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Understanding The Trump Phenomenon: It's Not What The Elites Think
Mises Institute ^ | 02/19/2024 | Lipton Matthews

Posted on 02/19/2024 8:46:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 02/19/2024 8:46:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

“ establishment figures who think that Trump’s ascent threatens democracy”

Trump threatens libtard grifters


2 posted on 02/19/2024 8:50:23 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Trump’s rhetoric is incendiary, but beyond his uncouth remarks, he is not vastly different from other presidents.”

The primary difference is, he is not a globalist.


3 posted on 02/19/2024 9:12:44 PM PST by NoLibZone (We have the nation we deserve The bad guys are willing to protest and riot while we email.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The establishment elitists don’t get it because they hate America. They think they do but they don’t.

They see all of their faults in those who do love America and Trump is the figurehead for that.


4 posted on 02/19/2024 9:15:04 PM PST by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To clarify my second sentence above ...

They think they love America but they don’t.


5 posted on 02/19/2024 9:17:10 PM PST by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: SeekAndFind
His contempt for China led to the imposition of tariffs on Chinese imports; however, this proved to be a costly economic policy.

Because it led to China releasing the Wuhan lab virus to shut the economy down.

6 posted on 02/19/2024 9:34:52 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: NoLibZone

The Liberals are blind to Trump’s greatness. History will be kind to him. His greatest days are yet ro come. Many hated Lincoln while he was alive.


7 posted on 02/19/2024 9:39:57 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: NoLibZone

Nor is he a politician. Trump talks the way regular people talk, not the mealy-mouthed policically-correct bullshit of academia, politicians, or the chattering class of elites.


8 posted on 02/19/2024 9:40:16 PM PST by bigbob ( )
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To: NoLibZone

That’s right.


9 posted on 02/19/2024 9:43:53 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: NWFree

I’d like to see those spoiled leftist bully brats suffer greatly. I’m fed up with those miscreants and cretins.


10 posted on 02/19/2024 9:44:53 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: TigersEye
The establishment elitists don’t get it because they hate America.

The globalists like America only to the extent to which she pumps up their portfolios.

11 posted on 02/19/2024 9:56:30 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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Yep. They love America the way fleas love a dog.


12 posted on 02/19/2024 9:59:45 PM PST by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: SeekAndFind

“...who think that Trump’s ascent threatens democracy.”

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That’s a lie. They don’t “think” any such thing.

They are worried Trump will bring some common sense back to the country, end all the “wokeness”, and close the border.


13 posted on 02/19/2024 10:01:43 PM PST by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Poor 'lil Travon bees slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: NWFree

“ establishment figures who think that Trump’s ascent threatens democracy”

Trump threatens libtard grifters>>>> His biggest threat is because he is competent. He threatens all the commies both republican and democrat. In PA he will not win because the republican commie baby killers will vote dem. Look at the results from last november in republican enclaves. THere is a two to four percent defection rate between local republican tallies and the state wide supreme court tallies. They vote republican locally but at the state level they vote dem. to support the baby killers. These are republicans.


14 posted on 02/19/2024 10:02:38 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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"instead of pandering to the chauvinism of white nationalists"


They just can't hold back...
15 posted on 02/19/2024 10:04:10 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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In 2016 Trump won PA because the Amish outvoted the Filthadelphia Fraudsters.

2020 saw more “blue” counties emerging: Centre, home of Penn State University (no surprise) and Dauphin, home of the State’s Capital plus a huge minority population—and that isn’t accounting for the massive fraud in Filthy.

120% “turnout” and we are expected to accept that on pain of being accused of being a “J6er” or other “treat to democracy”?


16 posted on 02/19/2024 10:12:52 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump calls them communists. That’s who they are. It drives them crazy. Communism is a bad brand.


17 posted on 02/20/2024 12:19:33 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: SeekAndFind
It was late in the 2016 race when I finally figured it all out: Trump appealed to a broad spectrum of American voters who have completely lost faith in their government and other American institutions. As one astute associate of mine pointed out: “I voted for Trump because Ronald McDonald wasn’t on the ballot.”

The good news today is that the number of Americans with this sentiment has grown by the tens of millions since 2020.

18 posted on 02/20/2024 12:34:15 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: SeekAndFind

In reality, Iowa decided they would rather be lead by a lockdown, bumpstock banning Disney Groomer guy.
Iowa doesn’t speak for me.
He has tejected a string of conservatives live Rosendale and endorsed anyone Mitch and McCarthy picked. So we are stuck with a bunch of rinos that will endorse the democrat destruction of our country.
Mo Brooks and Matt Rosendale could’ve made a difference.
Noem, is doing very little to stop the destructive ion as well.
I love trump on the don’t go to war. It he is either the democrat lap dog he was during covid, or the principles of conservatism no longer mean God, Family, country.
Embracing the destruction of this trifecta has destroyed this country. Continuing to further destroy it has brought it where it is.. a socialist nation of taxpayers enslaved and sure as heck not represented.
He has allowed the J6 gulag to continue without using his bully puppet to free them.
Why doesn’t a leader do that? They should’ve been out already.
He seems to go right along endorsing McCarthy over better candidates ecause he deems them unwinnable.
He is not a king. He is picking lifetime rinos for the senate
This is how we got here.
Deny this? Great, show me the voting records of the rinos that he picked instead of Rosendale and brooks…. He had gone after chip Roy… show me the record the guy he supports instead of Roy.


19 posted on 02/20/2024 3:02:24 AM PST by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: NWFree

When they say democracy substitute deep state or uniparty

As always when they say Trump is doing xyz…, that is what they are doing

Their version of “democracy” is no different than Stalin, putin, or xi


20 posted on 02/20/2024 3:16:13 AM PST by blitz128
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