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2/07/2019 6:03 am  #1


Trump Finds New Villains

"Socialism' and 'Late Term Abortion'.
I think that The Wall was getting to be a dead end on the road to 2020.




Painting Socialists as Villains, Trump Refreshes a Blueprint

WASHINGTON — President Trump has proved himself adroit at creating villains to serve as his political foils. In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, he introduced a new one: socialists.

Right after his calls to support the overthrow of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and condemning the “socialist policies” that have reduced the country “into a state of abject poverty and despair,” he made a quick segue to the home front.

“Here in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country,” the president said, adding, “Tonight, we resolve that America will never be a socialist country.”

Tuesday night’s speech contained more than a few suggestions of what Mr. Trump’s 2020 campaign could look like. The president dwelled on the economy, pointing to the low unemployment rate, continuing growth and the tax cut passed by the last Republican Congress. He spoke of trying to reduce prescription drug costs and battling H.I.V., perhaps with an eye to the kinds of suburban female voters who deserted Republicans in the midterm elections. And for his hard-core followers, he argued for the border wall.

The threat of socialism was something new. But it could become the kind of rhetorical touchstone of his re-election campaign that sounding the alarm about “criminal illegal aliens” was in 2016.

If it does, it could provide Mr. Trump with a potentially effective weapon in confronting an increasingly aggressive and more liberal Democratic Party, defining it through attacks on Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who describe themselves as democratic socialists, and other members of the party pushing progressive policies like a 70 percent tax rate and “Medicare for all.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/us/politics/socialism-donald-trump.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
 

2/07/2019 8:38 am  #2


Re: Trump Finds New Villains

Trump and the GOP always need villains. 


"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
 
 

2/08/2019 10:15 am  #3


Re: Trump Finds New Villains

How many times will we hear Trump or his team use the word Socialism between today and the 2020 election?
Conservative estimate, about a zillion.

And, get ready for everything to be socialism.
Taxes are socialism, Medical insurance is socialism, cleaning up the environment is socialism.
And, Trump is the only thing standing between prosperity and the US becoming - shudder - another Venezuela!

Be afraid of muslims, immigrants,  and now democratic socialists!
Oh boy, it's gonna be a show.

Last edited by Goose (2/08/2019 10:16 am)


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
     Thread Starter
 

2/08/2019 12:23 pm  #4


Re: Trump Finds New Villains

Yeah, those socialist programs and institutions like fire departments, police departments, the military, national parks, the FDA, public education, etc.,etc., are ruining America.

 

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