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Is America Ready for a Disruptive President?
Real Clear Politics ^ | July 22, 2016 | Michael Barone

Posted on 07/22/2016 12:28:17 PM PDT by Hojczyk

Apple disrupted the music industry; Uber disrupted the taxi cartels; Amazon disrupted the mega-bookstores. Global competition has been disrupting American manufacturing for decades. The inundation of low-skill immigrants unintentionally produced by the 1965 immigration act has disrupted many communities and big metro areas.

Over history, America has mostly been built by disruption. Certainly the Loyalists in the American Revolution thought so. So did the farmers who cheered for William Jennings Bryan's free silver as industrialization was disrupting the farm economy.

It's not clear that this disruptive convention will help him. Trump's managers have disrupted the traditions in place for 30 years. These rules had been: only supporters speak, sessions end promptly at 11 p.m., don't visibly crush dissent, vet speeches carefully. Monday saw a rules rebellion squashed. Tuesday it was controversy over a bit of anodyne plagiarism. Wednesday it was Ted Cruz's ringing non-endorsement, booed off the stage.

But there's another way of looking at a campaign that has not gone conventional wisdom's way. Disorder and disarray work against the party in power. Terrorist attacks and police shootings are not what America thought it'd get in the Obama years.

As tech billionaire Peter Thiel argued Thursday, disruption is a good thing when old ways -- and especially government -- aren't working well.

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


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To: Hojczyk
Is America Ready for a Disruptive President?

More disruptive than the one we have now? The "fundamentally change America into a third world country" guy?

I'm ready for a guy who will grab America by the scruff of its' neck and and turn it back into an America I can understand, not this alternate reality universe, where everything we know that is right and good is now wrong and bad by Obama's dictatorial decree.

21 posted on 07/22/2016 12:44:41 PM PDT by Kenton
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To: Dallas59

There is a lot he won’t get done without an executive order...and the list will be even Smaller if Dems take control. They don’t roll over like Ryan and Mcconnell and Boehner.


22 posted on 07/22/2016 12:45:05 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: CaptainAmiigaf

Obama & Hillary’s ‘Left’ act like and depend on the idea that Americans are just too distracted and unfocused to really know or care about what they have been up to . They also seem to depend on a subjugated federal law enforcement and military community that have been sublimated to upholding their errant oaths to those whom are totally unworthy of holding ANY loyalty towards . Thereby openly circumventing laws that apply to them and us alike , yet from which they escape all accountability . I long to see a detail walk into the Offal Office and drag him out from behind his desk , under arrest . O, that our LEO’s and Mil will some day soon find their balls again . There has to be a penalty and reaction to open treason at the high levels .


23 posted on 07/22/2016 12:45:58 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: Hojczyk

Only if it’s Trump.


24 posted on 07/22/2016 12:47:23 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: Hojczyk

The inundation of low-skill immigrants unintentionally produced by the 1965 immigration act has disrupted many communities and big metro areas.
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The inundation of low skill immigrants was not unintentional.
Nor was the inundation of illegal aliens that also came flooding in.
Both were intentional on the part of ou “leaders”.


25 posted on 07/22/2016 12:47:24 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Hojczyk

FUD


26 posted on 07/22/2016 12:47:44 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Hojczyk

Yes!

Long overdue.


27 posted on 07/22/2016 12:48:16 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: Hojczyk

I hope for change that doesn’t involve Hopium.


28 posted on 07/22/2016 12:49:45 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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29 posted on 07/22/2016 12:51:48 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: stayathomemom

Well done! Great if original.


30 posted on 07/22/2016 12:52:12 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: Amendment10

Hunh, Marshall Law was not all bad...


31 posted on 07/22/2016 12:53:40 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: Hojczyk

Someone better disrupt something or we are going down the tubes.


32 posted on 07/22/2016 12:55:17 PM PDT by cp124 (Trade, Immigration, Intervention)
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To: Hojczyk
Is America Ready for a Disruptive President?

Hell yeah, we're ready! We've been practicing for eight years!

33 posted on 07/22/2016 12:56:17 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Hojczyk

We’ve had 7 years of one.


34 posted on 07/22/2016 12:56:29 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Hojczyk

Damned hope so. America NEEDS to be disrupted - at least the entitled Elitists in Both political parties.


35 posted on 07/22/2016 12:59:04 PM PDT by ZULU (Donald Trump is the biggest threat to the New World Order since Barry Goldwater)
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To: Hojczyk

We’ve had a disruptive p_resident for 8 years.


36 posted on 07/22/2016 12:59:52 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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To: Hojczyk
I have to wonder how some people walk, talk, find their way home at night or day or when ever, even make it to the grocery store...

How dumb are most Americans? From reading this article, pretty darn stupid...

We have been given a gift, a man who has made the American Dream and a man who put his State as Governor back together despite all of the efforts of a Muslim President and a crooked, lying woman (excuse me ladies, I don't know what else to call her, and I know as a woman myself, it disgraces our term). We are able to fix America and her people with these two fine Gentlemen...lets not blow it again...we can't afford to for one thing...so lets throw this crap right back at the Media twits so they know WE have chosen Our President and Vice President and we don't need their Clinton Mafia tactics to destroy anything more...

GO.TRUMP/PENCE.GO!!! ALL THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE!!!

37 posted on 07/22/2016 1:00:50 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: Michael Barone

Mr. Barone, look up cognitive dissonance; you have it.

38 posted on 07/22/2016 1:04:20 PM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough)
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To: Hojczyk

So, he’s disruptive, hateful, racist, apocalyptic, etc etc etc...

Can you say any SPECIFIC EXAMPLE?

(not you Hojczyk - the author)


39 posted on 07/22/2016 1:08:53 PM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: RummyChick

A lot can be done just by forcing that the laws on the books BE OBEYED! LAW AND ORDER RETURNS TO AMERICA with TRUMP/Pence.


40 posted on 07/22/2016 1:10:55 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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