The Trumpers also see the lawfare taking place for what it is-a government persecution of one person organized by the Biden Administration and the Democratic Party. If Trump gets convicted, they know it is phony. A bought judge, and a bought judicial system. They know what will happen to them if they have to face it
Lawfare against Trump is a big uniting factor for Republicans. It has also revealed the Cheney, Romney, Bush corruptocrats for who they really are. When Romney sat quiet while New York imposed a half billion fine on Trump for *fraud* that never happened, I lost every bit of respect for him.
Since 2016 there has been a strong resistance from the MSM ,Hollywood and Universities. They tried a coup and failed. They spied , framed and di many hoaxes against Trump. Now it is legal warfare using the corrupt DOJ. Soros elected State DA's . The fear was and is so palpable.
Trump;s main ability is to reveal the snakes in the grass . Both in Republicans and Democrats. It has been very revealing to voters. TDS is a real issue. It prevents many so called reasonable people to refuse to vote for Trump. Yet now I read that Democrats are worried about registering young voters because they may vote for Trump.
The question is how much fraud will be done to ensure Biden wins.
If Trump wins , I expect total revolt from the Federal bureaucracy. Impeachment efforts. Maybe assassination attempts We live in very interesting times.
Tea party were the middle class objecting to the government take over of health care. They were polite . They were demonized. So the Tea Party learned and they are the kernel of Trump voters. It is not that they love Trump as cult. They like that Trump fights for their values.
If you want to beat Biden, you have to force him to pledge allegiance with the most vociferous, progressive elements in the Democratic party. Biden (or, better yet, I should say his handlers) are so desperate to hold onto power that they will make any promise, shake any hand no matter how bloody it is if it means more votes for their side. The mistake they will make is when they shake the hands of people and ideas that most people in America find abhorrent.
Joel Ross, writer of the (notorious?,Infamous?) The Ross Rant, was involved with No Labels. Ross generally has a pretty good sense of current events and politics, but his revulsion to anything Trump stood out as a notable weakness in his opining. This refusal to accept that we have 2 flawed candidates, one of which is so near-death that he has to be hopped up on speed to get ready for any scheduled public appearance, generally hates the country and is a career transactional politician, is baffling to put it mildly.
If nothing else, heeding the maxim that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", every lucid voter should be siding with Trump, as he has stood up to mainstream media who got nearly everything wrong over the last 4 years, the U.N. who has gotten everything wrong for the last 4 decades, and Big Tech who is trying to push A.I. into our skulls while IT gets a whole helluva lot wrong thanks to its biased programmers.
Excellent analysis. No labels is a bit of a punchline. Disaffected liberals that sort of recognize their party, the Democrat
party, is utterly corrupt, but they don’t want to throw in with what they perceive as the “racist Republicans”. When the hot civil war starts, with whom will they side? Or will they sit on the sidelines and whine about it?
I've said before I will crawl over broken glass to vote for Trump, a man I do not like. It's because I am sick of being pissed on and told it's raining by DC. No Labels is more of the same. The nation is doomed either way but at least Trump might spread the doom around. You are right, if he loses a lot of people will go to ground and wait for the government to come and try to impose their mandate, and it won't be pretty.
Nope, too nice and frankly, the Democratic Parties agenda since Woodrow Wilson has been trending to where it is today. What is FDRs New Deal other than pseudo communism?
Well, there is a big difference between a social welfare state, and a communist totalitarian state. It is the difference between Norway and North Korea. The No Labels people fancy themselves like Norwegians, but their party has been taken over by North Koreans. Thanks Obama! If they repudiate Obama, they risk being cast out as heretical racists. I think they want to pull the Democrats back toward the center - Jimmy Carter style. But they have no money, no influence, and no power to do it. The Democrats are still
their tribe and the Republicans are still their enemy. And they are not libertarians. They are adrift. If they were smart, they would throw their weight behind Republicans (but then probably stab them in the back anyway), which would crush the commie Democrats, but they can’t bring themselves to do it because they want back into the party and if they did that, they would be ostracized forever. So they will sit on the sidelines sniping at Republicans and ignoring the atrocities of the Democrat party. Sad!
Addendum: I kind of screwed up this post with two alike paragraphs. A reader pointed it out and he is correct but since it's been up and it has been linked. I won't change it. I make mistakes for sure and proof read/edit these myself. Hence I don't catch them all. I apologize for the lack of editing if it gets in the way of you reading it.
