Posted on 11/06/2022 2:39:34 PM PST by cotton1706
If Republicans have many things going for them in next week’s elections — an economy that’s like a millstone around Democrats’ necks, fear in the electorate about crime and a chaotic immigration system, President Biden’s low approval ratings — they are also taking what appear to be some enormous risks: having candidates on the ballot who many observers see as too inexperienced, extreme or scandal-burdened to win in November.
But they forget that Republicans already took an enormous risk, in 2016, by nominating Donald Trump for president. And not only did they avoid ballot-box suicide to win the election, but it was the beginning of a renaissance for the Republican Party. Mr. Trump’s approach, gleeful culture war combativeness atop core conservative principles, delivered both short-term policy wins and long-sought victories for his party’s base, like tax cuts, a long procession of conservative federal judges, a Supreme Court majority that overturned Roe v. Wade, the American Embassy moved to Jerusalem. He also pleased the Republican right by giving the party a new focus on immigration and shifting its foreign policy away from wars and nation-building in the Middle East.
The Republican Party’s strategy in 2022 has been to double down on the Trump approach. Its candidates for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania and Georgia, Herschel Walker and Mehmet Oz, are celebrities without political experience, as is Kari Lake, a former Phoenix area news anchor who is now the Republican nominee for governor of Arizona.
Blake Masters, running for the U.S. Senate in Arizona, has never held office and is perhaps best known for his association with Peter Thiel, a billionaire co-founder of PayPal, for whom Mr. Masters once worked and with whom he co-authored the 2014 book “Zero to One.”
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The man (and ideology) they tried to destroy is still standing.
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This excerpt is surprisingly accurate.
I relish the fact they’re wallowing in misery.
About 55% of Americans aren’t stupid. That 55% can see what’s going on in the country. They can see how good they had it under “orange man.”
They see now that, perhaps, he wasn’t all that bad after all and maybe, just maybe, the left and media lied about him.
I mean from the Get-go, Russia-gate, the Hillary Campaign and DOJ conspiring to get Trump criminally investigated, the Admiral at NSA telling Trump his building and transition team were being spied upon, Special prosecutor investigation, tons of House of Representative investigations, two impeachments, and not lots of criminal cases against Trump and his businesses.
It is clear that nothing less than the total destruction of Trump will satisfy Democrats and their media puppets.
My conclusion is that he is willing to face the cameras and tell the US public how corrupt and stupid Democrats really are and to point out political corruption. He does not play nice among the WA DC power elite who keep the political dirt private.
Mr. Trump’s approach, gleeful culture war combativeness atop core conservative principles, delivered both short-term policy wins and long-sought victories for his party’s base, like tax cuts, a long procession of conservative federal judges, a Supreme Court majority that overturned Roe v. Wade, the American Embassy moved to Jerusalem. He also pleased the Republican right by giving the party a new focus on immigration and shifting its foreign policy away from wars and nation-building in the Middle East.
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And what do the Democrats offer? Energy shortages with catastrophic price increases as a result. A woke ideology that has gone so far off the rails it wants to corrupt the minds of children and allow the mutilation of their bodies under the mental illness that is transgenderism. Endless entanglements in foreign wars, yet not protecting our own borders.
Gee. It’s a tough choice. Do I want a hamburger or a sh*t sandwich. Decisions, decision.
Not sure why you think McCarthy would be pissed. He’s a Buchananite going back decades.
You just have to sit back and wonder what it is/was about Trump that absolutely terrifies Democrats and their fellow travelers in the media?
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It’s cuz Donald infiltrated the left the way they infiltrated the right.
It’s unnerved them.
An extreen case of
HOW DARE HE !!!
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They thought he was one of them
They probably shared lots of inner thoughts and plans of theirs
Only to find out he was a LRRP.
Does the Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim still have the majority stock at the New York Times? I moved on..they invent any news that their prejudiced journalists want to spin. Spin Meisters at its best.
bill to expand the court. VOTE!
One big item is that Trump is interested in generating and implementing fixes to actual problems.
The rest love to have issues to rail about for the next election, while the Deep State works the Revolution to turn the US into a Soviet type Democracy where the country is fundamentally transformed into a yuge Plantation.
You just have to sit back and wonder what it is/was about Trump that absolutely terrifies Democrats and their fellow travelers in the media?
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Trump knew how crooked they all are & they were (and still are) terrified he will expose their criminality & corruption
...since the EXPERIENCED folks have done such a really good job of running the country! 51 years, 176 days Robert Byrd Democratic 49 years, 349 days Daniel Inouye Democratic 47 years, 307 days Patrick Leahy Democratic 47 years, 159 days Strom Thurmond (I) Democratic, Republican 46 years, 292 days Ted Kennedy Democratic 42 years, 0 days Orrin Hatch Republican 41 years, 307 days Chuck Grassley Republican 41 years, 305 days Carl Hayden Democratic 41 years, 59 days John C. Stennis Democratic 40 years, 10 days Ted Stevens Republican 39 years, 94 days Thad Cochran Republican 38 years, 55 days Fritz Hollings Democratic 38 years, 9 days Richard Russell Jr. Democratic 38 years, 3 days Russell B. Long Democratic 37 years, 307 days Mitch McConnell Republican 37 years, 6 days Francis E. Warren (I) Republican The 99th Congress (1985–1987) was the period in which most people from this list were serving together (all but Hayden, Russell Jr., Warren, Eastland, and Magnuson).
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Professionals built the Titanic. Amateurs built Noah's Ark.
Donald Trump declared war on the ruling class the day he first said, “We’re going to drain the swamp!” He’s had a price on his head ever since.
The same things that terrified the GOP-e.
He is not one of the chosen who has any number of strings on him from "little favors" given and taken while he worked his way up to the presidency.
You could not offer him money, you can not blackmail him.
And he really does not want to run other people's lives.
He is the proverbial free man.
IMHO anyone who has been in DC more then two terms should be ousted on general principals.
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