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Apocalyptic Peggy Noonan threatens ‘Trump Republicans’:
American Thinker ^ | 06/05/2023 | David Zukerman

Posted on 06/05/2023 7:03:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

If Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan decided to be a presidential candidate next year, she would be barred from the debates.

The GOP debate rules include a pledge to support the Republican 2024 presidential nominee and Ms. Noonan makes it clear, from the opening paragraph of her latest weekend column that she would not back a Trump candidacy.

Noonan declares in her lede paragraph that if "Trump Republicans" nominate the former president next year, "they will have ended the Republican Party."   That there be no mistaking her comment as mere figurative remark, she declares in the following paragraph: "I mean it literally.  The GOP will disappear as a party.  Meaning the primary national vehicle of conservative thought and policy will disappear."

As the title of this screed indicates -- "Chris Christie and the Republican Party's Peril'' -- Noonan spends half the column discussing the "expected" entry of the former bullying governor of New Jersey in the GOP 2024 presidential field.  (Is such an entry now viable in view of the requirement that all presidential debaters pledge their support for the nominee?  Christie backing Mr. Trump?  Not likely.)

This is to suggest that Peggy Noonan should receive the Liz Cheney Award for Political Prognostication Premised on Poor Perceptions of Donald J. Trump.  More briefly, Peggy Noonan abhors the idea that conservatism should be tempered by populism, rather than elitism.

The neo-totalitarians in our politics are desperately straining to convince the American people that they are incipient terrorists if they support conservative populism, better known today as the MAGA movement.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: chrischristie; davidzukerman; lizcheney; maga; nevertrumpers; newjersey; notalenthack; peggynoonan; republicans; wallstreetjournal; wyoming
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1 posted on 06/05/2023 7:03:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Noonan declares in her lead paragraph that if "Trump Republicans" nominate the former president next year, "they will have ended the Republican Party."

Finally :)

2 posted on 06/05/2023 7:05:16 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SeekAndFind

Noonan is still alive? She was relevant in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Time to retire and enjoy time with the grandkids, Peggy. No one cares what you think.


3 posted on 06/05/2023 7:05:26 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: SeekAndFind

She has become a self-important colossal bore. Does anyone who supports Trump or RDS read her anymore.


4 posted on 06/05/2023 7:06:54 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her lbegs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hallo, Peggy? ..... Go F yourself!.............

5 posted on 06/05/2023 7:06:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Egad. Her again. I hadn’t heard from her in so long I hope she drifted off into retirement or obscurity.


6 posted on 06/05/2023 7:06:55 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: SeekAndFind

Comical when speech writers think they were policy setters and should be listened to raptly. Silly bimbo.


7 posted on 06/05/2023 7:10:20 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Peggy Noonan should receive the Liz Cheney Award for Political Prognostication”

Why the WSJ allows this old cow to keep mooing is beyond me. She has a tiny audience.


8 posted on 06/05/2023 7:10:32 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: SeekAndFind

BTTT


9 posted on 06/05/2023 7:16:15 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: SeekAndFind

She’s almost as relevant as Bill Kristol.


10 posted on 06/05/2023 7:18:36 AM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Noonan writes like she gets paid by the word. Friggin’ hack.


11 posted on 06/05/2023 7:19:35 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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"I mean it literally. The GOP will disappear as a party.

She says that like it's a bad thing.

12 posted on 06/05/2023 7:20:45 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Do you read The Wall Street Journal per chance? You described her perfectly. I don't bother reading her weekend column anymore but the comments roasting her are fun to read.
13 posted on 06/05/2023 7:21:45 AM PDT by Fair Paul
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To: SeekAndFind
Noonan declares in her lede paragraph that if "Trump Republicans" nominate the former president next year, "they will have ended the Republican Party." That there be no mistaking her comment as mere figurative remark, she declares in the following paragraph: "I mean it literally. The GOP will disappear as a party. Meaning the primary national vehicle of conservative thought and policy will disappear."

She's right on one count and wrong on another.

The Republican Party was exposed as a bunch of feckless frauds after the 2000 and 2016 elections when it had full control of the Federal government and never pursued anything remotely resembling a "conservative" agenda. In fact, the disaster of the GWB administration was precisely what made the Bush family less popular than child molesters among Republican voters, and what made a TV clown like Donald Trump a credible national political figure.

Frankly, the GOP should have been disbanded as a political party after 2017 when it failed miserably to repeal ObamaCare despite spending the prior seven 'effing years raising money and campaigning to do exactly that.

14 posted on 06/05/2023 7:21:47 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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"they will have ended the Republican Party."

She says that like it's something bad.

15 posted on 06/05/2023 7:23:04 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: SeekAndFind

Deep-state, RINO sh** like this, and their endless Ukraine propaganda is why I can’t subscribe to the WSJ


16 posted on 06/05/2023 7:23:05 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

Peggy, release your pearls and take a deep breath. Pour yourself another tiny glass of Nerve Tonic and leave the heavy lifting to MAGA World. We got this.


17 posted on 06/05/2023 7:24:24 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: SeekAndFind
"The neo-totalitarians in our politics are desperately straining to convince the American people that they are incipient terrorists if they support conservative populism, better known today as the MAGA movement."

I've been waiting to see posts showing up on FR saying that or something similar.
IMHO, some of the back and forth of late is histrionic, even comparing to past FR election run up fights.

18 posted on 06/05/2023 7:25:53 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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Trump had great ideas but he’s no longer the leader we need to move the ball forward. He cannot win the general election and he shouldn’t. He’s made everything about him and not the movement and the nation. We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024. I am still looking for a candidate to emerge.


19 posted on 06/05/2023 7:37:36 AM PDT by newzjunkey (We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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She’s making me feel pretty positive about supporting Trump over the other options.

What an endorsement!


20 posted on 06/05/2023 7:37:40 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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