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Why Trump’s con can’t last forever
The Washington Post ^ | January 24, 2017 | Katrina vanden Heuvel

Posted on 01/24/2017 10:43:34 AM PST by detective

From the start of his short, truculent and unabashedly populist inaugural address, President Trump called out the Washington establishment: “For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left, and the factories closed. The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country.”

He painted a dystopian picture of the United States and promised: “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.”

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


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: antitrumparticle; fakenews; first100days; katrinavandenheuvel; media; trump; trump100days; trump45
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To: detective

Author is “New York City native. Princeton graduate, and author of the book “ “Taking Back America — and Taking Down the Radical Right” (2004)”

What else do we need to know? She has a long long history of being wrong.


21 posted on 01/24/2017 10:50:20 AM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: detective

...and the horse you rode in on, Katrina!


22 posted on 01/24/2017 10:52:57 AM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: detective

Here’s the author - you have been warned

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/08/05/nyregion/05ROUTINE1_SPAN/05ROUTINE1_SPAN-superJumbo.jpg


23 posted on 01/24/2017 10:53:07 AM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: detective

The leftists are coming to the belated, horrified realization that they can’t control Trump by calling him names. This is outside their political experience - virtually all their political opponents roll over when scolded - and deeply upsetting. To address the problem, they are now calling him worse names and using apocalyptic language. That should do it.


24 posted on 01/24/2017 10:53:41 AM PST by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: detective
Katrina vanden Heuvel runs The Nation magazine, one of the most leftist publications around. She is an extreme leftist.
25 posted on 01/24/2017 10:53:48 AM PST by kabar
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To: detective

“Katrina vanden Heuvel” sounds like something you’d find in a third-world delicatessen. Next to the rotting pastrami and moldy potato salad.


26 posted on 01/24/2017 10:53:58 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain (The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
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To: SaveFerris

Katrina insists on calling this “Trump’s con”, but he had nothing to do with either setting it up, or reaping any possible benefit with its execution. If anything, the stated goal and obvious target was the BREAKING of this vast confidence game.


27 posted on 01/24/2017 10:53:59 AM PST by alloysteel (John Galt has chosen to take the job. This time, Atlas did NOT shrug.)
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To: detective

The writer thought Obama’s con would last forever, but it didn’t. They lied about him and his alleged achievements, and the people saw through it. The media has no one to blame for Trump’s popularity and election but themselves. They haven’t realized yet that they’re helping to get him reelected in 2020.


28 posted on 01/24/2017 10:54:10 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: SaveFerris

Oops - s/b “The Obamas”


29 posted on 01/24/2017 10:54:25 AM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: detective

Van den Heuvel + Washington Post = 2 Zeros.


30 posted on 01/24/2017 10:54:36 AM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: detective

Trump just needs to let the MSM keep delegitimatizing themselves. The traditional press has lost a lot of credibility in the year and a half since he announced. He has done a lot of damage to them in a short time. Fortunately, they are too stupid to realize what is happening to them and continue to hurt themselves by publishing bilge slime like this article. I wonder how many people will still believe them after 4 years of Trump?


31 posted on 01/24/2017 10:54:51 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: detective
Holy cow. We're going to be bombarded with this anti American rhetoric constantly until the fascists get another O'dummy in office. And from what I've seen, such as the old gray haired whore on the plane giving a Trump supporter grief, liberals will applaud such articles.

We may not realize it, but we're in a civil war. Don't forget the preliminaries that led up to the shooting part of the Civil War. Lot's of similarities to today.

32 posted on 01/24/2017 10:54:59 AM PST by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: bigbob
What else do we need to know?

Well,it's not widely known that she was one of Mao Tse Tung's favorite "comfort women".That may be of interest to some.

33 posted on 01/24/2017 10:55:49 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: detective

Maybe he should go on live tv once a week primetime!


34 posted on 01/24/2017 10:56:13 AM PST by hsmomx3 (Love my Steelers!!)
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35 posted on 01/24/2017 10:56:33 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Ciaphas Cain

vanden Heuvel is Dutch.

it translate to “out of eggs”


36 posted on 01/24/2017 10:56:38 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SaveFerris

I should have listened, but no. Arrrgh!


37 posted on 01/24/2017 10:56:39 AM PST by pingman ( Go Trump! Best Election, EVAH!)
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To: detective

WaPo and the rest of the enemedia which scorn President Trump 24x7 are becoming increasingly irrelevant day by day. That the Rasmussen Tracking Poll shows President Trump’s approval rating increasing day by day and which is now up to 57% shows that the waning influence of their agitprop is reminiscent of the receding drone emitted by a mosquito fleeing into the distance. Very soon, no one will ever hear anything they ever say again.


38 posted on 01/24/2017 10:56:55 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: alloysteel

We’re on Day 2 of the full work days - she should be melting down to complete babble inside 6 months.


39 posted on 01/24/2017 10:57:01 AM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: TheTimeOfMan

So trump is perpetrating a con job on us all. This liberal puke has supported 8 years of criminality and I can only guess shes for hillary. What we see here is what we see in the womens march on DC. White women with no clue as to what they are doing but yet they have something to say


40 posted on 01/24/2017 10:57:16 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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