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A respectful response to never-Trump Republicans

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Posted By: Big Bopper, 7/11/2024 4:14:23 PM

This piece isn’t for confirmed Democrats. They are not persuadable. They’ll vote against Donald Trump and call him “Hitler” to boot, just as they did with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney. Never mind that Hitler’s party was the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. In the greatest rebranding coup of history, today it’s not the socialist Democrats but the capitalist Republicans that are deemed just like the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. No, this piece is instead for my Republican friends who still refuse to support the party’s soon-to-be nominee in the presidential race against Joe Biden (or whomever).

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 7/11/2024 4:31:21 PM (No. 1754564)
Rich Lowry - - the card-carrying, weasel NeverTrumper has been all over TV lately - - opining about President Trump, Despicable Joe, and whatever happens to be the political topic of the day - - without a hint of his virulent NeverTrump past. But - - none of the interviewers have asked him if he renounces his vicious attacks on President Trump. They just let him slide through - - as if he were just another talking head. This is a disgusting display of hypocrisy and dishonesty - - and only my lifelong self-restraint has prevented me from throwing a lamp through my TV screen.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 7/11/2024 5:32:28 PM (No. 1754593)
My first question is .....why be respectful to NeverTrumpers? Like being respectful of any other psychotic. They are crazy, what's to respect?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Big Bopper 7/11/2024 5:41:39 PM (No. 1754599)
No. 2: You ask why be respectful to psychotic never-Trumpers? Well, if nothing else, there's this: Assuming for a moment that they're "psychotic," they still have influence. And calling people you disagree with "psychos" is seldom an effective way to change their minds.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 7/11/2024 6:13:08 PM (No. 1754610)
Re #3.....they are NEVER Trumpers. Their minds are closed, we aren't going to change them no matter what we do. Sensible people who say "I don't think I want to vote for Trump." Yep, you can work with that . But nutballs like a bunch of the "conservative" pundits are just closed minded on Trump. Somehow they imagine that only they have the "inside story" on how evil he actually is....they are nuts.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: ThreeBadCats3 7/11/2024 6:42:53 PM (No. 1754622)
You can respectfully decline to discuss politics with casual acquaintances. But with lifelong friends and relatives, this inexplicable political difference can easily destroy lifelong friendships. I don’t understand it, but after bitter experiences, just avoid political issues whenever possible.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: kono 7/11/2024 7:18:25 PM (No. 1754637)
I'm pretty sure the double-crossing NeverTrumpers deserve scorn and derision, rather than respect.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Strike3 7/12/2024 4:31:13 AM (No. 1754764)
(#2,#4) is correct. A psycho is a psycho is a psycho. Never Trumpers got that way chiefly through their aversion to mean tweets, something most of us would happily accept in lieu of the huge disaster that is Joe Biden and his stable of clowns. It was a minor annoyance at best and he was having fun with the names he made up. I was one of those who lost lifetime friends over their stupid political views because I saw the bigger problem of a closed mind and unreasonable siding with the democrats who are worse than Donald Trump by a factor of 100X. One of them even praised John Fetterman! It was people like them who accepted the cheating of the democrats over another four years of smart and successful leadership. You can not sanely defend that. Donald Trump can not be blamed for the cowardice of Mike Pence or the behavior of the protesters on January 6th.
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Posted by Big Bopper 7/11/2024 4:14:23 PM Post Reply
This piece isn’t for confirmed Democrats. They are not persuadable. They’ll vote against Donald Trump and call him “Hitler” to boot, just as they did with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney. Never mind that Hitler’s party was the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. In the greatest rebranding coup of history, today it’s not the socialist Democrats but the capitalist Republicans that are deemed just like the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. No, this piece is instead for my Republican friends who still refuse to support the party’s soon-to-be nominee in the presidential race against Joe Biden (or whomever).
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