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To: mbrfl
I was wrong about him dropping out, but I was spot on about how he would do in office, wasn't I?

The funny thing is you claim to be a Trump supporter, but you actually disagree with his actual words. As far as McDaniel, he has only manifested praise of her. Read his own words. And mainly she goes after his critics.

70 posted on 11/11/2023 10:50:00 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

>>”I was wrong about him dropping out, but I was spot on about how he would do in office, wasn’t I?”

No.

>>”The funny thing is you claim to be a Trump supporter, but you actually disagree with his actual words.”

Just because I’m a Trump supporter doesn’t mean I agree with him on everything. Besides, you don’t seem to understand how politics works. Trump has said nice things about a lot of people. He’s said nice things about Xi and Macron, for example, but he still played hardball with them. Same with Mexico’s President. It’s called diplomacy. There are certain people that you have to deal with at the moment. Trump’s not a god. He can’t just make everyone he doesn’t like go away by wishing it so. That means, sometimes you have to make do until circumstances change.

When Trump first ascended to the presidency the RNC and Congress were filled with Republican backstabbers. Trump had to accept that he wasn’t strong enough to get rid of all of them, all at once. That’s why he made efforts to work with the more reasonable members of the swamp, and that was likely the reason he chose Pence to be his running mate. And Trump was able to accomplish things he likely wouldn’t have been able to by taking that approach. Tax reform, ANWAR, support for his SCOTUS picks, were all done with an establishment dominated Republican party. In the mean time, he was able to purge the party the party of Jeff Flake, Paul Ryan, Justin Amash, Ben Sasse, and others. But these things take time.

Now, in the past month we’ve seen Matt Gaetz engineer the removal of Kevin McCarthy. Do you think Trump didn’t have a hand in that? Gaetz himself hints that Trump was involved. But it took time. Trump publicly supported McCarthy and yet was working with Gaetz to have him removed. In fact Trump played a role in getting McCarthy to agree to the initial terms of his speakership - all while publicly supporting him.

The situation with Rona McDaniel is likely similar. Trump supported her publicly when there was no immediate option to replace her. Backing Harmeet Dhillon would have been nothing more than trading one swamp rat for another. But now the landscape is starting to change, and a real opportunity to trade up from Rona is presenting itself. I believe we’ll see that happen, in the coming months, and in time for the 2024 election. Sometimes things have to get to a breaking point for the consensus to support a change. This past election was such a breaking point IMO, and while the results were disappointing in Kentucky, Virginia, and Ohio, they’re a small price to pay if they end up being the impetus for Daniel’s removal.


74 posted on 11/12/2023 11:01:07 AM PST by mbrfl
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