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Democrats Just Can’t Win The ‘Respect’ of Donald Trump voters
Washington Post ^ | May 15 at 1:40 PM | Paul Waldman

Posted on 05/15/2018 12:51:02 PM PDT by ethom

In the endless search for the magic key that Democrats can use to unlock the hearts of white people who vote Republican, the hot new candidate is “respect.” If only they cast off their snooty liberal elitism and show respect to people who voted for Donald Trump, Democrats can win them over and take back Congress and the White House.

The assumption is that if Democrats simply choose to deploy this powerful tool of respect, then minds will be changed and votes will follow.

As a voter says in “The Great Revolt,” a new book by conservative journalist Salena Zito and Republican operative Brad Todd, “One of the things I really don’t get about the Democratic Party or the news media is the lack of respect they give to people who work hard all of their lives to get themselves out of the hole.”

“I despise Barack Obama. I think primarily because I don’t think he thinks very much of people like me,” one Republican told The Post’s Dan Balz. “One of the places I would agree with the hard-core Trump people, they’re tired of being treated as the enemy by Barack Obama,” he went on. “His comment, the whole thing, it’s been worn out to death, that clinging to God and guns, God and guns and afraid of people who don’t look like them, blah, blah, blah. Just quit talking down to me.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; earnednotwon; election2018; election2020; elitist; elitists; mediabias; respect; rulingclass; trumpists
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To: DJ Taylor

“And we did it with ballots, not bullets.”

This time anyway.

L


41 posted on 05/15/2018 1:37:19 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: The Toll

no more calls please, we have a winner! lmao


42 posted on 05/15/2018 1:37:48 PM PDT by ethom
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To: ethom

Gotta earn it.

They have been for too long used to winning things like taking away my rights and taxing the hell out of me and choking business and America to death with regulations (pen and phone?) via government.

That shit is over. They will win nothing from me. They will have to earn everything and I don’t much mind saying I am certain that will not happen. They simply hate our Constitution too much as it gets in their way of “winning” stuff from me.

They can piss right off.

/rant off


43 posted on 05/15/2018 1:44:41 PM PDT by afterhoursarmory
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To: ethom

The thought of still being seen as a “Deplorable” at Rat Party Headquarters has me on the brink of psychiatric collapse.


44 posted on 05/15/2018 1:46:36 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: jmaroneps37

The author of that piece is neither naive nor delusional. He is a bald-faced liar. Plain and simple. We must stop letting them off the hook by thinking they are mental cases. They are quite clear minded in their goals and their hate.


45 posted on 05/15/2018 1:49:29 PM PDT by Avalon Memories ( Proud Deplorable. Proud born-in-the-USA American Dreamer.)
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To: ethom

They want my respect and my vote, work for my preferred policies.


46 posted on 05/15/2018 1:50:40 PM PDT by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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To: lurk
Look at the comments from after the article.

Yikes!

Liberals really are hate-filled towards normal Americans.

It's difficult to find one liberal who *doesn't* consider us deplorable.

47 posted on 05/15/2018 1:51:20 PM PDT by boop ("I said give me the brandy!")
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To: MeganC

The liberal will NEVER coexist with the TRUE Conservative. Nevertrumptards are just as bad.


48 posted on 05/15/2018 1:52:55 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Dr. Sivana
The lefties NEVER apologize for those wackadoodle professors or overzealous school officials who suspend a kid who eats his Pop Tart into a shape that looks like a gun.

You make an excellent point. Allow me to demonstrate: I don't see or hear a single left-tard apologizing for the stupid diarrhea that exits Maxine Waters mouth every day.

Case closed!!

49 posted on 05/15/2018 1:54:21 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: boop

How do you get past the WaPo paywall?


50 posted on 05/15/2018 1:56:27 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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Read the comments. They are filled with bile and seething hatred. They accuse conservatives of being hateful. I dare any one of them to go on facebook and make an innocuous positive comment about something inconsequential about trump. Then they will see what hate is.


51 posted on 05/15/2018 1:58:49 PM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: jmaroneps37
NO, he's just lying. For one, he says it's not policies. Hell, yeah, it is. Secondly, he claims that Obama’s and Hillary's extremely obnoxious and disrespectful comments were taken out of context. There is no context in which they could be “respectful”

He thinks condescension is "showing respect", or claims to. No. He's just lying, and that's not respectful.

52 posted on 05/15/2018 1:59:39 PM PDT by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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To: ethom

You need respect, get a dog.

You want validation, ask the valet...


53 posted on 05/15/2018 2:01:23 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: ethom

Why is it that I could only get half way through that article before my stomach started to churn?

Respect?? That would only mean something if they would just learn to get off my lawn!!!

Things like threatening MY personal ownership of MY guns, is ‘on MY lawn’.

I think “Get off my lawn!” should be our cry, it means a lot of things to me.


54 posted on 05/15/2018 2:04:48 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.;)
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To: ethom

I don’t want the respect of those despicable swine.


55 posted on 05/15/2018 2:05:20 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: dsrtsage
Read the comments.

Out of curiosity I just did that. Wow. Talk about shooting the entire premise of the article out of the water! That's pure, unadulterated hatred you see there - I wonder if the author has read them?

56 posted on 05/15/2018 2:07:54 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: ethom

Why do political philosophies want respect from the other guys? That seems superfluous.


57 posted on 05/15/2018 2:08:35 PM PDT by lurk
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To: ethom

Respect is earned.

Name 1 thing Dems have done in the last 10 years that is worthy of even a nod at respect?


58 posted on 05/15/2018 2:12:28 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: ethom

r e s p e c t

That’s a hoot. The Leftists who show nobody respect, even their own, now want respect?

OMG those folks are running on empty.


59 posted on 05/15/2018 2:19:33 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: MeganC

Ditto.


60 posted on 05/15/2018 2:23:49 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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