Posted on 10/27/2024 9:53:15 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Pat Parker has campaigned for Democratic presidential candidates in the battleground state of Michigan through five elections, and it hasn’t always been a happy experience.
The thrill of doorstepping for Barack Obama gave way to working in a Hillary Clinton campaign office in the bellwether Saginaw county, Michigan, with all the atmosphere of a morgue, even though it was assumed she would win. Campaigning for Joe Biden was constrained by the pandemic.
Next week’s election is different. For the first time Parker is seeing real fear.
The clinical social worker is enthusiastic about Kamala Harris but she recognises that many of those who say they will vote to make her the US’s first Black female president are being goaded to the polls by her opponent, Donald Trump.
“It’s about him. There’s a huge component of, ‘We can’t have him back, we’ve got to stop him.’ Some conversations, it’s really difficult. People get completely freaked out and upset, and it doesn’t leave a lot of room for, ‘What do you think of Harris?’,” said Parker.
After Trump’s defeat in 2020, many Americans hoped and expected he would withdraw from the political stage. But the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, Trump’s continued subverting of confidence in the electoral system and the lasting consequences of his presidency, not least the loss of abortion rights, meant that the former president remained very much at the forefront of US politics.
Parker said this year’s campaign has ratcheted up the fear as Trump spewed threats to tear down democracy, turn the military on the “enemy within” and use the justice system to punish those who crossed him. Then there is the mania of Trump’s campaign rallies filled with bile against immigrants, including those in the US legally, and threats to deport millions of people.
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The Guardian is a real rag, isn’t it?
The Michigan Democrats have a pretty good vote fraud machine - and many of the Michigan Republicans are Assistant Democrats who can loaf on the taxpayer dime if the Democrats are in charge.
“Parker said this year’s campaign has ratcheted up the fear as Trump spewed threats to tear down democracy, turn the military on the “enemy within” and use the justice system to punish those who crossed him.”
It’s really a shame that there’s absolutely ZERO proof of any of that complete and total bullshit.
Propaganda is the art of lying over and over and over again...hoping that the dumbed down masses believe it.
What’s even more of a shame is that a major party feels they have to resort to that crap and EVEN MORE of a shame that a lot of people swallow it.
Trump is married to an immigrant.
It’s been apparent to me for a long time that democrats will do practically anything to stay in power......nothing is off the table.
It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if they had at least some small role in one or both of DJTs assassination attempts.....and more than likely a large role in it.
They may have to overturn every tombstone in Michigan for this election.GOP voting early will mess them up. I always ask the status of my most recently deceased relatives when I check in to vote. If more did that we might get a fare election.
I once tried to defend democrats on FR. But one kind Freeper told me that there never has been an honest democrat. According to him the party has always been based on corruption, fraud, and immorality!
The last three and the next three...
“The clinical social worker is enthusiastic about Kamala Harris”
Almost certainly entirely dependent on our tax dollars for her living.
Democrat voters don’t vote for Democrat candidates.
Democrat voters vote for The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate.
They hope the Crime Syndicate will give them some of the money they stole in exchange for their support.
“Grassroots” concern trolling articles.
It’s like all this is on a giant spreadsheet that is on a shared drive with all the media robots.
But you drive through neighborhoods and you see small (and some times not so small) yard signs for Trump at about 60/40.
Agreed. And, if Trump wins, they will do everything possible to block his agenda. Get ready for the “Resist” movement to re-ignite and for the Dems to get antifa and BLM rioting again. Plus Lord knows what else they will have up their sleeves.
Same old playbook.
Trump has more experience this time from dealing with the Swamp.
So Republicans will be more likely to support him which was not the case in 2016.
Andy "Ol' Crook" Jackson was the first demoncrat.
He had to have the rules changed in order to get into power. His supporters went around threatening, burning out, beating and even killing people who did not bow down and worship before the bitter old coot.
When he got in office he crashed the US economy so badly that it took decades to fix it.
He ignored both laws and treaties, stabbed his former allies in the back for profit, stole money and land to give to his supporters and left the country in shambles.
He chased off his "wife's" legal husband so he could have her for himself.
As a party is founded so shall it grow.
Basically repeating every rumor that ever surfaced about him - true or not.
Unlike the current Dems, he was willing to stand up and take a bullet for his position.
Remind you of anybody?
Agree.
I left MI in part to escape the rotten government and corrupt pols you describe.
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