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Part of Trump's Base and Left's Worst Nightmare: Disaffected Democrats
PJ Media ^ | December 31, 2015 | Michael Walsh

Posted on 01/02/2016 12:04:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: conservativejoy

There isn’t any agreement among his supporters on the “right things” to do, or at least they haven’t considered the fallout and unintended consequences of bad policy, but Trump does seem conceited and arrogant enough to avoid failing in front of the world at all cost. You have to put a certain faith in the minimal amount of damage he is willing to inflict.


41 posted on 01/02/2016 1:48:00 PM PST by erlayman
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To: HarleyLady27

I get them, too, but I ignore them. I’m not sure why that is such a problem for some.


42 posted on 01/02/2016 1:51:45 PM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God ...We Can Elect Ted Cruz)
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To: conservativejoy
I guess it's because if you don't have your super pacs, lobbyists and donors gathering money for you, you shouldn't have to beg for more money, it's a turn off...
43 posted on 01/02/2016 1:55:27 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (.."THE FORCE AWAKENS"!!! TRUMP; TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP 100%....)
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To: erlayman

“There isn’t any agreement among his supporters on the “right things” to do, or at least they haven’t considered the fallout and unintended consequences of bad policy...”

I’ve considered it, and it’s hard to imagine how the fallout and unintended consequences of bad Trump policies could hold a candle to the intentional destruction - now and to come - wrought by Obama’s bad policies. And in spite of those policies we’re still (marginally) here, so I’ll chance voting for Trump. Cruz is my 2nd choice and is lower risk than Trump - but along with the risks, Trump is also the only candidate who offers the plausible possibility of doing something unexpectedly great. We need “great”. Time is short.


44 posted on 01/02/2016 2:19:57 PM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Glad to see back in the fray...had not seen you online for a while!

I bounce between Trump and Cruz. Cruz stands stronger than Trump right now, however, I have to say that I applaud Trump the majority of the time that he opens his mouth. He pushes those snarky progressives back just about every time. What passes through my mind comes out of Trump’s mouth.

However, I like Cruz’s thoroughness and systematic, and largely conservative approach. What I question is how he is going to implement some of the down-sizing of the government bureaucracies like the IRS, DOE, DOL. He is correct in appealing to Christians as he is in many ways the antithesis of Obama.

Trump appeals to a broad base of the population; all political, religious, economic, racial persuasions. Some of his appeal is that he is where everyman wants to be and he belongs to no one man except himself. He responds without testing the polls and he frames the issues.

The GOPe and other progressives do him a service by denigrating and belaboring his negatives; too many see them as positives. Me, too.


45 posted on 01/02/2016 2:35:02 PM PST by Tarasaramozart
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Actually, the same applies to the GOPe. Trump’s base includes disaffected Republicans.

I’m proud to be one of the lesser educated knuckle draggers supporting Trump.


46 posted on 01/02/2016 2:54:27 PM PST by redfreedom (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: sunrise_sunset

I didn’t know Cruz supported a VAT tax. That’s horrible. VATs are the worst of all taxes because they are invisible.


47 posted on 01/02/2016 4:17:32 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: Tarasaramozart

I question how any candidate is going to downsize government, especially whether Trump genuinely understands the depths of the corruption in Washington and the toughness required to take it on and drop it a notch or two.


48 posted on 01/02/2016 4:18:53 PM PST by erlayman (yw)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Read up on allocation, rules, etc., for delegates: http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/R-Alloc.phtml


49 posted on 01/02/2016 4:24:11 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: erlayman

Exactly.

However, it has to be done and someone has to start somewhere. I for one are sick and tired at the cavalier attitude those in all levels of government have towards OUR money.


50 posted on 01/02/2016 4:27:55 PM PST by Tarasaramozart
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I read all of this.

“The cultural divide between the “educated class” and the rest of the country opened in the interwar years. Some Progressives joined the “vanguard of the proletariat,” the Communist Party. Many more were deeply sympathetic to Soviet Russia, as they were to Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Not just the Nation, but also the New York Times and National Geographic found much to be imitated in these regimes because they promised energetically to transcend their peoples’ ways and to build “the new man.” Above all, our educated class was bitter about America. In 1925 the American Civil Liberties Union sponsored a legal challenge to a Tennessee law that required teaching the biblical account of creation. The ensuing trial, radio broadcast nationally, as well as the subsequent hit movie Inherit the Wind, were the occasion for what one might have called the Chautauqua class to drive home the point that Americans who believed in the Bible were willful ignoramuses. As World War II approached, some American Progressives supported the Soviet Union (and its ally, Nazi Germany) and others Great Britain and France. But Progressives agreed on one thing: the approaching war should be blamed on the majority of Americans, because they had refused to lead the League of Nations.”

http://spectator.org/articles/39326/americas-ruling-class-and-perils-revolution

It’s long.

In short, there’s the ruling/political class and the rest of us/the country class. A class hell bent on power for itself, and one living with the power the other class wants.


51 posted on 01/02/2016 4:31:31 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“I’ve been a Republican since I was 12 years old...”

I’ve been a maggot since my drill sergeant called me that at MCRD in San Diego.

:)


52 posted on 01/02/2016 4:58:07 PM PST by sergeantdave ( If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: WMarshal

I have a Bachelors degree in business and a masters certification in project management. I am voting trump or Cruz. Been working for almost 42 years.


53 posted on 01/02/2016 5:45:23 PM PST by Donnafrflorida (Thru Him all things are possible.)
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To: altura

Are they in the academic world?


54 posted on 01/02/2016 7:34:42 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore)
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To: sunrise_sunset
Yeah, Trump's a loser alright...

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55 posted on 01/02/2016 7:41:10 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore)
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To: erlayman
You have to put a certain faith in the minimal amount of damage he is willing to inflict.

Yeah, he's going to inflict a lot of damage all right...

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Especially on his family...

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56 posted on 01/02/2016 7:52:50 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Been thinking about that. If Trump gets the nod, he just shuttle back and forth between Trump Tower and Mar-a-Lago. If a Republican takes New York and Florida it’s lights out for the Democrats no matter what happens elsewhere.


57 posted on 01/02/2016 8:04:45 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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