Historians dozens of years from now will appreciate the force of nature that Trump is/was on the political scene. He took over the Republican Party. Last pol to do that? Reagan? Teddy Roosevelt?
There's only two choices in the Presidential election and anybody who could possibly think Joe Biden is a better leader in today's world than Donald Trump does not deserve to vote.
The ridiculous strategy of the Democrats keeping an open border and then pushing for non-citizens' "rights to vote"🤨🙄 is one of the most scummy, sleazy political strategies in history, not to mention illegal.
There are already too damn many politicians with law degrees who've been elected and we need Business Leaders who understand money management and people management and attorneys are notoriously poor at both of those.
I see RFKJr's brother Chirs in Wilmette from time to time. Pleasant guy, and an Illini fan. Had a good chat with him after the Northwestern vs. Illinois bball game. He yelled I-L-L- at me when I saw him at Jewel a week or so later.
Trump was created by David Brooks (a la Glenn Reynolds, and he is correct). Choose the form of your destructor. Lynn Wyman's comment is right on the mark. There was a photo taken at one of the Tea Party rallies of a man with an AR slung over his shoulder to indicate the "type" of people attending them. It was very very carefully cropped so you only saw the rifle and the man's clothes. Why? The man was black and that didn't fit the narrative.
The primary purpose of any politician is to get reelected and move up the ladder if possible. D or R that's the goal. The primary purpose of any and every bureaucracy is to grow the bureaucracy (see the FBI\Hoover). Doing the job is, at best, secondary.
Israel is the wedge issue for the Democrats, while abortion is the wedge issue for Republicans. Socialism has always been a profoundly antisemitic movement, and as the Democrats drift further and further into to the DSA grip, they will lose their educated professional leaders. While not numerous, the loss of Jews and non Jew professionals will seriously damage the Democrat brand, particular since the working class left them long ago. Extreme abortion measures are similarly damaging to the Republicans, as they risk losing their anti-government bona fides and will have no chance at maintaining any unmarried women voters (a not insignificant percent of the population). The best part about Trump 2.0 is he no longer has to kow tow to the Pence crowd.
"She will sell herself to the highest bidder." Who else does that describe? The big orange guy who can't figure out if TikTok should be sold off/banned or not. The guy who clearly admires strongmen like Xi and Putin (note I didn't say anything more). There is a lot that needs blowing up. Whoever blows it up needs to have a plan for afterwards. Which the populist right has none of. Neither party has any plan for addressing the debt - it will require spending cuts (including entitlements) and tax increases. The mass middle, left and right, believe in free lunches and can't be talked out of that position. The world looks like it going to hell. Neither Trump nor Biden have much of a clue.
I don't disagree that Yass switched a lot of voices in the Republican Party (Vivek among them). I would also agree the bill they wanted to pass was too broad, with too far reaching language and would have allowed them to seek control of Twitter again. There are ways to deal with TikTok and we should. But, how do you get a clean and good bill that is targeted while remaining faithful to free markets and the Constitution?
The “tik tok” bill isn’t about whether tik tok should be sold or not, it’s about government being able to crush social media companies over content moderation. “Nice little social media company you got there. Shame if something were to happen to it.”
The guy who sells himself and his family to the highest bidder, clearly admires strongmen, and admires them so much that he takes money from them is sitting in the Oval Office. Nice try.
The people who don't see that have no clue about high level negotiations amongst world leaders. You commend them for their achievements and then hold them accountable for their mistakes, in that order, with a smile on your face half the time, but a serious voice, and then they take you seriously.
Anybody can say anything they want and offer up an opinion but it is 95% certain that a third of the absurd s*** that's going on in the world today would not be happening if Donald Trump had been reelected, because they feared the consequences.
No doubt the senator from MBNA has issues. I think I read that the top 0.1% make 40% of all political donations. One downside of a globalized economy is that business leaders become conflicted between chasing $ vs. American interests. Yass, Musk, Cook, et al clearly walk a line with the CCP.
Cook - Apple. These guys/companies certainly are reliant on the good graces of the CCP for raw material, markets, and/or investments. Musk has even more or less admitted the issue. https://twitter.com/mattgertz/status/1701968224001081480
The Trumpers also see the lawfare taking place for what it is-a government persecution of one person organized by the Biden Administration and the Democratic Party. If Trump gets convicted, they know it is phony. A bought judge, and a bought judicial system. They know what will happen to them if they have to face it
Lawfare against Trump is a big uniting factor for Republicans. It has also revealed the Cheney, Romney, Bush corruptocrats for who they really are. When Romney sat quiet while New York imposed a half billion fine on Trump for *fraud* that never happened, I lost every bit of respect for him.
