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An interesting, nuanced view of President Trump, his supporters, his opponents, and how we are as a society.
1 posted on 12/30/2018 9:16:20 PM PST by TBP
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Better include the link before it’s pulled.


2 posted on 12/30/2018 9:17:38 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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“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.


8 posted on 12/30/2018 9:27:31 PM PST by JPJones (More tariffs, less income tax.)
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I wasn’t some liberal, mind you. I had worked for years in Republican politics …
Oxymoron. Liberals have been in Republican politics for decades.
9 posted on 12/30/2018 9:29:51 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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"...I have also resisted the siren call of “Trump does it, so it makes it OK.” As I have written in these pages, Trump’s name-calling has made me check my own ­impulse to let insults fly..."

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.

10 posted on 12/30/2018 9:35:07 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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a wild chance on the reality-TV star from Queens.

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.

11 posted on 12/30/2018 9:39:38 PM PST by spokeshave2 (https://www.gofundme.com/TheTrumpWall.... $18,236,817 of $1.0B goal by 300,818 people in 13 days)
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Nothing in the excerpt indicates the author is sincere.


15 posted on 12/30/2018 10:06:37 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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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.


16 posted on 12/30/2018 10:09:06 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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Not gonna bother. How do you spend “years” in Republican politics and not know a SINGLE Trump voter???

The man is part of the elitist establishment


27 posted on 12/31/2018 12:11:31 AM PST by Nifster (II see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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It’s the cusp of 2019....and articles like this are still coming out? They will never understand....


34 posted on 12/31/2018 5:34:38 AM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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Sorry, not impressed. Tariffs bad. She’s an idiot.


35 posted on 12/31/2018 10:21:58 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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