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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: snarkpup

Could it be because a number of those who claim to support Cruz are not his supporters at all but want to trash Trump and one he is out of the way go after Cruz? I have noticed a pattern involving several posters who attack not just Trump but Laura Ingraham, Coulter, and others who oppose amnesty. Their attacks typically are vicious and personal.


61 posted on 01/23/2016 2:36:47 PM PST by Jane Austen (Marco Rubio is the White Obama and beholden to special interests.)
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To: gg188

I presume this is photoshopped.


62 posted on 01/23/2016 2:37:29 PM PST by Jane Austen (Marco Rubio is the White Obama and beholden to special interests.)
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To: cowboyway

IATZ!


63 posted on 01/23/2016 2:39:45 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: cowboyway

64 posted on 01/23/2016 2:43:38 PM PST by OwenKellogg (Trump all the way.)
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To: Breto

No I didn’t. What a great number fail to understand is, that there are a very great number of us in this country who are basically fed up with the lot of them.

Regardless of party.

I’ve been a conservative since I was a sperm. With the exception of Reagan, the only president I’ve voted for that gave a damn, we’ve all been paid lip service to by the beltway crowd, and so called republican in particular.

I’m tired of it. And I’m seriously pissed off.

I AM NOT ALONE!

If a resolution of the the sorry state of affairs that the status quo has presented us with requires setting a bull loose in the china shop, then let it be.


65 posted on 01/23/2016 2:51:29 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Flick Lives

I picked it up on twitter.


66 posted on 01/23/2016 2:53:41 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: detective

The media just do not get it.

Keep it up morons. We love getting even


67 posted on 01/23/2016 3:14:45 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: AFreeBird

I AM NOT ALONE!

No your not. I left the republican party with my utter disgust with Mr NWO Bush 1. To me the government, republican and democrat became one big crime syndicate that fed off the people to the benefit of their friends. I get the meaning of the trump support as an expression of anger and frustration. however, I just believe a man that used the government for his personal gain, has no respect for property rights and is likely to be as authoritarian or worse a cajoler, in his words, with the left to cut deals is what people perceive him to be and will make a lousy president to restore our liberty. To me American history ended sometime between Bush 1 and Obama and that it now is a story of an oligarchy unburdened by respect for the constitution. I think there is a good chance Trump will get the job and I hope your trust is not betrayed. We shall see.


68 posted on 01/23/2016 3:31:27 PM PST by Breto (Stranger in a strange land... where did America go?)
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To: cowboyway

Meanwhile in other news Cruz names Glenn Beck as VP. :-)


69 posted on 01/23/2016 4:06:28 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: detective
Let me get this straight. You support Trump and post an anti-Trump article. How is this anything other than

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70 posted on 01/23/2016 4:12:10 PM PST by don-o (Where did my tagline go?)
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To: heights
Their blood should run through the streets, their families hung from telephones poles.

Not content with old fashioned personal attacks, now we get to advocate violence in our pots?

I never thought I would see this day.

71 posted on 01/23/2016 4:14:49 PM PST by don-o (Where did my tagline go?)
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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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I’m enjoying the heck out of Donald making Lib’s heads explode- and not taking it back.
He’s saying what we all think, and has the guts to do it.

I’ve nothing against Cruz. I think he’d probably make a fine VP.


72 posted on 01/23/2016 4:38:23 PM PST by patriot08 (4th geneneration Texan (girl type))
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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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I’m enjoying the heck out of Donald making Lib’s heads explode- and not taking it back.
He’s saying what we all think, and has the guts to do it.

I’ve nothing against Cruz. I think he’d probably make a fine VP.


73 posted on 01/23/2016 4:38:23 PM PST by patriot08 (4th geneneration Texan (girl type))
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To: don-o

No it is not stirring the pot.

What I am doing is providing evidence of the attitude of the MSM and the GOP establishment. People need to be knowledgeable about the false attacks on Donald Trump and on America in general.

The media and others are using the big lie technique. Only if people are knowledgeable about the continual big lie propaganda and the false attacks can they understand the attitudes of the media, and the establishment.

If people remain ignorant about the attitudes and the attacks of the media they will be unable to make intelligent and informed decisions about the future of America.

Our once great country is facing enormous problems from those who are trying to destroy this country. If people remain ignorant of these threats they will be unable to work to find effective solutions.


74 posted on 01/23/2016 4:43:48 PM PST by detective
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To: Breto

I never left the Republican Party. They left me.

And I’m none too happy about it. All those years - decades - and they don’t give a damn.

Guess what? I don’t either, anymore. Not as far as the GOPe is concerned.

The parasites have made their bed. That can sleep in THEIR filth.


75 posted on 01/23/2016 4:59:02 PM PST by AFreeBird
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76 posted on 01/24/2016 11:36:43 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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