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February 2 - March 7, 2019
She believes that God chose Trump to be president.
“People felt left behind and felt the deck was stacked against them. When Trump used the word ‘rigged,’ that resonated.”
The change impulse was so compelling it apparently overrode concerns about Trump personally.
They saw themselves as giving, paying their taxes while their neighbors were not. And they attached that to the entitlement mind-set of the Democratic Party.”
What were once thriving neighborhoods were being overwhelmed by crime, drugs, blight, and people turned to a figure, Trump, who communicated their feelings and frustrations about these trends.”
Older voters especially were convinced that Hillary would have come for their guns had she been elected.
And that’s the situation Obama and the Democrats created: sit around, drink, and have fun. That’s not the way to go.”
“People were tired of the elites like Obama ridiculing the country and places like Luzerne County.”
“People wanted to try someone who wasn’t a politician. They wanted a change. I wanted a change, already!”
Indeed, there is some evidence that the opioid crisis had political repercussions in the 2016 election—in favor of Trump.
Trump exploited these feelings of anger, frustration, and despair.”
She did not go out and meet people like me. She
So yes, I believe Trump when he says there were 3.5 million illegal votes. I
Cutting corporate taxes will go in my pocket eventually. That’s going to help everybody. Those
So not true!!!
“The guy who runs the gas station, runs a store, or a restaurant. Like me! You’re damn right, like me. That’s who Trump is going to bat for.”
Delusional
We can’t have open borders.
No one is for that!
borders because the more immigrants that come in, they vote Democrat for the most part.
not true
I think those traditions would have been threatened if the other side had won. They wanted an Australian-type gun ban. They
Not true!
People liked Trump because he had the answers to all our frustrations!”
Yes, a millionaire Con Man has all the ‘answers.’ Scary......
All our ancestors came here legally, and
Are you sure?!
“We need a guy who’s gonna cut through the shit, who’s a businessman. So he went bankrupt a few times. That’s what businesses do.”
Not Microsoft, not Walmart, not Warren Buffett...give me a break!!
“This ‘He’s not my president’ stuff? What the hell is that? I’ve never seen anything like it.
Except with Obama!
He was the working man’s billionaire.”
Huh??? People believe this stuff?!
he would protect Second Amendment rights, while Hillary would have eroded them. “People
Evidence?
She felt that Trump would strengthen the military, which had been downsized too much,
We spend more on the military than the rest of the world combined, it should be downsized!!!!!!
The one thing Trump said he would do is listen to his commanders on the ground and listen to their advice.
That has changed! ‘I know more than the generals, believe me.’
“But we don’t have borders now, and if you don’t have borders, you don’t have a country.”
We don’t have borders? I can just walk into Canada or Mexico? Huh...didn’t know that!
He thinks Trump’s election can be viewed as a so-called whitelash, and that it’s been a godsend for the white nationalist message.
Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke called Charlottesville a “turning point” and said that white supremacists intended to “fulfill the promises of Donald Trump” to “take our country back.”3
But she was with Trump from day one, and believes God chose him to end America’s political dysfunction.
Hmm...this sounds like Cult thinking to me.
‘The Democrats are for the working man and the Republicans are for the rich.’
My Mom told me the exact same thing in the 1980s....I feel today that is still absolutely true!
He was also a conservative Republican who believed there should be little or no separation between church and state:
The history of the nation is lovely and holy. They’re
Hmm....let’s ask the Native Americans about that one....
Like, the gay agenda was one thing. But transgender bathrooms?
Gay marriage equates to a rapid decline of moral values and encourages the downward spiral of a nation. Gay marriage was rubbing everybody’s noses in it. Then the transgender thing. I’m not against gay people, and God looks beyond the sin to the sinner. But gay marriage is just not the natural state of affairs.
What did a married gay person ever do to you?! How is gay marriage hurting anyone?!?!?
don’t think Congress obstructs as much as the daily newspapers.
This comment is absolutely frightening. Thomas Jefferson said he’d rather have newspapers than government if he had to choose.
“And in our country, he basically kicked off Black Lives Matter by refusing to allow police to enforce the law while people ransacked cities due to feelings of inequality because they didn’t have material items that they were too lazy to work for.
Huh? When and where was this??
“I believe Obama is a Muslim. Yes, I do. I believe he’s anti-American.
Obama was born and raised here and got into political trouble for the things his CHRISTIAN Pastor said! Why is he anti American???
actually he attended every year he was in office. Obama also started a tradition of hosting Easter breakfasts for Christian leaders across the ideological spectrum, at which he spoke candidly about his Christian faith. Trump, after assuming the presidency, ended the Easter breakfasts.1
Nobody messed around with America. In time, I feel like we’ve lost that stature. We’ve lost respect around the world.
When the President gets laughed at during a speech to the United Nations I would say things are far worse now!
We were blessed to be born here and no one has got the right to come in and just take it. It
Let’s ask the Native Americans and the Mexicans who originally lived in western part of the USA before the Mexican American war about this statement
“People resent seeing people get things they didn’t work for.
Like millionaires who inherit a bunch of money from their Fathers!
“Now listen: America needs an honest leader. America has been craving an honest leader,
“What do you have to think about? If I back you, you’ll win.”
55% vs 42% LOSS!!
Trump voters, who, she says, remain convinced that Hispanics only come to the United States because they want to get on welfare and take advantage of the system.
Legal and illegal immigrants CANNOT GET ON WELFARE!
never heard that kind of talk from Obama, Bush, or Clinton. They were speaking in Spanish to get votes from Latinos! So Trump was the perfect guy for white, racist people: blond, blue eyes, with a lot of money.”
“Let’s go back to the Indian people. They were here before the white people came and took over. So why would whites not be comfortable, when their ancestors came to this country as immigrants too? Now they can’t accept others? Is this land given to them? I don’t think so.”
That’s code. When was America not great? Are you talking about going back to the fifties, when blacks were subservient and were being degraded? Is that what you’re talking about?”
But when I showed them facts to prove that a lot of what he was saying was wrong, they didn’t want to hear it. They just liked him.
Cult members.....
they said Benghazi or the emails investigation were their reasons, I’d say, ‘That’s great, but what policy does Trump have that you agree with?’ They really couldn’t answer that. They just liked him.
