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The myth of Trump’s angry legions
Yahoo Politics ^ | 08-13-15 | Matt Bai

Posted on 08/13/2015 3:23:35 PM PDT by STE=Q

Voters of America: Get ahold of yourselves, please.

I know you’re irrational and seething with anger. I know this because I keep reading about it, in every somber piece of punditry about Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders or what’s going to drive the 2016 campaign. I hear it on my Twitter feed and in the fundraising emails that batter me all day long.

Apparently the entire country got hit with some kind of gamma ray, and now everybody’s all huge and green and hurling campaign buses willy-nilly across the highway.

Except that when I meet American voters, they don’t generally seem so unhinged to me.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: followers; trump; trumpamania; voters
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1 posted on 08/13/2015 3:23:36 PM PDT by STE=Q
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To: STE=Q
Another article with an insult right out of the gate.

Holier than thou much ? Sheesh.

2 posted on 08/13/2015 3:25:04 PM PDT by onona (If I agree with something Donald says in a forest, and no one hears, am I still a "Trumper" ?)
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3 posted on 08/13/2015 3:26:37 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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4 posted on 08/13/2015 3:26:45 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: STE=Q
More like disgusted.

You can be fed up without being angry.

But just as it's always somebody else who hates, it's always somebody else who is angry. Very few people are willing to characterize themselves in that way.

5 posted on 08/13/2015 3:29:58 PM PDT by x
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To: STE=Q

...looks like the Patriot that he is....


6 posted on 08/13/2015 3:30:47 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("It's the hard working, tax paying citizens of the United States that are suffering...")
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To: STE=Q

Another ‘journaliste’ trying so hard to be liked by all the right people


7 posted on 08/13/2015 3:31:00 PM PDT by AdaGray
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Groupthink mindguard piece.

Fools enjoy these.


8 posted on 08/13/2015 3:32:26 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: x

More like disgusted.

You can be fed up without being angry.

But just as it’s always somebody else who hates, it’s always somebody else who is angry. Very few people are willing to characterize themselves in that way.

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I went beyond angry a long time ago.

The word “disgusted” works pretty well for me.

STE=Q


9 posted on 08/13/2015 3:35:25 PM PDT by STE=Q ('The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing'... Edmund Burke)
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Who is this Matt Bai fag?


10 posted on 08/13/2015 3:35:50 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Well I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused.


11 posted on 08/13/2015 3:37:29 PM PDT by dfwgator
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I’m not angry. It’s just that the GOPe has openly declared war on conservatives and now I want their heads on pikes so I can better concentrate on the leftists in the Democrat party.


12 posted on 08/13/2015 3:41:10 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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To: STE=Q; All
Although low-information patriots deserve much of the blame for the Washington cartel for failing to replace every member of the corrupt, unconstitutionally powerful, post-17th Amendment ratification Senate after three election cycles, the Senate still short of the 2/3 majority required to remove a House-impeached Obama from office, please consider the following.

With all due respect to the family and fans of the late John Wayne, I think that after 6+ years of concerned citizens having to put with the deaf ears of the corrupt Washington cartel, the cartel deserves to feel threatened by a “John Wayne” type presidential candidate like Trump.

13 posted on 08/13/2015 3:48:00 PM PDT by Amendment10
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I don't know what to think or feel, so I asked Mr. Magic 8 ball. Magic 8 ball photo: Magic 8 ball "Kill Them All" magic8ball-KillThemAll.jpg It looks like Mr. 8 ball needs a time-out!
14 posted on 08/13/2015 3:51:06 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: STE=Q

they don’t generally seem so unhinged to me.

Come talk to me...not your starbucks lounge lizards


15 posted on 08/13/2015 3:53:48 PM PDT by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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Yes, there’s a sizable segment of enraged voters in the GOP — and on the left, for that matter.

REALLY, does the left have anything else going for it anymore?

16 posted on 08/13/2015 3:54:49 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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From who else but Yah Who?


17 posted on 08/13/2015 4:00:00 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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Trump is like the dice rolling constant 7’s and the supporters want to see if he can break the political house.


18 posted on 08/13/2015 4:03:55 PM PDT by jetson
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To: Don Corleone

Trump supporters are people who gave up on the rigged system, then saw a glimmer of hope in him because he is direct, plain spoken and addressing the really crucial issues that threaten to destroy this country. And he doesn’t take “shinola” from anyone. Is his candidacy pie in the sky? Maybe. But the alternative is certain destruction if we fail to understand what’s really going on in this country. Whether you like him or hate him, Trump helped lift the veil on what’s really going on, if not by his message, at least by the attempted suppression of it.


19 posted on 08/13/2015 4:06:38 PM PDT by ballearthout
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To: tumblindice

Nice magic 8-ball. The really important thing, though, is that the comma should have been a semicolon or a period.


20 posted on 08/13/2015 4:16:29 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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