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Opinion: The lasting threat is not the ‘next Trump,’ but the MAGA base
LA Times ^
| 7/9/23
| Miles Taylor
Posted on 04/04/2024 2:34:14 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: brookwood
The increasingly reactionary views of grassroots RepublicansWell, yes. If you keep punching Americans in the face in what amounts to a knockout game played by both the drmoncraps and the party that supposedly represents you, then yes, eventually you’re going to react. Maybe go Rudyard Kipling on them.
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posted on
04/04/2024 3:12:08 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(Tonight on The Bickersons... )
To: Sacajaweau
“The government is gaining waaaaaay to much power...”
Thats our fault BTW...we’ve let them get away with it for 3 generations
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posted on
04/04/2024 3:12:38 PM PDT
by
mo
("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
To: DallasBiff
“Populism — in almost all of its historical iterations — tends toward authoritarianism,” Ribble told me. Bull excrement.
The opposite of populism is elitism, the ideology that asserts the governed are not qualified to choose political leaders from among their ranks and that the only legitimate political leaders come from an entitled, hereditary political class.
The elitists are the authoritarians.
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posted on
04/04/2024 3:13:32 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: DallasBiff
If Trump loses we lose everything. Period.
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posted on
04/04/2024 3:14:56 PM PDT
by
rrrod
(6)
To: DallasBiff
“But what will actually propel such a figure into the White House is the transformation of the GOP base.”
The GOP base has NOT ‘transformed’. They were hesitant when Reagan tried Amnesty and outright HATED IT when Bush Jr. tried to do the same, and that was NEARLY 20 YEARS AGO. In between that, they really liked Perot pointing out the damage that Globalism was doing to the country.
What transformed is that the GOP business interests DIVERGED from the GOP base, mainly on immigration, but now going around the world starting wars, and with some of those wars being EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.
And so the GOP Leadership had to choose, do they stick with the business interests that want mass immigration (for cheap labor), Globalism (for cheap products), and wars (for more ‘hardware’ sales), or do they stick with the base.
The GOP Leadership figured that the base was too stupid to realize that the GOP Leadership made the WRONG CHOICE...and now they pay.
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posted on
04/04/2024 3:16:56 PM PDT
by
BobL
(A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEA (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
To: DallasBiff
They are realizing that increasing numbers of right wingers have decided that the system is so corrupt that extreme measures may be needed.
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posted on
04/04/2024 3:18:51 PM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
To: DallasBiff
>Presumably this was a Trump supporter, but why attack Reagan? To make fools like this writer think Republicans no longer like Reagan.
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posted on
04/04/2024 3:22:56 PM PDT
by
libertylover
(Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
To: DallasBiff
We’ve only seen the beginning of Trumpism. The rational faction of the GOP has been put down by the radical one and is no longer a check on the system. The disgraced ex-president may return to power. Meanwhile, the conditions are right for the next Trump to emerge. Worse still for our democracy, when he or she enters the White House, the rest of democracy’s guardrails will be weaker than ever. Democrats are a threat to democracy.
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posted on
04/04/2024 3:29:11 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: AndyTheBear
It was the “Tea Party” before it was “MAGA” 100% BS.
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posted on
04/04/2024 3:32:19 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: DallasBiff
But what will actually propel such a figure into the White House is the transformation of the GOP base. We have not transformed, we just got sick of being lied to by the GOP. So we decided to take over and elected a general who will fight for what we always wanted.
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posted on
04/04/2024 3:35:12 PM PDT
by
usurper
(AI was born with a birth defect.)
To: DallasBiff
“The lasting threat is not the ‘next Trump,’ but the MAGA base”
Good.
And they say there’s no good news.
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posted on
04/04/2024 3:47:55 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: DallasBiff
It’s those danderous insurrectionists who still believe that the US Constitution has any significance at all.....
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posted on
04/04/2024 3:50:24 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(When Islam dominates democracy, freedom and non-Islamic people die)
To: DallasBiff
hey you’all did you know any trump supporters are part of a cult Who knew
this moron opinion piece is just so much progressive BS
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posted on
04/04/2024 3:56:28 PM PDT
by
markman46
(engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
To: DallasBiff
I’m sitting here pondering what the rebellion forces’ uniforms will look like in the future. Red? Flagged adorned? or more tactical?
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posted on
04/04/2024 3:58:18 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: DallasBiff
Sorry Miles...the threat is YOU.
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posted on
04/04/2024 3:58:44 PM PDT
by
Adder
(End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
To: DallasBiff
“Reactionary” is an 1840’s term, friend, as Marx used it (if memory serves) in the Communist Manifesto.
In Marxist thought, the “forces of reaction” and “reactionaries” are folk who don’t want to be murdered in the name of the revolution.
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posted on
04/04/2024 4:07:53 PM PDT
by
Srednik
(Polyglot. Overeducated. Redeemed by Christ. Anticommunist from the womb.)
To: DallasBiff
To: wetgundog
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posted on
04/04/2024 4:09:11 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: DallasBiff
Just Wanting to be left alone is a reactionary move to these types.
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posted on
04/04/2024 4:12:54 PM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
To: DallasBiff
“Reactionary” is communist terminology which is of course what we’re dealing with.
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posted on
04/04/2024 4:14:07 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
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