Posted on 06/23/2018 11:08:44 AM PDT by Cheerio
LEESBURG, Va. — Gina Anders knows the feeling well by now. President Trump says or does something that triggers a spasm of outrage. She doesn’t necessarily agree with how he handled the situation. She gets why people are upset.
But Ms. Anders, 46, a Republican from suburban Loudoun County, Va., with a law degree, a business career, and not a stitch of “Make America Great Again” gear in her wardrobe, is moved to defend him anyway.
“All nuance and all complexity — and these are complex issues — are completely lost,” she said, describing “overblown” reactions from the president’s critics, some of whom equated the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children and parents to history’s greatest atrocities.
“It makes me angry at them, which causes me to want to defend him to them more,” Ms. Anders said.
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This article is so wrong…We are in no way numb to outrage…we see it, feel it, hear it, and we have come to relish it as a valuable tool to help keep us on the correct moral path.
The outrage of leftists tells us that we are on the right, appropriate, and correct side of the issue.
Numb to manufactured hysterics from the Political/Media class, Trump voters realize he is the ONLY grown up in DC these days.
Yep. The left doesn't seem to understand that all their phony outrage is backfiring on them.
The unhinged lunacy, the vicious personal attacks, the weaponizing of the press, entertainment, and academia, the threats against the First Family, the childish antics of congressional Democrats - all of it - is only turning voters away from their party, and is hardening the resolve of Normals on the right.
The dems are firing up a smaller and smaller base with everyone of there phony attacks. The Trump base on the other hand is white hot and ready to roll. Keep stoking the flames of our base dems. Ha! I think the black dem vote will be way down. They will have to cheat like crazy to offset that loss.
Trump seems to have a knack for sacrificing some pawns in order to set up the board in a way that plays to his advantage. By periodically getting the left unhinged, he both solidifies his own base and cleaves the hard left off from what’s left of the center. The best you can really hope for in the current political climate is for universal enthusiastic support from your base and a center that’s alienated from the other side.
Gee, unleashing the Red Guards/Khmer Rouge shock troops alienates normals? Who knew?
Honestly, I didn’t think I’d like Trump this much. After a lifetime of GOP disappointment, I thought he’d have pussed out long ago.
This doesn’t describe me at all.
When I run into friends or family that ask anything about politics, knowing that is a big interest of mine, I happily gush about the great job President Trump is doing clearing away the wreckage of a decade. I tell them I was happy to vote for him but really find it invigorating about what a superior job he is doing and how he has exceeded my expectations and why I am so looking forward to the next six and a half years of his two terms.
Election night should be interesting this year. I wonder how “they” have beefed up their cheating in preparation.
DH and I watched (again!) the re-run of The Young Turks show from Election Night. It never gets old. When we do that, I stick a postcard in the mail to them and thank them for their entertainment. They sure know how to cheer up a girl!
Yeah and Bush said he felt like a brother to Bill Clinton. The Uniparty.
Reason I tamp down the House seats is because of Paul Ryan. He is just not going to inspire a big turnout. Best thing would be for him to step down as House speaker and put a real Trump supporter in the speaker position. That would really help to drive the GOP vote at the House level.
The Young Turks show from Election Night 2016 is pure gold. I must have watched that a dozen times since. It just makes me feel so good to see the meltdown. From overconfident smugness to insane hysteria in 30 minutes!
It is what nearly every Republican has done up until now...who could blame you for feeling that way?
I guess the reporters and editors had a blast taking this article out back and setting fire to it.
Or...they were all drunk.
Not numb...just biding my time.
Not just Republicans....
We should start calling them Democratic-Socialists.
The Dem party of Harry Truman and Hubert Humphrey is long gone. What we have now is Communist Lite.
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