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2019-01-28 Home Front: Culture Wars

What Will It Take To Make You Understand And Accept That They Hate You?

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-28 05:45|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 It wasn't the smile that triggered the Left. It was the MAGA hat. The hat was an inexcusable sin.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-01-28 12:20|| 2019-01-28 12:20|| Front Page Top

#2 The one bad thing about the economic recovery is that people have more to lose and more to absorb their energies and attention.

And this is even more likely to happen among the "normies" than others.

One reason why Trump won was that more and more "normies" were starting to wake up to what was happening to the country.

Unfortunately, a lot of them went back to sleep in the last couple of years, as shown by the election of 2018.

I don't think that even Trump fully grasps this point; hence, his boosterish tweets and harping on the falling black/Hispanic unemployment rates (which availed the GOP nothing in the election).

Like it or not, non-whites vote on the basis of identity rather than pocketbook issues, and if they register an improving economy at all, they give credit to Obama -- or magic.

Trump has done what he can by his understanding and experience of things, but I think he's hit the ceiling of what can be gained by economic cheerleading and ~~Magic Dirt~~ "Civic Nationalism".

At some point, he'll have to pivot, or be relegated to the status of well-meaning failure.

He could start by emphasizing what is noted in this Townhall article, and consistently hammer on the abuses his supporters are suffering -- and not just his celebrity pals or family members.

I know some people will say "No no, he should lie in the weeds and let the left expose and destroy itself."

Well, the left has been exposing itself for awhile now.

How did laying low in the face of all that work out last year?

Posted by charger 2019-01-28 12:35|| 2019-01-28 12:35|| Front Page Top

#3 "as shown by the election of 2018" Midterm turnout is always lower than the big show.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-01-28 14:10|| 2019-01-28 14:10|| Front Page Top

#4 #3 But that raises the question of why more people didn't grasp the stakes and get out to vote.

Posted by charger 2019-01-28 14:44|| 2019-01-28 14:44|| Front Page Top

#5 ...well, when you finally land a job after a long layoff, it becomes more important to be there then the otherwise unemployed SJW ward healers in farming votes.

If you really want to keep that job, take a day of leave if necessary in 2020 to vote.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-28 18:53|| 2019-01-28 18:53|| Front Page Top

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