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Opinion: Trump’s downtrodden supporters don’t deserve our sympathy
Market Watch ^ | Jan 12, 2016 | Tim Mullaney

Posted on 01/23/2016 1:10:43 PM PST by detective

As the Donald Trump phenomenon endures, it's become fashionable to make a certain kind of excuse for the boorishness of his backers, if not The Donald himself.

"Don't blame them" is the theme of front-page stories and much-discussed magazine essays. The economy left them behind, the world doesn't work like they were promised it would as young people, and we have to understand. They're angry, and should be.

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: downtrodden; frontrunner; supporters; trump
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To: Aria

Zing .. nice


21 posted on 01/23/2016 1:21:05 PM PST by Neu Pragmatist (Trump is the only one who will secure our borders . Vote Trump)
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To: cowboyway
re>It ain’t just the media that’s sick of The Donald

So now you think the media is GOOD? I think you sell your own values cheaply.

22 posted on 01/23/2016 1:21:44 PM PST by IC Ken
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To: Aria

LOL, It is a helluva a note, isn’t it? At least Trump has a USA birf certificate.


23 posted on 01/23/2016 1:22:06 PM PST by dforest
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To: snarkpup
Re>Most of the Trump supporters here seem to be having fun

WINNING is fun. Trump is right again.

24 posted on 01/23/2016 1:22:56 PM PST by IC Ken
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To: detective

I don’t see this as a Trump VS Cruz article. I see it as a screw you to working class Americans.


25 posted on 01/23/2016 1:22:58 PM PST by heights
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To: Red Steel

They believe someone is buying their lies. Beck, IBD, BI, NRO, GOPe, they’re all afraid a big change is coming.

And it is.


26 posted on 01/23/2016 1:23:51 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: SaveFerris

They’ve only just begun. I would not put anything past these sociopaths.


27 posted on 01/23/2016 1:25:03 PM PST by heights
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To: snarkpup

Most of the Trump supporters here seem to be having fun—as opposed to the Cruz supporters, who are not having fun.

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Ever play organized sports? I did, baseball. When we were winning, it was an on top of the world feeling. When we were losing........................not so much.


28 posted on 01/23/2016 1:26:51 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: heights

I agree 100%. Been praying because these evil men don’t like having the American taxpayer ATM shut down.

People who are still lucky enough to find jobs and contribute taxes, that is.

What they are doing to the country shocks me to no end.


29 posted on 01/23/2016 1:27:21 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: detective

They act as if someone has ASKED for their “sympathy”..typical of elitists.


30 posted on 01/23/2016 1:27:44 PM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: Aria

You’re calling Trump a carpetbagger and you support someone born in Canada?

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Good one Aria!


31 posted on 01/23/2016 1:28:27 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: detective
A link that works.
32 posted on 01/23/2016 1:29:21 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: snarkpup
Most of the Trump supporters here seem to be having fun as opposed to the Cruz supporters, who are not having fun.

That is for sure! These guys have appointed themselves as the gatekeepers of who gets to call themselves a conservative. They are even threatening to pick up their marbles and not vote in the next election if their man isn't picked as the nominee.

33 posted on 01/23/2016 1:29:24 PM PST by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: cowboyway

What makes Trump a carpetbagger??????

That comment makes no sense.

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34 posted on 01/23/2016 1:30:15 PM PST by Mears
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To: heights

These Sanctimonious Mother Floggers can look down their noses and spew their Vitriol all the want at Working Americans, but I don’t think we’re buying that jive this time. Something has to change and Rinse Pie Bus is not calling the shots this time.


35 posted on 01/23/2016 1:31:16 PM PST by 230FMJ (...from my cold, dead, fingers.)
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To: snarkpup

“Most of the Trump supporters here seem to be having fun—as opposed to the Cruz supporters, who are not having fun. “

We’ve been enjoying the election for months. It were these killjoys that saw that Trump wasn’t imploding so Cruz didn’t have to make an effort to win, and decided to go full jackwagon on FR. First through belittling, then full-on rage, now they are trying to call everyone a “cultist”.


36 posted on 01/23/2016 1:31:16 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: detective

Good, we don’t want sympathy. Go Trump!


37 posted on 01/23/2016 1:34:59 PM PST by dforest
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To: detective
stop left wing media propaganda!
stop left wing media propaganda!
38 posted on 01/23/2016 1:35:27 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: VanDeKoik

The cultist is the Tedly one.


39 posted on 01/23/2016 1:35:55 PM PST by dforest
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To: Aria; cowboyway

“You’re calling Trump a carpetbagger and you support someone born in Canada?”

Maybe its the cowboy boots. Authentic Americana for an authentic American.


40 posted on 01/23/2016 1:36:29 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Though you grind a fool with a mortar and pestle...)
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