Republicans Against Trump

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  1. LoneStarGal

    LoneStarGal Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    So anyone left of center who votes for Trump can proudly claim to be a "Democrat for Trump"?
     
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    Makes perfect sense. What makes no sense is saying you are a republican and believe in a republican agenda then going to vote for a democrat with an agenda that is the opposite of what you support. What these people are - actually - are independent voters leaning democrat this time.
     
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    He's not a traditional republican. However I would argue his agenda is solidly conservative. I don't give a crap about how he acts personally.
     
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    You apparently don't give a crap about the deficit either.
     
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    Not in the middle of a pandemic I don't.
     
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    Disagreed. In 1980,Democrats who supported Reagan did not CEASE being Democrats because they did not support Carter.
     
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    Correct. The membership doesn’t get negated by crossing over and voting for the other party. They are still Democrats.
     
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    Your shock with reality will be extremely painful on the evening of November 3rd.
     
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    I supposed it's easy to be that confident when you already have your excuse ald talking points if Trump wins.
     
  10. Durandal

    Durandal Well-Known Member Donor

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    That is a hilarious reaction.

    Trump is going to lose in a landslide and people like you will be completely blindsided by it because you're living in la-la land, denying the reality of today's political landscape.

    You should try listening to a few of these fine Republicans. That is, if you have an open mind. If you don't have an open mind, perhaps giving them a listen will help you with that. You have nothing to lose but your faith in the Chosen One.
     
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    Trump's short nine million voters to beat Biden.

    40.3% approval rating.

    He's behind Biden by at least 5% in every battleground state... and the gap widens as we get closer to November.

    Do you think all those people are going to stay home on election night?
     
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    LOL

    LOL

    So Trump is toast.
     
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    Did you notice anything about that deficit or the year before last year? Anything at all?
     
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    Yeah, shocked at the depth of the temper tantrums being thrown by the left.
     
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    Republicans so desperate, because he is a white male, to find a strategy for attacking Biden which works that they will paste up any female of color even if they have absolutely nothing to do with his candidacy.
     
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    How do we know they are actual republicans?
     
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    Republicans are not all RINOs of Trumpery, swearing mindless personal allegiance to Fake Don.

    You can't pretend that decent Republicans who hope to reclaim their Party and delouse it are not Republicans.

    If they need to support a moderate Democrat to initiate that essential delousing, that is what they must do in the interests of their Party and the nation.
     
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    Hilarious.
     
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    It's like a religious schism, what's going on in the GOP today. Don is a new prophet and charismatic cult leader trying to take the Church of Conservatism in a new, radical, self-serving direction. The Republicans who reject him are the conservatives who believe in the principles of their party and will not allow it or themselves to be changed by him and his followers.

    However, unlike in a religious context, Trump will eventually be out of office and therefore lose power and influence. It remains to be seen what will happen next with this right versus alt-right divide that seems to have been developing for many years and is now coming to a head.
     
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    Yes, well we have a choice between two "religions": Right-wing Populism vs. Left-wing Cultural Marxism.

    Pick your poison dogma. The Traditional RINO's and DINO's in both parties are being slain.
     
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    "Left-wing Cultural Marxism" is a fantasy that you're using to try and paint Democrats as being as bad as yourself. You know what this is comparable to? Creationists who try to argue that "Evolutionism" is religious rather than scientific in nature.
     
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    Yes, theres plenty of Republicans that don't like Trump. Neocons, Dominionists, phrumpy-fundy-Evangelicals... they want another Bush, just like how a few establishment worshipping leftists still want Hillary. And we on the right view our 'never-Trumper' neighbors about the same as you on the left view the 'Im still with her'ers.

    What I havn't seen is any evidence that either group is growing in numbers.
     
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    Thanks. "You are the bad people" is the primary political tactic of the Cultural Marxists.

    Not all Democrats are "bad people", by the way. I have several friends who are Democrats, but none who are on the viciously critical Far-Left Neo-Marxist fringe.

    There are the Liberals and there are Far-Leftists just the same as their are Conservatives and their is an Alt-Right extreme.

    Anyway, the old-school centrists are about to be wiped out, whether you realize it or not.
     
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    Zealots of Trumpery are outraged by principled Republicans who are rightly concerned about the long-term impact the cult of personality and its perversions are inflicting on their Party.
     
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    Lots of silly labels there, but watching these people, would you actually apply any of these labels to them? They're ordinary people. Lots and lots of ordinary people.
     
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