Since 2016 there has been a strong resistance from the MSM ,Hollywood and Universities. They tried a coup and failed. They spied , framed and di many hoaxes against Trump. Now it is legal warfare using the corrupt DOJ. Soros elected State DA's . The fear was and is so palpable.
Trump;s main ability is to reveal the snakes in the grass . Both in Republicans and Democrats. It has been very revealing to voters. TDS is a real issue. It prevents many so called reasonable people to refuse to vote for Trump. Yet now I read that Democrats are worried about registering young voters because they may vote for Trump.
The question is how much fraud will be done to ensure Biden wins.
If Trump wins , I expect total revolt from the Federal bureaucracy. Impeachment efforts. Maybe assassination attempts We live in very interesting times.
Tea party were the middle class objecting to the government take over of health care. They were polite . They were demonized. So the Tea Party learned and they are the kernel of Trump voters. It is not that they love Trump as cult. They like that Trump fights for their values.
If you want to beat Biden, you have to force him to pledge allegiance with the most vociferous, progressive elements in the Democratic party. Biden (or, better yet, I should say his handlers) are so desperate to hold onto power that they will make any promise, shake any hand no matter how bloody it is if it means more votes for their side. The mistake they will make is when they shake the hands of people and ideas that most people in America find abhorrent.
Power both for its own perqs as well as the chance to implement their ideas is their first, second and third goal.
Joel Ross, writer of the (notorious?,Infamous?) The Ross Rant, was involved with No Labels. Ross generally has a pretty good sense of current events and politics, but his revulsion to anything Trump stood out as a notable weakness in his opining. This refusal to accept that we have 2 flawed candidates, one of which is so near-death that he has to be hopped up on speed to get ready for any scheduled public appearance, generally hates the country and is a career transactional politician, is baffling to put it mildly.
If nothing else, heeding the maxim that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", every lucid voter should be siding with Trump, as he has stood up to mainstream media who got nearly everything wrong over the last 4 years, the U.N. who has gotten everything wrong for the last 4 decades, and Big Tech who is trying to push A.I. into our skulls while IT gets a whole helluva lot wrong thanks to its biased programmers.
Two flawed candidates. Trump > Biden. There is no transitive property that is applicable.
Excellent analysis. No labels is a bit of a punchline. Disaffected liberals that sort of recognize their party, the Democrat
party, is utterly corrupt, but they don’t want to throw in with what they perceive as the “racist Republicans”. When the hot civil war starts, with whom will they side? Or will they sit on the sidelines and whine about it?
I would LABEL them disappointed largely bicoastal elites.
Midwestern too
I've said before I will crawl over broken glass to vote for Trump, a man I do not like. It's because I am sick of being pissed on and told it's raining by DC. No Labels is more of the same. The nation is doomed either way but at least Trump might spread the doom around. You are right, if he loses a lot of people will go to ground and wait for the government to come and try to impose their mandate, and it won't be pretty.
The no labels people are democrats sick of being pissed on by commies in their party, but not really willing to go to war to stop them.
Nope, too nice and frankly, the Democratic Parties agenda since Woodrow Wilson has been trending to where it is today. What is FDRs New Deal other than pseudo communism?
Well, there is a big difference between a social welfare state, and a communist totalitarian state. It is the difference between Norway and North Korea. The No Labels people fancy themselves like Norwegians, but their party has been taken over by North Koreans. Thanks Obama! If they repudiate Obama, they risk being cast out as heretical racists. I think they want to pull the Democrats back toward the center - Jimmy Carter style. But they have no money, no influence, and no power to do it. The Democrats are still
their tribe and the Republicans are still their enemy. And they are not libertarians. They are adrift. If they were smart, they would throw their weight behind Republicans (but then probably stab them in the back anyway), which would crush the commie Democrats, but they can’t bring themselves to do it because they want back into the party and if they did that, they would be ostracized forever. So they will sit on the sidelines sniping at Republicans and ignoring the atrocities of the Democrat party. Sad!
Addendum: I kind of screwed up this post with two alike paragraphs. A reader pointed it out and he is correct but since it's been up and it has been linked. I won't change it. I make mistakes for sure and proof read/edit these myself. Hence I don't catch them all. I apologize for the lack of editing if it gets in the way of you reading it.
Historians dozens of years from now will appreciate the force of nature that Trump is/was on the political scene. He took over the Republican Party. Last pol to do that? Reagan? Teddy Roosevelt?
