Posted on 10/23/2018 10:36:41 AM PDT by dennisw
Real Reason They Hate Trump He’s the average American in exaggerated form—blunt, simple, willing to fight, mistrustful of intellectuals.
The left’s only issue is “We hate Trump.” This is an instructive hatred, because what the left hates about Donald Trump is precisely what it hates about America. The implications are important, and painful.
Not that every leftist hates America. But the leftists I know do hate Mr. Trump’s vulgarity, his unwillingness to walk away from a fight, his bluntness, his certainty that America is exceptional, his mistrust of intellectuals, his love of simple ideas that work, and his refusal to believe that men and women are interchangeable. Worst of all, he has no ideology except getting the job done. His goals are to do the task before him, not be pushed around, and otherwise to enjoy life. He is a typical American—except exaggerated, because he has no constraints to cramp his style except the ones he himself invents.
Mr. Trump lacks constraints because he is filthy rich and always has been and, unlike other rich men, he revels in wealth and feels no need to apologize—ever. He never learned to keep his real opinions to himself because he never had to. He never learned to be embarrassed that he is male, with ordinary male proclivities. Sometimes he has treated women disgracefully, for which Americans, left and right, are ashamed of him—as they are of JFK and Bill Clinton.
The difference between citizens who hate Mr. Trump and those who can live with him—whether they love or merely tolerate him—comes down to their views of the typical American: the farmer, factory hand, auto mechanic, machinist, teamster, shop owner, clerk, software engineer, infantryman, truck driver, housewife. The leftist intellectuals I know say they dislike such people insofar as they are conservative Republicans.
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Good read.
Just read by Rush on the air.
Gelertner is a freaking genius..!
Wow, that was fantastic.
They hated Bush and Reagan too.
They just hate anyone standing in their way of power.
They keep saying that but where is the proof?
The Bush League Republicans hate him because he’s giving US the chance to keep our country that they have spent 30 years trying to deny US.
I would add to it many on the Left, especially the congressmen, women, and senators and MSM are on the grift...i.e., income flow based on selling out the U.S...upsetting an income flow when they have been in charge of it and naming their price makes one defend their turf.
What they actually hate is our Constitutional Republic.
America,it’s flag and it’s belief in a Creator.
They love their socialistic quausi-democracy.. quausi-science.. propagandist media.
Dang WSJ bloodsuckers!
Nope. Demanding I sign in or subscribe.
The “elite” is angry because a virtual dictatorship was within their grasp and it blew up in their faces.
The liberal rabble hate because they are told to hate!!!!
They primarily hate Trump because he is against globalism. All the other reasons given for hating him are secondary.
That's only if you buy the liberal narrative that women are completely unable to make their own decisions.
Some "conservatives" will fall all over themselves to avoid being called names by those liberals.
Use the title in DuckDuckGo and it will give you a free view.
WSJ wants eyeballs on their articles, but does limit access when directly viewing on their site.
The author was partially blown up by the Unabomber, almost killing him.
I’ll save you the money: “The insufferably self-righteous left are the biggest sore losers in the history of the world.” There. Gratis, with my compliments.
The WSJ would rather have had Hillary win.
Paywalled
The Left have organized themselves such that they would hate ANYBODY who was in power not from their Party or under their control.
The Democrat-Left has been trending more ideological, radical and Neo-marxist over the last decades, and Obama both speeded the process, and gave the Alinskyite tactics full acceptance as normal.
Trump is moderate in most things, and simply went to the middle on jobs and borders. He’s not a devout Christian, he comes from their milieu (NY City), and he doesn’t push culture wars. Yet the Left STILL hates him.
Imagine if Mike Pence were President?
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