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How the unhinged left is helping Donald Trump
The Sumter Item ^ | June 27, 2018 | Bernard Goldberg

Posted on 06/28/2018 9:57:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

If progressives hate Donald Trump so much, why are they trying so hard to get him re-elected?

They may believe, with justification, that Donald Trump is vulgar and mean-spirited. They may think he acts more like a bully in middle school than a president. They may be convinced, based on the evidence before them, that he's impulsive and dishonest.

But he's not a Nazi, no matter how many times they say he is. And he's not Adolf Hitler, despite what their fevered imagination keeps telling them.

Now we have not some anonymous leftist at a street rally but a former head of the CIA taking to Twitter to tell us that, "Other governments have separated mothers and children," referring to the president's border policy (at the time). And just in case you didn't get the connection to the Nazis, Michael Hayden - who led the CIA under the presidency of George W. Bush - attached a picture of railroad tracks leading into the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

Then, when he got hammered for his shameful comparison, he issued the standard non-apology apology: "If I [went too far] by comparing it to Birkenau, I apologize to anyone who may have felt offended."

And if we needed any proof that there is such a thing as Trump Derangement Syndrome just tune in to "Morning Joe" on MSNBC any day of the week. Here's what Joe Scarborough had to say about the separation of children from their parents on the border: "Children are being marched away to showers just like the Nazis said that they were taking people to the showers, and then they never came back."

The hard left apparently learned nothing from Hillary Clinton's defeat. She lost for many reasons, but one of them was her description of Trump supporters as "deplorables." Voters don't like it when elitists call them names.

Yet, we have "Morning Joe" regular Donny Deutsch, an ad executive and Scarborough sycophant, saying it's not only Donald Trump who progressives should hold accountable, it's everybody who supports him.

"This can no longer be about who Trump is, it has to be about who we are," Deutsch said about the next elections. "We can no longer say Trump's the bad guy. If you vote for Trump, you're the bad guy."

Then, the inevitable comparison to Hitler and the Nazis.

"If you vote for Trump, then you, the voter, you, not Donald Trump, are standing at the border, like Nazis," Deutsch said. "If you vote, you can no longer separate yourself" from the "evilness of Donald Trump."

A mind is terrible thing to waste, but that's what's happening to those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. They have lost touch with reality.

So let's take a trip to the past, to get re-acquainted with historical reality. Our guide is Jay Winik, an historian and author who penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal under the headline, "Trump's Critics Desecrate the Holocaust."

"Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe were rounded up and packed into cattle cars, with little air or light, no food and virtually no water, for a harrowing two- to three-day trip to Auschwitz. They rode in terror and anticipation, having no idea what was in store for them at the destination. Exhausted and scared, they frequently had to stand for the entire trip. Mothers clutched sons; daughters held on to fathers; children gripped both parents' hands; grandparents and the infirm struggled to stay alive. Many didn't survive the journey."

I wonder if Michael Hayden, Joe Scarborough or Donny Deutsch thought about any of that when they made their Nazi comparisons. I wonder if they considered any of what else Mr. Winick wrote.

"When the trains arrived at Auschwitz, it was a scene of chaos, confusion and horror. After days trapped in darkened cattle cars, squinting into bright floodlights lining the tracks was almost unbearable. So was the stench, like nothing the captives had ever smelled before. They didn't know it at the time, but it was the odor of burning human flesh and hair."

Question for Joe Scarborough: Does that sound like what's happening on the border between the U.S. and Mexico?

Does this?

"Outside they heard all kinds of noises: German shepherds and Doberman pinschers barking loudly, and commands in German most of them couldn't understand. When they stumbled out of the cattle cars, disoriented and anxious, timidly asking questions, the Germans shouted back, 'Raus, raus raus!' ('Out, out, out!') In the distance, the prisoners saw a skyline of chimneys, with bright orange plumes of flame shooting into the clouds. They didn't know that most of them would be ash within hours."

I found it painful to read those words. I wonder if Joe Scarborough and the others would find it painful too, or if their hatred of this president is so intense that it allows them to make Nazi comparisons with no sense of shame.

Contempt for Donald Trump may make the unhinged left feel good, but it might wind up helping him in 2020 - and his fellow Republicans in November.

The president's press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was recently asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia because, the owner said, her restaurant "has certain standards that I feel it has to uphold, such as honesty and compassion, and cooperation."

Trump supporters won't forget what happened at that restaurant. Neither, I suspect, will independents, even if they're not big fans of the president.

And they won't forget what Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the progressive Democrat from California, said about that incident at the restaurant.

At a rally in Los Angeles she said that, "If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you cause a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome - anymore, anywhere."

You don't have to like Donald Trump to be disgusted with his most hateful, condescending critics. Maxine Waters, Joe Scarborough and the others suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome are so far gone they can't see what's happening: They're not hurting the president they hate - but they just might be paving the way for his re-election.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: donnydeutsch; joescarborough; michaelhayden; trump; usefulidiots
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To: Slyfox

Great points...never thought of it that way, but their own collective arrogance was their downfall! Thus demonstrating why collectivism always fails. Ultimately I think this is the true reason their heads are exploding. They know in the back of their addled brains that they helped Trump win! LOLOLOL!


61 posted on 06/29/2018 6:06:42 AM PDT by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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To: SMARTY

Of course...but by focusing on and laughing at Trump in their own arrogance they effectively promoted him.


62 posted on 06/29/2018 6:08:11 AM PDT by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

AN historian?


