California stands a very good chance of going Republican for the first time since Reagan. LINK
Posted on 12/28/2015 11:23:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s hard to disagree with most of the bad things that have been said about Donald Trump, and impossible to add a truly fresh accusation to the list. In just six months as a presidential candidate Trump has been called “witless, gross, and unworthy,†“ignorant and bombastic,†a “buffoon†and an “a--hole,†a “clownish demagogue,†and “proto-fascist†whose “ideas range from the absurd … to the monstrous,†and whose policy pronouncements are no better than “barstool eruptions.â€
And those are just his fellow Republicans’ opinions. Gleeful Democrats have made clear that Trump’s lead in public opinion polls throughout 2015 vindicates their allegations about the ignorance, stupidity, and bigotry of the GOP base and conservative movement. Trump’s rise “may be shocking,†writes Adele M. Stan of the American Prospect, “but it’s merely a result of the natural evolution of the modern American right that drove the election of Ronald Reagan 35 years ago.†Damon Linker of the Week magazine agrees. Trump’s supporters are the “culturally alienated, conservative white male voters†who have “been manipulated … into a perpetual state of aggrieved indignation†by right-wing talk-radio, which constantly assures its listeners that “their ill-informed, illiberal, anti-government, anti-Washington, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim views are irrefutably, indisputably, incontrovertibly correct.â€(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at claremont.org ...
Yes, it’s difficult to read.
Hint: it has to do with disparaging a seriously PO'd base.
I can't wait for ALL of their collective heads to explode when Trump wins the nomination, the election, and is sworn in as the 45th president of these United States of America !
Yes, and that too. ;>) ’“Noâ€Â’€Ââ€
Before that he was in Lompoc.
Well I grew up in Lynwood and Buena Park, but when I started in construction we specialized in Labs and I have done work in Colleges and Universities from UCSD and Scripps Research Institute, UCLA, CSULB, UCI, CSULA, USC, CSUF, UCSB, San Joaquin Delta College, Merced College and a slew of High Schools. And that’s the only reason I know some of the areas around the state because before that I worked in the same place for 23 years. If this doesn’t put you to sleep it’s because you already are, sorry but sometimes I get weird on pain meds.
Run the article through here. It converts the text instantly so that the funny characters are gone. You then simply copy and paste the converted text. Only takes a couple seconds, and everything’s fixed.
http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html
For some reason, converting the Forum engine from obsolete ANSI to more modern Unicode/UTF-8 just seems to be a bridge too far. Not sure why.
It’s hard to disagree with most of the bad things that have been said about Donald Trump, and impossible to add a truly fresh accusation to the list. In just six months as a presidential candidate Trump has been called “witless, gross, and unworthy,” “ignorant and bombastic,” a “buffoon” and an “a—hole,” a “clownish demagogue,” and “proto-fascist” whose “ideas range from the absurd ... to the monstrous,” and whose policy pronouncements are no better than “barstool eruptions.” . . .
And those are just his fellow Republicans’ opinions. Gleeful Democrats have made clear that Trump’s lead in public opinion polls throughout 2015 vindicates their allegations about the ignorance, stupidity, and bigotry of the GOP base and conservative movement. Trump’s rise “may be shocking,” writes Adele M. Stan of the American Prospect, “but it’s merely a result of the natural evolution of the modern American right that drove the election of Ronald Reagan 35 years ago.” Damon Linker of the Week magazine agrees. Trump’s supporters are the “culturally alienated, conservative white male voters” who have “been manipulated ... into a perpetual state of aggrieved indignation” by right-wing talk-radio, which constantly assures its listeners that “their ill-informed, illiberal, anti-government, anti-Washington, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim views are irrefutably, indisputably, incontrovertibly correct.” . . .
Was he featured on Adam-12 or Dragnet?
I understand the issue. My question is why did it start happening and why can't it be fixed? Having to go back and manually delete and replace apostrophes is absurd.
America's Most Wanted.
If you don’t want to see that junk in the posts then you have to go to the links and read them there. It has something to do with the copy/paste function in articles from websites and blogs I think. They may be adding this crap on purpose to discourage copy and paste of their articles.
People did not read it, I guess.
The title is: “The Reason I’m Anti-Anti-Trump” not “The Reason I’m Anti-Trump”.
It contains representative passages such as this:
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It is not, in fact, particularly difficult to explain the emergence of Trumpismo in terms of legitimate concerns not addressed, and important duties not discharged. That such a flawed contender could be a front-runner tells us more about what’s wrong with the country than about what’s wrong with his followers. People have every reason to expect that their government will take its most basic responsibilities seriously, and every reason to be angry when, instead, it proves more feckless than conscientious. Governments are instituted among men to secure their inalienable rights, according to the Declaration of Independence. This means that when we and our rights are left avoidably insecure, government has failed in its central mission.
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True the author is dismissing Trump but not his message or what those who support him think. The whole article is about how Trump’s supporters are right and the issues that make Trump popular are the important issues.
He still, though, has the built in Trump disdain.
I think in time he will soften that stance as he becomes less close-minded and attached to his pre-suppositions and will eventually accept or support Trump.
In other words, with time I think this author won’t see Trump as “flawed” as he does now.
I wish I could agree with this, “’“Noâ€ÂÂ’€ÂÂ’’“Noâ€ÂÂ�� ’“Noâ€ÂÂ’€ÂÂ’’“Noâ€ÂÂ�� ’“Noâ€ÂÂ’€ÂÂ’’“Noâ€ÂÂ��”, but it doesn’t conform to anything I’ve found on the web.
Truly!
It is such a pain to try to read some articles.
I’ve lived in Claremont, Ca most of my life. Nice place but the colleges are full of A-hole liberals.
No, That'd be Cruz.
Sure, easy for you to say.
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