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That would be the tweeter in chief who is easily triggered. trump's tweets are nothing but whining and self pity parties.
President Trump knows all too well that Twitter is a great means of triggering the slime-level leftists to rage and scream at the sky - you're exemplifying that perfectly! The result is furthering the reasons he was elected in the first place ... and will be re-elected despite, and because of, your whining. So by all means, carry on: Trump-Pence 2020!
In 2020, Trump'll be lucky to hold on to Indiana, North Carolina, and Arizona. Hell, even Texas may be in play now (remember, Beto came to within less than three percent of a well-known Republican incumbent). Not enough to get him elected, but he did help to victory at least two US Congressional candidates - both in predominately wealthy districts (one in Dallas, the other in Houston). The Dems also cut deeply into the Rep majority in the state house.
While I don't expect Texas to turn blue in 2020, I do expect a lot more purple in that blue. Just remember that California used to be a Republican state too, until 1988.
Trump won some states by a very slim margin. The problem he has is that he hasn’t even tried to expand his base. And his base alone can’t get him re-elected.
He doesn't need to expand his base.
People here in Michigan, to include union voters like me, are thrilled with the Trump job market.
He should carry Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania with significantly higher margins in 2020.
His Democrat opponent can run up the popular vote with harvested California ballots, but it won't matter.
Why do people think that McCain should be above criticism?
I mean other than the fact that he hated Trump?
He was a war hero.....yes.
That doesn't give him carte blanche to be a dick the rest of his life afterwards.
McCain was criticized heavily when he was alive. His hero status never made him above criticism either.
For sure, McCain had his own demons, but Trump was far from the only guy McCain hated politically. And he was never a dick all the time, nor was he always disliked all the time.
John McCain was, except for his fearlessness, pretty much just like the rest of us are. He had many lifelong friends, some lifelong enemies, and was in most respects pretty damned average in his humanity.
Donald Trump is not ordinary at all. Everything about the man is a rarity, especially rare in Trump's personality extremes. The most rare thing of all about Trump is the fact he's never done any prison time.
People here in Michigan, to include union voters like me, are thrilled with the Trump job market.
He should carry Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania with significantly higher margins in 2020.
His Democrat opponent can run up the popular vote with harvested California ballots, but it won't matter.
The rust-belt will decide the election.
I guess you believe all the polls that show candidates like Joe Biden run well ahead of Trump in Michigan are all part of anti-Trump conspiracy correct?
*Trump puts us in a dilemma: on one hand, paying attention to his tweets can distract us from other matters. On the other hand, not taking him to task gives the impression that most of American society condones that behavior in a president. Even worse, to not challenge it is to normalize it, give it a false legitimacy, and thus coarsen our society's behavior in general - all the way down to the Smithville Rotary Club and high school teachers, even "ordinary fine parents".
These people who are convinced Trump is some kind of pathological madman or liar are just hyper-partisan shrill hysterics. Tallying up dozens of "lies" per day because they reject the data he cites or quibble over whether its accurate. These aren't lies. At best they are statements that might or might not be accurate, like nearly all statements that cite statistical information, almost all of which is sampled or estimated, not directly measured.
And even those things that are directly measured might yield wildly inaccurate "stats" about things. For example, claiming that a reduced rate of border apprehensions means the border is more secure than ever. No. It means no such thing. There are many possible reasons for a fluctuation in border apprehensions, and it is NOT in any way a useful data point from which to even speculate as to the relative integrity of the border. So everytime he says something about the border integrity, or the apprehensions, they chalk it up as a lie. Could be totally unrelated metrics yet both valid, and yet directly contradictory:
a. Border apprehensions are down, thus the border is less secure than ever! (possible but they'll chalk it up as a lie).
b. Border apprehensions under Obama were higher because the border was so porous (compared to now). Possible, but they'll chalk that up as a lie anyway).
Why? Because they can't allow Trump to be right, no matter what he's talking about, because that ruins their narrative of Trump as an incorrigible liar who is simply incapable of telling the truth, even though there is no evidence to support this idea. That's the reason for the obsessive nit-picking "truth tracker" microscope they have put him under.
Its like Media Matters. They have no concern for the truth, only for cataloging everything people say in order to weaponize it as a rebuttal or proof point of some bias or misstatement. True or not there will be some way to leverage it against someone, especially if they once had mainstream views that have been shifted outside of the Overton window.
For conservatives, who tend to be ideologically stable and honest, their views are fairly static . So it doesn't matter than 10 years ago moderates had largely the same views on wedge issues like gay marriage or border security and immigration regardless of party, but if you're a Conservative, and have the same view that you had ten years ago, you're now a homophobe and evil white supremacist, because borders are immoral and love is love, but Clinton and Obama are just "progressives" who became enlightened, despite the fact this means that their ideological makeup is about as stable as a chocolate souffle.
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