, he boasted, black and Hispanic unemployment are record lows. As he said this and the Republican side of the house rose to its feet in applause the TV camera panned to the morose members of the Democrats’ Black Caucus, sitting on their hands and showing America that the last thing they care about is their black constituents. What they care about is their hatred for Trump, and about not disturbing the biggest lie of the political season: that the White House is the headquarters of a “white supremacy” movement intent on keeping black Americans down and making them suffer.
This was the Democrats’ reaction throughout the evening. When Trump made eloquent appeals on behalf of the men and women who serve this country in arms; when he praised his newly appointed Veterans Administration chief for firing VA officials who did not have the love for these American heroes that the American people do, the TV camera panned on Republicans rising to their feet and applauding and then to the Democrats reclining listlessly in their chairs and consulting their cell phones. What the images showed was that the Democrats’ hatred of Trump overwhelmed the most patriotic instinct – to care for the people who risk their lives to care for us.
. Images like this which continued throughout Trump’s speech tell you everything you need to know about the Democratic Party today. Its representatives rejected – to a man and woman – a tax reform that put money in the pockets of millions of Americans, and is bringing industries and dollars back to the United States. Democrats demanded and support a “sequester” plan that has hog tied America’s military in the face of greater threats than the country has ever faced. Democrats shut the door on Trump’s offer to amnesty 1.8 million illegals in exchange for border security, because keeping the borders open and hatred of Trump are more important to Democrats than the actual DACA “dreamers” whom they claim to care about.
And that’s the bottom line that Trump’s artfully sculpted speech exposed. The Democrats are running on hate – and it is pretty much all they are running on. Their hate has blinded them to the interests of constituencies that used to be theirs; it has blinded them to the interests of the country at large, particularly as pertain to security and jobs; and it has narrowed their base of support to maybe 30% of the electorate, ensuring that come November they will have nowhere to go.
“Young patriots like Preston teach all of us about our civic duty as Americans,” Trump continued. “Preston’s reverence for those who have served our nation reminds us why we salute our flag, why we put our hands on our hearts for the pledge of allegiance, and why we proudly stand for the national anthem.”
Then, put in a statement to the effect of, "Why would you vote for a candidate who acted like this when the above statement about respecting the flag, respecting our veterans, putting our hands over our hearts for the pledge of allegiance and STANDING FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM? Such a person is against all of the values for which you stand. They're traitors!
Hopefully it also forever ruins the careers of never-Trumpers such as McCain, Romney, Flake, Collins, Kristol, David Brooks...
Already done, imo.
Why do they hate him? They used to love him.
As for the rest, Romney is, unfortunately, going to be elected senator from Utah, Collins is a senator for as long as she wants the job, and the likes of Kristol and Brooks find ways to make money no matter what.
True justice is a tough thing to find in this world.
It's not really Trump they hate. He's just the latest most prominent symbol of what they actually hate, which is any one and any thing that conflicts with their Marxist-communist world view. If Trump and run and won as a Democrat, they would love him and all this Russia collusion crap would never have happened. That's the unvarnished, bottom-line truth.
Trump specifically pointed to The Law and our Traditions in his speech. He described the very chamber in its moral, legal context. He’s setting them up.
The democrats are in real danger of losing the independent vote and a nice chunk of the (legal) Hispanic vote.
The black vote however will be theirs as long as they offer free stuff.
Blacks suffer from tribalism and are serious about keeping themselves within the tribe. Just look at the segregation demands of blacks on college campuses. That is the future of blacks in our society. Segregated by their own demand.
Like prisoners too afraid of freedom to walk out the open prison door.
Some educated and successful blacks will switch but I don’t see a wholesale movement away from the democrat plantation.
I hope I am wrong, but I ain’t betting the farm on it.
Excellent point. They don’t so much hate Trump, as hate their loss of power he is bringing. They want unfettered power, and he’s taking away their means to keep it.
Democrats have hope... hope a terrorist attack or something happens economically so that they can look like messiahs again “we are all socialists now”, shaking hands with GOPe
Yeah...my ex-wife used to always watch that Trump TV show. I thought it was dumb. Once he became a candidate she started hating him...well which is it?
Why do they hate him? They used to love him.
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Once the money dries up so does the ‘loyalty’.
Remember way back when a young Congressman from SC led the charge and was a pain in WJCs neck...
Yes, Lindsay Graham has come a long way DOWN!!!!!!!!!!
Remember the Clinton BS was getting so bad that HIS own people were dropping new ‘sins’ against him and it got so bad the ‘Get Clinton Crowd’ were turning to ‘Oh, leave the poor guy alone’...
I was all for ‘getting Clinton’ but did admit that it was getting tiresome with all the unneeded ‘piling on’.
This ‘memo’ BS has about run its course and if not released soon AND contain all the supposed ‘hand wringing’ OUR Representatives said was there, it will be another HUGE lose for PDT etal.
Now, everytime I hear the word ‘memo and release’, I get reminded of a smarmy Geraldo Rivera ‘teasing’ us with an empty vault supposedly containing Al Capone memorabilia.
Rivera was able to survive and go on to ‘importance’, much like Al Sharpton survived the Tawana Brawley hoax.
Hard to believe that both stories are ‘only’ about 30 years old......and Clinton IMPEACHMENT ‘only’ 20.
All 3 seem to have taken place a LONG LONG time ago...
The Demonicrats still have the flatliners' votes.
“The Demonicrats still have the flatliners’ votes.”
True.
The one demographic they will never alienate.
bttt
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I sure wished during the SOTU Trump pointed out the rats sitting on their hands didn’t do so when they came to him for campaign money which he gave to quite a few of them in the past.
I never watched his show. I don’t have much interest in reality shows.
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