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How the unhinged left is helping Donald Trump
The Sumter Item ^ | June 27, 2018 | Bernard Goldberg

Posted on 06/28/2018 9:57:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 06/28/2018 9:57:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Anyone could make the same arguments for any political opponent they hate.

Switch Trump to Obama or Hillary. Read it that way.

They are so generic they can be applied to any Goldstein you want.


2 posted on 06/28/2018 10:01:15 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

According to NBC, Trump keeps babies in cages.


3 posted on 06/28/2018 10:03:00 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
They may believe, with justification, that Donald Trump is vulgar and mean-spirited.

FUBG

4 posted on 06/28/2018 10:06:43 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
My stock answer to this "Trump is a Nazi" garbage is, "who built the embassy in Jerusalem?" Of all of the stuff that's been thrown at Trump that is perhaps the lamest.

And that's not all that is counterproductive. The entire unattended children thrown over the border hysteria is, after all, a demonstration of why we need a wall. That is definitely not the message the activists are trying to send, but it's the one that's getting through.

I don't think it's just my imagination that the tone has changed with the Supreme Court justice issue, though. There was frustration and rage before, there's real fear now, and frightened people do stupid and desperate things. Stay armed, stay safe.

5 posted on 06/28/2018 10:16:39 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What the hell are all the LameStreamers kvetching for?

Hillary picked out the Republican candidate she wanted to run against (Trump) and the media gave him so much free air time that he ended up not having to shell out the millions it should have cost him. The other Republican candidates began to complain because they were barely noticed.

Most of the Trump coverage was positive, as in "Hey, look and see what Trump is doing today."

They built him up to the point that he became the Republican candidate - Hillary's choice.

Now they are in back-er-up mode - hugely bewildered because it all blew up in their faces.

If ya ever need a good stiff laugh just think about them making Trump so accessible to the point that no one else would do, EVEN HILLARY.

6 posted on 06/28/2018 10:23:27 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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Comparisons of the border policy to the Holocaust and all of its ramifications is quite legitimate to liberals for whom words have no content except emotion and everything "bad" is equally bad. There is no bad-worse-worst. Disagree with them or be not a part of The Group and even if you agree with them on something what you say is a LIE and EVIL because of the emotional content. Words have no substantial meaning. So, if one is disapproved of by the Party then one is a whore, a racist, a pimp, a NAZI or whatever other noun or adjective exists that implies Evil or disapproval. Any epithet the left uses means only approved or disapproved, on their side or not on their side.
7 posted on 06/28/2018 10:27:20 PM PDT by arthurus (yu)
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People can only take so much unhinged crazy. The hard core left is now running people out of the Dem party at an unprecedented rate.

After losing 1,400+ elections since 2010, you’d think they would have stopped to cooly analyze that precipitous plunge in support, and try to formulate an overall approach that would turn that trend around, but no.

The Democrats’ reaction was to double down on what caused the voters to reject them in the first place.

Well, that obviously didn’t work, so what did they do? They screamed and collectively pulled the pins on their cranial detonators -— like somehow, throwing a national hissy fit was going to make it all better.

All they’ve done is sparked a stampede toward the exits.


8 posted on 06/28/2018 10:38:02 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Slyfox

Sheesh. No one in the media “built him up.”

Actual thinking Americans not addicted to the freaking tee vee saw the country’s most prominent businessman running for President and willing to run without pay to fix a beleaguered economy.

Good reason to vote for the man. And they did.

You sound like you think Trump was just “Hillary’s choice.”

A lot of us were more aware of Trump’s strengths.

Hillary had NOTHING to do with it.


9 posted on 06/28/2018 10:50:12 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: Slyfox
Most of the Trump coverage was positive, as in "Hey, look and see what Trump is doing today."

Positive? I don't remember it that way at all.

The media came out of the gate attacking Trump, because they (and the Dems) rightfully saw him as the clearest threat to a Dem taking the White House again.

Don't forget that Meghan Kelly of Fox did her level best to knock Trump out of the running at the first debate. From that night forward, the MSM engaged in a coordinated assault, to take him down.

It backfired, of course, because Trump fought back, and beat them at their own game.

10 posted on 06/28/2018 10:55:49 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: JennysCool

Someone said “when your enemy is committing suicide stay out of the way”.


11 posted on 06/28/2018 10:56:52 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought.)
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To: Windflier
People can only take so much unhinged crazy. The hard core left is now running people out of the Dem party at an unprecedented rate.

