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Are Trump Voters Really Victims?
Townhall.com ^ | April 5, 2016 | Michael Barone

Posted on 04/05/2016 5:20:54 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 04/05/2016 5:20:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

nah, just really pissed off.


2 posted on 04/05/2016 5:24:08 AM PDT by RC one
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To: Kaslin

I’m reeling from the stupidity of this column.


3 posted on 04/05/2016 5:24:57 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Kaslin

Town Hall! They’re still around?


4 posted on 04/05/2016 5:25:55 AM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (It's them or us.)
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To: CaptainK

I cannot believe Michael Barone wrote this. What the hell has happened to him?


5 posted on 04/05/2016 5:29:37 AM PDT by pugmama
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To: Kaslin

It is what it is.


6 posted on 04/05/2016 5:29:57 AM PDT by Agnes Heep (Trump 2016: Statism that WORKS for US!!!)
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To: Kaslin

We are victims of the Washington establishment — GOPe, media, and democrats.


7 posted on 04/05/2016 5:30:31 AM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: Kaslin

Words from the ivory tower that prove author knows absolutely nothing about Trump supporters


8 posted on 04/05/2016 5:30:46 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Trump makes me smile!)
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To: pugmama

Barone sounds like a victim of Trump derangement syndrome.


9 posted on 04/05/2016 5:31:17 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Kaslin

The economist stated what the Trump anti business types can’t believe much less accept. The jobs would be gone movement or not.


10 posted on 04/05/2016 5:31:32 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson was my guy but now is a Trumplican)
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To: pugmama
What the hell has happened to him?

That's kind of like the question Solzhenitsyn asked about the Stalin reign of terror. How was it, in a country known for its loyalty, did traitors all of a sudden start popping out of the woodwork, right and left, to the point where the Gulags couldn't hold them all?

11 posted on 04/05/2016 5:31:56 AM PDT by Agnes Heep (Trump 2016: Statism that WORKS for US!!!)
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To: Kaslin

Another pundit playing psychologist and analyzing all Trump voters. Their frustration in Americans not following their self proclaimed wise consul is getting to be comical.


12 posted on 04/05/2016 5:35:02 AM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
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To: hoosiermama

Actually, he is absolutely dead on. He also recognizes that Trump supporters are not a homogenous lot.

Trump motivates different folks for different reasons but he motivatres them a lot.

The labor mobility statements are interesting. It is the various safety nets that prevent unemployed folks from moving from relative poverty to a better life.


13 posted on 04/05/2016 5:35:20 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson was my guy but now is a Trumplican)
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:: I cannot believe Michael Barone wrote this. What the hell has happened to him? ::

He receives a paycheck from the “media-political conglomerate”. What’s not to understand?

You will need to explain your expectations to Mssr. Barone himself...if he can find the time to address your concerns.< /media-sequestering >


14 posted on 04/05/2016 5:37:46 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: Kaslin
Michael Barone use dig deeper than skimming the surface foam to make a point. The pundit, talkers and writers, on the left and right, are the laziest people on God's green earth. Trump voters want freedom from the gods and goddess of government. Who would have ever thought, that Reagan's America would devolve into a bloated suffocating layer upon layer upon layer of government.

Barone ignored the despicable treatment of US veterans, and the ungodly government take over of medical care... Barone ignores the literal destruction of that former middle class. Barone use to be credible. Trump signifies returning the function of ‘government’ back to we the people.

15 posted on 04/05/2016 5:38:18 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Agnes Heep; Charles Henrickson; cripplecreek

I like your handle.
From whence does it derive?


16 posted on 04/05/2016 5:39:18 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: Kaslin

So where do the coal miners of West Virginia move to when the entire industry is under attack nationwide? Where, exactly, is manufacturing booming in the U.S. to absorb those made jobless by the local plants closing if they simply moved?

I have a feeling that if legislation decimated the journalism industry, we’d get a lot more sympathy from them. Maybe a little more than just suggesting moving to where the jobs are...


17 posted on 04/05/2016 5:42:21 AM PDT by chrisser
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To: Kaslin

You can bet that just about any headline that ends in a question mark is going to be slamming someone. It gives them a non-libel “out” to tongue-in-cheek accuse, or just plant doubts, in whatever subject or person they’re about to tear into.

Victims? I don’t think so. More like patriotic Americans following the constitutionally mandated remedies to stop a corrupt government.

College degree? Who needs a degree to know when they’re being lied to? To imply that a lack of a degree somehow implies that they are 2nd class Americans is rubbish. Look at the democrats...many of whom have degrees yet still vote democrat. They’re obviously not “degreed” enough to look around at all the mass failures of many democrat-led cities. They’re not “degreed” enough to know the history of socialist/communist governments around the world, most abject failures.

Modern college degrees only mean the students have completed indoctrination into progressivism, and spending their retarded adulthood looking for “safe spaces” and free I-Phones.

God help us if we base America on the current crop of “college graduates”. After all, they’re voting, en masse, for Bernie.

We’re not victims. We are smart enough to see America’s slide towards oblivion, and are moving to try and stop it. We’re smart enough to know historically what works to make America great, and what doesn’t. We’ve seen it. We’ve lived it. We know the difference.


18 posted on 04/05/2016 5:43:37 AM PDT by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: Kaslin

Et Tu Barone? Shame on you for becoming a shill for the GOPe.


19 posted on 04/05/2016 5:46:00 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Kaslin

They are victims of political turncoats.


20 posted on 04/05/2016 5:47:56 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.)
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