Never Say ‘Never Trump’
Atlantic,
by
Kathy Gilsinan
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
3/10/2020 9:05:45 AM
She had to sleep on it. The letter was in her inbox; friends and colleagues, throughout the Republican national-security circles where Rebeccah Heinrichs had made her career, were signing on. It called then-candidate Donald Trump “fundamentally dishonest” and claimed that if elected president, he would use his power “in ways that make America less safe.” She wasn’t crazy about the tone in some spots, but she also didn’t think he was a credible candidate. Only a few other Republicans were left in the primary back then in March 2016—and she thought a letter like this, with its roll call of GOP luminaries,
President Donald J. Trump is not disliked because he is a lout, or because his policies are scary, or for any of that stuff. He is hated by these political and moneyed swells because he represents a serious existential threat to their comfy way of life profiting from this issue or that crisis fleecing the American public seven ways to Sunday. It's that simple. And it's not the Dems...it's the UNIPARTY, and that includes Republicans. This is AKA The Swamp.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Falconer 3/10/2020 10:05:49 AM (No. 341884)
Blaming Trump for not unifying America is ridiculous. Anyone who puts America first, or stands up for the unborn is the hated enemy of the left.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
The Remnants 3/10/2020 10:12:56 AM (No. 341892)
Donald Trump "fundamentally dishonest" (To quote the article)
Translation: Trump exaggerates! Who cares? He gets worthwhile results.
"fundamentally transform the United States" (To quote President Obama)
Translation: Take our country to a place where the Constitution plays no part.
Remember the "shovel-ready jobs" that he laughed about and said that they never ever really existed?
THAT is being fundamentally dishonest.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
The Remnants 3/10/2020 10:14:18 AM (No. 341893)
I did not read the article.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 3/10/2020 10:59:35 AM (No. 341946)
The writer was apparently trying to write an honest piece, but she just cannot bring herself to leave any slams, any untrue smears, any ridiculous accusations unrepeated, again and again. It got tiresome eventually, and I just stopped bothering. Heinrichs could learn, apparently the author cannot.
Even though the gist of the story is that some people can react to REALITY as the find it, others cannot ever let go of their false impressions, regardless of how much factual evidence is presented to them, year after year, apparently the author remains in the NeverTrumper camp, firmly.
These NeverTrump folks really do have some sort of a mental problem. Perhaps this is how real racists work, they have their prejudices, learned from someone, and then, regardless of what they might see in front of them, those facts cannot break through their concrete hard prejudice.
My opinions on people might start out with whatever information I could gather from others, but as soon as I can gather my own information, the information that I have gathered from my own eyes and ears can quickly override whatever someone else told me. I think my training as a scientist and engineer has left me with a very open mind, aware that sometimes you start with faulty information, and need to always willing to obtain new information from direct observation, and to act on that directly observed information.
The old saw "who you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?" holds true here. I believe my eyes and my ears. And Trump has DONE massive, unmatched good for this country, regardless of all the insane, irrational NeverTrumpers out there still saying that he hasn't. In a way, I feel kinda sorry for those poor "Republican" NeverTrumper idiots who can't let go of their preconcieved notions and can't live in the real world. THEY are the victims of their own fossilized minds, unable or unwilling to live in reality. And a whole lot of them have literally destroyed their careers because they just cannot see that they were WRONG, massively and totally wrong. The list of well known polticial pundits who claimed to be conservatives for decades, yet who have literally destroyed their careers, and cannot see that it is entirely their own fault is long. George Will, Max Boot, Jonah Goldberg, Bill Kristol, and many, many more - now just foolishly repeating their tired, untrue warnings about how horrible Trump is. Sad people.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
TLCary 3/10/2020 12:01:21 PM (No. 342027)
The fact that a cabal of federal national security professionals thought it was a good idea to coordinate in any way to obstruct our democratic process is terrifying. But hey, they knew better than us and "the voters can't be trusted", right? Now they are admitting they were wrong and the voters were right? No, this isn't a mea culpa, just government employees trying to avoid unemployment after November when Trump is free to clean house.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
greggojo 3/10/2020 12:53:39 PM (No. 342066)
Bravo Poster #5. Thank you for explaining my thoughts better than I ever could.
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