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Ann Coulter: If Trump Doesn’t Build The Wall He’s Dead, Dead, Dead In 2020
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| 01/16/2019
| Allahpundit
Posted on 01/16/2019 12:32:34 PM PST by SeekAndFind
He is not, not, not. I’ve made that case at length elsewhere but let me add a few points.
1. Contra Coulter, Trump’s probably the only major player in the standoff who isn’t dead, dead, dead if he’s the first to extend an olive branch. McConnell is facing reelection in a red state next year and is always viewed suspiciously by the base notwithstanding his work on judicial confirmations. If he buckles and destroys Trump’s leverage he may face a populist revolt in Kentucky. Schumer is viewed similarly suspiciously by the left, a weak leader who won’t fight fight fight and is always a bit too eager to make a deal. He’s not popular enough to get away with caving. Pelosi is idolized by Democrats as a strong leader who got ObamaCare through when other liberals were wavering but she just got finished with fending off criticism that she’s an electoral liability for the party who’s blocking the next generation from leadership posts. If she caves, her image will be shattered and Democratic voters will wonder whether they should have pushed harder for a new Speaker when they had the chance.
Of the four, only Trump enjoys such cultish popularity with supporters that they’ll forgive him anything he does, particularly after he spends six months on the trail next year reminding them of all his accomplishments — great economy, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, withdrawal from unwinnable wars, tax cuts, deregulation. Voters who like him will look for reasons to support him despite their misgivings and occasional disappointment, and he’ll offer them plenty of reasons. Ann Coulter is a one-issue voter. Hardly anyone else is.
2. Coulter seems to take heart from a poll showing support for stronger borders after Trump’s Oval Office speech. That’s peculiar because the polling lately has been consistently bad for him on balance. See for yourself what the trendline looks like today in RCP’s job-approval tracker. He’s been stuck at 43 percent for days even in the most pro-Trump national poll, Rasmussen. And it gets worse:
It’s true that some polling shows an increase in support for the wall or an uptick in people agreeing that there’s a crisis at the border. But even those polls carry more discouraging signs for Trump than encouraging, with most Americans blaming him for the standoff. The sort of sharp popular groundswell in favor of him and the wall that might give Schumer and Pelosi pause just isn’t there. On the contrary, CNN’s most recent poll found Trump’s approval sliding into negative territory even among whites without a college degree, his most loyal demographic. If some working-class whites come away from all this believing that Trump is simply too erratic and inclined to foolish brinksmanship with federal services to be trusted with another term, that’s more likely to render him dead, dead, dead next year than disappointing a few populist righties who’ll end up talking themselves into voting for him even if he caves.
3. Waving off the burden to federal workers in missing a payday or two on grounds that they’ll get their back pay eventually, whenever that might be, as Coulter does here is a bad look for a supposedly working-class party. A lot of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Some workers are selling belongings to make rent, some are applying for emergency loans. Many are being asked to come into work despite the lack of pay. If they were laid off they could at least focus on finding a new job elsewhere; at the moment they’re in limbo. Let’s pretend to sympathize with the hardship caused by a standoff that could have been avoided if Trump had made his stand on this issue six months ago, with a Republican Congress in power.
One last thing. The shutdown isn’t causing much political pain because there’s been no highly visible example of bad repercussions. If some such example were to occur, like God forbid a bomb going off somewhere while DHS isn’t running at full throttle, there will be political consequences for that and they won’t be to Pelosi. That’s the big-picture risk in letting this go on indefinitely. Exit quotation via Dem Rep. Jackie Speier, who knows that nothing irritates Trump more than being dismissed as a puppet of one of his advisors: “Dear @AnnCoulter — Please tell the President it’s OK to open up the government.”
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To: SeekAndFind
RE: The shutdown isnt causing much political pain because theres been no highly visible example of bad repercussions.
I can think of two:
1) Air Traffic Controllers are still needed. This will affect commercial flights.
2) The Coast Guard needs to be paid. Why they are considered non-essential I do not understand.
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:33:50 PM PST
by
SeekAndFind
(look at Michigan, it will)
To: SeekAndFind
Can’t she ever write anything positive? She seems to be in perpetual depression mode.
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:34:35 PM PST
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: SeekAndFind
He will lose if he backs down from border security.
