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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: Not A Snowbird
Coast Guard is sort-of a branch of the military, but also sort-of a law enforcement agency.
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:54:13 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Yaelle
If borders are important, then yes, the Coast Guard needs to be under DoDNot sure I agree. Would you say the same about Border Patrol? Seems like you could make the same argument. I am not sure we are at a point where militarization of our law enforcement is the best or only answer. That's not to say I have any problem with mobilizing the military to stop an invasion. The Coast Guards role would be virtually the same whether under HS or DoD in this case. But to put them under DoD requires a declaration of war or at least some similar congressionally approved action.
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:54:53 PM PST
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
To: mass55th
Ann Coulter’s keeping Trump’s feet to the fire for all of our sakes... We need the Wall, Trump needs the Wall, taxpayers and parents need the Wall...
Trump should keep the government shut down until he has all the money he needs to build ...
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:55:14 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(Replace furloughed government workers with illegals for ten bucks an hour. Show dems how it feels.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:55:49 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: SeekAndFind
Re: “After the 2016 election, she has become a one-issue woman IMMIGRATION.”
Massive LEGAL Immigration has been Ann Coulter’s number one issue since the Bush-McCain Amnesty in 2005.
Bottom Line...
The USA has 21 million naturalized citizens who are voter eligible.
Those naturalized citizens have 10 million more USA born children who are voter eligible.
Democracy is a basic math problem.
The Political Left has more LEGAL voters than Conservatives have.
When the Democrats get their LEGAL voters to the polls, Conservatives cannot win a national election, and we will eventually lose both houses of Congress.
To: Magnum44
Well, at the least, they should be considered essential.
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posted on
01/16/2019 12:58:43 PM PST
by
Yaelle
To: SeekAndFind
Shut up, Coulter, I’m sick of your threats against the President.
Why don’t you go join the Democrats, where they bash him 24/7, you should feel right at home.
To: Magnum44; Not A Snowbird
I think before Homeland Security, they were Dept of Transportation during peacetimeThat's correct and they were put under DHS when that monster was created.
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posted on
01/16/2019 1:00:42 PM PST
by
capydick
(“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.)
To: Yaelle
I think (or thought) they are considered essential, and that they would be working, but unfortunately without pay like all of essential HS/Border Patrol. Maybe I missed something?
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posted on
01/16/2019 1:00:49 PM PST
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
To: SeekAndFind
Irrelevance must be a girlie-dog.
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posted on
01/16/2019 1:02:40 PM PST
by
Migraine
To: SeekAndFind
Not necessarily true Anne. Allot can happen between now and then.
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posted on
01/16/2019 1:03:14 PM PST
by
jetson
To: Lurkinanloomin
Fact
I got news for you, aside from your misguided self importance, your opinion is not "Fact". Trump is doing the best he can do in a no win situation. It's Trump standing alone, now more then ever. Especially with his so called supporters threatening him with all or none ultimatums. Your, if I don't get 100% of what I want he loses support is BS. Why don't you just come out and openly support pelosi? Because that produces the same result you are perusing here.
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posted on
01/16/2019 1:03:33 PM PST
by
JoSixChip
(He is Batman!)
To: JoSixChip
I will vote for him whatever happens.
Not sure it will matter if we don’t stop the flood.
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posted on
01/16/2019 1:09:27 PM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
To: Nifster
Just Nother version of Trump is done, this time from the right.
What exactly does she think he should be doing that he is not?
Anne is dead to me.
To: SeekAndFind
Wrong, wrong, wrong. The people want a wall, and there is no deadline. The game is over only if conservatives call it quits. And even more important than a wall are statutory restrictions on immigration, the appointment of conservative judges, and a war on vote cheating.
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posted on
01/16/2019 1:10:48 PM PST
by
Socon-Econ
(adical Islam,)
To: SeekAndFind
The country's dead, not Trump.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed , --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. ...
To: SeekAndFind
Anorexia is rotting her brain.
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posted on
01/16/2019 1:21:12 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
President Trump pushed all his chips into the center of the table with this one. He better hold on to his royal straight flush, because that’s what he’s holding.
To: SeekAndFind
Coulter is acting like some kind of angry imp on this issue. I dont why shes trying to antagonize Trump and his supporters when he is the driving force for building the wall.
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posted on
01/16/2019 1:27:06 PM PST
by
Crucial
To: Nifster
Not the only one not even the main one Sorry but it was.
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posted on
01/16/2019 1:39:57 PM PST
by
itsahoot
(Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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