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The Reason They Support Trump Isn't About Trump
Townhall.com ^ | February 18, 2020 | Salena Zito

Posted on 02/18/2020 3:55:27 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: AndyJackson

“We gotta get over this meme”

I agree. No president has ever been under siege like PDJT has. Starting from the day after the election they were campaigning for the Electoral College to nullify the election. There was never even a hint of a “honeymoon”. It has been relentless. Anyone else would have caved, but he will not. That kind of resolve is going to ruffle a few feathers. That is too bad, but that is the way it is.

A few day ago, some animal rights nut stormed a Sanders event and grabbed the mike. Sanders just walked away with his head down. There is your alternative. I prefer PDJT.


21 posted on 02/18/2020 5:06:30 AM PST by beef (Caution: Potential Sarcasm - Process Accordingly)
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To: Kaslin

bump


22 posted on 02/18/2020 5:13:47 AM PST by foreverfree
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To: Kaslin

Re: Trump’s Style: At first, he seemed gruff and brash. But, then when you see him in action among the wolves of the media and the Democrats, any person paying attention ought to realize he is just fighting back. That, in the opinion of the left, is not allowed. No one, no conservative, no Republican, has the right to fight back it seems. If you do, then you are brash and crude, vulgar.

They hate him, not only for his policies which favor American workers of all stripes, but also favor God-fearing people and life. None of those things endear Trump to the Democrats and news media. As for me, I love Trump more each day that he is my President and that he fights back.


23 posted on 02/18/2020 5:18:55 AM PST by Gumdrop
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To: HighSierra5

Ditto!

In so many ways-Trump reminds me of Truman... ‘Give’em Hell Harry’ didn’t bother with ‘style’ either and just said what he had to say!

Truman was also a DC outsider and that’s probably more of a recommendation NOW than ever before!

Personally, I don’t think ‘likeability’ has any thing to do with fitness for the job. It doesn’t matter at all about his personality but rather his leadership, vision and resolution.


24 posted on 02/18/2020 5:28:24 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: Gumdrop

I didn’t vote for Donald Trump in the Tennessee primaries, and I had to fight with myself for many month, but when it was clear that he would get the nomination it was clear to me that he would be my candidate. So I voted for him and I will gladly vote for him on November 2nd again. I will vote for as many electoral people for him as I can in our Tennessee primary on March 3.


25 posted on 02/18/2020 5:33:49 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: central_va

Are you that clueless?

Do you not think that Trump (forget about the GOP, which is primarily interested in its own continuation and buried corruption) has cared about and spent great political capital in furthering the interests of non-farm blue-collar workers?

Is he not, however, the president of all Americans, not just your favorite demographic?


26 posted on 02/18/2020 5:34:13 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: cschroe

Don’t be blinded: the Corrupt Turtle has been undermining Trump every step of the way—except for the universal GOP goal of more conservative judges.

Just look at the corrupt, anti-Trump SSCI, on which just this week the Corrupt Turtle swapped out a decent GOP senator for Never Trumper Sasse.


27 posted on 02/18/2020 5:38:09 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Your post explains it all. Like you say Trump has done great things and made great inroads into blue collar America. THE GOP HAD NOT AND REFUSES TO LEARN FROM TRUMP. Post Trump we can look forward to the same old globolist milquetoast RINO GOP.


28 posted on 02/18/2020 5:38:17 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: aquila48
I like Trump's no nonsense style of getting it done.

Politicians fear this man because he fights and he gets things done the do-nothing pols we have been cursed with for the past three generations have neglected to do because they would run out of things to do.

Trump has my permission to solve all the problems and send them home only to convene for the hottest three months in DC and for the green new deal cool the place with hand fans.

These dweebs would be screaming to replace AOC with AC in no time.

29 posted on 02/18/2020 5:43:58 AM PST by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: bert

It shows, doesn’t it?


30 posted on 02/18/2020 5:45:50 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: 9YearLurker

BTTT


31 posted on 02/18/2020 5:47:41 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: central_va

You just blew all your credibility on the entire “bring the jobs back home” discussion.

If we can’t grow our own food here then it doesn’t matter if we make anything else here. We can do without tires, electronics etc. We cannot do without food.

If you really cared about the workers than you’d also care about the agricultural workers that feed you.


32 posted on 02/18/2020 5:50:22 AM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: Kaslin

or “...understand how long establishments within both parties have let them down...”

Yep, at some point both parties decided that they no longer had to listen to their voters.


33 posted on 02/18/2020 5:52:14 AM PST by TalBlack
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To: central_va

Fair enough. And too true.


34 posted on 02/18/2020 5:57:44 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Kaslin

It’s about our white hot seething hatred for YOU, Washington Establishment. We’d pull the lever for Satan himself if we thought that was what’s needed to dislodge you.


35 posted on 02/18/2020 6:00:29 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Kaslin

Tom Schaub, Ralph Petersheim, Donna Leum, Kris Amundson and Ben Klinkner are all sitting around a large conference table at the Westby Cooperative Creamery in this Vernon County town. There is a pot of coffee and an oversized box of doughnuts. The aroma that only bakery-fresh doughnuts can provide radiates throughout the room.

All four are dairy farmers.

It seems that someone needs a math refresher course!!!


36 posted on 02/18/2020 6:02:58 AM PST by Nuocmam (Loose lips sink ships.)
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To: central_va

I see that Trump cares about all workers: white collar, blue collar, pink collar, those who wear plastic pocket protectors in their shirt pockets, and geeky tee-shirt without collars.


37 posted on 02/18/2020 6:09:51 AM PST by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: ml/nj

You and me both. The minute he stepped on the escalator, I was ALL IN. Don’t care what people think anymore.


38 posted on 02/18/2020 6:14:47 AM PST by Mama Shawna
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To: John O
If we can’t grow our own food here then it doesn’t matter if we make anything else here. We can do without tires, electronics etc. We cannot do without food.

Oh my God you are being a complete idiot. We are a now a client state ( and a debtor nation ) and we need all of those things made here, that is real wealth creation. Those jobs kepp small towns alive. We need a VERY HIGH PROTECTIVE IMPORT TARIFF to stop the decline of mid Americans and the rush to socialism. You are a perfect example of the stupid party non-think.

39 posted on 02/18/2020 6:16:20 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: wintertime

Trump cares but the GOP does not.


40 posted on 02/18/2020 6:17:12 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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