Posted on 12/30/2018 9:16:20 PM PST by TBP
Nearly two years after his inauguration, I have concluded that President Trump has made me a better person.
For starters, I’m more compassionate. After the election, I was as dazed and confused as anyone in the political-media bubble. To understand what happened, I devoured reporting about Trump voters and sought to understand them.
I wasn’t some liberal, mind you. I had worked for years in Republican politics. Yet I hadn’t known any Trump primary voters. I didn’t know his fans, his base.
Reading their concerns was eye-opening. They weren’t stupid, and they weren’t hateful. Mainstream politicians had ignored them for so long that they took a wild chance on the reality-TV star from Queens.
At the same time, because I wasn’t a Trump voter, I understood the pain of people frightened by his win. Caring about his voters didn’t preclude caring about his opponents, I found.
Better include the link before it’s pulled.
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Just post it as a reply. The moderator can sort it out.
There you go.
Got it.
“I wasn’t some liberal, mind you. I had worked for years in Republican politics. Yet I hadn’t known any Trump primary voters. “
Hate to tell you this: You are some liberal.
I wasn’t some liberal, mind you. I had worked for years in Republican politics …Oxymoron. Liberals have been in Republican politics for decades.
There is no "Trump does it so it makes it okay" for the vast majority of conservatives.
We are all on board with the "Name calling", but before Trump became President, there was no one who would do it. Every single non-Democrat politician was simply a punching back for the Left and just took the abuse for decades.
We are mostly overjoyed that Trump is giving back to them, accurately, what they dished out to us (and continue to, unabated) for decades.
That we are brainless, convictionless automatons who couldn't think for ourselves and curse the Left until we somehow gained courage and jumped on the train because Trump did it is an absurd assessment.
With Trump the "reality-TV star" came later
Trump is essentially a builder, and a negotiator with 50 years experience
Under budget and ahead of schedule.
So how does that get accomplished..?
The NY ice skating rink
The rebuild of the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Ave
The rebuild of an old victorian golf club house and hotel on a remote Scottish island.
To name a few.
Did I mention all the books Trump wrote.
“Oxymoron. Liberals have been in Republican politics for decades.”
Correction: Liberals have infiltrated Republican politics for decades.
“There is no “Trump does it so it makes it okay” for the vast majority of conservatives.”
It’s very clear that this person is STILL in their liberal bubble.
But believes otherwise.
Complete ignorance, and not only a complete unawareness of it, but still the arrogance.
“Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.It certainly has been decades. Working on the century mark.
— Communist Goal #15
The New Deal, Dean Acheson wrote approvingly in a book called A Democrat Looks At His Party, “conceived of the federal government as the whole people organized to do what had to be done.” A year later, Mr. (Arthur) Larson wrote A Republican Looks At His Party, and made much the same claim in his book for modern Republicans. The “underlying philosophy” of the New Republicanism, said Mr. Larson, is that “if a job has to be done to meet the needs of the people, and no one else can do it, then it is the proper function of the federal government.”
Here we have, by prominent spokesmen of both political parties, an unqualified repudiation of the principle of limited government. There is no reference by either of them to the Constitution, or any attempt to define the legitimate functions of government. The government can do whatever needs to be done; note, too, the implicit but necessary assumption that it is the government itself that determines what needs to be done. We must not, I think, underrate the importance of these statements. They reflect the view of a majority of the leaders of one of our parties, and of a strong minority among the leaders of the other, and they propound the first principle of totalitarianism: that the State is competent to do all things and is limited in what it actually does only by the will of those who control the State. …
— The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), Chapter 2, page 15
Nothing in the excerpt indicates the author is sincere.
Another BS article where “Trump voters” are studied like she was Jane Goodall studying a new species of chimp.
She is careful to say she didn’t know ANYONE who liked Trump, and that she went for Hillary. Just leave us alone.
Right.
Part of the “Long Institutional March” to takeover everything.
They’ve succeeded: “The Deep State”
I have seen that kind of thing written about constantly, as if Trump is driving our behavior.
“I have seen that kind of thing written about constantly, as if Trump is driving our behavior.”
Yup. Pure Projection.
That’s how THEY live their lives, waiting for talking points to recite, marching orders to act.
The part where she says Trump primary voters weren’t stupid or hateful would indicate great sincerity. For someone who starts off as more or less anti-Trump.
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