63 posted on 06/29/2018 6:08:50 AM PDT by abclily
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Being a liberal is a form of being cool. Most of them are ignorant dolts that hang together as a force for the security of being part of the cool scene. The con artist crooked socialist politicians bolster their power and wealth by spewing foul rhetoric to the morons who think they are cool. Fortunately the foul rhetoric is backfiring due to the honesty of Trump.


64 posted on 06/29/2018 6:16:50 AM PDT by jetson
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To: Impala64ssa

The Babys/John Waite had quite a few catchy pop tunes.

“Isn’t It Time” was a well crafted pop song...and one of my personal favorites of their/his catalog.

“Isn’t It Time”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-c8X52Qg4o

“Every Time I Think Of You” - LIVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jqruhCiwd0
(Melanie Chartoff, back-up singer on tamborine, went on to be featured on “Friday Night”, an ABC version of SNL and later on an episode of Seinfeld as George’s girlfriend)

“Change”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvyxnrCHrDs


65 posted on 06/29/2018 6:17:33 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

attention whores need an issue and dont actually care about the outcomes of their whineyness

‘unhinged’ transitioning into criminal acts - makes for a short life


66 posted on 06/29/2018 7:30:36 AM PDT by elbook
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

attention whores need an issue and dont actually care about the outcomes of their whineyness

‘unhinged’ transitioning into criminal acts - makes for a short life


67 posted on 06/29/2018 7:30:36 AM PDT by elbook
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To: Eddie01

I agree that Trump can sometimes be vulgar, but only when he has been attacked unfairly. As to mean-spirited, I don’t see it.

I need to clarify something. Only during the campaign did he say a few vulgar things. I would describe his vocabulary as sometimes crude, more like that talk of men who are blue-collar workers. Trump’s experience in business was mostly with blue-collar types. That is why his language skills are so direct and unfiltered. He is not a society-type speaker who cites platitudes.

Why do so many people like Trump? They find him to be direct and refreshing from all the political maneuvering that we are usually have from professional pols.


68 posted on 06/29/2018 7:50:12 AM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: newfreep

Friday’s had some funny moments. Melanie Chertoff, she also does cartoon voiceovers. She did the voice of one of the characters on Rug Rats, my daughter loved that show when she was a kid.


69 posted on 06/29/2018 7:52:47 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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To: Secret Agent Man
"Switch Trump to Obama or Hillary. Read it that way."

But the fact is that no such thing(s) happened to either Obama or Hillary or their close associates.

70 posted on 06/29/2018 8:07:47 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: JGPhila

AS for the libs the answers are yes and ys, of course, because the words have no content, no definitions. They are emotional words only. When your vocabulary is such you use words for their emotional content and you must continue to escalate because you feel strongly about everything from the most obscure and trivial to the most relevant and serious. And there is no grey; one is either in the Party or one is a deadly enemy. The general term of “NAZI” for everything is because the left has run out verbal escalation to its end. Racist and NAZI are the two ultimate terms for The Enemy with NAZI edging out Racist. They have no words left, now and the two Death Rays have become pen lights from ubiquitous usage. Even gigawatt lasers wear out.


71 posted on 06/29/2018 8:09:27 AM PDT by arthurus (era)
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To: Impala64ssa

Melanie Chartoff ALWAYS caught my eye on Fridays.

IIRC, Friday’s also had a young comedic actor by the name of Michael Richards.


72 posted on 06/29/2018 8:17:45 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: Paladin2

Indeed. It seems the talents of a highly successful real estate operator are precisely what the nation needed People say it proves we needed a businessman. No. Romney is a successful businessman. We need a particular type of businessman.Men in Trump’s line tend to be pretty sleazy but those get rich but not nearly so rich as DJT. Chicanery gets a smart one so far but there is a limit and that is when there are too many paid off pols and gangsters and somebody else gets arrested and rats them out.


73 posted on 06/29/2018 8:21:06 AM PDT by ThanhPhero (u)
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To: newfreep

Was Richards the one who played the stoned out pharmacist? “Just take a pill!”


74 posted on 06/29/2018 8:26:06 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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To: Impala64ssa

He could have...my memory chip fails on certain details of the show.


75 posted on 06/29/2018 8:29:10 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“they’re not welcome, anywhere..”

Think about what mad Maxine said here. She’s saying Trump supporters should be put to death! Now who is the Nazi again?


76 posted on 06/29/2018 8:29:54 AM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: poconopundit; JennysCool; Jane Long; DoughtyOne; V K Lee; Liz; HarleyLady27

I wanted Trump because he was NOT an attorney, AND a successful businessman, altho they tried too play up his failures....anyone in business who does not have SOME failures hasn’t tried hard enough.


77 posted on 06/29/2018 8:33:21 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: Impala64ssa

A quick search found this Fridays skit with Larry David, Michael Richards and Melanie Chartoff....they all look so young.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnn-YRyG1NA


78 posted on 06/29/2018 8:33:58 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: goodnesswins

Yes, you’re right. When you look at all his holdings, four bankruptcies in 40 years is a very small number. Those were corporate entities also. They weren’t actually his personal bankruptcies.

There is also the possibility that some of them involved restructuring too. They may not have though.

As for failures, sometimes things look look a good idea. Then they fall flat. It happens.

What’s the rate of new business failures? It’s pretty drastic I think, something like 90%.


79 posted on 06/29/2018 8:47:15 AM 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: newfreep
It was Mark Blankenship Drugs R Us . Also, remember Nat E Dred The Rasta Gourmet Deliciously unPC.☺
80 posted on 06/29/2018 9:07:45 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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