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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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1 posted on 07/16/2021 7:19:16 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

He can play if he toes their line and doesn’t make waves.. mmm.. sorry Conrad.. don’t think that will work or that it is likely either. But, I have a better idea.. lets make elections about who is voting rather who is counting the votes.


2 posted on 07/16/2021 7:22:48 AM PDT by dalight
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To: cotton1706

The Hill is not a place for Trump to get political advice.

He’s a T-Rex.

An apex predator.

He shouldn’t pretend he is a nut-less Jeb candidate.


3 posted on 07/16/2021 7:23:07 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (“Fraud vitiates everything.” )
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To: cotton1706

He cannot win if the democrat vote fraud machine is still in place.


4 posted on 07/16/2021 7:23:57 AM PDT by Blennos ( )
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To: dalight

Bull. Trump will win the same way he did the last 2 times. By beinf Trump. Period. America First


5 posted on 07/16/2021 7:25:20 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: cotton1706

6 posted on 07/16/2021 7:25:26 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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Thus far, the one great accomplishment of the Biden administration, apart from a rising stock market, has been the reduced decibel level of the Biden White House — something gratefully appreciated by many Americans. The constant tumult of the Trump years grated on almost everyone, although Trump’s assailants often were equally, if not chiefly, responsible for the clangorous quality of those years. …
This is never-Trumper garbage.
Now, as time passes, the public irritation with Trump’s bombastic behavior, of his being in the nation’s face day and night for four years …
. . . never existed. Why else was he elected in the first place? And he won in 2020 too. Why repeat a liberal lie?

People are sick to death of so-called calm and moderate, which means giving the nod to exactly the policies Biden is forcing on us. No, this is not a “good piece” at all.
7 posted on 07/16/2021 7:26:04 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

And another Swamp-RINO spouts off.


8 posted on 07/16/2021 7:27:19 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: dalight

He does not need to toe their line but he does need to calm the rhetoric a little bit for the public. President Trump shot himself in the foot more than once by saying or tweeting something that diverted attention away from an administration good news story on a particular day.

You divert public attention from bad news not good news, that is political common sense. Sometimes President Trump did not seem to understand that concept.


9 posted on 07/16/2021 7:28:18 AM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: cotton1706

Being the calm moderate didn’t get him
elected in 2016 or 2020.

Calm moderate= puppet.
You know like biden.


10 posted on 07/16/2021 7:28:20 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
The Hill is not a place for Trump to get political advice.

This is not from "The Hill" so much as from Conrad Black, and extremely intelligent man who is also cultured and has excellent business competence, a rare combination.

He is also Canadian, which colours his judgement.

You can't have Jack Falstaff and not have him fat, and you can't have Donald Trump and not have him be over the top shooting from the hip. It took a while for me to get used to him, but great sports and political managers play with the players they have. If you have Dave Kingman (in his prime), you get strikeouts, and towering home runs.
11 posted on 07/16/2021 7:29:11 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (“At first you go bankrupt slowly, then all at once.” -- Hemingway)
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To: Olog-hai

Any reference to “bombastic” with Trump is “bombastic.”


12 posted on 07/16/2021 7:29:32 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: cotton1706

By now, ‘moderate’ US politics = sell-out


13 posted on 07/16/2021 7:30:09 AM PDT by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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To: cotton1706

Good riddance to bad rubbish (Liz).


14 posted on 07/16/2021 7:31:16 AM PDT by sauropod (The smartphone is the retina of the mind's eye.)
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To: cotton1706

Moderate, my arse. We need a hell cat to crawl out of this crypt!


15 posted on 07/16/2021 7:32:40 AM PDT by dforest (huh)
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To: cotton1706

2 SHORT VIDEOS WE DID IN 2009 WITH A VERY SIMPLE VIDEO PROGRAM. BUT THE INFO IS STILL AS CURRENT AS TODAY.

ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL, PART 1:

https://www.brighteon.com/6041988548001

ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL, PART 2:
https://www.brighteon.com/6041992515001


16 posted on 07/16/2021 7:32:43 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES US! IT DETESTS TRUMP!!)
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To: cotton1706

2 SHORT VIDEOS WE DID IN 2009 WITH A VERY SIMPLE VIDEO PROGRAM. BUT THE INFO IS STILL AS CURRENT AS TODAY.

ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL, PART 1:

https://www.brighteon.com/6041988548001

ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL, PART 2:
https://www.brighteon.com/6041992515001


17 posted on 07/16/2021 7:32:50 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES US! IT DETESTS TRUMP!!)
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To: SMARTY

It’s always meant that.


18 posted on 07/16/2021 7:32:56 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: Olog-hai
Trump’s bombastic behavior,

Only occurred when he was being attacked and he was attacked for four+ years.

19 posted on 07/16/2021 7:33:13 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

you just called donald trump a dinosaur. jus’ sayin’


20 posted on 07/16/2021 7:34:10 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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