Posted on 09/16/2022 7:28:14 PM PDT by cotton1706
One of the stunning facts of the age is the continued prominence of Donald Trump. His candidates did well in the GOP primaries this year. He won more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016. His favorability ratings within his party have been high and basically unchanged since late 2016. In a range of polls, some have actually shown Trump leading President Joe Biden in a race for reelection in 2024.
His prominence is astounding because over the past seven years the American establishment has spent enormous amounts of energy trying to discredit him. Those of us in this establishment correctly identified Trump as a grave threat to American democracy. The task before us was clear. We were never going to shake the hard-core MAGA folks. The job was to peel away independents and those Republicans offended by and exhausted by his antics.
Many strategies were deployed in order to discredit Trump. There was the immorality strategy: Thousands of articles were written detailing his lies and peccadilloes. There was the impeachment strategy: Investigations were launched into his various scandals and outrages. There was the exposure strategy: Scores of books were written exposing how shambolic and ineffective the Trump White House really was.
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I'll wager that none of them will handle "suffering" as well as Trump has!
You don't have to be a "good" man to be used by God. Look at David, King of Israel, who committed adultery and murder, yet was blessed by God as His servant.
Good point!
Politicians don't agree with the country. They are determined to make us "better", whether we like it or not.
"Can Trump win again? Absolutely. I’m a DeSantis doubter. I doubt someone so emotionally flat and charmless can win a nomination in the age of intensive media. And then once Trump is nominated, he has some chance of winning, because nobody is executing an effective strategy against him."
Brooks has the IQ of a cucumber.
"On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that we are “probably overheating” the economy and causing inflation, but he has “high tolerance for inflation in this kind of economy. Because I think we need it as a society to heal.”
His prominence is astounding because over the past seven years the American establishment has spent enormous amounts of energy trying to discredit him.
Thereby ensuring that anyone with even a slight tilt toward populist politics - note I didn't even say conservative - keeps viewing Trump as the opposition to the arrogant, sanctimonious dweebs who are trashing him on a daily basis. That doesn't improve when most of the incessant drum-beating turns out to be based on lies.
Those of us in this establishment correctly identified Trump as a grave threat to American democracy.
By getting elected? By maintaining a lead in the polls despite everybody who is anybody in a thousand-dollar suit bleating that he is the enemy of all that is good and right? What threat, Dave? If you have to lie and cheat to beat him, who's the threat?
"Can Trump win again? Absolutely. I’m a DeSantis doubter. I doubt someone so emotionally flat and charmless can win a nomination in the age of intensive media. And then once Trump is nominated, he has some chance of winning, because nobody is executing an effective strategy against him."
Ignorant. President Trump isn’t even running in the midterms.
“ Trumpists tell themselves that America is being threatened by a radical left putsch that is out to take over the government and undermine the culture. The core challenge now is to show by word and deed that this is a gross exaggeration.”
Unpack all that blather and what he’s saying is lie about what you really are.
Brooks at least got this part correct.
I grew up in suburban Philadelphia. At age 18, I was a mealy mouthed, uppity, country club Republican. Then I went to college in a small rural town. I worked on a farm between my freshman and sophomore years. I got to know people from town. I got my act straightened out and discovered that I had little in common with people back in the Philadelphia area. I had no desire to move back there again. My distain for progressive city folks has only grown in each of the last 40 years since college.
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