By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-25 15:28:23 | Updated at 2024-10-02 04:22:24
6 days ago
Trump Is an Open Book for Closed Minds
The New York Times ^ | Sept. 25, 2024 | Thomas B. Edsall
Posted on 09/25/2024 8:24:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The mystery of 2024: How is it possible that Donald Trump has a reasonable chance of winning the presidency despite all that voters now know about him? Why hasn’t a decisive majority risen up to deny a second term to a man in line to be judged the worst president in American history?
The litany of Trump’s liabilities is well known to the American electorate. His mendacity, duplicity, depravity, hypocrisy and venality are irrevocably imprinted on the psyches of American voters.
Trump has made it clear that in a second term he will undermine the administration of justice, empower America’s adversaries, endanger the nation’s allies and exacerbate the nation’s racial and cultural rifts.
John Podhoretz, in a 2017 Commentary article, “Explaining Trump’s Charlottesville Behavior,” offered up one piece of the puzzle, addressing the question, “Whose early support for Trump itself played a key role in leading others to take him seriously and help propel him into the nomination?”
Podhoretz’s prescient answer: a conspiracy-oriented constituency with little regard for truth:
If there’s one thing politicians can feel in their marrow, even a non-pol pol like Trump, it’s who is in their base and what it is that binds the base to them. Only in this case, I’m not talking about a base as it’s commonly understood — the wellspring of a politician’s mass support. I’m talking about a nucleus — the very heart of a base, the root of the root of support. Trump found himself with 14 percent support in a month. Those early supporters had been primed to rally to him for a long time.”
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The mystery of 2024: How is it possible that Donald Trump has a reasonable chance of winning the presidency despite all that voters now know about him?
Because we are on to your corporate globalist media gaslighting, Astroturf, projection and lies.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
why do people still read this gas lighting drivel?
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Where is the mega barf alert? Lol
3 posted on 09/25/2024 8:26:58 AM PDT by Reddy (BO stinks)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Sheesh...so much crap in such a small mind.
4 posted on 09/25/2024 8:27:05 AM PDT by goodnesswins (DEI....Divide, Enslave, Indoctrinate.....OR ......Didn't Earn It)
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