How crybully Trump and his supporters excel at playing the victim

But in recent years, conservatives have found playing the victimhood card to be equally profitable for their own causes.

Donald Trump is a successful businessman. His residences and modes of transit are plated with gold. He has married three gorgeous women. He claims to have a multibillion-dollar net worth. He has mocked the disabled, women, Asians, Hispanics, Muslims, even prisoners of war....

Yet he constantly rationalizes his bad behavior and political setbacks as the inevitable consequence of unfair systems and anti-Trump persecution.

Disapprove of his pro-violence rally rhetoric? He’s just protecting his beleaguered voters against those “big, strong, powerful” Black Lives Matter activists, Bernie bros and other “bad dudes.”

Find his xenophobic remarks about our allies, trading partners and immigrants repulsive? He’s merely defending his supporters from foreigners who prey on them economically, culturally and even sexually. (Those Mexican border-crossers are mostly rapists, after all.)

To hear Trump tell it, he and his supporters are the most beaten-down victims this country has ever seen. The system is rigged to keep them from winning, designed to make the weak even weaker. They have been robbed, disenfranchised, bullied and insulted. With the odds so stacked against them, they — and their leader — are not only permitted but also morally obligated to “punch back” as ferociously as they can.

This one was a particularly obnoxious boil that long needed a good lancing.

101 posted on 04/27/2016 9:09:12 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("The bathroom deal is a big fat nothing burger." -- Jim Robinson, 04/22/16)

102 posted on 04/27/2016 9:10:17 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("The bathroom deal is a big fat nothing burger." -- Jim Robinson, 04/22/16)

103 posted on 04/27/2016 9:40:18 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (When The Ballot No Longer Counts, Tshe Ammo Box Does! What's In Your Ammo Box?(US Conservative)!)

I believe ConservingFreedom was zotted as a nevertrumper during the colorado fiasco.

He was a weird one: pro-mirajuana, anti-H1B, pro-Cruz and anti-Trump.

I’d ping your buddies, but they already got the ZOT.

Ping 'em anyway FRiend, the odds are that the *ZOT-Zombies*(c) come back to
roam the forums they once inhabited just to see if anyone said anything to them
or about them, it's their nature in viewing themselves as victims, and failing to
take responsibility for their own actions. Their *ZOTs* were entirely avoidable,
all they had to do was to abide by the wishes of the site owner and refrain from
their vile anti-Trump behavior.

But just like a crackhead that thinks that pipe talks to them, they can't help
themselves, therefore: *ZOT*.

105 posted on 04/28/2016 12:16:05 AM PDT by mkjessup (Cry havoc!! And let slip the ZOTS of War!!! ~ General Chang of the House of FREEP)

106 posted on 04/28/2016 7:27:25 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (When The Ballot No Longer Counts, Tshe Ammo Box Does! What's In Your Ammo Box?(US Conservative)!)

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