Stopping the flow was the reason he was elected.
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:35:09 PM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
To: SeekAndFind
What if the shut down were to go on into 2020? Will Trump get the blame? I don’t think so. Fed emps are mostly Dems. Welfare recipients no matter the State are mostly Dems!
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:35:20 PM PST
by
Harpotoo
(Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
To: mass55th
RE: Cant she ever write anything positive? She seems to be in perpetual depression mode.
After the 2016 election, she has become a one-issue woman — IMMIGRATION.
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:36:10 PM PST
by
SeekAndFind
(look at Michigan, it will)
To: SeekAndFind
I believe Ann Coulter has accurately exposed the true reason the democrats have voted for a wall numerous times in the past, but now suddenly are adamantly opposed to it. They have 2020 in their sites. And they know if they can force Trump to cave on this issue it will do irreparable harm to his re-election campaign.
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:36:20 PM PST
by
so_real
( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
To: SeekAndFind
Maybe not Trump, but the GOP will certainly be dead, dead, dead if they let the talking witch beat Trump on this.
Guaranteed.
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:37:08 PM PST
by
Da Coyote
To: SeekAndFind
Why they are considered non-essential I do not understand. Let's lose "nonessential" for a minute; that's old language.
Coast Guard falls under Homeland Security, and our funding bill is one of the bills that is still being held. The ones engaged in public safety should be at work, since they are performing exempt functions; those who are in a support role are non-exempt and should be furloughed.
What I don't get is why they are in Homeland Security and not the DoD. They are a branch of the military, after all.
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:37:22 PM PST
by
Not A Snowbird
(Furloghed and okay with it. BUILD THE WALL!)
To: Harpotoo
RE: Will Trump get the blame?
Every single poll out there shows that most Americans “blame” him for the shutdown.
On the other hand most Americans want the Border Wall too.
Which begs the question — what does “blame” mean? Do most Americans lament the shutdown?
I can say, yes, Trump shut down the government ( and that would count probably as “blaming” ) but hey, I don’t mind at all.
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:38:02 PM PST
by
SeekAndFind
(look at Michigan, it will)
To: SeekAndFind
To: mass55th
Isn’t she still pining for Chris Christie?
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:38:13 PM PST
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
To: SeekAndFind
Annie is a sunshine patriot
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:38:35 PM PST
by
Nifster
(II see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: SeekAndFind
And Ann is dead dead dead to me now...
Which of the Democrats do you propose we vote for Ann?
Theres really no one else Ann, and just sitting it out means the Leftist can win with fewer vote.
How about putting a cork in it Ann, since you have no more common sense than this.
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:38:44 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
To: SeekAndFind
I can't agree with her on this.Despite what Rat Party sympathizers think (remember “uneducated white males” during Election Night coverage?) most of DJT’s supporters that he can't govern by Executive fiat.If The Wall doesn't happen it will be because of the Rats caring more about wetbacks than about lawful residents.
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:39:42 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
To: All
Hey crackpot Coulter! Trump is TRYING, TRYING, TRYING. So shut the yap and lend a hand.
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:39:50 PM PST
by
McGruff
To: SeekAndFind
I can't agree with her on this.Despite what Rat Party sympathizers think (remember “uneducated white males” during Election Night coverage?) most of DJT’s supporters know that he can't govern by Executive fiat.If The Wall doesn't happen it will be because of the Rats caring more about wetbacks than about lawful residents.
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:40:13 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
To: Lurkinanloomin
Not it isn’t the reason he was elected. It was one, repeat one, of his campaign issues. Not the only one not even the main one
You wussy sunshine patriots need to put your big boy pants on and man up
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:40:49 PM PST
by
Nifster
(II see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: SeekAndFind
I agree. The only question is if he hasn't already sealed his fate. He should declared the State of Emergency when he said he could do it. One of his main campaign lines was that he wasn't going to announce things ahead of time; it only serves to warn the bad guys.
What is he thinking? This past long weekend was possibly the last sensible time to start the wall because of the national emergency which DOES exist at the border.
But fear not. A combination from Jeb, Romney, or Kasick will lose to whatever communist the dems finally nominate.
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:42:29 PM PST
by
grania
("We're all just pawns in their game")
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