Posted on 02/19/2017 3:27:43 AM PST by Trump20162020
Liberals may feel energized by a surge in political activism, and a unified stance against a president they see as irresponsible and even dangerous. But that momentum is provoking an equal and opposite reaction on the right. In recent interviews, conservative voters said they felt assaulted by what they said was a kind of moral Bolshevism — the belief that the liberal vision for the country was the only right one. Disagreeing meant being publicly shamed.
Protests and righteous indignation on social media and in Hollywood may seem to liberals to be about policy and persuasion. But moderate conservatives say they are having the opposite effect, chipping away at their middle ground and pushing them closer to Mr. Trump.
“The name calling from the left is crazy,” said Bryce Youngquist, 34, who works in sales for a tech start-up in Mountain View, Calif., a liberal enclave where admitting you voted for Mr. Trump is a little like saying in the 1950s that you were gay. “They are complaining that Trump calls people names, but they turned into some mean people.”
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They’ve made me even more supportive of Trump.
They had a Democratic pollster on Fox yesterday who worked in the Clinton White House that was saying the same thing. He said the Democrats have taken such a hard left turn that he doesn’t even recognize his party anymore.
The bad: the rest are being so radicalized we may see a flashpoint situation in our lifetime leading to open conflict.
Check the headlines...Trumps motorcade was attacked by an object thrown at them in Florida. It was a 2*4. The perps? 5 grade school kids. An entire generation is being lied to and radicalized by the left.
It is not a good sign that the NYTs is printing this. It might mean the left is becoming better at seeing reality.
That is a dangerous thing...
They use fascist tactics: intimidating and assaulting people, rioting and destroying property.
They promote the fascist ideology: suppressing freedom, of thought, speech and action while scapegoating anyone who does not support their agenda.
They engage in fascist rhetoric: claiming that whites, especially men, are the root of all problems, while hinting that they want to rid society of these “undesirable” people.
They call ordinary people who support the Constitution “Nazis” in an attempt to deceive us about their goals and ideology.
Why should anyone be surprised that the support for Trump just grows stronger the more that the left shows its true colors?
Trump’s most rabid opponents are like the anti-war Left of the Nixon era. As Nixon ended the draft, withdrew US troops, and made a peace treaty with North Vietnam, the air went out of the anti-war movement, but its cadre of hard Left activists went underground to become bomb-makers and would be revolutionaries. A narrow electoral college victor in 1968, Nixon was reelected in 1972 by an historically large margin.
The longer they are blinded by their inability to understand what is going on, the better. I have seen glimmers of understanding coming from the media. Not really a good thing.
Ridicule is a powerful weapon with an eagerly obeying media. It becomes tiresome quickly though.
When a cage full of insane howler monkeys is throwing handfuls of sh-t at the zookeeper, it’s awful difficult NOT to empathize more with the zookeeper.
Abolutely
I don’t think the problem lies so much with them- the left loonies are as constant as the Northern Star- it’s the antagonistic Republican filth I would like to see taken out. Not many true conservatives amongst them.
With every snide MSM remark and lie, with every chant from the leftist professional rioters, with every lie and accusation from Democrats and GOP elites, we dig our heels in all the more.
The left pooh-poohs us and lies about our strength, but it is vast and dispersed all across this country, enough to keep you bicoastal rats nesters from gaining an electoral majority. You won’t change that. We are legion.
And we will beat you.
It doesn't matter what he says or does ... Americans are genuinely agreeing with him and he has carte blanche freedom FROM US to do as he wills, because so far .... his will is OUR will.
The Dems didn’t take a “left turn” - they were already solidly far left. They took a Fascist turn.
Yes
I have proof in my own family with my idealistic oldest daughter who now fears the loony left more than Trump and she loves Milo
“The longer they are blinded by their inability to understand what is going on, the better.”
I think it was Napoleon who said something along the lines of the foolishness of interrupting your enemy while he is making a mistake.
The 60’s leftists moved off the streets and into the media in every layer and strata around the country. They still have a stranglehold most media organs that have been around for decades. 63 million people work up from a nightmarish fog and said no more. The war will continue until the American public shuts the fascist media down. This media fascism is seen daily on every sphere and until it’s called out like Trump is doing, they will remain in power.
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