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NY Times Op-Ed: Trump Is a ‘Moderate’
Breitbart ^ | 12/18/2023 | Neil Munro

Posted on 12/18/2023 1:06:57 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The New York Times posted an op-ed in favor of Donald Trump on Monday under the headline, “The Secret of Trump’s Appeal Isn’t Authoritarianism.”

The article is a shocking departure from the newspapers’ progressive cheerleading — and its readers’ preference for anti-Trump news.

The author argued that Trump’s style is conventional, but his statements zigzag along the centrist, middle-of-the-road, this-and-that line favored by non-elite, non-ideological voters:

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: matthewschmitz; moderate; mytimes; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; oped; trump
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1 posted on 12/18/2023 1:06:57 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27
So if Trump is a moderate according to the NYT, what does that make the people who sabotaged his presidency, or pulled out all the stops to cheat in 2020, or conduct bogus lawfare to prevent him from running again?

Or using the apparati of the State to persecute/prosecute those who support Trump's policy?

2 posted on 12/18/2023 1:12:35 PM PST by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s a Matthew Schmitz opinion piece published in the New York Times. Describing it as a New York Times op-ed makes it seem like it is coming from NYT.

Here is a link to the article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/opinion/trump-election-2024.html


3 posted on 12/18/2023 1:15:20 PM PST by JSM_Liberty
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Op-ed” means it’s not the paper’s own opinion.

The article is right, but I wonder why the Times published it, since it goes against everything they want readers to believe.


4 posted on 12/18/2023 1:15:26 PM PST by x
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They can label him all they want.

I just know I’m going to vote for him.


5 posted on 12/18/2023 1:18:25 PM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: airborne

There were some anti-Trump folks on CSPAN last night who did their homework and interviewed a wide variety of President Trump supporters.

What was the “secret” that no other Republican could touch?

He was the only candidate that the voters believe would fight for them through thick and thin.

That was it.

There is no way another primary candidate can touch that—because they have not had the chance to be battle tested.

If the DeSantis team had done their homework from day one they could easily have figured this out—and sat this one out...


6 posted on 12/18/2023 1:23:56 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Obey or get canceled.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That probably close to the truth.


7 posted on 12/18/2023 1:28:38 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: x

even a liberal publication will at some point realize, accept and slightly modify their positions when faced with the looming prospect of a paradigm shift in the politics of their readership as a whole. not “all of a sudden” mind you but as a long term strategy to remain relevant and still be profitable. two things seem to be happening...one is the movement Trump heads is NOT going away and two...NO publication that wants to be profitable in the coming future wants to be on the wrong side of History. except the hardcore leftist rags. they don’t care anyway. ideologues will spend themselves into oblivion to push their ideological qwap...even when NO ONE CARES what they believe. sad but true.


8 posted on 12/18/2023 1:28:44 PM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: All

It’s not rocket science.

1) Drain the Swamp
2) Build the Wall
3) American First In All Things

Career politicians worshipping at the altar of the party elite can’t even get #1. So they try to jump past it or pretend no one knows what it means.

When you are a career politician, how can you assure voters you will attack the Swamp?

All the writers from DC and NYC and California cannot understand they are held in utter contempt. They just move past that and want to talk about taxes and spending.

But no. There is no moving past it. They are Swamp Filth, like any politician with a career as such. This is why Trump eclipses them.


9 posted on 12/18/2023 1:30:06 PM PST by Owen (.)
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To: Tench_Coxe
It's an op-ed, not the NYT editorial position.

Unlike some, they do print opposing views they deem "responsible".

10 posted on 12/18/2023 1:34:15 PM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I actually would consider him a moderate. Everything he has stood for that I can think of was actually simple common sense solutions. Nothing radically right or left.


11 posted on 12/18/2023 1:34:19 PM PST by cuban leaf (It is easier to fool a man than to convince him he's being fooled. - Mark Twain)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Donald Trump governed like a 1970’s Moderate-Liberal Democrat (think Scoop Jackson with a personality). He was a big spender, favored social programs, but believes in a strong defense and truly loves America.


12 posted on 12/18/2023 1:37:20 PM PST by MuttTheHoople ( "Never thot I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones"-Johnny Rotten)
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To: Owen

and:

Drill, baby, drill!


13 posted on 12/18/2023 1:39:16 PM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

LOL...psyops!


14 posted on 12/18/2023 1:41:09 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Recall that the snow flake reporters at the NYT revolted when Tom Cotton’s op ed recommended that Trump call out the military to crush the BLM riots. Wonder if they’ll flip out over a pro Trump op ed?


15 posted on 12/18/2023 1:41:22 PM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That’s ridiculous. Trump would have to move to the right to be a moderate.


16 posted on 12/18/2023 1:42:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s right though. The idea that Trump was a extremist was always just a left wing talking point. They always portray any right of center position as “extremist”.

They called W an extremist too. Heck they also called Romney an extremist when he ran against a democrat.

Trump is not really an extremist in any way shape or forum. He’s only really slightly right of center. The only difference is that on the issues that he was right of center on, he actually tried to deliver.


17 posted on 12/18/2023 1:42:30 PM PST by Truthsearcher
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To: Tench_Coxe

You’ve never heard of lying before?


18 posted on 12/18/2023 1:44:27 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: cuban leaf

“I actually would consider him a moderate. Everything he has stood for that I can think of was actually simple common sense solutions. Nothing radically right or left.”

in most ways, Trump and MAGA are what classical liberals from the 1960’s professed to believe: against Big Brother, Freedom of Speech, anti-Big-Corporation, respect for opposing opinions, economic freedom, civil liberties, rule of law, individual autonomy, limited government, religious freedom, political freedom ...

the Democrat Party as it stands today is diametrically and adamantly opposed to all of the above and is pretty much the very definition of classical fascism ...


19 posted on 12/18/2023 1:45:32 PM PST by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: Qwapisking

The NY Times is a leftist rag perpetually on the wrong side of history.

The Reagan revolution ended the day Bush took office.

I appreciate the enthusiasm but with no successor in sight the long term viability of MAGA is in constant peril.


20 posted on 12/18/2023 1:45:51 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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