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Is Donald Trump Done? Donald Trump's absolutism, his unwavering certainty, cut both ways.
American Thinker ^ | 01/08/2021 | Mark Landsbaum

Posted on 01/08/2021 7:30:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Is Donald Trump done? Can Republicans ever again overcome the systematic election corruption Democrats have mastered?

If he’s fit in 2024, Trump can be reelected. Barring failing health, Trump still will have great, if not even greater appeal. That’s partly because of the damage Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will do to the country in the interim.

Even so, the 45th president will need to make significant adjustments if he hopes to overcome election corruption and become the 47th president.

Part of Trump’s appeal was that he spoke in absolute terms: Good vs. evil. Great. The best. Not merely better or not as bad. But good, great, best.

Such talk resonates with people longing for certainty in an uncertain world, and particularly in our postmodern woke world where the only certainty is that everything is uncertain.

But his absolutism, his unwavering certainty, cut both ways. He was seemingly incapable of nuance. And his mania for always (another absolute) being right too often disappointed the faithful while giving his antagonists ammunition to shoot down his claims. Proven wrong often enough, the absolutism begins to seem less like preaching the gospel and more like tyrannical dogma.

That brashness and, yes, arrogance, intuitively rubs many people the wrong way, as it should, and to their credit. But the same attitude and hardness was part of his secret to success, making him stronger in battle with less confident opponents and less vulnerable to equally strong-willed opponents.

Trump is a paradox in the mold of a Shakespearian character. A tragicomic character, a portrait of the limitations and defects of authority.

Even in defeat, he clung to his absolutism and certainty: “While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it’s only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!”

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloggers; donaldtrump; presidency
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Trump has no shortage of supporters, drawing more votes in his reelection bid than any president ever, yes, even more than Barack Obama. Had he attracted a greater portion of those who were offended by him, even Democrat cheating probably couldn’t have overcome him.

But Trump never was destined to attract #NeverTrumpers and left-wing loyalists. Had he tried by compromising his policies, he surely would have lost his base that turned out 75 million strong.

There was a segment of voters he might have attracted but apparently wasn’t willing to try. Those were the voters, and we all know many of them, to whom his policies were all but incidental, but to whom his persona was so distasteful they couldn’t hold their nose enough to prevent being repelled by his unpleasantness.

1 posted on 01/08/2021 7:30:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump was a non-uniparty candidate and president. That was the problem. The globalist uniparty hated him.


2 posted on 01/08/2021 7:35:20 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: SeekAndFind

The funny thing is, those who found his distasteful are the same people WE find repulsive. It’s funny how that works.


3 posted on 01/08/2021 7:36:03 AM PST by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: SeekAndFind

I said it omce and I’ll say it again. Trump ought to go silent on the 20th to give fingers and kamalatoe their day in the sun and then on the 21th announce the creation of HIS new political party to send shivers up the arse of the UNIPARTY!


4 posted on 01/08/2021 7:36:40 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: McGavin999

Trump separates the wheat from the chaff just by tweeting - it is truly amazing.


5 posted on 01/08/2021 7:37:13 AM PST by frogjerk
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To: SeekAndFind

I hope, as he leaves, he turns on the propane petcock in the Whitehouse. Then, it can blow up while everyone is at the inauguration. :/


6 posted on 01/08/2021 7:37:55 AM PST by ArtDodger
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To: SeekAndFind

The pandemic killed his chances. Without mail in ballots, he would have won. More people voted because it was easier.


7 posted on 01/08/2021 7:38:26 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Even in defeat...?” Trump WON in a landslide. The writer of this piece is a fool.

When you win fairly and are cheated out of victory, you are not to be criticized by some idiot writer.


8 posted on 01/08/2021 7:38:33 AM PST by Gnome1949
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To: SeekAndFind

Given his age, better a Kingmaker than a King

I hope he uses his private citizen business acumen to rebuild a free press and unassailable free social media for conservative debate and building resistance to totalitarianism against US citizens by a govt installed without their consent

And continues to use his private networking contacts with international leaders to expand peace


9 posted on 01/08/2021 7:38:36 AM PST by silverleaf (“Democracy" is where the 51% tell the other 49% to go screw themselves.)
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To: dynoman

Or he played an opposition role very well, while doing relatively little except expose conservatives for upcoming purges.

At this point I really don’t know.


10 posted on 01/08/2021 7:39:50 AM PST by zek157
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To: napscoordinator

If it was a computerized steal then what would it have mattered?


11 posted on 01/08/2021 7:39:52 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: silverleaf

“Given his age, better a Kingmaker than a King”

Very valid point. He will start helping with the 2022 elections soon.


12 posted on 01/08/2021 7:41:42 AM PST by DEPcom
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To: SeekAndFind

As a Trump supporter, I now say one and done. He should go to Florida and be gone. He blew it. Not only failed to challenge the stolen election successfully (went cheap and depended on wrong people), he sold out voters by signing bills repeatedly that did opposite of what he claimed to believe and support, plus too many times simply declared things (all talk), but didn’t see them accomplished (and action). He surrounded himself with people that too often did the opposite. No, need new leaders in 2022 (primary all Republicans) and new leaders in 2024.


13 posted on 01/08/2021 7:41:53 AM PST by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Worker)
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To: SeekAndFind

Read Shakespeare. Human nature does not change through the ages and is the force that dictates the events of history. As Shakespeare noted so well there will always be upsurpers who would lie, steal, deceive, kill and destroy to depose a King and seize power. Yet even if successful these upsurpers would always have a sense of illigitimacy and fear retribution. More often than not they would come to a bad end. Wouldn’t it be ironic if the boy with the Renaissance name ,Barron were the one to avenge his father and restore the country?


14 posted on 01/08/2021 7:42:08 AM PST by allendale
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To: ArtDodger

Lol...
someone said he should just leave Joe the WH key under a doormat :-)

Seriously seriously hope he does NOT attend that farce of an inauguration

That would be like accepting that your daughter was raped, is being forced to marry her rapist, and idiots saying the father has to give the bride away to show unity


15 posted on 01/08/2021 7:44:14 AM PST by silverleaf (“Democracy" is where the 51% tell the other 49% to go screw themselves.)
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To: Reno89519

Yes he surrounded himself with wrong people as he was a business Man and not an imbed pol. The rest of your post is pure BULLSHI*!


16 posted on 01/08/2021 7:45:06 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: SeekAndFind

I will not bend! I don’t give a stinkin chit what any mediavomit garbage say! Four years of this kind of chit has made us immune to it! I don’t care about the Republican party I don’t care about these backstabbing hypocritical so call Christians at the hill and their righteous indignation when all along behind closed doors they’re stabbing us and the Lord! At this moment I am so done. I’ve had a couple of days to meditate and to regain my resolve ...I will never be moved!!


17 posted on 01/08/2021 7:46:11 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump’s time as President is done. What’s next in his life is uncertain. He should probably flee the country. NY and others are going to go after him and his family if they remain here.

MAGA, on the other hand, is just beginning.


18 posted on 01/08/2021 7:47:15 AM PST by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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To: zek157

Put down the bong.


19 posted on 01/08/2021 7:49:08 AM PST by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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To: RoseofTexas

“AMEN”!


20 posted on 01/08/2021 7:49:32 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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