Numb to Outrage, Republican Voters Feel a Deepening Bond to Trump

New York Times ^ | June 23, 2018 | Jeremy W. Peters

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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.

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We should start calling them Democratic-Socialists.

I cringe when I hear conservative pols and talkers referring to them as the Democratic party - there is absolutely NOTING Democratic about them. At best they are the DemocRAT party.

[Republican Wildcat]

What does the drive-by media expect to occur when the opposition is so disingenuous and insincere? You spark a massive firestorm of outrage against Trump using photos that turn out to have been taken long before he even announced for President, let alone took office, a photo saying it depicts a crying kid “ripped from the arms of her mother and carried away screaming” who was never ripped from the arms of her mother, never carried away screaming, was in fact picked by her mother and they have never been separated, and in fact, was separated from the rest of her family by her mother - in addition to the fact you weren’t upset about the same thing happening before Trump too office. Human suffering is only relevant if you can use it damage a political opponent - in fact not even human suffering, just the highlighting of the same - and also your ‘outrage’ was timed to be on top of an IG report so you could justify reducing coverage of it.

[Republican Wildcat]

I think the CBC coverage is even better than that one.

[Cheerio]

What does the drive-by media expect to occur when the opposition is so disingenuous and insincere?

Turn them off permanently like I did over 12 years ago. I get all my news (and I am a political news junkie) from talk radio, the internet (FR is the best, brietbart next), and some Fox but not so much there.