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Tucker Carlson misreads Trump’s pre-election strategy: Tucker is missing the important choice Trump is forcing on Americans
American Thinker ^ | 06/26/2020 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 06/26/2020 7:05:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Since 2020’s craziness began, Tucker Carlson has been brilliant. He’s talked us through speech-killing political correctness and “cancel culture,” a health panic that leftist politicians have used to break Trump supporters, and racism as bad as that during the Jim Crow era only with the races reversed. Carlson is always unafraid to tell the truth.

When the riots started, between his job at Fox News and his home base in Washington, D.C., Carlson has had a front-row seat for the spectacle of leftist protesters systematically destroying property and America’s heritage. It is a demoralizing show.

This demoralization was front and center in Carlson’s monologue on Thursday night. He opened by saying there’s a good chance that Trump can lose the election, making Biden president. (Were that to happen, I believe America would become the first country ever knowingly to elect to its highest office a man with dementia.)

Carlson’s conclusion didn’t arise because the polls show that the basement-dwelling Biden, who’s trotted out every few days to prove he’s still alive, is soaring in the polls. After all, voters remember 2016 and Hillary’s lead. Carlson did observe that the Trump team is worried, but that wasn’t driving Carlson’s pessimism.

Instead, what concerned Carlson is that the Republicans have been supine in their response, first, to the lockdowns and, second, to the violent protests leftists have brought to America’s streets. He noted that Republican politicians were caught flatfooted because they are so naïve they can’t believe that the lockdowns and the riots are a planned and systemic attack on America’s conservative voters. They have therefore stood on the sidelines, he said, abandoning Americans to the mob.

To illustrate, Carlson played a disturbing call a panicked mother in Fredericksburg, Virginia, made to 911 when the mob trapped her in her car,

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: monologue; trump; tucker; tuckercarlson
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To: Henry Hnyellar
You wouldn’t recognize Fredericksburg today. It’s been engulfed by urban sprawl.

Amazing! Back in 1981, it was way out in the country.

81 posted on 06/27/2020 6:56:46 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: SeekAndFind

3) surround it with razor wire


82 posted on 06/27/2020 7:42:04 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: nwrep

...”allowing” the destruction of cities...

He’s not allowing, he’s operating within the constitutional framework.

But, his message needs to be very clear that what America is witnessing is what the entire Nation would look like under FULL democRAT control nationwide. That message is flailing.

“Don’t like what you see America? Better not vote democrat anywhere, or this is what is coming to your state, county and city” The VERY clear message that must be sent early and often. Memes up Patriots!

This is where WE have to bypass the medialies in force. We are the media now and we must wield this double edged sword wisely, WIDELY and effectively.


83 posted on 06/27/2020 7:50:24 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: nwrep

...”allowing” the destruction of cities...

He’s not allowing, he’s operating within the constitutional framework.

But, his message needs to be very clear that what America is witnessing is what the entire Nation would look like under FULL democRAT control nationwide. That message is flailing.

“Don’t like what you see America? Better not vote democrat anywhere, or this is what is coming to your state, county and city” The VERY clear message that must be sent early and often. Memes up Patriots!

This is where WE have to bypass the medialies in force. We are the media now and we must wield this double edged sword wisely, WIDELY and effectively.


84 posted on 06/27/2020 7:50:28 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: nwrep

...”allowing” the destruction of cities...

He’s not allowing, he’s operating within the constitutional framework.

But, his message needs to be very clear that what America is witnessing is what the entire Nation would look like under FULL democRAT control nationwide. That message is flailing.

“Don’t like what you see America? Better not vote democrat anywhere, or this is what is coming to your state, county and city” The VERY clear message that must be sent early and often. Memes up Patriots!

This is where WE have to bypass the medialies in force. We are the media now and we must wield this double edged sword wisely, WIDELY and effectively.


85 posted on 06/27/2020 7:50:31 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: SheepWhisperer

Oops, sorry for triple post
Triple post
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#distinctions

But works for emphasis anyway =o)

JJ


86 posted on 06/27/2020 7:52:02 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: SeekAndFind

President Trump knows exactly what he is doing. It is called tough love. He is doing just as you observed, ripping the mask off the liberal/socialist threat waiting in the wings to devour our country, if given the chance.

One has only to look at the States where the liberal democrats are currently in control in order to gain a picture of what life would be like in YOUR State, your YOUR county, YOUR home town, should they win a National election.

The media will continue trying to convince the weak minded that they had better go along with the radicals or they will burn your city down and do all matter of evil to you if you fail to vote them into office. HORSE HOCKEY!! The more they threaten, the stronger the resolve of most Americans grows that we must excise this liberal/socialist cancer from our nation. After these liberal socialists are defeated at the polls in November, the mopping up campaign starts. They have broken laws from Treason all the way down the list to burning and destroying property. They WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE for their lawless behavior because they must be held to account if this Country is to survive and thrive.


87 posted on 06/27/2020 8:30:12 AM PDT by fightu4it (conquest by immigration and subversion spells the end of US.)
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To: SheepWhisperer

By the way, I did not say “allowing”, I was quoting the previous poster, which is why I put it in quotes. Just FYI.


88 posted on 06/27/2020 8:30:43 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: newnhdad
You can’t win by appearing to lose.

That's a rather weak semantic argument, and patently wrong. Ever hear of Muhammad Ali, and "Rope a Dope"?

He's allowing voters to see what Democrats will bring, and what Democrats want, and that it won't be confined to just urban areas.

89 posted on 06/27/2020 8:34:43 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: nwrep

No harm meant in my reply

FRespectfully,
jj


90 posted on 06/27/2020 8:47:38 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: Teacher317

I hope it translates into enough votes to get him and a republican majority elected in November.


91 posted on 06/27/2020 10:33:52 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: nwrep

[If Trump believes he can convince Americans to vote for him by “allowing” the destruction of cities, he is in for a rude awakening.

It is pretty simple - people will blame him for the disorder. They will not dissemble the blame and excuse him for federalism. The destruction is on his watch, and he will be held accountable. ]


Obviously the political pros in Trump’s inner circle have their fingers on the pulse of the electorate, and they think this strategy of standing aside works. I just don’t see it, though. This is the GOP after Katrina once again. The party’s approval rating goes into the crapper. The overwhelming respect for federalism is just nuts, given the emergency situation we’re going through.

Of course, Trump hasn’t helped his case by slamming masking and lockdowns when he could have favored masking as merely prudent while slamming lockdowns as economically disastrous.


92 posted on 07/10/2020 7:50:07 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bubba Wallace got 15 FBI agents. Seattle is openly violating the civil rights of their white employees, a man was sentenced to 16 years for burning a rainbow flag, a white couple are being charged with a hate crime for painting over racist messages painted on the street by their city.

All of this while Barr sits there and looks like Droopy!

No, Tucker is NOT wrong!


93 posted on 07/10/2020 7:58:11 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: newnhdad
You can’t win by appearing to lose.

You can’t - but when Federal law enforcement refuses to follow a President’s direction, demonstrating to America the error of its ways in voting Democrat might be the only strategy that President has left.

94 posted on 07/10/2020 8:03:00 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Zhang Fei

Actually I don’t think Trump’s campaign is so sanguine. They are in 100% defensive mode from what I can see. They seem to know they are fighting a losing battle.


95 posted on 07/10/2020 8:18:01 AM PDT by nwrep
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