Posted on 07/07/2018 7:37:52 AM PDT by Hojczyk
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Barack Obama got elected twice but he was an ungodly disaster for the Democratic party. They lost the supermajority, they lost the Senate, they lost the House, they lost 1,000 local state and local offices, they're going to lose the Supreme Court. And they can't come to grips with the fact that they control popular cultural -- sports, universities, the media -- but that turns into this type of street theater you referenced. It doesn't transfer into actual political power and they're very frustrated.
The Never Trumpers told us that Trump would be a moderate or a liberal. He wasn't. The Heritage Foundation said he was more conservative in his first 2 years than Ronald Reagan. The left said he was going to implode or that the Mueller investigation, or impeachment, or the emoluments clause, or they were going to sue under the 25th Amendment. None of that happened. So Trump is almost 50% approval rating.
And the final thing is there's no alternative agenda. We don't know what your speaker, your guest, what do they feel about taxes? Do they want more government? More regulation? Less? Is the Iran deal good or bad? We don't hear any of that. Instead, they fixate on somebody like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, kind of an obscure 28-year-old who won an election with 20% turnout and suddenly that's a metaphor for a brave new world. So it's a frustration that they don't translate their cultural influence into raw political power.
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POTUS Trump will not be here forever. We need to build our MAGA base and groom the next generation of MAGA or the Trump Era will be just a hiccup for the left’s quest to destroy America.
Reagan was great, but not perfect (amnesty) but even he was a hiccup, he sure as heck reversed the suck of LBJ and Carter, but 28 years later we had to Suffer 8 years of Obama.
Perhaps the greatest thing Trump is doing is destroying identity politics.
We have been fearful to speak the truth lest we be branded by the left for to long.
I have been called a racist all my life because I was born white.
I never witnessed racism till I went to Mexico.
PDJT is fearless, and I applaud him.
AMLO is going to be a hoot!
Let’s get it all out...
Trudeau was a hoot the other day criticizing Trump on immigration policy even as his Gov denied citizenship to two of a Canadians citizens children simply because they were born while he was abroad..
Let’s get it all out in the open..
And I am sorry Pierre, our trade is not balanced.
Why am I buying wood from you guys and American branded trucks, Why are we building American Tanks and LAV’s in Toronto instead of Youngstown Ohio?
You too AMLO.
Stand by EU, get used to it Asia..
President Trump as the bodhisattva, interesting. Are you going to spread that around on the usual socialist hangouts?
Are Chevrolet Tx edition pickup trucks made in Mexico? Canada? or America?
BING can’t give me an answer.
I've been a Trump supporter since Herman Cain was marginalized.
They've already attacked, but what do I care? The closer we get to TRUTH, the more people will scream in horror--and try to destroy us.
It's gratifying to know that some one else comprehends. Thanks for letting me know.
The real "Holy Rollers"--the ones for whose madness we really need flame-proof suits--are the pseudo-enlightened guru-types of the Left, who don't even know how deeply they have been absorbed into the maya and its groupthink. It's their horror at truth's threat to their cherished delusions that we have cause to fear, if indeed we should fear anything of this world.
Some of these sh*t slingers here on FR are just as obnoxious as the ones on DU.
WHAT!? I don't think you understand correctly. The tariff was to force us back to more fossil fuels to stop the evil dependence on foreign suppliers and rebuild places like Houston and Appalachia that have been turned into ghost towns for two or three decades.
You don’t have to look up a damn thing. Cruz or Walker were both better candidates than Trump and I said so at the time.
I find it interesting that some of you are more concerned with fighting past battles than the future. I’ll work with someone I agree with 90% of the time to further the agenda. It is counter-productive to be digging up these old fights when the real enemy is the ones we disagree with 90% of the time.
If the United Auto Workers build them I don’t want them.
I don't know. It has occurred to me to do that, but I don't know if I can stand the heat.
Should I?
Hansen’s recall of what NeverTrumpers insisted about Trump should be pretty good, seeing as to how Hansen was a NeverTrumper. AFAIK, he’s never written a mea culpa since seeing the light.
I think it would be even cooler if you used that hashtag #WalkAway, as if you became "woke" in an epiphany. LOL
The only way that would happen is with another outsider. Just like Trump.
Actually, it was an epiphany. I have been having many lately. Circumstances of my life have change a bit, and the occurrence of epiphanies—and other wonderful things—seems to have accelerated.
The fact that he’s one of us now is good enough for me... We never asked Ted Cruz supporters to apologize... right?
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