Democrats Repeat the Mistakes of 2016
American Greatness,
by
Conrad Black
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
9/28/2021 7:38:05 AM
As we get to the midpoint between the last presidential election and next year’s midterms, all political sides are expending extraordinary effort to ignore the 900-pound gorilla in the formerly smoke-filled room of American politics. This, of course, is Donald Trump. The Democrats are still outwardly pretending Trump has gone and that his support has evaporated. They also pretend they can hobble him with vexatious litigation and, if necessary, destroy him again by raising the Trump-hate media smear campaign back to ear-splitting levels. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), even as she finds the ground shifting beneath her feet over the administration’s incontinent spending ambitions, is seeing her effort to promote
Reply 1 - Posted by:
sunnyges 9/28/2021 9:28:41 AM (No. 928781)
Conrad needs to get out more.
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I don't know anyone who voted for Trump that have changed their minds. Actually, they are more for Trump now. I do know Biden supporters who are regretful that they voted for him.
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Anyone that has a problem with this op-ed didn't read it. Golf clap to Conrad for a well stated insightful look at today and the possible future. As he quoted in the article, “Das ist der Mann.”
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Quigley 9/28/2021 9:48:01 AM (No. 928815)
Black says the nomination is Trump’s if he wants it. That “Trump is the man.”
Very strong analysis in which Black believes that the trajectory of the dims’ dirty tricks is crash and burn. Of course that means the carnage of bi.den policies create real “optics” which the dims’ propaganda “optics” cannot hide or spin.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
uforabin 9/28/2021 9:56:57 AM (No. 928827)
President Bush was a good man who should have been a good president; however, the mainstream media pounded him every day for one thing or another creating the impression that he was a lousy president and a horrible person. I am generalizing, I know, but I remember being so frustrated at his administration and other spineless Republicans for not fighting back against incessant and obvious media lies.
President Trump, on the other hand, put up with none of the media shenanigans. Sure, he was combative, but he was a truth teller who exposed the fake media and deep state corruption for the whole world to see. This, of course caused an escalation in the war of words as the media Democrats painted Trump as an obtuse blowhard. This, of course, caused great embarrassment to the hoity toity Republican hierarchy who just want to get along.
It was worth it, though. He provided a blueprint for effective border control, energy independence, a sound economy, progress for Middle East peace, and an orderly Afghanistan exit plan – all ignored by the people running the country today.
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redriverranger 9/28/2021 10:04:42 AM (No. 928840)
Probably not a popular opinion on this forum but I hope Trump decides not to run. I voted for him and supported him and his policies but I hope his 2024 role will be as "kingmaker' and policy pusher. No matter what we may think, we have to accept that Trump's personality and manner are off-putting to a large number of voters, especially independents and women.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MDConservative 9/28/2021 10:08:30 AM (No. 928845)
Mr. Conrad...it's not just the Democrats, but the GOPe that together comprise the UNIPARTY that rules Washington that "outwardly pretend Trump has gone and that his support has evaporated. They also pretend they can hobble him with vexatious litigation and, if necessary, destroy him again by raising the Trump-hate media smear campaign back to ear-splitting levels."
And here is the problem with cheerleader politics and punditry. They ignore the plain fact that regardless of the vote, without a serious vetting of candidates and purge of our esteemed Congress, the UNIPARTY wins whether the majority is D or R. Pundits like Black need to recognize this...even at the cost of a few cocktail party invites. It's an easy gig to just blame those commie Dems all the time. Columns practically write themselves.
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FormerDem 9/28/2021 10:36:02 AM (No. 928891)
Great article. As for Trump being offputting, the Democrat media would have put scare quotes around any personality. We just tend to forget, but remember how much they hated every single one? They HATED Bush, Romney and McCain, each in their turn. Anybody who might win, is going to have baggage created if there wasn't any, and is going to be assigned a caricature personality reinforced 24/7. It is impossible to avoid so no use trying. Trump was an effective president in so so many ways. Trump Won and FJB.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jimincalif 9/28/2021 10:43:35 AM (No. 928903)
What #5 says. Trump showed Republicans how to win, rather than lose quietly while taking blows from Democrats and media. He fought back every single time and didn’t apologize for it. That’s why he took the lead in the primaries and never lost it. So many Republican voters were and still are frustrated at milquetoast Republicans candidates.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 9/28/2021 11:40:24 AM (No. 928985)
Black gets it right again. Expect Trump to be re-elected in 2024.
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DVC 9/28/2021 11:41:34 AM (No. 928986)
#5, you are easily fooled if you actually believe that Dubya is "a good man".
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I agree with #6. Don't get me wrong, I heartily supported Trump. For decades the pubbies put up milktoast candidates that couldn't generate much excitement. For years I never voted "for" a president as much as I voted "against" the worse choice. Trump was the first candidate that I actually voted "for" in many years.
I sent $$ to his re-election campaign, which may be why the IRS is hassling me now.
Yet I truly believe that there was a genuine Trump-hatred groundswell that led to large degree to where we are now. Yes, there is strong evidence of fraud and I personally believe that changed the results, but there was so much hate against him by many pubbies that they are Ok with turning a blind eye to that.
I wanted nothing more than another 4 years, but I don't believe that will happen. If he runs the hatred, lies, and fraud will ramp up again.
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My hope is that when Trump is placed in the White House again, we have a wiser and more cynical man. No more believing everything the old-timers pour into his ear. I hope and pray he is assembling a team of vicious killers who have encyclopedias of dirt and scandals and know where everybodies dead bodies are buried and are anxious to use the information to destroy them. It’s time to start fighting. I mean the down and dirty, kill’em and take no prisoners kind of politics.
That’s the only way we’ll save this country and if no one wants to fight this way because it’s icky, well, The he11 with them.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Luke21 9/28/2021 12:40:14 PM (No. 929069)
I read it. It's business as usual, Democrat/Republican, inside baseball crap.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
vinegrower 9/28/2021 12:59:45 PM (No. 929096)
"Trump is to blame for warning of the problems of ballot harvesting but having no adequate team on the ground to record and film its operation and to launch legal challenges forcefully starting on the day after the election." I don't know if I blame Trump for this or Ronna McDaniel but this was a very big problem with the Trump campaign. The campaign was not ready for what every Republican knew was going to happen. Democrat Cheating. GOP better be ready for the next election.
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They don't care, because they have four aces named Dominion in the hole.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MNluxiegal 9/28/2021 3:42:28 PM (No. 929259)
On 2016 I voted from Trump because I could not vote for Clinton, and I hoped he was not a closet libreral from New York. A;though he is still not a classical conservative, he performed well as POTUS in spite of a constant barage of criticism and lies, lies, lies. S, I happily voted for DJT again last year.
I have been thinking about Trump and the present political scene. I think his strongest personal attribute is that he is undeniably a manly man. He is a leader, type A personality. He sets goals and then achieves. them. Finally, we cannot unerestimate the fact that he loves America, and it comes through loud and clear.
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Kumoan 9/28/2021 9:32:50 PM (No. 929545)
Further to #17, right on and all that demorat swill about mean tweets etc is flak put up by the commies and believed by far too many "Republicans" who somehow have convinced themselves that a sweet talking gutless toad like Romney etc. would somehow, history not-withstanding, be acceptable to the running-dog media and their slimey ilk. Those with a memory will recall how even super-suckup McCain's "special relationship" with the media disappeared faster than tax dollars as soon as he announced...if you're an anti-communist during or after an election in America, you're going to get the evil full meal deal. Bring on the mean tweets.
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