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Charlottesville is why I’m glad I don’t support Trump (#NeverTrump Alert)
NY Post ^ | August 14, 2017 | John Podhoretz

Posted on 08/13/2017 10:46:32 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom

For the past seven months, fellow conservatives have pointed to Donald Trump’s appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court and the deregulatory efforts of the Trump White House, among other things, and then demanded to know why my view of this presidency has remained negative.

Charlottesville is why.

There are policies the administration has pursued with which I disagree. And there have been incompetencies in the pursuit of policies like the repeal of ObamaCare I’ve found disheartening.

But these are disagreements and failings I could live with, I think, when I consider what the policy alternatives might have been under Hillary Clinton.

I couldn’t live with myself if I supported a president who can’t bring himself to denounce Nazis and white supremacists unqualifiedly and by name.

I’ve also been basically ordered to support the president by conservative intellectuals for the good of America, just as Daenerys Targaryen keeps telling Jon Snow on “Game of Thrones” to bend the knee to save Westeros.

“This is a civil war,” the former media mogul Conrad Black wrote this week about the liberals who are seeking to destroy Trump, and Black insists that “the choice, for sane conservatives, is Trump or national disaster.”

Really? And what if the choice is between national disaster and . . . national disaster?

Like everybody else, our president watched video of a white supremacist deliberately drive a car into a crowd of liberal protesters, and then back up the car and drive back over them again. And our president responded by condemning violence “on many sides” and offering his “best regards” to the casualties.

This was not a mistake on Trump’s part. This was a deliberate communications choice.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: charlottesville; gope; handwringers; nevertrump; podhoretz; trump
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To: LS

Is Soros in a hidden bunker somewhere?


61 posted on 08/14/2017 9:46:29 AM PDT by b9
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

>>>Like everybody else, our president watched video of a white supremacist deliberately drive a car into a crowd of liberal protesters, and then back up the car and drive back over them again<<<

I must have missed the Trial, the presentation of Evidence and the Verdict.


62 posted on 08/14/2017 9:49:43 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: taildragger

I think that’s the caze.


63 posted on 08/14/2017 12:07:22 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Trump had nothing to do with this. The liberals did.


64 posted on 08/14/2017 12:08:41 PM PDT by CodeToad (AA)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
...spin Trump jumping into a river ...

Trump can't swim!

Trump can't swim!

65 posted on 08/14/2017 2:04:03 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

This scumbag claims to be a conservative but he is a creepy NeverTrumper who has never been a conservative and is supporting Soros over Trump.


66 posted on 08/14/2017 2:09:52 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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