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I’m sorry—I badly underestimated Trump’s appeal to voters
Newsweek ^ | 6/5/16 | Lloyd Gruber

Posted on 06/05/2016 9:22:57 AM PDT by entropy12

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To: entropy12

I stopped reading at: “Trump’s supporters rail against Hispanics and Muslims in general.”

The author is clueless.

What Trump has done - simply by speaking the truth since day one - is to show that the truth still CAN be spoken and... hey! Nothing happens! The world doesn’t end!

We CAN come out and call the vile leftists out for what they are? Wow. Who knew? We can point out that the press is a bunch of lying propagandists? We can actually call people who lie liars? We’re allowed to recognize the absurdity of sending all of our jobs overseas and selling our country down the river? Wow. But all that stuff was just fine - after all, both parties said so, and they surely know better than we-the-people, right (even as they stuff their bank accounts with the proceeds). Keep this up and we’ll even be able to say “Merry Christmas” again without being made to feel like bigots.


21 posted on 06/05/2016 9:42:46 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: entropy12

I knew the liberal journalist didn’t mean it:

“The discrimination is indiscriminate. Trump’s supporters rail against Hispanics and Muslims in general. They are all immigrants, immigrants are outsiders and the outside world is a dangerous and menacing place. Keep it – keep them – out!”

It’s just another hit piece.


22 posted on 06/05/2016 9:43:40 AM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

This idiot says he was wrong about Trump, then goes on to misrepresent his position. He says Trump is anti-immigrant.

WRONG. Trump is anti-ILLEGAL-immigrant. They want to leave and come back legally, no problem. Gotta get vetted first.

He also goes on to predict a Hitlary win. Again, his bias is showing and he STILL refuses to see the groundswell of support Trump is getting, equal to or greater than jugears in ‘08.

The race for the White House is over. This chump still doesn’t see it.


23 posted on 06/05/2016 9:44:10 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (www.greenhornshooting.com - Professional handgun training.)
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To: entropy12

DUUUHHHHH!
“and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
The Declaration of Independence

Mr. Jefferson laid out the reasons for Trump’s rise: The hundreds of present day “evils” are no longer sufferable!
One of the most insufferable to thinking American citizens is the current illegal, intentional flooding of this nation with those of an alien culture and ersatz “religion” called islam.

If you’re STILL unclear as to the intentions of the “leaders” of islam or don’t understand the EXISTENTIAL threat we face,  this 3 1/2 minute video should remove all uncertainty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JJeVLTGYX8
Unlike the citizens of Europe (who have probably waited too long to resist)  if you pass this along, we might perhaps halt this invasion before we are forced into the streets in potentially violent protests.  American media is not covering it, but civil wars are brewing in Europe as you read this!
If they fail, the Europe America aided in 2 world wars is gone!


24 posted on 06/05/2016 9:44:56 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Pravious

“What Trump has done - simply by speaking the truth since day one - is to show that the truth still CAN be spoken and... hey! Nothing happens! The world doesn’t end!”

I loved it this morning that Trump doubled down on saying essentially that the judge on his Trump U case was a racist. He said he belonged to La Raza, was proud of being Mexican, and didn’t like Trump’s wall.

wow, the TRUTH!


25 posted on 06/05/2016 9:47:19 AM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: SMGFan

Most candidates spend their campaign season introducing themselves to most voters. Even longtime politicians are largely unknown when running for a new office.

Trump, however, has been a well known popular brand for 40 years. Everybody knows him.


26 posted on 06/05/2016 9:47:25 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ("Get the he11 out of my way!" - John Galt)
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To: entropy12

"Donald Trump will not win one single delegate".

27 posted on 06/05/2016 9:48:54 AM PDT by moehoward
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Correct. And you can see if you slog through the article that he cannot tear himself away from his own biases and intellectual vapidity that he both says produced miserable results but that he is so proud of for even a single sentence without reverting to his own arrogance and prejudice.


28 posted on 06/05/2016 9:50:24 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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To: entropy12
And.....he is STILL wrong!

This "political scientist" is just another globalist apparatchik, blaming the American people for being American. In his view, bigots, anti-immigrant, sexist, homophobic, racist and backwards thinking.

In another few months, perhaps after Trump kicks the dhimmis azzes and is president-elect, he can come back and explain why even THIS little anti-American slam was dead wrong.

29 posted on 06/05/2016 9:52:15 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: entropy12

My takeaway is that Lloyd Gruber is just another liberal hack.


30 posted on 06/05/2016 9:52:15 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: entropy12
I went as far as the "it's the rage, stupid" then he diagnosed it, as he put it -
"The Republican base may never have been especially welcoming toward Hispanics or Muslims, but Trump’s candidacy has tapped into a well of hostility toward these groups, a ferocity of nativist sentiment, that took political scientists by surprise."

Um, no, smartypants. You are 120% wrong.

31 posted on 06/05/2016 9:53:37 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (uote)
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To: Hardens Hollow

That Trump statement again confirms how different he is from career politicians.


32 posted on 06/05/2016 9:53:52 AM PDT by entropy12 (When you vote, you are actually voting for the candidate's rich donors!)
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To: entropy12

What drivel, the paragraphs this man writes are from a liberally “taught” not educated man...eh person. What a condescending POS he is and I garner that simply by how and who he refers to. I truly despise liberal persons who simply can’t see the forest through the tree’s. Just another moonbat nothing more.


33 posted on 06/05/2016 9:55:07 AM PDT by mythenjoseph (Separation of powers)
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To: entropy12

Truth is - he badly underestimated the ANGER of the American people.


34 posted on 06/05/2016 9:55:12 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Yardstick

My takeaway is that Gruber is a moron and couldn’t find his metrosexual azz with both hands, a GPS, a detailed map and a Klieg light.


35 posted on 06/05/2016 9:57:13 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: entropy12
What is Newsweak?
36 posted on 06/05/2016 9:57:28 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Bill Kristallnacht wants to burn down the conservative movement & elect crooked/lying Clinton!)
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To: entropy12
Quote from the article: "Maybe it’s the rage, stupid. Or more specifically, the animosity toward immigrants, even though America used to be held up as a beacon for oppressed people around the world. That used to be why America was great."

Being held up as a beacon for oppressed people around the world is NOT why America was great.

37 posted on 06/05/2016 9:58:49 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Cruz never could have outfought Trump.But I didn't know until this day that it was Romney all along.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
The multi-national politicians have been trying to giving it away for decades.
38 posted on 06/05/2016 9:59:37 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Bill Kristallnacht wants to burn down the conservative movement & elect crooked/lying Clinton!)
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To: xtargeter

Somebody read AR and thought it meant Arizona.


39 posted on 06/05/2016 9:59:46 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: ctdonath2

2006 EMMYs “Green Acres” theme song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiZqFGLAeAc


40 posted on 06/05/2016 10:00:15 AM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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