Engaging With Trump’s Die-Hard Supporters
Isn’t Productive
Atlantic,
by
Tom Nichols
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
12/21/2020 2:19:58 PM
President-elect Joe Biden made national unity a centerpiece of his campaign, and no patriotic American who wants to repair the damage of the Donald Trump years can argue with such a noble call. The election is over, and we can now undertake the tasks Trump neglected, including fighting the coronavirus pandemic and restoring our alliances. But millions of Americans are not ready to declare that bygones are bygones and engage the loyal Trump supporters they might still find among their neighbors, friends, or families.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MOBeef4u 12/21/2020 2:25:06 PM (No. 637932)
Unity was the centerpiece of the Biden campaign!? What Biden campaign?
79 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Annie Xango 12/21/2020 2:30:39 PM (No. 637934)
Yikes..I knew The Atlantic was a rag...but just try scrooling thru the headlines in the index..these people really are mentally ill....really..really ill..
73 people like this.
I checked out after the first sentence.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DARling 12/21/2020 2:41:50 PM (No. 637939)
Unity as long as you agree with me. If you don't shut your mouth and nod like a grinning dummy when I espouse socialism and endless lockdowns, you are not a patriotic American.
61 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/21/2020 2:43:34 PM (No. 637940)
The number of Atlantic articles calling for unity during the Trump administration is zero.
66 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 12/21/2020 2:44:21 PM (No. 637942)
See post No.3. That's all you have to know.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Highlander 12/21/2020 2:47:50 PM (No. 637946)
I checked out after seeing it’s from “Atlantic.”
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
czechlist 12/21/2020 2:51:39 PM (No. 637949)
Nichols sounded familiar so I had go check this year's Pulitzer prize for fiction . Thought this fiction writer may have won but it was "The Nickel Boys " by Colon Whitehead - apparently Jim Crow racism wasn't bad enough so it had to be amplified in fiction - so of course it won a Pulitzer along with the NYT "1619" BS.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Submariner 12/21/2020 2:52:04 PM (No. 637950)
The arrogance (chutzpah) is breathtaking. Like Trump was responsible for their temper tantrum.
37 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Luke21 12/21/2020 2:53:37 PM (No. 637952)
On election night, 2016, Trump people were only shown in immense darkness by the awful media.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
IdahoGal 12/21/2020 2:58:33 PM (No. 637960)
You stupid little twerp. You really think you’re the smartest tool in the box, don’t you? You dint know squat about me.
35 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
mc squared 12/21/2020 3:04:33 PM (No. 637963)
What to dems expect from a basket of deplorables?
15 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 12/21/2020 3:24:14 PM (No. 637980)
Amazing what some people read.
13 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
coldborezero 12/21/2020 3:25:38 PM (No. 637981)
This Trump supporter eagerly and happily awaits the day when I am able to "fully engage" the Enemy.
32 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
starboard 12/21/2020 3:33:43 PM (No. 637985)
Pure tripe
16 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/21/2020 3:47:32 PM (No. 638000)
Well Bubba, we were ROBBED at GUNPOINT by the Crooked Democraps...now they hate us because we are calling in the LAW?
19 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 12/21/2020 3:49:33 PM (No. 638003)
I'd really like to engage them, but not in the way that they think.
21 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
David Key 12/21/2020 3:56:07 PM (No. 638011)
Golly who'd have thought a wise magazine like the Atlantic would have shown such wisdom in the face of the naughty nasty right wing supporters of Trump. It breaks my heart to think that their cry for "patriotic citizens" who should link arms and sing cumbyyah will be rejected by the mean savages on the right. Perhaps their nonstop lies for four years, their participation in a political coup and then an election theft have something to do with our unwillingness to make nice nice kissy kissy. You revile us and then expect us to just join the chorus. Good luck. You and you illegal friends burning down democrat cities, and breaking laws to stack and election deck are not going to be accepted as legit no matter how hard, and I doubt it will be too hard Biden himself couldn't get thru an appeal to unity before he slimed us once again, you try. I'd say take a small leap off a tall building but I doubt you will. Neither will we. If you think you've done something good and noble by stealing the presidency well good luck with that.
22 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 12/21/2020 4:16:49 PM (No. 638029)
I found the article entertaining and enlightening, especially when viewed through the prism of progressive projection. The author is scared. He doesn't want socialist-minded minions to engage Trumpers because of exposure to the truth. He helpfully includes the topics for good Marxists to ignore with helpful ridicule of the most dangerous.
