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How Trump can win again: Become the calm, moderate candidate (good piece!)
thehill.com ^ | 7/16/21 | Conrad Black

Posted on 07/16/2021 7:19:16 AM PDT by cotton1706

The political scene is evolving so quickly that I presume to offer some advice to President Trump: He can now win in 2024 by being the potential candidate of calm and moderation.

The Democrats have become a Babel of contending extremists, suddenly and implausibly blaming the Republicans for defunding police forces and miraculously discovering the virtues of voter identification, after having denounced it for six months as the resurrection of Jim Crow. The utter moral bankruptcy of many elected Democrats was captured in the Texas state legislators fleeing the state in private planes, excitedly taking selfies of themselves unmasked and grinning, to avoid being compelled by law to make a quorum in the state legislature and pass judgment on a voting reform measure.

Things are not altogether more settled on the other side, however. There are a number of prominent Republicans who are clearly qualified to be president, including Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and former Vice President Mike Pence. Yet Trump effortlessly prevailed over both of them and every other listed contender in a recent CPAC poll of potential candidates for president in 2024. The uncharacteristically incautious comments of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) that, in effect, the dreadful Trump specter had passed and they could all go back to being the good-natured losers of the Bush-McCain-Romney eras was effectively retracted within a few days. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) has disgraced herself by joining the Trump-hate operation of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and, in Republican terms, is sinking without a ripple as a consequence.

Meanwhile, with the political left’s Supreme Court-packing threat appearing to fade, the court’s justices have blown away the Democrats’ plan to assure their own permanent incumbency through unverifiable ballot-harvesting.

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To: XRdsRev

Calm what “rhetoric”?

Trump lost no voters by anything he said.

And the liberal media needs to be exposed. They’ve done what they’ve done to Trump to many others for decades.


41 posted on 07/16/2021 7:55:47 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: cotton1706

Seeking adulation and refusing to fight and draw blood, Trump will never win.

Holding rallies and basking in adulation is doing the same thing all over and thinking there will be different results

New and younger vitality will be brought to the fight to kill the enemy and thus prevail


42 posted on 07/16/2021 7:57:13 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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To: Pollard

So was I, just to be clear.


43 posted on 07/16/2021 7:57:14 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: grey_whiskers

Did I see Pence an DeSantis in the same sentence? Lol


44 posted on 07/16/2021 7:57:38 AM PDT by alstewartfan (The dawn is turning away The ghost of Charlotte Corday. Al Stewart)
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There are a number of prominent Republicans who are clearly qualified to be president, including Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and former Vice President Mike Pence. …
Thanks for making us see red, Connie Black. Do be more transparent about your agenda, why dontcha.
45 posted on 07/16/2021 7:58:59 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: alstewartfan

Just noticed that myself.

But this is a “good piece”, don’t forget.


46 posted on 07/16/2021 7:59:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: lonestar67

That is also why Willard hates Trump. The power players probably told Willard that IF he goes easy on Obama and lets him win, it will be HIS TURN in four years. They would back him for US Senator in Utah. Then he will be in position to be the next POTUS after Obama.

Then Trump came along and ruined his plan. Most likely Willard would have lost to Hillary too.


47 posted on 07/16/2021 8:00:50 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: bert

Fight and draw blood, eh? Being metaphorical or are you calling for weakening the country from the inside by a literal civil war? Lots of countries looking to take advantage of such a situation.


48 posted on 07/16/2021 8:01:21 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: bert

Holding rallies and basking in adulation is doing the same thing all over and thinking there will be different results

You do realize he won the election easily if counted fairly? He gained 12 million votes over his first go around.

So, if winning the election and gaining millions more voters is the outcome, it is a good thing?

The problem is letting democrats cheat like that have done for decades, not Trump.


49 posted on 07/16/2021 8:02:00 AM PDT by BushCountry (thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
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To: woodbutcher1963

That and Jeb, Jeb thought it was his turn.


50 posted on 07/16/2021 8:02:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cotton1706

Totally correct. Trump must not act in a way which reminds Karen’s of their ex-husbands.


51 posted on 07/16/2021 8:02:17 AM PDT by entropy12 ( I am more interested in return of my capital than return on my capital...who said that?)
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To: cotton1706

Sorry Conrad. If we wanted a pnssy, we’d vote Jeb or Mittens. Those are the limp wristed Kansas City foggats @ssholes we are trying to purge out of our ranks! To be honest, what is bombastic about Trump? In the past we called these people New Yorkers; blunt, in you face truth, suck it up cupcake people. NYers like this are a dying breed.


52 posted on 07/16/2021 8:04:23 AM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less!)
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To: JohnBrowdie

Oh, no. Trumpasaurus Rex is real and alive.


53 posted on 07/16/2021 8:07:01 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (“Fraud vitiates everything.” )
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To: cotton1706

Trump could win if he wasn’t Trump anymore!


54 posted on 07/16/2021 8:07:23 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods ( comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: dalight

Trump could have been Mr. Rogers. But with his agenda, they would have still taken him out.


55 posted on 07/16/2021 8:09:14 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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To: Olog-hai

We are far beyond the point where there can be co existence.

It is kill or be killed....... figuratively or even literally


56 posted on 07/16/2021 8:09:28 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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To: dfwgator

The media thought it was Jeb’s turn back in 2016 too. Faux News was attempting to play up the low-energy “Right To Rise” campaign right from the start.

(What does “Right To Rise” even mean?? Sounds communistic.)


57 posted on 07/16/2021 8:10:21 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: cotton1706

Calm is tough for Trump…


58 posted on 07/16/2021 8:10:26 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: bert

Guess you have no faith in God.


59 posted on 07/16/2021 8:10:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: BushCountry

Bottom line...... Trump is not President and is therefore a de facto loser.

As literally the best president perhaps ever, he refused to fight and destroy his enemies. The most powerful man on earth laid down before his enemies and was destroyed by them

As of this day, all your rationalizations are just irrelevant.


60 posted on 07/16/2021 8:13:08 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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