Why Do They Hate Him So?
American Greatness,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
10/21/2019 6:37:10 AM
Joe Biden claims he wants to take Trump behind the gym and beat him up.
Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) jokes that she would like to go into an elevator with him and see Trump never come out alive. Robert De Niro has exhausted the ways in which he dreams of punching Trump out and the intonations in which he yells to audiences, “F—k Trump!”
The humanists and social justice warriors of Hollywood, from Madonna to Johnny Depp, cannot agree whether their elected president should be beheaded, blown up, stabbed, shot, or incinerated. All the Democratic would-be presidential nominees agree that Trump is the worst something-or-other in history—from human being to mere president.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 10/21/2019 7:05:24 AM (No. 213233)
They just don’t get it - the more they hate him, the more we love him.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
valinva 10/21/2019 7:45:21 AM (No. 213258)
Victor could have written a much shorter article. The elites hate him because:
1. He believes in American Exceptionalism and that America had been the Greatest Nation on Earth and he wants to restore it to it's Pre-Obama Greatness.
2. He is pro-life
3. He is against illegal immigration and chain migration and for National Sovereignty and Borders.
4. He does not wholly embrace the religion of Climate Change.
5. He rejects the Supremacy of the UN.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
coyote 10/21/2019 7:51:58 AM (No. 213265)
Excellent article. A list would be accurate, but this article exposes the venom directed at the President.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 10/21/2019 7:52:11 AM (No. 213267)
Because the msm and deep state told them that the President and we stand in the way of their imagined socialist utopia.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 10/21/2019 7:55:35 AM (No. 213271)
Mr Hanson, why they HATE him is that he is the most visible example of the world’s most loathsome social disease: CHOWAM Syndrome, which stands for everything that is HATED in American society: Conservative, Heterosexual, Old, White, American Male.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BamaTex 10/21/2019 8:10:36 AM (No. 213279)
The “progressives” and the never-Trumpers and the MSM don’t hate President Trump for his “unpresidential” behavior, as they claim—if that were true Bill Clinton would have been run out of office. The more I observe the more I believe that what we are seeing is the exposure of plain old-fashioned corruption—many of those screaming for Trump’s ouster are or were getting paid to deliver the goods (the destruction of the last, largest group of free people on the face of the earth—the American middle class)—and the buyers in that arrangement want what they paid for. The corrupt won’t stop—their success—their very existence as a political force—depends on the defeat of Trump and his supporters. Hang tough—this is the Big Game!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Clinger 10/21/2019 8:21:49 AM (No. 213284)
Trump is putting America first. Our politicians have been getting filthy rich by selling us out. Putting America first is a threat to that gravy train. I'm not sure its any more complicated than that.
Of course more along the lines of the article there's the embarrassment of the outside amateur getting things done the professional ruling class has not . But why haven't they; it's because they are working the angles for self gain and Trump is serving the people.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
iraengneer 10/21/2019 8:38:45 AM (No. 213304)
Several years back, there was much mention here of Angelo Codevilla's work, "America's Ruling Class". Attention was drawn to the inbreeding, genetic and otherwise, that had our so-called "betters" having gone to the same schools, read and believed the same books, had pretty similar life experiences, and had adopted the same beliefs and attitudes. To the extent that such was regarded as Ultimate Trurh. To be advanced without pause and defended against any doubt. Those with differing beliefs to be derided as "uneducated", or any of a number of other phrases meaning "not our kind of people".
Comes now Trump and the "deplorables", who do not fit that profile, therefore meriting extermination in the gulags or legal or whatever. Which they would surely do if they could.
It is not "just" the competition of political alliances. These people seek unlimited power. Power to define truth. Power to inculcate our kids with their beliefs. Power to regulate our homes, our food, our beliefs, even our churches and synagogues. They've been getting away with it for more than a century: look at Dewey and Wilson and FDR and Ovomit.
Given a chance at power, we will ALL be up against a wall and turned into Soylent Green.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
gop_guys 10/21/2019 8:54:00 AM (No. 213321)
When Jesus whipped the money changers, turned over their tables and accused the religious leaders of turning G_ds house of worship into a den of thieves; that was the last straw. They began plotting to murder Jesus. It is no different with President Trump. When he began “messing” with the DC swamp’s money; they’ve plotted to get him! Both Dems and Pubbies have been playing this game with our hard earned American tax dollars. Bidens, Pelosis, Nadlers, yes even Mr Clean Mitt Romney, and most likely Mitch McConnell. PDJT most likely is “the “one” to end the money grab by our politicians and actually drain the swamp of corruption.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
F16 guy 10/21/2019 9:00:19 AM (No. 213326)
VDH pens another home run ! Trump has accomplished what decades of Republicnas have failed to do: expose the liberal arm of the democrat party for who and what they truly are.
