Posted on 09/01/2015 10:52:46 AM PDT by Demiurge2
The Donald and the Demagogues
Democracies that trade substance for charisma dont last. Trump is Americas answer to Hugo Chávez.
By Bret Stephens
Aug. 31, 2015 7:34 p.m. ET
If by now you dont find Donald Trump appalling, youre appalling.
If you have reached physical maturity and still chuckle at Mr. Trumps pubescent jokes about Rosie ODonnell or Heidi Klum, you will never reach mental maturity. If you watched Mr. Trump mock fellow candidate Lindsey Grahams low poll numbers and didnt cringe at the lack of class, you are incapable of class. If you think we need to build new airports in Queens the way they build them in Qatar, you should be sent to join the millions of forced laborers who do construction in the Persian Gulf. It would serve you right.....
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Hillary Are You Ignorant, Stupid or Just a Demagogue?
http://www.economicnoise.com/2014/10/25/ignorance/
Bret is just another puppet with monied interests having their arm up his backside controlling his ‘communication hole’.......
He's loud, boorish, inelegant and crude. He reminds me of the Rodney Dangerfield character in the movie Caddyshack. I suspect Mr. Stephens, George Will, Krauthammer, etc. similarly are reminded of Rodney or someone like him.
Trump is unapologetically low-brow.
I do think Stephens did get in one good zinger though...
"a reality-TV star whose meretricious tastes in trophies, architectural and otherwise, mainly remind me of the aesthetics of Bob Guccione."
Wish I'd said that.
Bret, I'm appalled at your outrageous bigotry! You must be more tolerant! Dude!
I'm just appalling enough to vote for Trump.
Your world is coming to an end.
Trump/Cruz 2016
Don Rickles.
Here is the first:
++++ It says that a party that carries on about the importance of e pluribus unum and rails against the identity politics of assortedR, minorities is increasingly tempted to indulge the paranoid (and losing) identity politics of a dwindling white majority.
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One From Many is what we should have. The Democrats have a different goal and are succeeding. Their goal is "e pluribus pluribus" which is almost certainly incorrect Latin but you get the idea. The result is a continuous dilution of our culture and its replacement by some sort of Politically Correct Socialist Nirvana envisioned by , the Leftist Elite and their MSM whipping boy.
No thanks.
Here is the second:
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It says that a sizable constituency in a party that is supposed to favor a plain reading of the Constitution objects to a plain reading of the 14th Amendment: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.
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According to this WSJ Idiot we are to believe that a "plain reading of the Constitution" requires that we assume that the phrase "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" was added to fill space. His interpretation is the same if these few words are left in or taken out.
He is wrong. That man who wrote those words had no such intention and such a use would upset any honest (non-Democrat) English teacher.
Bret Stephens is the kind of elite who falls for liars like Hillary.
As Marie Antoinette said, the people are revolting.
Demigod vs demogogues
“you will never reach mental maturity.”
I am rubber and you are glue....:)
I’ve never read a word by Stephens indicating anything but a loathing of either Clinton. Can you post any quotes by him that would show otherwise?
To see the real contempt for the base these RINO hacks have just read about Senator Flake the GOPs “John Kerry”. The arrogance is astounding.
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/this-senator-is-the-gops-anti-trump-128056697531.html
So, if the powers that be keep Trump off the ticket somehow, are we gonna mount a write-in campaign?
I am hoping the party is not stupid enough to screw with Trump to that point.
If it does, Trump will go third party, and I will go with him.
Tens of millions of people will do the same thing.
We are fed up with Washington. The very fact that this is even a possibility, shows us how low the Republican Party has sunk.
We may be witnessing the death of the Republican party here.
If the GOPe forces Trump out, I don’t see it ever recovering.
They have consistently refused to accept reality. I attribute that to Rove and other consultants who will move on and get paychecks somewhere else after destroying the Republican Party. And the party leadership is just too thick headed to get it.
Trump will be our next president. He would prefer to do it as a Republican. If they don’t want that, so be it.
I’m telling you right now, if the GOPe pushes this, he goes third party, wins the White House and they start playing games between him and Congress, he will mow them down one by one.
Elections in two years would see over a hundred Independent candidates elected to Congress, possible several.
The Republican party is mismanaging it’s way to oblivion.
If it’s leadership doesn’t wake up, it’s done.
It wouldn’t listen to it’s base. It allowed the worst of the worst to represent it. And now it’s trying to play hardball with the very guy that could hand them a majority that would last them decades.
Seldom in history has a small group of leaders been this destructive to their real mandate.
The real elephant in the room... what do the GOPe see as their mandate, if not opposition to Leftist tyranny?
WSJ = Cheap Labor Express, and Hedge fund managers, both frequent Trump talking point villain’s
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