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The three things saving us from Trump
Wa Po ^ | Dec 29, 2017 | Uberliberal Ruth Marcus

Posted on 12/31/2017 11:28:39 AM PST by upchuck

As this appalling year limps to a close, with President Trump consistently underperforming even the lowest of expectations, a note of holiday cheer: Our country’s institutions and values have, so far, proven remarkably resilient.

This outcome was not a given; complacency that it will continue would be dangerous. And yet, after nearly a year of Trump, the warnings about incipient fascism and the insidious ways strongmen acquire power feel overblown. I suspected so from the start, but I wasn’t sure — nor should we be cocky about the future.

Still, for now, there are reasons for optimism in the performance of the media, the courts and, yes, even the Republican-dominated Congress — undergirded and reinforced by the American people.

On the media: How scary it is to have a president who derides us as “the enemy of the American people.” To have a cable news network that inflames his worst instincts and recklessly flings suggestions of a “coup” by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. To have nearly half the public, egged on by Trump’s bellowing about “fake news,” believing that reporters simply invent negative stories about the president.

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To: bitt

Beautiful.


121 posted on 12/31/2017 5:06:27 PM PST by Liz (One side in this conflict has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesnt know which bathroom to use.)
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To: upchuck
It's there. In fact, it's there twice:

For some reason, I'm not seeing them.

Thanks & have a Happy New Year!!

122 posted on 12/31/2017 5:08:15 PM PST by JesusIsLord
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To: GregNH

Thank you, Greg.

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123 posted on 12/31/2017 5:08:43 PM PST by LucyT (>>>> "You're not paranoid, they want you dead." <<<<)
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To: bitt

I was here for the comments.

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124 posted on 12/31/2017 5:17:15 PM PST by LucyT (>>>> "You're not paranoid, they want you dead." <<<<)
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To: upchuck

Ms. Marcus proves that denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.


125 posted on 12/31/2017 5:44:21 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: DJ Taylor
Donald Trump is America ’s first wartime president in the Culture War.

And he has a 200 million Patriot Army on the flanks ready to fight tooth and nail. Fight On President Trump! We shall fight them on the beaches, . . .

126 posted on 12/31/2017 5:58:45 PM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: upchuck

127 posted on 12/31/2017 6:01:37 PM PST by yoe
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To: upchuck

128 posted on 12/31/2017 6:04:18 PM PST by yoe
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To: upchuck
Number 3


129 posted on 12/31/2017 6:10:48 PM PST by yoe
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

For truth to emerge the fraud must be waterboarded either extreme prejudice .


130 posted on 12/31/2017 6:28:30 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

For truth to emerge the fraud must be waterboarded with
extreme prejudice .


131 posted on 12/31/2017 6:29:18 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: SaveFerris
When was his name changed, LEGALLY, to ‘Barack Hussein Obama’?

Whenever his fraudulent handlers and forgers said it was.

132 posted on 12/31/2017 6:35:01 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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To: Zeneta

Off topic, but I remember years ago seeing them do this entire album in concert. A masterpiece.


133 posted on 12/31/2017 6:36:25 PM PST by babyfreep
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To: Brown Deer

[How do these bimbos come up with such ignorant nonsense?]

Liberals lies incessantly; while covering for the Clintons and Obama.


134 posted on 12/31/2017 7:09:32 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: bitt; Fred Nerks; DJ Taylor

but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics. That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.>>>>>>>>>>>>>

GREAT POST BITT .....I have been saying the same and more since 2008, tracing the history of Obama’s liberal fascism and Alinsky ideology, how Obama experimented with his fascism in Kenya( 2007), and then Obama turned it loose on America, race baiting, inflaming urban blacks etc.. President Trump knows exactly what he is doing.That’s why the left hates him so much, he is effectively destroying their “revolution.”

Every one in America should know the facts about Alinsky and how the democrat party has been transformed from liberalism to liberal fascism.

YES , LIBERAL FASCISM.

I applaud your post bitt, and have been YELLING the same thing you worte since 2008. (Obama actually experimented with his Alinsky strategy in Kenya in the 2007 election there which resulted in tribal warfare genocide. People call Obama the “magic negro” when in fact all he was and is doing is using tried principles of fascism itself: Such as interfering with local police investigations to disempower and divide police departments, and there are many others designed to destroy our institutions such as the military. police and economy )

Liberal Fascism, like any kind of fascism cannot survive the Winston Churchill method of combating fascism.

President Trump is following the Winston Churchill method of combating fascism which Churchill had used against the Nazis and Mussolini,with a great deal of glee, stay tuned to President Trump’s Twitter!

1) Illumination (thorough discovery)

2) Exposure ( Publication, name names)

3) Ridicule and Mockery ( Make fun of these individuals in public)

Please read this primer on Liberal Fascism in America:

The Quintessential Liberal Fascist:

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html

As you say, President Trump is dealing with liberal fascism and the Alinsky tribe just as he should.And all President Trump is using is Twitter? Just imagine if our president had his own dedicated News Network. Leftists heads would explode every 5 minutes, just like the recent one at Disney World’s Hall of Presidents, something that should become widespread as these fascists destroy themselves.


135 posted on 01/01/2018 5:48:07 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: upchuck

Amazon Wash Compost fake news.

Jeff Bezos is a loser. Anti trust him and return his Govt money back to taxpayers.


136 posted on 01/01/2018 10:42:24 AM PST by TheNext
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To: Candor7; DJ Taylor

“thanks to DJ Taylor post #17”

Love your passion and your ‘Candor’ ! :)

I was so happy to see DJ’s post and sent it thru email..

We should keep that post handy as we start going through the squeeze plays DJT will be subjected to; the next few days will be enlightening!

Happy New Year!


137 posted on 01/01/2018 1:15:59 PM PST by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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To: The Fop

“..he won’t put up with the people who voted for him being called Nazis...”

Chuckle ... The nazis calling other people nazis... They’re pathetic.


138 posted on 01/01/2018 1:55:51 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: bitt

This is a VERY good thread, Fred Nerks is posting some very good info: (a nasty troll is active at least towards the end of the thread, no doubt a retread.)

Will the Obama Birth Certificate Forgery Ever Be Probed by Federal Authorities?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3612451/posts?page=482#482


139 posted on 01/01/2018 7:57:28 PM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Zeneta

I’d keep my day job if I were you Zeneta..


140 posted on 01/27/2018 4:39:06 PM PST by voltairegirl
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