Sun Tzu said it best:
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
sailannapolis 10/21/2019 9:03:23 AM (No. 213329)
Absolutely outstanding.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 10/21/2019 9:06:55 AM (No. 213335)
#10 gets the chicken dinner of the day--or at least half of it, anyway.
The other biggie is that the president is taking away their power. It's all about money and power!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 10/21/2019 9:30:26 AM (No. 213370)
Don't know Victor, why did you and all the other contributors at NRO hate him, and the voters?? Some of us still remember your rage fest in that issue when you all went Never Trump. We chose the right man for the job for a change, instead of somebody wussy that the pundits liked. Silly silly pundits.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 10/21/2019 9:41:38 AM (No. 213384)
Because they're mentally ill.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ledbythnose 10/21/2019 9:51:39 AM (No. 213393)
He was one of them for years. He knows about ALL OF THEIR SINS . And has proof of it. The rush to remove him from office is a dead give away to those paying attention. They hated Nixon too but strung out his public execution for years .WHY? Because they were not yet ready to seize full control. Now all of their sir assets are in place and it's full steam ahead.Even at the risk of a Historic bloody Civil War. None of this is Rocket Science Folks.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 10/21/2019 10:16:46 AM (No. 213420)
Clark Cifford's "amiable dunce" line about Reagan was hurtful, but not fatal. All this dither from the left is hurtful, but not fatal to Trump. And the more of it, the more cynical the electorate will become toward the media and their ex officio pundits. The left is conducting a not so subtle left wing rampage to turn the country socialist. It's working in some ways, but they don't have the people. Yet. That is why changing the electorate to majority minority (Latin) is so essential. Let's not let that happen.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Bohallx 10/21/2019 10:23:42 AM (No. 213431)
When it comes to Harris, DeNiro, Madonna and Depp, if they were walking against the red at a crosswalk, and I was driving a large truck going through the same intersection, I might not swerve to avoid hitting any of them.
No sense endangering other people who might be in the vicinity you know.
It's really too bad none of those people have any redeeming social value.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 10/21/2019 10:29:03 AM (No. 213436)
All so true but in the end I think its all Projection, everything the left does is Projection so they must hate themselves.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/21/2019 10:29:14 AM (No. 213438)
We are witness to a non-politician showing decades-long government drones how to govern and doing a much better job than any of them could have ever done. I too would be angry if I had my luxurious feathered nest disturbed. The problem we have is that those who can shake the world and accomplish things choose private business and the mentally-challenged know-nothings choose government or academia, the very places where all of our failures occur.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/21/2019 10:33:46 AM (No. 213445)
Because he is a success, and he is not at all like them. He doesn’t need the big money interests that keep them going politically. He made to the White House because of the support of millions of We, The People. If anyone “owns” him, it is us. And he is happy with that. That was the whole point of his becoming President. To represent us.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Franz 10/21/2019 10:46:09 AM (No. 213456)
The reason all these people hate President Trump is that he has proved that all the people that claimed that the country was doing the best that was possible were full of "B******T."
The claim that the poor economy, high unemployment, stagnant wages, and lack of opportunity was the "New Normal" was a lie.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
The Remnants 10/21/2019 10:47:03 AM (No. 213457)
Fine article, as usual, by Dr. Hanson. He always starts with Truth and then wraps it all up for us so we can see the truth as well. Great insights here too.
I try to figure our why close family members do not like The President, but I've given up on that. I've decided it's mostly because they believe the lies that the MSM or NPR or Yahoo tell them, and I think the reason why so many of us deplorables like him is because he likes us. He understands where we are coming from and unlike so any of these people who hate him and us, we know that he really is performing as a public servant. He's doing the best he can to help the citizens of this country because that is what a real public servant does. He is not a politician. Thank God.
