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Trump’s base will never turn on him
The Post and Courier ^ | August 4, 2018 | Gary Abernathy

Posted on 08/04/2018 3:41:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: lucky american

The President is us.


21 posted on 08/04/2018 4:09:08 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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WTF do IDIOTS keep saying TRUMP has historically low approval ratings?

Rasmussen has him at 50%, others have him around 45%

WTF is that low? It is better than Obama's with 100% of the slobbering media while TRUMP gets 90% of the news media reporting bad news on him!!!

22 posted on 08/04/2018 4:09:39 PM PDT by KavMan
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To: laconic; All

No, you’re wrong; its not that the Party hierarchy has misunderstood its base, but that they have actively despised the base.


You have nailed it. The people in power in the Republican party have been just Progressive-lite. They gave lib service to the Constitution, knowing they would never be held to uphold it.

The reason for this was simple. If you did not do this, you were destroyed by the Media. (there were a few execeptions that were ineffectual).

President Trump has shown that alternate media has developed to the point elected representatives do not have to cower in fear of the Media.

It is a revolution in power in the United States. That is why the Media is going bat-sh*t crazy.

They expect to pick the politicians that succeed, pick those they destroy with scandals, control the narratives, choose the issues of the day.

They no longer can do those things with any reliability.


23 posted on 08/04/2018 4:09:49 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: lucky american; 2ndDivisionVet

“Why is this drivel posted here?”

Hey lucky, are you sure you’re on the right forum?


24 posted on 08/04/2018 4:10:20 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Trump critics may have hoped, reasonably, that Trump’s approval ratings — already historically low compared with other presidents — would take a nose-dive."

At this point in his term President Trump's approval ratings are higher than other recent presidents and this is based on polls that are typically biased against him by various means.

25 posted on 08/04/2018 4:10:55 PM PDT by fireman15
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To: lucky american

Outside of one or two points at the start, it’s a pretty good article actually, especially coming from the MSM.


26 posted on 08/04/2018 4:11:17 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: lucky american

Why is this drivel posted here? We know how much the other side hates us.

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If you had read the piece you wouldn’t have said that.


27 posted on 08/04/2018 4:12:20 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The only issue that could drive a wedge between Trump and his base is the wall. If he fails to build the wall, people will start to walk away from him.


28 posted on 08/04/2018 4:17:48 PM PDT by KyCats
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obviously written by an 11 year old school child. But, why post it here. It belongs on CNN, MSNBC or WaPo.


29 posted on 08/04/2018 4:20:04 PM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: Capt. Tom

When did you change? The Democratic party shifted by ‘72 with the selection of McGovern. Portions of it were exposing there in 64 and 68.


30 posted on 08/04/2018 4:24:26 PM PDT by joesbucks
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Outstanding post!!!

Keep it up!


31 posted on 08/04/2018 4:28:06 PM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This Republican party core has been a core waiting for a party. When a total outsider who has never held a public office, a billionaire New York real estate developer, can walk in, grab the standard, and march toward the foe, the core will follow him and if the "leaders" aren't damn quick about it they'll be struggling to catch up with their own "followers". They've been struggling to do so since the Republican primaries and if anyone in the world is more shell-shocked at Trump's victory than the Dems, it's the Republican party elite who still, nearly two years later, haven't a clue what really happened on 8 November 2016. Unlike the Dems at least they have the opportunity to get with the program although to all appearances they're too stupid to be allowed in the streets without a minder, and I mean literally. Where might we be now without the likes of Ryan and the other well-connected digging their heels in halfway to China?

The truth is that the Republican party elite have failed utterly and still don't get it. So, for that matter, have the Democrat party elite, and neither do they. This is the all-conquering Uniparty, scared to death and wondering what's going to hit them next. They had it all, you see. And that light at the end of their tunnel really did turn out to be an oncoming train.

32 posted on 08/04/2018 4:33:21 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: fireman15
Obama’s Approve, Disapprove, No opinion from Gallup from the first week of his second July in 2010 to end of October 2010.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/116479/barack-obama-presidential-job-approval.aspx

Obama’s was pretty much stuck at around 45% approval, with his disapproval higher than his approval. Going by Rasmussen (albeit a different polling organization), Trump is doing a little bit better than Obama at this stage of his presidency, even with Obama getting 90% favorable coverage by the media and Trump getting 90 unfavorable coverage by the media.

33 posted on 08/04/2018 4:44:02 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: joesbucks
When did you change? The Democratic party shifted by ‘72 with the selection of McGovern.

That's when I started to drift away, later I was a Reagan democrat and gave up totally when Judge Bork got lynched.--Tom

34 posted on 08/04/2018 5:00:12 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I like it, good post.


35 posted on 08/04/2018 5:01:39 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: All
The Post and Courier, Charleston, SC, for those wondering.

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36 posted on 08/04/2018 5:21:42 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: WashingtonFire
the heart and soul of a patriotic, common American man since Jackson.

The Jackson supporters loved him so much that, at the advent of the Civil War, they remembered that Jackson threatened to hang his own VP if South Carolina seceded, and that the Union should not be divided. Over 100,000 of them and their sons joined the Union Army even though they were from the South.

37 posted on 08/04/2018 5:23:56 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (65 and 12)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nobody likes Trump except the voters.


38 posted on 08/04/2018 5:24:14 PM PDT by Colinsky
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Trump’s base will never turn on him"

Hell's bells I liked the title and I liked the article. It was direct, had a good anecdote, and it's the truth.

39 posted on 08/04/2018 5:54:24 PM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

PS: 2DV sorry for being such a dick to you in early 2016. Your skillz as a news aggregator are genuinely and ongoingly appreciated.


40 posted on 08/04/2018 5:57:33 PM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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