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THE DONALD’S BIG TENT
The American Spectator ^ | March 16,2016 | George Neumayr

Posted on 03/17/2016 2:08:38 PM PDT by Hojczyk

Watching a nasty, gravel-voiced Hillary Clinton shout her acceptance remarks on Tuesday night, one is tempted to think that a demon now inhabits her body. But such a thought might not be fair to demons. Hillary is awful and getting worse by the day.

I continue to meet Dems in New York City who plan to sit the election out owing to their disgust for Hillary. “I am just not voting,” one lady said to me.

Walking down Madison Avenue on Tuesday afternoon while wearing Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hat, I expected a taunt or two, but none came. Most people aren’t politically engaged enough to care. Also, so much weirdness assails them throughout the day in the Big Apple that they take political caps, even ones they might find eccentric, in stride. I did get a dirty look from a lady discussing early Dem exit polls with a friend.

“Oh, look,” her friend said to her as he gestured toward my cap. She shot me an unpleasant look and walked on. As Trump might say, I had run into a “Bernie person.”

Working-class folks in Astoria, Queens find Trump “ballsy” and unpretentious, unlike Hillary whom they regard as phony and devious. That he is rough around the edges doesn’t trouble them. They are not exactly taking their cues from George Will and the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal.

As Trump thumped neocon darling Rubio in Florida, driving him out of the race, it is becoming clearer that the Donald will dismantle the establishment’s Big Tent and erect one of his own, into which will flow scruffy working-class Dems, independents, and middle-class minorities and out of which will go bow-tied interventionists and Romneyite RINOs.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; elections; trump
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1 posted on 03/17/2016 2:08:38 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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What if they held an election and nobody came?


2 posted on 03/17/2016 2:12:18 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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“They are not exactly taking their cues from George Will “

Prissy little girl....LOL

I have despised him for over a quarter century.


3 posted on 03/17/2016 2:14:31 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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4 posted on 03/17/2016 2:15:58 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Hojczyk

the link isnt working.


5 posted on 03/17/2016 2:18:53 PM PDT by Democrats hate too much
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To: Hojczyk
A friend in finance calls the anti-Trump Republicans “effete” and considers their flirtations with Hillary disgraceful. He thinks Trump will wipe the floor with Hillary and that the server scandal is a permanent albatross around her neck. “Many of the great crime families have tried to run their syndicates from jail. Maybe the Clintons think they can too,” he said.

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The Clintons should not be denied the opportunity to prove their "greatness" by running their syndicate from jail.

6 posted on 03/17/2016 2:21:19 PM PDT by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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It worked the first time I tried it, the second time it didn’t - this one seems to work:

http://spectator.org/articles/65803/donald%E2%80%99s-big-tent


7 posted on 03/17/2016 2:23:30 PM PDT by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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To: Hojczyk
I have long loved the writings of Mr. Neumayr. Another great line:

As he builds a new big tent for the GOP with happy volunteers,
she hires high-priced handlers to assemble a Potemkin village.

8 posted on 03/17/2016 2:26:32 PM PDT by jobim
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To: Hojczyk

As Trump thumped neocon darling Rubio in Florida, driving him out of the race, it is becoming clearer that the Donald will dismantle the establishment’s Big Tent and erect one of his own, into which will flow scruffy working-class Dems, independents, and middle-class minorities and out of which will go bow-tied interventionists and Romneylite RINOs.

Then there will be room in his big new tent for people like me, the low/info/stupid and evil/vile Trump supporter wanting to select my candidate!


9 posted on 03/17/2016 2:26:45 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (I am just another low info/stupid and evil/vile Trump supporter wanting to select my candidate!)
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“Donald will dismantle the establishment’s Big Tent and erect one of his own, into which will flow scruffy working-class Dems, independents, and middle-class minorities and out of which will go bow-tied interventionists and Romneyite RINOs.”

True.

To what end?


10 posted on 03/17/2016 2:32:44 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Trump / Cruz 2016!)
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"A Bernie person"

Someone at the conservative treehouse labeled them "Bernouts."

11 posted on 03/17/2016 2:39:16 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Hugin
What if they held an election and nobody came?

I was thinking the same thing!

12 posted on 03/17/2016 2:45:48 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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Yeah! The GOP wanted a big tent, right?

Room for dems too.. Yeah!

Suck it up, Establishment types..

Before reality is crammed down your sorry .. Uhhhh


13 posted on 03/17/2016 2:48:51 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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It’s not big. It’s YUGE!


14 posted on 03/17/2016 2:49:57 PM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy (I Samuel 8:19-20 The New Spirit of America?)
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People want to be successful.. And not losers, gubamint dependents, just numbered pachinko balls in a big gubamint crap shoot.. In essence, game pieces..

Trump is saying enough games already.. People are responding.

The Establishment is shaking..


15 posted on 03/17/2016 2:51:41 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: Hojczyk

“Watching a nasty, gravel-voiced Hillary Clinton shout her acceptance remarks on Tuesday night, one is tempted to think that a demon now inhabits her body. But such a thought might not be fair to demons.”


Now that there is FUNNY. True, but funny.


16 posted on 03/17/2016 3:11:02 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Hojczyk
Working-class folks in Astoria, Queens find Trump “ballsy” and unpretentious, unlike Hillary whom they regard as phony and devious. That he is rough around the edges doesn’t trouble them. They are not exactly taking their cues from George Will and the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal.

The man is leading a bloodless coup against a corrupt, power-hungry elite. Who are people expecting, Mr. Rodgers?

As Trump thumped neocon darling Rubio in Florida, driving him out of the race, it is becoming clearer that the Donald will dismantle the establishment’s Big Tent and erect one of his own, into which will flow scruffy working-class Dems, independents, and middle-class minorities and out of which will go bow-tied interventionists and Romneyite RINOs.

Uh, The Donald does NOT build tents. He builds big buildings full of large, luxuriously-appointed condos. I expect no less in this case.

17 posted on 03/17/2016 3:15:41 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“To what end?”


To let the people run their own lives, instead of the bow-tied interventionists and the Romneyite RINOs, as has been the case for decades.


18 posted on 03/17/2016 3:17:49 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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Trump is interventionist yesterday, non-interventionist today, and interventionist again tomorrow.

I agree that the government should get out of our way, and let Freedom Ring. I just don’t see Donald as a guy who is particularly concerned about that one way or the other. Sometimes “Yes”, sometimes “No”.

I’ll take that. Winning with Donald 50% of the time is a huge improvement. Someday, I hope to win more frequently than that!


19 posted on 03/17/2016 3:20:11 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Trump / Cruz 2016!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

I agree.


20 posted on 03/17/2016 5:47:45 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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