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This is a good op/ed on Trump - pretty fair, I think
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Feb 27, 2024, 10:08 AM
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https://dnyuz.com/2024/02/27/trumps-dominance-of-the-gop-primary-is-an-illusion/
Excerpt below(emphases are mine):
Trump’s supporters seem convinced he’s invincible. They shouldn’t be.
Trump has consistently invited trouble—and I’m not even talking about his impeachments or indictments. Indeed, from day one, Trump has chosen a style of campaigning and governing that focuses on narrowcasting and fan service directed toward his most rabid base, even at the expense of offending Reagan conservatives, suburban women, independents, etc.
For nearly nine years now, Trump has gone out of his way to create a cult-like movement of loyal fanatics, rather than a broad coalition of voters. And a necessary part of this process was purging anyone who wasn’t 100 percent pure.
Take, for example, Trump’s declaration that Haley supporters are “permanently barred from the MAGA camp. We don’t want them, and will not accept them.” You won’t find that in Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” but it’s classic Trump.
This is an ethos that has been internalized and repeated by Trump’s cheerleaders.
On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) warned, “…any Republican that isn’t willing to adapt [sic] these policies, we’re completely eradicating from the party. So it’s up to Nikki Haley, what she does.”
During her 2022 bid in Arizona, Trumpy gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake similarly told “McCain Republicans” to “get the hell out.”
Because politics is about addition, not subtraction, Lake went on to lose that race.
Lake is now attempting a comeback in 2024, and step one was an attempted rapprochement with McCain world. In what could only be described as a blunt dismissal of her overture, the late Sen. John McCain’s daughter, Meghan, replied: “NO PEACE, #####!”
Based on the way things are headed, come November, Donald Trump could very well receive a similar message from the people he dismissed as “human scum.” The chickens, as they say, are coming home to roost.
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Re: This is a good op/ed on Trump - pretty fair, I think
Feb 27, 2024, 10:10 AM
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Seems like a very fair, right down the middle analysis. No axes to grind there whatsoever.
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Pretty fair
Feb 27, 2024, 12:33 PM
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For ##### sake.
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Oculus Spirit [97746]
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I really don't care about Trump. Or Biden really. My bigger concern over
Feb 27, 2024, 10:11 AM
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either of them, is WHY ARE THEY OUR ONLY CHOICES? And WHY DO CAMPAIGNS FOLD SO EASILY?
That is the bigger problem than either of them IMO.
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Re: I really don't care about Trump. Or Biden really. My bigger concern over
Feb 27, 2024, 10:13 AM
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other parties are on the ballot all the time
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Oculus Spirit [97746]
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Who are they? Why do I have to ask "who are they"?
Feb 27, 2024, 11:30 AM
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Are they on TV anywhere? Articles about them? Their candidates?
NOPE.
Like I said....we have a much bigger problem than Trump or Biden. Several.
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Re: I really don't care about Trump. Or Biden really. My bigger concern over
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Feb 28, 2024, 12:18 PM
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The easy way out of that is ranked-choice voting. Which we won't insist on, and so won't happen except in the few off-the-beaten-path places like Alaska and Maine where the Powers That Be got caught napping. The established parties are not about to split their power blocs up and turn their zero-sum quasi-election game into actual elections where candidates are forced to sell themselves and their ideas instead of just obliterating the other guy. Which is getting us increasingly strident populist sociopaths feeding the worst impulses in everybody to gin up their bases.
But Oh My would ranked-choice voting slam the door in the faces of the lunatics on either fringe.
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Cult leaders couldn't get 75M votes.
Feb 27, 2024, 12:04 PM
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More than any GOP candidate ever.
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Re: Cult leaders couldn't get 75M votes.
Feb 27, 2024, 9:59 PM
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It doesn’t matter if he is a cult leader or if he is not a cult leader. Just semantics.
Only things that make a difference from here forward are ……
Does he win the 2024 election?
Does he lose these criminal and civil trials?
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He does have his "cult-like movement of loyal fanatics", but there are some
Feb 27, 2024, 12:22 PM
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that still recognize "Pub" in his policies.
But - yes - it's pretty stupid to basically say "I don't want any of you deplorable Nikki supporters"...
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Re: This is a good op/ed on Trump - pretty fair, I think
Feb 27, 2024, 10:00 PM
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Maybe trump is a flawed candidate????
Hmmmm.
Anyone see this coming?
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Re: This is a good op/ed on Trump - pretty fair, I think
Feb 28, 2024, 11:30 AM
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It's just bullchit opinion and no fact. Still no vaccine for TDS.
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