And enough of the qualifiers, already. When we are all perfect we'll be sitting around God's kitchen table talking about how great it was that Lucianne let us come here.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
shredmaster 10/21/2019 10:51:55 AM (No. 213460)
Trump is solving problems, which at the same time exposes the corrupt Left and GOPe. When issues are not solved, they are used as fundraising tools and clubs with which to beat their opponent. Trump also does not speak Washington-ese. He speaks plainly and directly.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 10/21/2019 11:13:20 AM (No. 213477)
He has proven how incompetent, how corrupt, how anti-American that the all are. THAT unmasking is unforgivable.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Arby 10/21/2019 11:22:14 AM (No. 213490)
Deep in their heart of hearts they loved Obama for what he was rather than for what he did. When the rational left assessed his accomplishments they knew he was in a tight race to the bottom, neck and neck with Jimmy Carter. They look at Trump and he is everything they hate and envy--a rich businessman with a beautiful wife, large and more or less happy, supportive family--the polar opposite of their crazy quilt of aggrieved, resentful voters. Then he became successful at instituting his agenda--the agenda of the working class, flag-saluting Americans to whom they always condescend. He has literally driven them nutso and he has continued to flourish under their constant assaults. Of course they hate him. He's winning and showing them up at every turn.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/21/2019 12:12:47 PM (No. 213542)
#9, brilliant. Excellent post.
Here is Codevilla’s 2010 essay, America’s Ruling Class:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/07/21/america039s_ruling_class_238037.html
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/21/2019 12:18:34 PM (No. 213549)
Forget about the link in #28 to Angelo Codevilla’s 2010 essay “America’s Ruling Class”. It leads to a dead end. Here is the original publication of that incredible article:
https://spectator.org/americas-ruling-class/
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 10/21/2019 1:28:35 PM (No. 213621)
It’s this simple:
They are the Clinton criminals
The Obama frauds
The schitff liars
The Biden hypocrites
The sharpton racists
The Warren forked tongues
The kamala stoners
The Beto boneheads
The Bernie socialists
The van jones commies
And we are the normals!
And we are ON to them
And their dnc fake news clowns
THAT is why they want us eliminated!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Vespasian 10/21/2019 2:18:05 PM (No. 213655)
Joe Biden thinks he will be El Jefe
But he will be crushed by covfefe
Hilarious song parody
Bidens on the Storm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k-3FiPepz4
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 10/21/2019 2:36:51 PM (No. 213679)
Read The Fountainhead. Ayn Rand describes liberals perfectly. 3rd rate losers cannot tolerate self-actuated achievers. "You didn't build that" is their creed. The goal of socialists is to make everyone equal - equally squalid, poor, and hopeless. Everyone but the elites.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
jpintx 10/21/2019 3:54:23 PM (No. 213743)
I saw this comment in an article on New Neo regarding why Trump is hated, I think it covers the reasons for many people. I don't care for his persona but voted for him and will again for what he has done and can do.
Narcissism, I’ll definitely grant you… though how that differentiates him from any of the other politicians continues to elude me, save that he doesn’t try to hide it.
Immorality, ditto.
Bloviating, lies… ditto, though on this one, I think he’s a noticeably lesser offender than most in Washington, actually (yes, I’m serious – lying regularly and straight to your face seems to be the basic entry requirement for politicians these days).
And ineptitude… OK, I literally don’t understand this claim from people. Look critically and unemotionally at the guy’s accomplishments, and tell me that “inept”. Not “immoral” or “unethical”, we covered that in the previous points.
Trump has moved the ball on things conservatives have claimed to want for decades that no one else did anything about, and you’re willing to throw that away because he’s not willing to hide the “making of the sausage.”from your view? And at the same time complain about “lying”?
Forget about the man – I wouldn’t want to hang out with him, either. Look at what he’s DOING. Getting the ARABS to work with the Israelis? Getting more concessions from the NorKs than all before him put together? EVERYTHING on the economic front? (Actually go LOOK at the numbers – don’t depend on ANYONE in the media to give the proper feeling about it – it’s everything EVERYONE claims to want, but no one will mention it. Higher income for the lower 80% of households, lower income for the top 20%, literally the best employment numbers for minorities ever recorded, etc, etc.)
But you don’t like his mannerisms? They’re “icky” or something, so let’s throw all of that away? REALLY?
Or am I missing some complaint that doesn’t boil down to “he’s as icky as the other politicians, just more open about it”?
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It's easy. Follow the money.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
cedar 10/25/2019 2:55:33 AM (No. 216908)
I like PDJT just as he is!
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