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Trump Reveals Liberal Hearts and Minds
American Spectator ^ | February 15, 2019 | Paul Kengor

Posted on 02/15/2019 1:18:12 PM PST by Twotone

I wrote here last week about the reaction to President Trump’s condemnation of socialism in his State of the Union. He said something indisputably factual and indubitably obvious to most Americans: “Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country. Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.”

As I said, it was a revealing, signature moment for both President Trump and for the Democratic Party.

I noted that, to their credit, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer applauded, as did a decent number of Democrats in that chamber. That was in contrast to the Democratic Party’s two socialist stars, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Poor Sanders looked so agitated that he seemed ready to leap from his seat and denounce the president as an enemy of the Proletariat. Ocasio-Cortez did a better job concealing her displeasure, as she sat stone-faced.

But I’ve since learned something even more interesting among Democrat reactions. No less than Elizabeth Warren, about as left-wing as a Democrat senator can get, joined Schumer and Pelosi in applauding Trump’s condemnation of socialism. Yes, Elizabeth Warren. Better, whereas Pelosi offered mild applause from a seated position, Warren stood and clapped emphatically, as a sea of silent white-wearing congresswomen sat behind her unmoved.

I learned of Warren’s surprising reaction from the communist press, namely from People’s World, successor to the Daily Worker, in a headline that mocked, “A specter is haunting Donald Trump—the specter of socialism.” So disappointed were the comrades at People’s World that they scorned Warren as an “erstwhile progressive leader.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: socialism

1 posted on 02/15/2019 1:18:12 PM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

The primaries revealed everything and especially everybody. Information gathering is done.


2 posted on 02/15/2019 1:30:50 PM PST by coaster123 (Bring back the curtsy. - If one is alive one is privileged.)
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To: Twotone
The better question is why the New York Times and other “progressives” aren’t likewise alarmed by this trend in their ranks.

Because they're still playing the shell game. Progressive = socialism, and Tom Perez correctly states that socialism is the future of the Dem party. Unfortunately, it is likely the future of the entire country.

3 posted on 02/15/2019 1:31:04 PM PST by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: Twotone

The last 2 weeks have been incredibly revealing:

1) NYS Senate cheers - wildly - Cuomo signing a bill into law that allows full term abortion and even “post-pregnancy” abortion (i.e. clear infanticide);

2) The Green New Deal - gee, we only have to retrofit every single building in the country in 12 years, and we’ll pay for it by printing money;

3) Nazi Pelosi announces that the next Dem President will declare a state of emergency to confiscate all firearms;

4) Jackass teeth Occasional Cortex nearly has an orgasm after chasing 25,000 jobs from NYC.

The mask is off, folks. For any that did not believe it until now, they are the party of murder, confiscation of wealth, seizing your means of self-defense and defense of liberty, and they WANT people to be poor.

Great bunch of folks, ain’t they?


4 posted on 02/15/2019 3:36:31 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: All

How can President Trump expose that which doesn’t exist?


5 posted on 02/15/2019 3:55:22 PM PST by Retvet (Retvet)
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