Posted on 02/09/2020 5:11:53 AM PST by PJ-Comix
"It is said that the people are revolting."
"You said it! They stink on ice!"
Substitute "deplorables" for "people" and you have the attitude of not only "the resistance" in western Pennsylvania desperately trying but failing to convert Trump supporters but of Campbell Robertson in his New York Times article which chronicled the futility of their efforts. It is obvious upon reading the article that liberal political conversion therapy is just not working.
You get the sense of the futile nature of their task by reading the Thursday article title, "In Trump Country, the Resistance Meets the Steel Curtain," as well as the subtitle, "Anti-Trump forces are still hard at work in deeply conservative areas, but the heady expectations of changing minds are getting harder to sustain."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
I remember visiting Harvard many moons ago. The only thing that struck me (besides the marble staircases in the building I was in) was a sleazy porn collection at a nearby news stand. I remember thinking, “This is *Harvard*??”
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See also "rectocranial inversion" and "event horizon for a black hole" ;-)
People vote for Trump not because of his flaws, but despite of them, because he gets things done. I’m sure the The New York Times would like to keep talking about Stormy Daniels, but Trump supporters would like to talk about the best-ever economy and record high employment numbers. Sorry NYT, you have a losing hand.
The elites are getting depressed...the democrats cannot make anything work...
I got pummeled here, understandably, in 2018 when I said that losing the House might just be a blessing for Trump, because the Democrats would overplay their hand and not be able to hide behind Republicans. In the case of impeachment, for example, they couldn’t blame Republicans for stonewalling it...so they had to go through with it. Also, The Squad became the de facto leadership of the party, and still is.
The thing is, what if they didn’t win the House? I think things would be far different - the grassroots efforts by the Dems to bring back the working class vote just may have worked. They’d be hearing nothing about gun control, they would be hearing a lot about how impotent Trump is (judges just don’t get on the radar for non-news junkies). They’d also be hearing about how the Dems will make their lives great again...etc.
Sadly, for much of the country, at least until Trump, the default position for much of the white, working class, has been to vote Democrat (having prior Republican leaders not give a crap about them certainly didn’t help our side either). But now, it’s different...for now. If Trump gets re-elected, we may reach another inflection point towards the end of Trump’s 8 years, where the Republicans can continue with Trump’s policies, or they do Bush Sr. did and go back to their country clubs.
I’m cpncerned about the flip question. Millions of tribal Democrats are moving from jobless Democrat Rust Belt cities (Flint, Toledo, Akron, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinatti, Rochester, Buffalo, etc) to Red states that can’t find enough employees.
These tribal Democrats are not ideologues. They are ripe for convesion. But who is evangelizing?
Compare it to football. Loyal fans of the Lions or Browns move to KC or Houston or Tennessee. Converting team loyalty is easy. It makes sense. But Loyal Rust Belt fans moving to Atlanta have no reason to convert to complacent, boring Falcons.
Likewise tribal Democrats have no reason to convert to a complacent, boring GOP. The only non-boring thing the GA GOP has done is create a divisive fight for Isaackson’s seat.
“Nobody’s knocked on my door yet trying to convert me..”
I HAVE received a text message from the Bernie Sanders campaign (which raises the question, HOW did they get my CELL PHONE NUMBER?!?)
The message was “Bernie, blah blah, making the system work for all of us. Are you with us, Latina?” because apparently they assume I’m an illegal when in fact my last name came over here with the Conquistadors.
I responded, “Comrade Bernie can roast in hell. And don’t call me Latina. I’m an American, and I’m voting for the man who puts ALL Americans first— DONALD TRUMP!”
If the Resistance wants to talk to me about Stormy Daniels, bring it! I’m happy to talk about her lawyer!
Bummer.
May they feel the Bern when the Bern Bros walk away from the DNC.
"TRUMP IS YOUR PRESIDENT!"
“These tribal Democrats are not ideologues. They are ripe for convesion. But who is evangelizing?”
Good question. We’re missing too many opportunities.
Remember what Ron Reagan said? “I didn’t leave the (Democrat) party. The Party left me.”
That’s a great opener to start evangelizing and converting, because that’s EXACTLY where a lot of Dems are AT right now.
My son is a former lib living in CA. As recently as a couple years ago, he was on board with the whole leftist agenda. He would have a TDS fit & shut me down when I tried to talk to him!
But the rapid disintegration he’s seeing all around him has made him do a 180. The left’s vicious attacks on people like Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager, etc, has made him curious enough to check ‘em out— and he’s finally seeing how the left has been attacking common sense & decency— and how the leftist agenda is exactly what has CAUSED the disintegration! He reports all his friends & coworkers are doing a 180 too.
Trump CAN & MUST take California! It would be the ULTIMATE payback!
The Left has never intended to convert anybody to their camp.
Since Day 1, they had been howling at the sky, one specific pic came to mind. All they have been doing ever since is to vent their spleen childishly.
It didn’t work on the so-called independents, and certainly won’t work on Trump supporters.
I think that's what the Walkaway Movement is about.
That's what I care about. I don't care about anything else. I don't care what Donald Trump said to the president of Ukraine. I never cared about Ukraine in my life and I'm not about to start. I don't care what wife he's on. I don't care if he "lies" and says 72% when "really, it's only 71.2, say fact-checkers." I do not care.
1. Stock Market
2. Unemployment
3. Our Military
4. Our Borders.
That's what I care about.
TRUTH would free them from their demoralization.
I was quoting, & responding, to post #9 by spintreebob.
The WalkAway movement is good, but all of us need to be doing more “evangelizing” to capitalize on and increase the momentum, as spintreebob and I are saying.
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