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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: Lurkinanloomin; Nifster
FR tends to be frequented by political junkies who think strictly in 2-4 year election time frames. Deeper, longer term strategic analysis and planning isn't really their forte.
That's why one can point to California & New York, where approx 18% of the nation lives, as an example of what a proglib super majority looks like, but the nationwide trend line won't really resonate.
Without a facility for understanding long(er) term trends, the ability to understand why even a Trump packed SCOTUS will be moot seems to be lost on them. If you explain that a proglib super majority can (a) impeach existing justices; (b) expand the number of seats; or (c) ignore rulings* may effect a response.
So yes, the existential crisis is about an unabated and uncontrolled foreign invasion, aided and abetted by collaborators and traitors. Personally, I think it's already a done deal - Trump is simply trying to pad the final tally to make it look better in history's box score.
There's a reason why the smart money has backed the new citizens - they know the old guard are simply paper tigers. A lot of huff & puff, what cowards in the end.
* It will be truly ironic when the proglib super majority decides that Marshall was overreaching by claiming rights in Marbury not specified in the constitution. The same complaints about black robed tyrants will be echoed; but the progs will actually move to curtail contradictory rulings because the are "undemocratic".
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posted on
01/16/2019 1:43:12 PM PST
by
semantic
To: Da Coyote
Yep! The GOP has been on life support for quite a while now. Mr. Trumps victory breathed some life back into the party but if they abandon him on this issue they will indeed be finished as a Political Party with any sway.
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posted on
01/16/2019 1:43:49 PM PST
by
ImpBill
(Conservative little "l" libertarian)
To: Not A Snowbird
It was none other than “Mission Accomplished GW” who officiated over the moving of The Coast Guard from DoD to Homeland Security in 2002.
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posted on
01/16/2019 1:47:35 PM PST
by
ImpBill
(Conservative little "l" libertarian)
To: JoSixChip; Lurkinanloomin
Trump is doing the best he can do in a no win situation. You are saying that like it matters, it doesn't. The best he can do has to include the wall or a militarized border, else he will go down in 12 and you can thank Ryan and Mitch for that.
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posted on
01/16/2019 1:50:08 PM PST
by
itsahoot
(Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
To: Magnum44
January 28, 1915
The Coast Guard as established January 28, 1915, shall be a military service and a branch of the armed forces of the United States at all times. The Coast Guard shall be a service in the Department of Homeland Security, except when operating as a service in the Navy.
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posted on
01/16/2019 1:52:19 PM PST
by
ImpBill
(Conservative little "l" libertarian)
To: ImpBill
Not sure I follow your post. Seems like contradictory sentences, but you don’t provide a source to follow up for clarification. What was your point?
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posted on
01/16/2019 1:55:27 PM PST
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
To: mass55th
Cant she ever write anything positive? She seems to be in perpetual depression mode.I like Ann, but appearance is part of her shtick. Father Time is slowly pushing her over the threshold that divides long-haired and leggy from long-haired and bony/veiny. Not all at once, mind you, but I think she feels like she has to up her act, and in doing so is becoming more shrill.
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posted on
01/16/2019 1:56:18 PM PST
by
Pearls Before Swine
( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
To: itsahoot
In your opinion. You don’t know and it pisses me off that you all think your opinion somehow represents fact.
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posted on
01/16/2019 2:03:49 PM PST
by
JoSixChip
(He is Batman!)
To: SeekAndFind
Hey Ann, who else is going to build the wall?
To: itsahoot
Will somebody please answer this question.
Why didn’t we get the funding for the wall (20 billion) From January 2017-January 2019 ?????
What the hell was Trump and the Republicans doing?
Taxes, and overturning Obamacare should have been secondary, and the Wall should have been FIRST.
To: DoughtyOne
Hey D1 long time no see, but that would be my fault as I come and go on FR these days.
Ann does tend to hyperventilate way too much. And although she knows it she needs to remind herself of the fact that the President can’t build the wall without money and that Congress controls the purse strings.
I don’t believe Mr. Trump will back down willingly but his non support visa vie the GOP won’t last much longer before sticking another knife in his back. Of course IMHO.
To me the Wall is more symbolic now as an issue that must not be compromised away than what it will actually do or not do for border security.
Time will tell.
Again good to see you in print again.
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posted on
01/16/2019 2:18:34 PM PST
by
ImpBill
(Conservative little "l" libertarian)
To: SeekAndFind
She is RIGHT. No Opening of Government till he gets wall even if he must keep Government closed for a year! This is the TEST for Donald Trump.
To: Not A Snowbird
USCG is only a branch of military when activated as such, i.e., wartime...otherwise they are under DHS as law enforcement and other similar activities. Before DHS, CG was under DOT when not in wartime.
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posted on
01/16/2019 2:19:32 PM PST
by
ripnbang
("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
To: JoSixChip
In your opinion. You dont know and it pisses me off that you all think your opinion somehow represents fact. My opinion is just that, my opinion. Whether or not I am right we shall soon see. If I were betting I would hold to my opinion rather than yours.
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posted on
01/16/2019 2:27:27 PM PST
by
itsahoot
(Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
To: SeekAndFind
‘THINK Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, states that he won in 2016, giving the House to democrats in 2018.’
yep...46 shaky EV’s in states that are notorious for their political shenanigans...
To: Lurkinanloomin
I could as easily say it was drain the swamp or lock her up or lousy trade deals or lower taxes
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posted on
01/16/2019 2:28:39 PM PST
by
Nifster
(II see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: itsahoot
Drain the swamp
Lock her up
Lower taxes
Jobs
Over regulation
Immigration was only one of Trumps points
To say it was the only one is ridiculous
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posted on
01/16/2019 2:31:54 PM PST
by
Nifster
(II see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: SeekAndFind
Read my lips, lips, lips...
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posted on
01/16/2019 2:32:33 PM PST
by
Theophilus
(Make America Grateful Again)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
01/16/2019 2:32:42 PM PST
by
Dawgreg
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