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America "wouldn't survive" a second Trump term: former Bush official
newsyahoo ^ | 10/14/2020 | Brad Reed

Posted on 10/15/2020 6:42:49 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, is issuing a dire warning about the state of American democracy should President Donald Trump win a second term.

Writing in The Atlantic, Frum argues bluntly that America "wouldn't survive" a second Trump term, even as the country is limping to the finish of his first term.

In fact, Frum believes that Trump has already proven that an American president can get away with discarding guardrails in place to keep him in check without suffering significant political consequences.

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KEYWORDS: america; bush; survive; trump
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I read another article written today with Obama using the word “guardrails” concerning Trump.

It must be the Democrats new code word.

Guardrails = The Democrats and the media need to control this guy.


21 posted on 10/15/2020 6:55:51 AM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Frum could always move to Canada...
22 posted on 10/15/2020 6:56:48 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What a low energy comment from Frum.


23 posted on 10/15/2020 6:57:07 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I actually wasted a few hours readings Frum’s “Dead Right”. His solution, as are his confreres’, is for the Republican Party to jettison the social right and to go more in a mildly libertarian direction. This former Canadian wants us to mimic the wildly successful Canadian Progressive Conservatives.


24 posted on 10/15/2020 6:57:09 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why do these future inmates self-identify? You’d think they’d be packing their bags and looking for a hut on a Thailand beach with their 8 year old partners by now.


25 posted on 10/15/2020 6:58:06 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Middle class wealth is at an all-time high.

Mortgages rates are near historic lows.


26 posted on 10/15/2020 6:59:28 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I can’t remember anyone with such an apocalyptic premise grasping so desperately hard at straws to justify it. Lame, lame, lame.


27 posted on 10/15/2020 6:59:36 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: ChicagoConservative27

David Frum, a former speechwriter
= = =

A professional political liar.


28 posted on 10/15/2020 7:01:04 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

America would do just fine. The corrupt Establishment would suffer a severe setback though.

- firm majority of Originalists on the Supreme Court

- more appellate courts flipped (maybe even the 9th!)

- border wall completed and plans to drown America in a tidal wave of pliant 3rd worlders thwarted

- Supply chain ripped out of China

- middle class solidified due to return of manufacturing

- bankrupt blue states not bailed out and thus unable to dump their costs onto red states

- millions more Americans armed

- more troops brought home

- Gaia worshiping schemes thwarted

- Yurp freeloaders forced to pay more of their own way

- Big Tech busted up

The Democrat/Establishment has much to fear.


29 posted on 10/15/2020 7:02:11 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"David Frum? That creepy looking mofo?"

"You talkin' to me, FReeper? You can't be, with this mug? I'm a ladykilla!"

30 posted on 10/15/2020 7:05:25 AM PDT by avenir
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump vs Beast? Risk a watch.

https://youtu.be/OeaAuOJDly4


31 posted on 10/15/2020 7:06:40 AM PDT by FiddlePig (The greatest threat to our sacred liberty is to not value it!””)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Frum argues bluntly that America "wouldn't survive" a second Trump term,br>
He's right ya know, he and his quisling cohorts have spent the last 50 years decimating the middle class and selling our country to Tyrants, Communists and Dictators. Trump has single handedly dismantled a large portion in less than 4 years. If he isn't stopped he will destroy our One World One People Open Borders Worldwide Totalitarian Dreams that we have worked so hard for.
32 posted on 10/15/2020 7:07:44 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s confusing America with the GOP.


33 posted on 10/15/2020 7:08:41 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pay-to-play, military-industrial complex, deep state puppeteers, identity politic divide-and-conquer may not survive.

But America will be just fine.


34 posted on 10/15/2020 7:10:49 AM PDT by LateBoomer
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They’ll make sure of that. More Chinese attacks?


35 posted on 10/15/2020 7:11:06 AM PDT by McCarthysGhost (q)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

More fact free assertions. I ask my few liberal friends to name the specific incidents they have in mind when spewing this stuff and they can never name one. They just come unhinged and rant bad orange man he is embarrassing he is a dictator he is sexist rascist....


36 posted on 10/15/2020 7:11:41 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: libertylover

“Depends on how far Antifa riots go.”

Key point. It’s not that any of the President’s actions are detrimental to the country. It’s the actions of those opposed to him that are unraveling things.


37 posted on 10/15/2020 7:12:37 AM PDT by CheneyClone
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Frum, dumb. Dumb Frumb.
Dumb Frum,
sits on his thumb,
spews out nonsense,
What a bum.


38 posted on 10/15/2020 7:12:57 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Funny. Obama is also talking about guardrails. <<

The Deep State guardrails that were headed to socialism/communism were firmly in place under Bush when he passed the power to Obama.....Hillary was supposed to finish the Hi-speed Highway but “We the People” and Trump put up a STOP sign....

The sad thing is...like Auschwitz......many of the “Elite and educated” think they are 1st in line for a free shower....

39 posted on 10/15/2020 7:14:22 AM PDT by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So he thinks we could do well under a President Harris- VPPelousy regime with Puppetmeister Soroznazi pulling all the strings?


40 posted on 10/15/2020 7:15:11 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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