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Healing the nation will most likely come from the GOP. This gave me hope.
- Thread starter hal9000
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Dems are VERY, VERY, VERY afraid.
To go to the extents they've gone the last 4-5 years.
Free speech? Gone.
Free press? Going.
Freedom of Constitutional rights? Next.
To go to the extents they've gone the last 4-5 years.
Free speech? Gone.
Free press? Going.
Freedom of Constitutional rights? Next.
Yeah I am afraid some creep like Josh Hawley will pick up the Trump mantle and carry it forward.
I was hoping this election would have been a blowout big enough to crush Trumpism forever. Did not happen, and the rubes are still pissed as ever.
This post would be less comical if "those elements" weren't toting two peach-flavored Ls and an electrocuted ballsack.
From where I'm sitting, however many people constitute "so many people", there's so many more people for whom tossing Stephen Miller's policies and telling traditionalists and social conservatives to GFY is still an issue.
there is still free speech
there is still a free press
you're conflating market forces with constitutional rights
that's stupid and histrionic
I'm sorry, but what does "freedom of constitutional rights" mean? Also, nobody has taken your 1st Amendment away.
He was never not bad to many people. Including some of his supporters. Some people supported his politics while at the same time disliking him on the personal level.
Trump didn't create any aspect of those politics.
"Brainwashed" to like the personality despite a dislike of his politics, huh? Well, time will tell whether these themes come up again as often in the future as that have over the last 30 years. If they do then that pretty much shoots down your theory that these people were all about the personality and not about the politics. That they were fooled by the individual and didn't understand what he was doing or that they would have abandoned him if they understood him.
We will see, I am talking about the complete denial of Trumps proven lifelong garbage character, the open hero worship, the acceptance of absurd lies, etc. For people scared of economic uncertainty they sure were able to take a day off work and travel to commit their insurrection.
I think you're right. Trump didn't make this. There's a segment of society that is afraid of losing power. That's not new. What Trump did was give them a unifying voice. He figured out (or lucked into) how powerful that fear was.
Michigan just banned open carry in their state building. 2nD AmENdMenT!
As usual the clowns do more damage to themselves because they can’t keep their sh!t together.
Considering the predictions in 2008 that the GOP was buried and would never win again, they have been doing okay since then. Not dead yet. It took the Dems every bit of the 4yrs of He-B-Cra-Cra, maniac with his finger on the button and WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!, the Stormi Daniels tape, the muh-russia investigation, he a racist rants and the ComRona to finally bring him down. And despite all that Trump STILL inflicted more damage to his own political support on his own after the election by losing his frame.
I forget which lefty pundit said it, but they equated Trump's survival as being the equivalent of him surviving 3 nukes to the head. Or words to that effect.
If he had been smarter he would have stuck to trolling the left without mercy and refraining from taking everything so personally and thus becoming the object of the trolling. But he obviously wasn't disciplined enough to do that.
Trump gets what he gets.