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Interviews with Trump supporters across the country find a profusion of perspectives on how and when America lost its mojo; what bonds them is a sense of frustration so abiding that they’re willing to take a chance on a man they readily admit is anything but presidential, at least the way the term has historically been defined."
“The way he talks is just silly sometimes — he sounds like a fourth-grader,” said Holly Martin, a freelance technology writer who recently moved, in search of a lower cost of living, from the suburbs of Washington to the exurban town of Winchester, Va. But Martin, 59, attended a training session for Trump campaign volunteers recently because “he talks like a regular guy, and he actually loves this country. He’s not afraid to say that we’ve lost our good character.”...
Cimbal doesn’t view Trump as an optimist of the Reagan stripe, but she’s okay with voting for a harsh critic. “He speaks his mind,” she said. “So many of the others are wishy-washy. Mr. Trump isn’t a provocateur to annoy people but to get them thinking.”
Cimbal, a loyal Republican, wants people to think about how to curb illegal immigration and protect Second Amendment gun ownership rights, but she’s mainly drawn to Trump because she thinks his plain talk can get things done. Her goal is to restore a time “when there wasn’t as much animosity toward each other, when everything wasn’t about race and people just got along.”
Joe McCoy, who is 31, says he started out this campaign season “laughing at this Trump guy like everyone else.”
Still, the more he heard Trump, the more the greatness slogan resonated. “He boasts a lot, he’s got trophy wives, he’s not exactly Mr. Clean, so I was skeptical,” said McCoy, who lives in Norwich, Conn., where he does tech support from home for a multinational company.
“Mitt Romney was more my kind of guy: practical, a nice guy. But you know, people don’t like a nice guy. They like this guy because he’s right about us losing our country. I really don’t think we should be letting kids go into whichever bathroom they want to in school. The Democrats are really reaching too far on the social issues. And there’s no retirement anymore, no pensions.”
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Seems scattered. I worry Trump won't have a thing to say at any of the upcoming debates - with the GOP or with whichever geriatric sociopath socialist the dems select.
"It's gonna be great. It's gonna be terrific. I'm gonna build a wall. With a beautiful door..."
He needs a bit more at this point.
When the Mets take it in seven it will be a sign from ON HIGH that TRUMP is FOREORDAINED!
"He needs a bit more at this point."
I agree.
Wall, door, gate, how ridiculous.
I visualize a cartoon USA fortress each and every time with a magnificent gate, such as surpasses Babylonia where camels and trucks can go right through with plenty of air to spare, giant ships can sail right through, Statues of Liberty can be dragged right through with plenty of room above to to fly jets through, like theatrical depictions of OZ , and with gold filigree and fine ornamentations with the level of taste equal to New Jersey Shore, or an Arabian king's personal 747, that sort of golden ornamentation, beaconing, allowing, and generous, and yet foreboding and awesome. Abu Simbel that awes the living shit out of anyone approaching it, and marvel at the people who built it.
Yet the entire perimeter of Area 51 and all private property surrounding it, a single base for a single armed service is protected COMPETELY and absolutely down to last mouse and scorpion without any fence at all. Until you get right up on the base, of course. Such as Ft. Knox. There must be a fence surrounding the immediate base but that is incidental to absolute perimeter control under layers of electronic surveillance. The point is, the idea of a wall is ridiculous and the conceptualization of giant gate is too. Now THAT is pandering.
I think his explanation of Mexico paying for it is funny. His plan is not "now you will pay for our fence" no, rather to rig exchange with mexico such that our border protection, fence, electronics, whatever, will be paid by taxing commercial exchange. Paid for through usual business. An appealing idea that won't happen.
I want open borders. Slippy-slidey back and forth. You know, slickly, oily, easily, like tôves lubricilleux se gyrent en vrillant dans le guave, that kind of slick back and forty, ridiculously open. The allowing a stranger into one's "locked home" analogy rejected. But I want it both ways on both borders. And that presupposes our crime-fighting apparatuses flow back and forth too. And expect us to weigh in heavily on your national politics as well. Slip-sliding back and forth as we do. Ready? Go!
An open border (un-walled) wouldn't matter if our corrupt government actually obeyed our current immigration laws.
We have a government actively inviting illegals to cross our border. We have a government hiding illegals by placing them in communities all over our country without our permission or knowledge. They just appear.
Hillary is already promising to take Obama's illegal executive amnesty for illegals and place it on stilts and steroids. Of course. We will have America's first corrupt dictator.
If they weren't getting the citizens' goodies when they got here, nobody would care if they came.
If they didn't get the goodies, they wouldn't come or stay.
As long as they get the goodies, they will find a way in.
You don't need a wall. You just need different politicians making different laws.
Maybe a big beautiful wall with a big beautiful door is easier.
This, of course, is an issue every time there's a Democrat in the Rainbow House. This time it's been just that much worse because we have an out-of-the-closet Commie (and anything else that belongs closeted).
Willie, at least as long Dick Morris was running the show, kept it under wraps.
AprilApple said...
Hillary is already promising to take Obama's illegal executive amnesty for illegals and place it on stilts and steroids. Of course. We will have America's first corrupt dictator.
You don't remember the 90s.
Or WWI.
We need a broom. A big broom. That will sweep clean.
We might not be able to deport 11 million.
But I bet we can depot a shitpot full of them. Just from the front of Home Depot alone.
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