There's only two choices in the Presidential election and anybody who could possibly think Joe Biden is a better leader in today's world than Donald Trump does not deserve to vote.
The ridiculous strategy of the Democrats keeping an open border and then pushing for non-citizens' "rights to vote"🤨🙄 is one of the most scummy, sleazy political strategies in history, not to mention illegal.
There are already too damn many politicians with law degrees who've been elected and we need Business Leaders who understand money management and people management and attorneys are notoriously poor at both of those.
I see RFKJr's brother Chirs in Wilmette from time to time. Pleasant guy, and an Illini fan. Had a good chat with him after the Northwestern vs. Illinois bball game. He yelled I-L-L- at me when I saw him at Jewel a week or so later.
Trump was created by David Brooks (a la Glenn Reynolds, and he is correct). Choose the form of your destructor. Lynn Wyman's comment is right on the mark. There was a photo taken at one of the Tea Party rallies of a man with an AR slung over his shoulder to indicate the "type" of people attending them. It was very very carefully cropped so you only saw the rifle and the man's clothes. Why? The man was black and that didn't fit the narrative.
The primary purpose of any politician is to get reelected and move up the ladder if possible. D or R that's the goal. The primary purpose of any and every bureaucracy is to grow the bureaucracy (see the FBI\Hoover). Doing the job is, at best, secondary.
Israel is the wedge issue for the Democrats, while abortion is the wedge issue for Republicans. Socialism has always been a profoundly antisemitic movement, and as the Democrats drift further and further into to the DSA grip, they will lose their educated professional leaders. While not numerous, the loss of Jews and non Jew professionals will seriously damage the Democrat brand, particular since the working class left them long ago. Extreme abortion measures are similarly damaging to the Republicans, as they risk losing their anti-government bona fides and will have no chance at maintaining any unmarried women voters (a not insignificant percent of the population). The best part about Trump 2.0 is he no longer has to kow tow to the Pence crowd.
Thank you...very well said.
"She will sell herself to the highest bidder." Who else does that describe? The big orange guy who can't figure out if TikTok should be sold off/banned or not. The guy who clearly admires strongmen like Xi and Putin (note I didn't say anything more). There is a lot that needs blowing up. Whoever blows it up needs to have a plan for afterwards. Which the populist right has none of. Neither party has any plan for addressing the debt - it will require spending cuts (including entitlements) and tax increases. The mass middle, left and right, believe in free lunches and can't be talked out of that position. The world looks like it going to hell. Neither Trump nor Biden have much of a clue.
I don't disagree that Yass switched a lot of voices in the Republican Party (Vivek among them). I would also agree the bill they wanted to pass was too broad, with too far reaching language and would have allowed them to seek control of Twitter again. There are ways to deal with TikTok and we should. But, how do you get a clean and good bill that is targeted while remaining faithful to free markets and the Constitution?
The “tik tok” bill isn’t about whether tik tok should be sold or not, it’s about government being able to crush social media companies over content moderation. “Nice little social media company you got there. Shame if something were to happen to it.”
The bill is targeted. CCP has no first amendment rights.
That just makes it a safer target.
Dig a little deeper:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/03/15/tucker-carlson-interviews-senator-rand-paul-about-the-tiktok-ban-law-hr7521/
The guy who sells himself and his family to the highest bidder, clearly admires strongmen, and admires them so much that he takes money from them is sitting in the Oval Office. Nice try.
I don't see an admiration by Trump of strongmen. I see a person involved in a negotiation that wants to win.
Yes 💯
The people who don't see that have no clue about high level negotiations amongst world leaders. You commend them for their achievements and then hold them accountable for their mistakes, in that order, with a smile on your face half the time, but a serious voice, and then they take you seriously.
Anybody can say anything they want and offer up an opinion but it is 95% certain that a third of the absurd s*** that's going on in the world today would not be happening if Donald Trump had been reelected, because they feared the consequences.
No doubt the senator from MBNA has issues. I think I read that the top 0.1% make 40% of all political donations. One downside of a globalized economy is that business leaders become conflicted between chasing $ vs. American interests. Yass, Musk, Cook, et al clearly walk a line with the CCP.
Musk and Yass are most certainly NOT aligned with the CCP. Cook---->Koch? not aligned with the CCP.
Cook - Apple. These guys/companies certainly are reliant on the good graces of the CCP for raw material, markets, and/or investments. Musk has even more or less admitted the issue. https://twitter.com/mattgertz/status/1701968224001081480