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How to Lose the Midterms and Re-elect Trump
The New York Times ^ | June 13, 2018 | Frank Bruni

Posted on 06/13/2018 4:06:35 PM PDT by Trump20162020

Dear Robert De Niro, Samantha Bee and other Trump haters:

I get that you’re angry. I’m angry, too. But anger isn’t a strategy. Sometimes it’s a trap. When you find yourself spewing four-letter words, you’ve fallen into it. You’ve chosen cheap theatrics over the long game, catharsis over cunning. You think you’re raising your fist when you’re really raising a white flag.

You’re right that Donald Trump is a dangerous and deeply offensive man, and that restraining and containing him are urgent business. You’re wrong about how to go about doing that, or at least you’re letting your emotions get the better of you.

When you answer name-calling with name-calling and tantrums with tantrums, you’re not resisting him. You’re mirroring him. You’re not diminishing him. You’re demeaning yourselves. Many voters don’t hear your arguments or the facts, which are on your side. They just wince at the din.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018; 2018midterms; donaldtrump; midterm; midterms; robertdeniro; samanthabee; trump
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1 posted on 06/13/2018 4:06:35 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Hope they ignore this advice.

I don’t think libs can help themselves. They’re in an echo chamber.


2 posted on 06/13/2018 4:08:16 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Trump20162020

If the leading voices for your cause are Robert De Niro and Samantha Bee, then your cause (whatever the hell it is) is lost.


3 posted on 06/13/2018 4:10:02 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: Trump20162020

He thinks the arguments and facts are on the side of the Democrats?!^$?(%#?


4 posted on 06/13/2018 4:10:24 PM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: Trump20162020

Hey Frank, the alcoholic, drug-addled, STD-ridden degenerates known as our “celebrities” don’t give two figs about Trump, the U.S. government or any politician. They are just out for higher ratings (they hope), publicity and acclaim for their “bravery” from like-minded dimwits.


5 posted on 06/13/2018 4:12:24 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Trump20162020

Hey Frankie....you leftists friends ONLY KNOW 4 LETTER WORDS!! DEAL WITH IT!! LOW CLASS....it’s what they ARE!


6 posted on 06/13/2018 4:14:03 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Gumdrop

Just another level of delusion.


7 posted on 06/13/2018 4:15:57 PM PDT by eclectic (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: Trump20162020

They can’t help themselves.
They are all in for illegal aliens.
(the GOP is too but they have to be cagier)


8 posted on 06/13/2018 4:17:08 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Trump20162020

Bruni doesnt know what he is talking about. Go ahead, Libs, your doing great. You have Trump on the run. Time to double down.


9 posted on 06/13/2018 4:23:03 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: Trump20162020

Trump *is* dangerous, to the goals of the left who cannot abide that high standards of living are available to everyone in a free society. For those who have been working for decades to increase poverty so that they can look down on the poor and tell themselves they care because they toss out crumbs to show their generosity, Trump is undoing everything they worked for.


10 posted on 06/13/2018 4:27:11 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Trump20162020
Slowly the left is beginning to see that when Hillary started talking about deplorables, white racists, women who vote how their husbands tell them, and people who don't vote their gender that those people being insulted voted for Trump.

It is interesting how some of the Democrats are trying to sound Republican in order to get elected.

11 posted on 06/13/2018 4:29:41 PM PDT by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: exDemMom

I was going to comment but your post nails it.


12 posted on 06/13/2018 4:32:25 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: Trump20162020

2016 election cycle; So much salt cannot be good for a person.
Best election ever !!!


13 posted on 06/13/2018 4:34:55 PM PDT by glasseye ("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
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To: Trump20162020; hoosiermama; NFHale; sheik yerbouty; vette6387; SkyPilot; Kaslin; Jane Long; bitt; ..

Just more proof that Liberalism is a mental disorder and all Liberals have that disorder.


14 posted on 06/13/2018 4:37:00 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Trump20162020
Hey, the Left is truly scraping the bottom of the barrel on this.

When all they've got is some B-list celebrities saying, "f*ck the other guy", they've hit bottom.

Even Hillary's campaign was largely a campaign against Trump, not a message for her. Do they really want to double-down on that epic failure?

Apparently so. I just read in Politico that "the Democratic National Committee and members of Congress are turning to Hollywood for help with voter turnout and messaging ahead of the midterm elections and 2020 presidential campaign, quietly consulting with a group of actors, writers and producers here."

When they're digging themselves into a deep hole, let 'em keep digging.

15 posted on 06/13/2018 4:37:43 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Trump20162020

Sounds like the NYT is getting nervous. I guess the big blue wave does not sound to big now.


16 posted on 06/13/2018 4:39:35 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: TigerClaws; All

The Stupid Party keeps coaching the dems on how they should behave too in order for dems to win. Why? Quietly let Nancy and Chuckie continue making stupid remarks undermining themselves. Newt, Fox, and Hannity need to STFU.


17 posted on 06/13/2018 4:45:57 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Democrats: Herd mentality exhibiting melodramatic hysterics.)
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To: TigerClaws

“They’re in an echo chamber.”

Without the zeal of the race baiters and hyper-progressive left, they don’t stand a chance for as far as the eye can see.

I hope Dims follow this advice, and alienate their most committed voters.


18 posted on 06/13/2018 4:47:13 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Trump20162020
You’re right that Donald Trump is a dangerous and deeply offensive man...

This guy is doing the same thing. He is name calling too. Just not using 4 letter words.

19 posted on 06/13/2018 4:50:41 PM PDT by BRL
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To: Cobra64

Newt....tip toed thru the tulips w/ Mme. Bobblehead

Hannity...the self promoter too proud to personalize his book signing

Fox...for every 2 patriots there’s a cuck like Cavuto Peters or Shemp (apologies to the greatest Stooge, Shemp )


20 posted on 06/13/2018 4:53:14 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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