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The Icons of the Left Collapse
NRO ^ | 12 Feb 2021 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 02/13/2021 6:13:29 AM PST by Rummyfan

What’s the theme that ties together Andrew Cuomo, the Lincoln Project, and California’s governing class? Since 2015 or so, a whole bunch of people who hated Donald Trump — and I am among those who believe the former president earned his animosity and scorn — chose to believe that anyone who stood in opposition to Trump had to be one of the good guys. A huge swath of the media world, elites across American society, and donors large and small, conflated political agreement in opposition to Trump with all other positive virtues. Outspoken opposition to Trump turned into an all-purpose badge of righteousness that many believed would outweigh or outshine any other issues or character flaws.

When a society adopts this kind of mentality, bad people recognize this. They pick up on the fact that certain views or opinions or labels can be used as moral get-out-of-jail-free cards. Why do you think so many self-identified feminist men keep turning out to be creeps when alone with a woman? Why do you think some billionaires describe themselves as socialist? Why do you think self-professed environmentalists keep taking private jets to climate-change conferences? Society has taught them that their viewpoint outweighs their actual behavior, actions, and in some cases, and how they treat other people.

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KEYWORDS: commies; democrat; leftists; leftits; socialist
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1 posted on 02/13/2021 6:13:29 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Like the prostitutes they were,they are left discarded and dirty by endless abusers, their 30 seconds of purpose is over. Defunded to move on to the radical climate change and gun grabber agendas and being replaced by imports.


2 posted on 02/13/2021 6:22:18 AM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: Rummyfan

What do Cuomo, the Lincoln project and California’s ruling class of elites really have in common? They are decadent and rotten at their core. Their hatred for Trump is merely a manifestation of their inherent pathology. When their true nature is recognized, then their vile actions are understandable and predictable.


3 posted on 02/13/2021 6:24:36 AM PST by allendale
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To: Rummyfan

Geraghty wants to stay on the NRO World Order payroll.

Used to like him back in the day but he may like others not get it. Without a bombastic President Trump calling out the BS and fighting every step of the way, nothing good happens starting with taking down Hillary.

How a political writer can fail to be educated with the exposure of the corrupt class by President Trump is more than a bit pathetic.

The entire political class was exposed by President Trump and shown to not only be corrupt but incompetent.

They hate him for it.


4 posted on 02/13/2021 6:25:10 AM PST by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! So ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! /s 👹.)
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To: Rummyfan

“and I am among those who believe the former president earned his animosity and scorn”

National Review is garbage.


5 posted on 02/13/2021 6:27:08 AM PST by cdcdawg (Salute the marines!)
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To: Rummyfan

It’s apparent to me that Donald Trump was the center of the universe to the MSM. There blind hatred prevented them from seeing President Trump as the greatest president this country has ever had.


6 posted on 02/13/2021 6:27:12 AM PST by Gahanna Bob
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and I am among those who believe the former president earned his animosity and scorn

Not much need to read the rest, no matter what he says.

7 posted on 02/13/2021 6:30:21 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Rummyfan

Too little, too late, Geraghty. The NRO is simply another of the “Hate Trump above all else” Marxist enablers. You and your Fake News rag are just as responsible for this mess as CNN, or anyone else, is.


8 posted on 02/13/2021 6:30:43 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: Rummyfan

Yeah—Suck it, Geraghty.


9 posted on 02/13/2021 6:30:52 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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It doesn’t matter anymore. They have secured the infrastructure to keep their power for generations.


10 posted on 02/13/2021 6:31:05 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Rummyfan

Their icons won’t be considered to have really “collapsed” until they are out of office, living under the same laws and edicts that we do, and hooted with derision for their hypocrisy. Any law-breakers among them need to face a trial at the least.


11 posted on 02/13/2021 6:31:10 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Hopefully and with God’s help,Traitor Joe will happen ASAP.


12 posted on 02/13/2021 6:32:51 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Rummyfan

Since they face no legal consequences, these icons will simply be replaced. Thanks Barr, thanks Sessions.


13 posted on 02/13/2021 6:33:57 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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The next thing you know, somebody will be writing an article declaring Bruce Springsteen and Jeep as “uniters of America”.


14 posted on 02/13/2021 6:41:18 AM PST by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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And why do so many writers who claim to be conservative like this jerk not recognize the good that President Trump did? Why do they join in the false scorn which is the attempt to destroy the policies and America by blaming the personality that brought Americanism back?

Screw you, Geraghty.


15 posted on 02/13/2021 6:42:35 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the MAGA Party.)
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To: Gahanna Bob

Post 6-
Amen


16 posted on 02/13/2021 6:44:19 AM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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Would be great to see this trend accelerate!

Liberal media self-destruction in addition to high profile Dem's implosion would be GREAT! It's funnier when it is so blatant that it can not be hidden from view.

17 posted on 02/13/2021 6:45:36 AM PST by G Larry (Authority is vested in those to whom it applies.)
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The NR sucks. WFB must be spinning in its grave over what’s happened to his publication.


18 posted on 02/13/2021 6:52:03 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: cdcdawg

Ditto Sir! Even though I knew better, I started to read the article...then he wrote the sentence you referred to and I cursed myself for being damn stupid. What did I expect?


19 posted on 02/13/2021 6:56:30 AM PST by bigfootbob
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To: Rummyfan

Bkmk


20 posted on 02/13/2021 7:21:34 AM PST by sauropod (#ImpeachMcConnell. #Resist. #NotMyPresident.)
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