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Numb to Outrage, Republican Voters Feel a Deepening Bond to Trump
New York Times ^ | June 23, 2018 | Jeremy W. Peters

Posted on 06/23/2018 11:08:44 AM PDT by Cheerio

LEESBURG, Va. — Gina Anders knows the feeling well by now. President Trump says or does something that triggers a spasm of outrage. She doesn’t necessarily agree with how he handled the situation. She gets why people are upset.

But Ms. Anders, 46, a Republican from suburban Loudoun County, Va., with a law degree, a business career, and not a stitch of “Make America Great Again” gear in her wardrobe, is moved to defend him anyway.

“All nuance and all complexity — and these are complex issues — are completely lost,” she said, describing “overblown” reactions from the president’s critics, some of whom equated the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children and parents to history’s greatest atrocities.

“It makes me angry at them, which causes me to want to defend him to them more,” Ms. Anders said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: deplorables; loudouncounty; media; trump; virginia; womensvote
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To: Cheerio

This article is so wrong…We are in no way numb to outrage…we see it, feel it, hear it, and we have come to relish it as a valuable tool to help keep us on the correct moral path.

The outrage of leftists tells us that we are on the right, appropriate, and correct side of the issue.


41 posted on 06/23/2018 12:36:16 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Cheerio

Numb to manufactured hysterics from the Political/Media class, Trump voters realize he is the ONLY grown up in DC these days.


42 posted on 06/23/2018 12:36:42 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Cheerio
IMHO the outrage will cause a huge RED WAVE in Nov 2018

Yep. The left doesn't seem to understand that all their phony outrage is backfiring on them.

The unhinged lunacy, the vicious personal attacks, the weaponizing of the press, entertainment, and academia, the threats against the First Family, the childish antics of congressional Democrats - all of it - is only turning voters away from their party, and is hardening the resolve of Normals on the right.

43 posted on 06/23/2018 12:53:36 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Cheerio

The dems are firing up a smaller and smaller base with everyone of there phony attacks. The Trump base on the other hand is white hot and ready to roll. Keep stoking the flames of our base dems. Ha! I think the black dem vote will be way down. They will have to cheat like crazy to offset that loss.


44 posted on 06/23/2018 1:06:25 PM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: Cheerio

Trump seems to have a knack for sacrificing some pawns in order to set up the board in a way that plays to his advantage. By periodically getting the left unhinged, he both solidifies his own base and cleaves the hard left off from what’s left of the center. The best you can really hope for in the current political climate is for universal enthusiastic support from your base and a center that’s alienated from the other side.


45 posted on 06/23/2018 1:12:22 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: Cheerio

Gee, unleashing the Red Guards/Khmer Rouge shock troops alienates normals? Who knew?


46 posted on 06/23/2018 1:14:58 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: rlmorel

Honestly, I didn’t think I’d like Trump this much. After a lifetime of GOP disappointment, I thought he’d have pussed out long ago.


47 posted on 06/23/2018 1:17:28 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Cheerio

This doesn’t describe me at all.

When I run into friends or family that ask anything about politics, knowing that is a big interest of mine, I happily gush about the great job President Trump is doing clearing away the wreckage of a decade. I tell them I was happy to vote for him but really find it invigorating about what a superior job he is doing and how he has exceeded my expectations and why I am so looking forward to the next six and a half years of his two terms.


48 posted on 06/23/2018 1:20:11 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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49 posted on 06/23/2018 1:20:48 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Election night should be interesting this year. I wonder how “they” have beefed up their cheating in preparation.

DH and I watched (again!) the re-run of The Young Turks show from Election Night. It never gets old. When we do that, I stick a postcard in the mail to them and thank them for their entertainment. They sure know how to cheer up a girl!


50 posted on 06/23/2018 1:24:14 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: laconic

Yeah and Bush said he felt like a brother to Bill Clinton. The Uniparty.


51 posted on 06/23/2018 1:26:41 PM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: MuttTheHoople
I share your optimism. I don't see 65 House seat pickups (more likely around 20) but 10+ Senate seats is a real possibility due to many vulnerable Democrat seats in states that Trump won.

Reason I tamp down the House seats is because of Paul Ryan. He is just not going to inspire a big turnout. Best thing would be for him to step down as House speaker and put a real Trump supporter in the speaker position. That would really help to drive the GOP vote at the House level.

52 posted on 06/23/2018 1:34:09 PM PDT by SamAdams76 ( Have you eaten your bone marrow today?)
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To: MayflowerMadam

The Young Turks show from Election Night 2016 is pure gold. I must have watched that a dozen times since. It just makes me feel so good to see the meltdown. From overconfident smugness to insane hysteria in 30 minutes!


53 posted on 06/23/2018 1:36:37 PM PDT by SamAdams76 ( Have you eaten your bone marrow today?)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

It is what nearly every Republican has done up until now...who could blame you for feeling that way?


54 posted on 06/23/2018 1:43:37 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Cheerio

I guess the reporters and editors had a blast taking this article out back and setting fire to it.

Or...they were all drunk.


55 posted on 06/23/2018 1:45:51 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Cheerio
Numb to Outrage...

Not numb...just biding my time.

56 posted on 06/23/2018 2:18:43 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: MuttTheHoople
I say the GOP picks up 65 House and 12 senate seats.
AND if they are more moderate RINOs that will be absolutely worth nothing other than maintaining the leadership, which is important. But they will continue to obstruct Trump along with the Ovomit packed Judiciary.
57 posted on 06/23/2018 3:23:10 PM PDT by Cheerio
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To: Cheerio
I believe Lexington VA (home of Dead Hen) will be Trump town, too. 😀
58 posted on 06/23/2018 5:52:38 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Cheerio

Not just Republicans....


59 posted on 06/23/2018 5:54:07 PM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Cheerio

We should start calling them Democratic-Socialists.

The Dem party of Harry Truman and Hubert Humphrey is long gone. What we have now is Communist Lite.


60 posted on 06/23/2018 9:20:20 PM PDT by DNME (The only solution to a BAD guy with a gun is a GOOD guy with a gun. Period.)
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