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Trump struck hard and fast; these guys are incredible
startribune.com ^ | Feb 2, 2017 | By Fritz Knaak

Posted on 02/02/2017 5:02:55 PM PST by 11th_VA

I am beginning to believe that my liberal friends, of whom I am fortunate to have many, are collectively, absolutely clueless about what Donald Trump has done and is doing to them.

I have maintained a fascinated watch of The Donald since the earliest days of his campaign, when I warned fellow Republicans that he was a demagogue who knew exactly what he was up to and he needed to be taken seriously. I said much the same thing to dismissive Democrats and publicly predicted he would win in the last few weeks of the campaign.

Now we’re seeing the same dismissive attitude in what is passing for leadership in the Democratic party, while Trump is shoving through them like the proverbial crap through a goose.

I suspect the Trumpians couldn’t believe their good fortunes in having a precedent for what is, in effect, the French system of governance by decree — provided by Barack Obama’s active use of executive orders at the end of his term. There’s no need to wait for a shy Republican Congress to pass Trump’s initiatives; he simply decrees them and invites Congress to do something about it.

In doing the refugee freeze early on, he plays his strong hand to his supporters in the face of an absolutely predictable Democratic response. Result, much to the surprise of the traditional media: More than half the country approves, while the Democrats look as if they are doing nothing more than trying to vindicate themselves in the eyes of the country and proclaiming we all made some kind of mistake in electing Trump.

They’re still looking at the last election. Good luck with that...

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Great analysis !!!
1 posted on 02/02/2017 5:02:55 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Since you are so positive on the article, define demagogue.


2 posted on 02/02/2017 5:10:19 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for spiritual discernment)
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To: 11th_VA
Hussein; I've got a pen and a phone!

Trump; Hussein set the pace, signed laws that allow me, Trump, with multiple phones and many pens to kick your commie/socialist butt to the kerb.

3 posted on 02/02/2017 5:12:51 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: MHGinTN
Since you are so positive on the article, define demagogue.

Any random Democrat national leader. 😀

4 posted on 02/02/2017 5:14:00 PM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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To: 11th_VA

President Trump is bringing some spine and good old American testosterone to the GOP.


5 posted on 02/02/2017 5:18:38 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: MHGinTN

>>Since you are so positive on the article, define demagogue.

The author is no friend of Trump..or us...but it is a good analysis anyway. The problem for the Progressives (of both parties) is that they are watching this force of nature hit them like a tsunami and are just standing there saying, “it’s not real, it’s not real”.

Some Progs are trying to snap them out of it, but they are locked into their illusion of invincibility, that somehow they will cause him to resign because they are unhappy and breaking some windows.

I love these analyses. I just ignore the name-calling and read a truth that most Progs will never accept, so they just watch that tsunami and keep muttering, “this isn’t real”.


6 posted on 02/02/2017 5:19:06 PM PST by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: 11th_VA

It is pretty good. The author seems to somehow be critical of Trump, but just keeps on saying how effective and smart he is.


7 posted on 02/02/2017 5:20:00 PM PST by marktwain (We wanted to tell our side of the story. We hope by us telling our story...)
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To: 11th_VA
Well I had to look it up so I figure some others might question what it means:

scle·rot·ic

skləˈrädik/

adjective: sclerotic

1. Medicine of or having sclerosis.

2. becoming rigid and unresponsive; losing the ability to adapt. "sclerotic management"

8 posted on 02/02/2017 5:24:47 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Trump the anti politician. About time!)
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To: Bryanw92
The author is no friend of Trump..or us...but it is a good analysis anyway. The problem for the Progressives (of both parties) is that they are watching this force of nature hit them like a tsunami and are just standing there saying, “it’s not real, it’s not real”.

Some of them are screaming at the tsunami, or at the sky, and trying to set fire to the ocean.

9 posted on 02/02/2017 5:25:15 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Steely Tom

some of them are trying to explain and justify emptying of that ocean into a drinking cup, ie unfettered borders and wholescale welfare.


10 posted on 02/02/2017 5:29:00 PM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

He is evincing that spine and testosterone but I am not convinced he can impart it to the Republican Party. Republicans still think that Democrats are the Natural Ruling Class and that Republicans only exist to help keep them from their flightiest fancies and they have ceased even doing that.


11 posted on 02/02/2017 5:31:40 PM PST by arthurus
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To: 11th_VA

Leaders are generally divided into two types of personalities.....they are either politicians or warriors. President Trump is a warrior and the world better get used to it.


12 posted on 02/02/2017 5:34:07 PM PST by Toespi
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To: Steely Tom
and trying to set fire to the ocean.

Good one!

13 posted on 02/02/2017 5:35:36 PM PST by arthurus
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To: arthurus

“Republicans still think that Democrats are the Natural Ruling Class”

That’s exactly right. The GOP legislators seem to suffer from Stockholm Syndrome or Battered Wife Syndrome. They have the power to escape the abusers but choose not to. Even worse, they assist the abusers.


14 posted on 02/02/2017 5:38:32 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (If you think the party that freed the slaves are the racist ones, you probably are a liberal.)
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To: Steely Tom

>>Some of them are screaming at the tsunami, or at the sky, and trying to set fire to the ocean.

That’s all just stomping their feet as they say, “this isn’t real”.


15 posted on 02/02/2017 5:42:19 PM PST by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: 11th_VA
From the article, "I’m still not a Trump fan. Not even kinda. But these guys are incredible."

This paragraph opening is quite a dichotomy.

16 posted on 02/02/2017 5:53:54 PM PST by MCH
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To: Steely Tom

That is pure poetry.


17 posted on 02/02/2017 5:57:21 PM PST by txhurl (Break's over, kids, back to WAR.)
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To: Steely Tom

You are my tagline now.


18 posted on 02/02/2017 6:01:08 PM PST by txhurl (Some of them are screaming at the tsunami, or at the sky, and trying to set fire to the ocean.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

It’s been that way since Nixon with a brief hiatus for the Gingrich phenomenon.


19 posted on 02/02/2017 6:01:51 PM PST by arthurus
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To: txhurl

With attribution and a bit of modification.


20 posted on 02/02/2017 6:06:04 PM PST by txhurl (The LEFT are screaming at the Tsunami, and the Sky, trying to set fire to the Ocean- S.Tom)
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