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Trump: Something New under the Political Sun
NATIONAL REVIEW ^ | May 3,2016 | by VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

Posted on 05/03/2016 3:31:54 PM PDT by Hojczyk

To get a clearer idea of the feelings of Trump supporters, read the comments section following any mainstream news story that deals with race, class, and gender in politically correct fashion. A stream-of-consciousness litany of his supporters’ peeves, for good or ill, would run like this: The wrong people are in the news.

Instead of generals, and small-business owners, and muscular workers, we instead see smarmy smart-asses, the pajama boys and mattress girls of the world of TV, who roll their eyes, wink about a joke only the anointed get, and smirk that what they say could have three different meanings — the Jon Stewarts, David Lettermans, and Stephen Colberts of Smug, Inc.

They do not hate political correctness so much as one-sided political correctness, which gives a pass to some to say things that would get others fired or ruined. They don’t want to be lectured that their own plight is part of a larger, healthy creative destruction or a leaner, meaner competitiveness or an overdue restructuring — by those who are never destroyed, rendered noncompetitive, or restructured. And they don’t like to be talked down to by the experts who ran up $10 trillion in debt, ruined the health-care system, dismantled the military,

and screwed up the Secret Service, the IRS, NASA, and the VA. Trump is their megaphone, not their solution. The Trump supporters have seen plenty of politicians with important agendas, but few with the zeal to push them through; at this late date, they would apparently prefer zeal without agendas to agendas without zeal

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016gopprimary; trump2016; vdh; victordavishanson
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To: DrPretorius; All
VDH is the same sort of confused, numb-nutted, jerkified, over-educated, intellectualoid anti-Trmp idjit as every other writer at NRO.

Not quite...he lives on a farm property in the CA central valley that has been in his family for several generations and sees first hand the effect of the stupid CA water restrictions and the influx of the illegals.

Does anyone know what caused the death of his daughter last year.....?

41 posted on 05/07/2016 8:57:00 AM PDT by spokeshave (Somewhere there is a ceiling for Trump.....Yeah, it's called The Oval Office)
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To: DiogenesLamp
Trump is a loose canon on deck.

Loose Cannon indeed, and perhaps a good attribute

At the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 Admiral Lord Nelson devised a tactical device that enabled him with only 27 ships (and smaller) to defeat the 33 larger ships of the Spanish Armada.

As well as his ships being more maneuverable...his cannons, being smaller were more easily aimed for best effect.

Later analysis of his battle plan resulted in a mathematical formulation of combat which was used by the Allies with success during WWII.

42 posted on 05/07/2016 9:10:52 AM PDT by spokeshave (Somewhere there is a ceiling for Trump.....Yeah, it's called The Oval Office)
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To: glorgau
History doesn’t repeat itself but it does rhyme

Cool song about History Repeating

History Repeating

43 posted on 05/07/2016 9:15:49 AM PDT by spokeshave (Somewhere there is a ceiling for Trump.....Yeah, it's called The Oval Office)
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