"I don’t want to treat our fellow citizens with open contempt, or to confront and berate them. Rather, I am arguing for silence." The author rightly senses that Trumpers will not be cowed by the usual leftist tropes; that Trumpers are informed and armed with evidence through their cell phones. President Trump and his Army of the Deplorables don't back down and keep fighting. This is a paradigm they are still struggling to even recognize, yet alone learn how to respond beyond their old commie bromides.
In the world of the "enlightened", social standing is the yardstick that measures all success and place in the pecking order. Ostracizing the unworthy is the greatest punishment in totalitarian systems. The author thinks that having lunatic lefty relatives not engage them will make Trumpers unhappy enough to rethink their wayward ideas. Little does Mr. Nichols realize that complete radio silence from the Left would be the greatest Christmas present ever given to American Patriots.
MAGA - Even Biden knows he lost...and he knows very little.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
plainjane 12/21/2020 4:23:28 PM (No. 638034)
The Thief-in-Chief wants unity? No, it’s not noble to request unity after vociferously fighting for four years for disunity.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 12/21/2020 4:29:56 PM (No. 638039)
Reading Atlantic articles isn't productive.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 12/21/2020 4:37:50 PM (No. 638044)
I think people like this should be met with a resounding and very loud and vociferous Plucking of the Middle Finger.
Push back people! Theyve declared war on us.
13 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
red1066 12/21/2020 4:44:47 PM (No. 638050)
What damage did the Trump administration create or cause? Please specify.
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Their aim and game is to make us like lepers. We're not to be trusted or seen as human, even by our own families. We are the enemy to the left. It's truly sad and scary.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 12/21/2020 4:54:04 PM (No. 638064)
I'd like to engage this guy's jaw with my fist.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Right Time 12/21/2020 5:37:36 PM (No. 638087)
That Tom Nichols has a nice head on his shoulders.
Maybe we can mount it on a pole.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/21/2020 5:38:19 PM (No. 638088)
I take extreme issue with Biden's alleged unity during his campaign. One, it didn't happen. Two, we cannot make peace with a tyrant and a person (and persons) who claims a win when he knows he cheated like heck. Biden may keep up the fool, but he knows in the deep recesses of his evil heart that he didn't win, and he knows the American people did not/do not want him as President. We want President Donald Trump, and we will never accept Biden. NEVER! This knowledge will haunt and destroy him no matter how this shakes out.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
BarryNo 12/21/2020 5:41:35 PM (No. 638092)
"Engaging"?
You people tell us to shut up as you roll out our front doors in broad daylight with bags of stolen goods and you call it "engaging"?!
My bullet will engage you!!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
govlawyer 12/21/2020 5:41:42 PM (No. 638093)
Unity only with those of us who aren't "f*ckers", right? The cry in 2020 isn't "PUMA", it's "UMA".
5 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
curious1 12/21/2020 5:44:45 PM (No. 638095)
#25, as my G'pa always said, use a fist on the soft parts and a utensil on the hard parts.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 12/21/2020 5:53:13 PM (No. 638106)
HaHa #30.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Tennman 12/21/2020 5:54:38 PM (No. 638108)
Should have included an air sickness bag with this one, Hillary conceded yet?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Newtsche 12/21/2020 6:19:37 PM (No. 638126)
Hahaha, he said "productive".
Like Tom Nichols and his fellow travelers produce anything.
6 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
smokincol 12/21/2020 7:16:36 PM (No. 638190)
"Engaging With Trump’s Die-Hard Supporters Isn’t Productive". written by a Red Diaper Baby working for a communist, subversive, one-time respected paper publication. I used to read the Atlantic when it was worth my time to read it. Haven't picked up the Atlantic in many, many, many, many years.
5 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
hershey 12/21/2020 10:19:07 PM (No. 638324)
Even if that wanker gets into the white house, he will NEVER be my president...
3 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 12/21/2020 10:25:23 PM (No. 638326)
The Atlanta and this author is a liberal piece of you know what. There was certainly NO damage done by DJT. The Biden damage is just beginning and will take years, if ever to repair. So stick this article and author were the sun don’t shine and do the same with good old Joe and his appointees.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
franq 12/22/2020 7:35:04 AM (No. 638529)
Who is Tom Nichols, and why does his opinion merit publication?
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