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President-Elect Trump Did Not Create the Movement, It Created Him [NR still dissing Trump]
national review ^ | 11/9/2016 | Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on 11/09/2016 10:35:39 AM PST by catnipman

Trump succeeded in refashioning himself as a populist champion.

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mccarthy; national; review; trump
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F U, McCarthy.

You would know your thesis is complete fiction if you had bothered to view some of the miles of video tape of Trump interviews going back to his 20's and 30's with him discussing running for President all those decades ago, some of which has even been shown on special History Channel Bios on Trump.

Or maybe you do know those things and are simply unable or unwilling to admit that the Trump of today is the same Trump of 30 and 40 years ago, and that Trump is a great man who was born to be a great President and was not "created" by any movement.

Trump created the movement by providing us a fearless leader who unapologeticly, unswervingly and nearly single-handedly took on ALL of our many enemies, including the crooked enemedia, the crooked pollsters, the crooked GOPe, the crooked Democrats, the crooked Clintons, the crooked Bushes, crooked Wall Street, crooked bankers, crooked Fortune 500, crooked silicon valley, crooked neo-cons, crooked oligarchs, crooked plutocrats, and all the rest of the crooks and the rigged system.

The only ones who supported Trump were we-the-people, and it was we-the-people lead by President-elect Donald J. Trump who took on the entire crooked world, and we won.

1 posted on 11/09/2016 10:35:39 AM PST by catnipman
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To: catnipman

Defund NPR.


2 posted on 11/09/2016 10:37:30 AM PST by MUDDOG
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These guys at NR are pathetic. I finally got a semi-apology from Guy Benson on Twitter, who used to call me “professor” condescendingly.

I bet him that Trump would win and his payment was to use professor in a non-condescending way. He did not, but did somewhat admit I was right.


3 posted on 11/09/2016 10:37:40 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: catnipman

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP - GOD’S plan for AMERICA

Firefighter’s Prophecy: “2016 Annointed President Prophecy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBu_rNL3wfY


4 posted on 11/09/2016 10:38:20 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: catnipman

If you actually take the time to read ALL of Donald Trump’s books, you will find that his positions HAVE NOT CHANGED IN THIRTY YEARS! He only has gotten better on tactics during the election process, but, hey, that is what leaders do! :-)


5 posted on 11/09/2016 10:38:35 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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To: catnipman

Donald Trump changed the mind set and the political dynamics of the entire world - before he even was nominated.

Who would have though a Billionaire could and would speak truth to power.

Guess it really helps to have a lot power of your own when you decide to start speaking truth to power.


6 posted on 11/09/2016 10:38:50 AM PST by rdcbn ("There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alt)
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To: catnipman

Katie Pavlich is just as bad.

I used to like McCarthy, I don’t have much respect left for him.


7 posted on 11/09/2016 10:38:51 AM PST by dforest
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To: catnipman

There was a synergy here. It was part the populist resistance and part Trump’s intuitive assessment of the situation powered by God Himself.

NR remains clueless.


8 posted on 11/09/2016 10:39:53 AM PST by amihow
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To: catnipman

I agree. Trump didn’t create the movement.

But National Review, the question is why didn’t you understand the movement and become part of it rather than go against it?


9 posted on 11/09/2016 10:41:26 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: catnipman

McCarthy is full of $hit and full of himself.

He’s been an outspoken apologist for his buddy and former colleague, FBI Mis-Director James “Jellyfish” Comey.

Don’t waste time reading his obnoxious drivel.


10 posted on 11/09/2016 10:42:54 AM PST by RightGuy
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To: catnipman

Oops! My bad. I’ve been listening to too much NPR, for the Schadenfreude.

As for NR, this columnist and Rich Lowry (guest on Fox News) seem to be getting on the Trump Train.


11 posted on 11/09/2016 10:44:36 AM PST by MUDDOG
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The use of the term populist as it applies to Trump bothers me a great deal. “Populist” has been a pejorative term used to refer to politicians who use popular issues to appeal to voters, while not actually believing in those issues themselves; witness the behavior of most Republican and Democrat politicians over the last 30 years or so. I’m convinced that Trump is not a populist in the normal use of the word, but that he actually believes in the issues that helped him win. Apparently, a significant number of Americans agree.


12 posted on 11/09/2016 10:45:12 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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Well, the rest of this nonsense notwithstanding, this movement IS bigger than Trump and Trump would be the first to say that. He knows that what he is doing is tapping into a movement already existing in the hearts of the American People just the way he “taps” when negotiating a deal.

Trump is God’s man of the hour to energize the American People to regain THEIR freedom and reinstate THEIR Constitution over the feds.


13 posted on 11/09/2016 10:47:20 AM PST by Jim W N
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Well, it is the first step. Find some shred of reality and try to reel yourself in...


14 posted on 11/09/2016 10:47:57 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: catnipman

Trump earned this on his own. His shoe leather. His dime. His work with the people.

He is the colossus we need to pull back the pieces of this country that are scattering to world interests’ hands.

McCarthy can blow.


15 posted on 11/09/2016 10:48:39 AM PST by combat_boots (I no longer know what to say to put here. Pray for us.)
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To: amihow

That was the word I was trying to remember;)

Synergy is the creation of a whole that is greater than the simple sum of its parts. The term synergy comes from the Attic Greek


16 posted on 11/09/2016 10:51:00 AM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers.)
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To: catnipman

What?

The movement started BEFORE Trump!!!


17 posted on 11/09/2016 10:51:43 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: catnipman

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Liars gotta lie.


18 posted on 11/09/2016 10:51:52 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Ask yourself Hillary, What profits a gal if she gains the world but loses her soul.)
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To: catnipman
Remember this early (first) 'over-flow' crowd rally?
19 posted on 11/09/2016 10:53:28 AM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: MUDDOG

Defund NPR, there is no need for it today.

Close down Dept of Education, Energy, and make EPA an advisory body. Cut funding to HHS by half.

There are lots of savings available to President Trump if he will just make it happen.


20 posted on 11/09/2016 10:53:29 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Ask yourself Hillary, What profits a gal if she gains the world but loses her soul.)
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