Posted on 04/22/2022 10:09:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
A few days ago, the New York Times ran yet another article questioning former President Donald Trump's status as a kingmaker within the Republican Party. Author Shane Goldmacher offers some interesting data points: for example, the fact that Trump's political action committee has a war chest of $120 million-plus. (If a March article in Politico is correct, that's $10 million more than Trump had just one month ago, and more than double what either the Republican National Committee or the Democratic National Committee has in their coffers.)
Goldmacher mocks the aspiring GOP candidates who visit Mar-a-Lago (Trump's Palm Beach home) as "supplicants," "sycophants" and "Trump whisperers." He quotes Trump biographer Michael D'Antonio, who compares them to pitiful "contestants vying for his approval" in "The Apprentice," Trump's former reality TV show. Goldmacher even remarks with some astonishment that Trump is "downright stingy" compared with the political patronage for which certain politicians (and their family members) are infamous. Trump apparently doesn't hand out big checks to people he likes.
The purpose of these pieces is apparently to warn of both Trump's increasing and waning power, to ridicule those seeking his endorsement and minimize his impact. (As if Trump-supporting Americans are suddenly going to say, "Wow, the New York Times doesn't like Trump? Who knew? Better change my opinion.")
But Goldmacher's piece, like most others, misses the point.
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They will not understand. We have a symbiotic relationship.
Always the talk of who has raised the most money.
This is the obsession of campaign managers. They want the big paycheck and don’t care much about ideology. A candidate who is close aligned with their thinking but underfunded will get not a moment of their time.
President Trump didn’t need it.
The big money now is in polling. It is often amusing how many candidates hire internal polling firms that happen to be owned by the campaign manager’s brother.
Built the Wall
Drain the Swamp
America First in ALL Things
Pro Life
Pro 2nd Amendment
Vacillate in any of those items and we will show you the door, no matter how much money you raise.
This is a telling list. Every "modern" Democrat back to LBJ has sacrificed foreign policy emphasis on domestic takeaway-and-redistribution, and Pedo Joe, or rather the people really in charge at his pathetic pretense of an administration, is no exception. Foreign failures too many to list are the price we pay for a Democrat-"re-imagined" society, and we are certainly paying them. Yet this list consists of domestic failures from top to bottom. Crime, homelessness, invasion, corruption, degeneracy - these are the result of a failed and decrepit vision that is serving only to harm the country. And yet the vast majority of doctrinaire liberal Democrats still consider that vision to be unquestionable, those attempting to do so evil and selfish. It is simply an astonishing case of self-deception and most of the media angst at an impending correction consists of wailing that the victims of this failed vision are simply too stupid to understand how great things are going. They won't bend, they're going to have to be broken.
“They will not understand. We have a symbiotic relationship.”
I disagree. We raised up Trump. He can lose us if and whenever he fails us on policy matters. If some who he backs in the primaries win only on getting Trumps support but then turn out to deliver the RINO policies, Trump will lose some of the grass roots that built him up.
The truth is that the people who voted for Trump are not monolithic, and often have quite different views about it, and different levels of support/commitment to him.
“There are a lot of people who assume that all Trump supporters feel exactly the way they do about Trump.
The truth is that the people who voted for Trump are not monolithic, and often have quite different views about it, and different levels of support/commitment to him.”
Many here either do not think that way, or do not agree with that idea and think everyone who supports Trump should be in lock-step with each other on every issue. That is not who Trump supporters are. They each have certain priorities they agree with Trump on, but that does not mean they agree with each other on everything.
Spot on!
PDJT stands between the Left and us.
No. We are holding up Trump, because he agrees with us usually. We are standing between the Left and total domination by them. And I think truth, experience, and time is on our side because the failures of the Left are always being exposed.
I look at PDJT as our invisibility cloak.
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/forget-harry-potters-cloak-a-real-life-invisibility-shield/ His $, fight, and American heart are 🔥. He can stride into arenas usually excluded to us.
I also look at DC as a foreign entity now, filled with foreign agents. Example: South of Beijing is some college where a person can’t graduate unless a US cyber system is one of their hacks. We’re educating the young on pronouns. E. Asian youth attend school year round.
PDJT is welcome to DC. I don’t plan on seeing it again.
There are surveys out now asking if they support the objective to Kill Trump supporters. They are working to send the deadly covax to red states with hopes to kill off conservatives. Thats why the big military push for the covax. They detest and despise conservatives and want each and every one of us dead and gone and anyone who support or are ‘friendly’ with us also dead.
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