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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: mystery-ak on March 27, 2023, 01:38:21 pm
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2016 All Over Again?
The proposition that “Trumpism” could exist without its progenitor appears to have failed.
By Matthew Boose
March 26, 2023
The 2024 Republican primary has hardly begun, but Donald Trump already appears to be on a glide path to the nomination. There are unmistakable echoes of 2016. The so-called conservative movement’s anointed one, dubbed “DeFuture” in the Murdoch-owned New York Post just months ago, looks to be imploding after being puffed up by months of breathless praise.
In the online pundit wars, those favorable to Ron DeSantis, known endearingly as “DeSimps,” have complained about Trump’s incivility and lack of True Conservative™ credentials, as evinced by his bullying of “Meatball Ron” and the Stormy Daniels tabloid fodder that has been dredged up by New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s witch hunt.
It is amusing to see self-described “populists” act surprised at Trump’s behavior. They should know better than to moralize about “decency,” or the rules of political engagement they have righteously shredded—at least before they developed the ambition to challenge Trump.
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https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/26/2016-all-over-again/
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This is not 2016
I do believe that Trump is going to get the nomination (as of now.) I don’t know where all this pushing Ron DeSantis came from when the guy hasn’t even said anything about running.
But the advantages that he had in 2016 are gone. Hillary Clinton isn’t running against him and the map has gotten more hostile to him than in 2016. And the EC saved him in 2016.
That’s why many of us are going to vote Republican downticket in order to try to gain the Senate and hold the House. There needs to be a stronger buffer against Joe Biden’s disasters than there is now
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By the day, it seems '24 is lost to the Orange carnival barker and his traveling shit show.
Conservatives need to pool their resouces, give Trump the finger, and have laser focus and obsession to secure the House and the Senate.
Seems an obstructionist path seems the wisest. Then regroup for '28.
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This is not 2016
I do believe that Trump is going to get the nomination (as of now.) I don’t know where all this pushing Ron DeSantis came from when the guy hasn’t even said anything about running.
But the advantages that he had in 2016 are gone. Hillary Clinton isn’t running against him and the map has gotten more hostile to him than in 2016. And the EC saved him in 2016.
That’s why many of us are going to vote Republican downticket in order to try to gain the Senate and hold the House. There needs to be a stronger buffer against Joe Biden’s disasters than there is now
Wish I could agree, but it seems full consensus that DeSantis is tanking. I just don't see anyone being able get enough traction now to to it. Trump had to fire up his Stone/Pecker Slime machine 6 months earlier than even he probably expected, thus the poll plunge for RDS.
As far as Trump, his shining new Trump cities that would cost 10's of Trillions to the taxpayers, and the fact he has stealthly now been crowned the King of POTUS debt sealed the deal that this SOB was more FDR than Reagan.
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This is not 2016 again ... unless Hillary Clinton decides to save the Dems by selecting herself as the Dem Presidential nominee.
Hilldog would have won 2016 if she only visted those podunk, hick, simpleton, ignorant, racist, homophobic, xenophobic deplorables in Upper Midwest and Rust Belt states.
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It seems pretty early to write off any of the challengers. Trump's brain is not getting any younger. He is going to suffer one meltdown after another, and one or more investigations may progress to indictment (albeit possibly after he gains the nomination, which would be just fantastic). DeSantis is still in wait-and-see mode, as I suspect many of them are.
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It seems pretty early to write off any of the challengers. Trump's brain is not getting any younger. He is going to suffer one meltdown after another, and one or more investigations may progress to indictment (albeit possibly after he gains the nomination, which would be just fantastic). DeSantis is still in wait-and-see mode, as I suspect many of them are.
There is no question that Donald Trump is currently benefiting from Alvin Bragg’s screwup. But that will pass.
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There's plenty of just cause for resenting the DOJ, DOD, CDC, and a host of other agencies which conspired to make his tenure more difficult, and even the courts that I am 99% sure allowed it to be unfairly terminated.
But if he wants to win, he has to get back to a more positive message, about rebuilding America, about reversing the damage hat has been done through COVID and beyond, and about stopping the Green New Deal we are having foisted upon us all. Get back to staying out of wars, rebuilding our economy and energy security, and putting America First.
Negativity only motivates so many people for so long and then they burn out.
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There's plenty of just cause for resenting the DOJ, DOD, CDC, and a host of other agencies which conspired to make his tenure more difficult, and even the courts that I am 99% sure allowed it to be unfairly terminated.
But if he wants to win, he has to get back to a more positive message, about rebuilding America, about reversing the damage hat has been done through COVID and beyond, and about stopping the Green New Deal we are having foisted upon us all. Get back to staying out of wars, rebuilding our economy and energy security, and putting America First.
Negativity only motivates so many people for so long and then they burn out.
True that.