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Four reasons why Trump is cruising towards re-election
The Manchester Guardian ^ | June 20, 2019 | Cas Mudde

Posted on 06/19/2019 11:30:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Democrats should not delude themselves: unless they shape up – and fast – the president is heading for four more years

On Tuesday night President Trump launched his re-election campaign with a by now classic rally in Orlando, Florida. It was a “Greatest Hits rally” in which he accused the Democrats of undermining democracy (by trying to impeach him), talked about the many threats to “this country as we know it”, and even railed against Hillary Clinton (for old time’s sake). In short, Trump’s message for 2020 is: “I made America Great Again, now vote for me so I can Keep America Great.”

Democrats will dismiss the speech as lacking ideas and just fearmongering, while reveling in recent polls that have virtually every major primary candidate defeat Donald Trump in 2020, sometimes by a significant margin. They believe the president is weakened by a broad range of issues, including the Mueller report, the treatment of immigrants at the southern border and the various scandals surrounding key cabinet members.

Remarkably, given the traumatic experience of 2016, many Democrats have still not learned the key lesson of US democracy: elections are not won by passive majorities but by mobilized minorities. And while the passive majority might be with the Democrats, or at least not with Trump, the mobilized minority is. There are (at least) four reasons why, at this moment, Trump is cruising towards re-election...

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; abortion; banglist; buildthefence; canada; casmudde; daca; declassification; dreamact; dreamers; fbi; fisa; florida; genderdysphoria; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; homosexualagenda; impeachment; infanticide; jamescomey; lisapage; manchesterguardian; medicareforall; mexico; nafta; nra; obamacare; orlando; peterstrzok; robertmueller; secondamendment; trump2020; unitedkingdom; usmca
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1 posted on 06/19/2019 11:30:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Finally, there is the real Trump supporter, the mostly blue-collar and lower-middle-class white voters who want to “build the wall” (nativism) and “drain the swamp” (populism). So far, they have not really gotten what they wanted. The swamp has barely been drained – rather, it has been expanded by corrupt Trump appointees – while, despite all of Trump’s grandstanding, the wall is still mostly a fence-in-building. In short, the real Trump voter is left wanting – as is at times loudly proclaimed by their media voices like Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson. But where can they go? To the most diverse party in US history? The party of Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Stacey Abrams and Elizabeth Warren?

Where can they go? They can simply stay at home.... (political pundits never really consider that option).

Trump REALLY needs to start shipping some illegals back home.

2 posted on 06/19/2019 11:44:45 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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I think if there were only five or six Democratic candidates....it would be a tougher election for Trump. But at 21? All of these debates they discuss (starting next week)....will have no real value if the guy is asked something and only has 3 minutes to respond....then you get eight more folks following that.

Add on the fact that Trump has no real competition in the GOP primary, and will likely only spend ten-percent of what he did in the 2016 primary season. He’ll save everything for the last hundred days.

Then there’s this ‘little-guy’ donation mentality. A lot of us who never donated to a campaign in our life....are easily willing to go and donate $100, $300, or even $500 to Trump’s campaign. He could put out a call tomorrow for 40-million, and reach it in a matter of three hours.

I think the real question for Democrats...after Trump completes the 8 years...is there another Trump-like figure in the distance, and the GOP continues on?


3 posted on 06/19/2019 11:45:06 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dear Lord, please bless and protect Mr. Trump, his family and closest advisers. Please guide their decisions, providing the strength, loyalty and even humor they will need to work together, continuing serve our country with all their heart. Help them to relax and sleep deeply at night, building resilience for each new day.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.


4 posted on 06/19/2019 11:46:42 PM PDT by lee martell
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5 posted on 06/19/2019 11:54:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Yup. He starts shippin them out and officially exposes the deep state it’s koitains for the Rats.


6 posted on 06/19/2019 11:54:45 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: lee martell

Amen


7 posted on 06/20/2019 12:00:09 AM PDT by Guenevere
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To: lee martell
Dear Lord, please bless and protect Mr. Trump, his family and closest advisers. Please guide their decisions, providing the strength, loyalty and even humor they will need to work together, continuing serve our country with all their heart. Help them to relax and sleep deeply at night, building resilience for each new day. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

P.S. And please confound Trump's enemies' nefarious plans against him so that they come back and bite them. Amen.

8 posted on 06/20/2019 12:07:07 AM PDT by boatbums (semper reformanda secundum verbum dei)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There’s ALOT more reasons than that.


9 posted on 06/20/2019 12:10:06 AM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m a bit of a cynic, and it’s a burden to myself and those around me. But if President Trump had just a tad bit of cynicism, instead of taking everyone at their word and at face value, I think that might not be a bad thing.


10 posted on 06/20/2019 12:12:37 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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I think the real question for Democrats...after Trump completes the 8 years...is there another Trump-like figure in the distance, and the GOP continues on?

Dan Crenshaw

11 posted on 06/20/2019 12:13:13 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We meet daily to pray for our President, our Nation
AMERICA PRAYER VIGIL ~

12 posted on 06/20/2019 12:24:35 AM PDT by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: boatbums
These are the days of Elijah.

Jonathan Cahn - The Elijah Paradigm

approx. 30 minute video

13 posted on 06/20/2019 1:01:59 AM PDT by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: metmom

Not bad. I wasn’t familiar with the guy until just now.

Age:35. Veteran. Married for several years.

He was born in Scotland. But to, two Americans, so he is ok in that regard. Has a rather styling eyepatch, which actually looks good. Not sure of the background on that.

Also mentioned in Wikipedia, Duncan Hunter, another very good candidate.

Very good suggestion, thank you. :)


14 posted on 06/20/2019 1:38:20 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: cba123

Also, evidently Crenshaw, lived for a while in South America.

So he speaks (fluent) Spanish.

Very good, in regards to winning that Demographic.

Very good suggestion.

Bookmarking.


15 posted on 06/20/2019 1:42:31 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: lee martell

Amen.


16 posted on 06/20/2019 1:48:12 AM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nobody is cruising towards anything. If you believe that, if you become complacent, we’re going to lose. Run the whole campaign as if you’re four points behind all the way till election day.


17 posted on 06/20/2019 3:43:46 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: pepsionice

That would be Don Jr!


18 posted on 06/20/2019 4:47:07 AM PDT by gr8eman (Ex-Flyer fan!)
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To: pepsionice; All
I think the real question for Democrats...after Trump completes the 8 years...is there another Trump-like figure in the distance, and the GOP continues on?

Yes indeed there is, Donald J. Trump JR! You deep-staters who love your dynasties (Kennedy,Bush,Clinton) SUCK ON THAT!
19 posted on 06/20/2019 4:57:00 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: metmom

Yup, dan is another “I’ll crawl over broken glass in a snow storm naked to vote for” type candidate.

I was not really excited about Trump last time (I did vote for him, NWIH I was gonna vote hillary) but this time..

snow? broken glass? what ever.. I’m voting for him.


20 posted on 06/20/2019 4:58:36 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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