After losing 1,400+ elections since 2010, you’d think they would have stopped to cooly analyze that precipitous plunge in support, and try to formulate an overall approach that would turn that trend around, but no.

The Democrats’ reaction was to double down on what caused the voters to reject them in the first place.

Well, that obviously didn’t work, so what did they do? They screamed and collectively pulled the pins on their cranial detonators -— like somehow, throwing a national hissy fit was going to make it all better.

All they’ve done is sparked a stampede toward the exits.

Well said, and so right-on that your whole post bears repeating.

They have faith in their ideology. Their faith is so strong and so pure that they are going to ride the faith-train into oblivion.

One of Alinsky's rules is "If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside." Perhaps they actually think this will come through for them here.

I wonder when enough of them will be gone that the survivors will start to think like adults.

The election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in NYC will strengthen the position of the crazies in the Democrat party.

BTW, the Capital Gazette shooting story has already pretty much vanished from the news cycle. He's an obvious nutcase who should have been denied firearms. He's a former federal employee, and it should be interesting to see what comes out that situation record-wise. Since he's still alive there will be a trial, with discovery on both sides.

I'm guessing the MSM is backing away because they already know the Jarrod Ramos story is not going to be helpful to "the narrative."

12 posted on 06/28/2018 10:58:45 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: JennysCool
Sheesh. No one in the media “built him up.”

During the primaries I gave up on Fox News and switched to CNN for election coverage. Fox News was openly anti-Trump. CNN gave him relatively favorable coverage. Of course, once he had the nomination wrapped up CNN became completely unwatchable again.

13 posted on 06/28/2018 11:13:42 PM PDT by Wissa ("Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult." - Michael Corleone)
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To: Windflier

MSM gave Trump a platform and more face and mouth time than he could have bought with his money. The people watching could see what he was even through all the badmouthing by the media and enough liked what they saw that we elected him.


14 posted on 06/28/2018 11:17:58 PM PDT by ThanhPhero (56h5de2)
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To: Windflier
People can only take so much unhinged crazy. The hard core left is now running people out of the Dem party at an unprecedented rate.

They're leading the general population to understand there is a need for more "law and order". People don't turn to the liberals for "law and order".

If the left keeps it up, they'll get Trump a landslide in 2020 to match Nixon 1972.

15 posted on 06/28/2018 11:19:39 PM PDT by Wissa ("Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult." - Michael Corleone)
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To: Steely Tom
I wonder when enough of them will be gone that the survivors will start to think like adults.

That's a toughie -- one I've pondered for quite some time.

It should be obvious by now, that the Dems let the crazies onboard their train, and then stupidly let them take the controls. Now they find their train is hurtling towards oblivion, and they're helpless to stop it.

I've honestly considered that we may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the Democrats as a national party. One look at the county by county 2016 electoral map tells the story in one snapshot. Those guys are facing real doom, if they don't pull their heads out and figure out what they're doing wrong.

Perhaps they will, but what good will it do them, when the crazies have so much clout in that party?

I don't think there are enough centrists and moderates left in the party to put up a fight.

The Dems are probably going to have to hit rock bottom, then spend a decade or more in the political wilderness, to regain their senses.

16 posted on 06/28/2018 11:22:58 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mr. Douche, I’m a bad guy am I.

My door’s open any time you think your man enough to walk through it.

However, I won’t hold my breath awaiting your arrival.


17 posted on 06/28/2018 11:23:01 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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We had a few days of this....we should really full court press now.

So they can say what they really feel. While they are all stressed out.

Nothing to be gained from taunting them other than suicides. I don’t want responsibility for that.

So....now that they are totally stressed out and don’t know what the hell to do next.

Ask them nicely, they’ll tell you they want full blown Socialism across the US.

Then we win.

Game of Thrones. I’ve watched a couple episodes.

But don’t you bastards get complacent. They take the Senate, things change.

Yes, lets strut like pretty birds right now. Just keep an eye on what we need to protect.

Damn. Never thought this was going to happen. Let’s not screw it up, yeah? ;)


18 posted on 06/28/2018 11:23:14 PM PDT by 1_Inch_Group (Country Before Party)
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To: ThanhPhero
MSM gave Trump a platform and more face and mouth time than he could have bought with his money.

I told you he beat them at their own game, didn't I?

;-)

19 posted on 06/28/2018 11:26:35 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Wissa
If the left keeps it up, they'll get Trump a landslide in 2020 to match Nixon 1972.

I can already see that coming. It'll be glorious.

20 posted on 06/28/2018 11:28:47 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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