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There's a large distance

ocean-kat — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 21:26:50 +0000

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There's a large distance between Obama's moderate policies and lunatic policies. To use your metaphor, one can play hardball without attempting to bean every batter that comes to the plate

Ah, but with many suburban

artappraiser — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 20:54:44 +0000

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Ah, but with many suburban women, one should venture a thought that it could also quite seriously be about the economy stupids, one shouldn't automatically presume it's mainly about feminist issues, Trump nasty person, or dividing children from their parents:

I don't own or understand stocks.

We are a lower middle class family on a strict, paycheck-to-paycheck budget.

I budget $35 for gas each payday.
Today, I paid $45.

Last week's grocery bill was $30 higher than we're used to paying.

How about you ask me how the economy is?
— Anna Kruk Corbin (@AnnaKrukCorbin) October 11, 2018

They are often more likely to fill a different financial role in their family and can see the inflation stupids...

Obama made a deal with Iran.

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 16:10:43 +0000

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Obama made a deal with Iran. He made a deal and alliance to destroy ISIS. He made a deal to expand health care. He made several deals to bail us out of the 2008 crash. He made deals to keep government's lights on.

Yes, Obama could have acted like a lunatic and gotten much more. I didn't want a lunatic as president. I'm amazed so many people do.

I found this helpful in

artappraiser — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 15:59:33 +0000

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I found this helpful in understanding the mystery of Trump's approval ratings:

They are country-club Republicans who long voted for business-friendly politicians like Gov. John Kasich, who represented the 12th District in the House and is the national face of never-Trump Republicans.

One Dublin man who is a former Ohio assistant attorney general, and who now owns a manufacturing business, said he wrote in Mr. Kasich’s name in 2016, rather than cast a ballot for Mr. Trump. “But now I’m a big supporter,” he said of the president.

He asked to be identified only by his first name, Sam, because he fears a backlash for his business if he publicly supports the president.

“I feel he’s done a marvelous job,” he said.

He added: “I can’t stand his personality and behavior.”

Other men who back Mr. Trump in Dublin were also unwilling to let their full names be used. They did not want to inflame clients, colleagues or family members.

“Behind closed doors there’s very, very solid support,” for Mr. Trump, said Charles McClenaghan, a lawyer, who is president of the Dublin Republican Club.

“I think that’s exactly why the polls got it wrong in 2016,” he continued. “People felt intimidated, they felt bullied. They’re just not going to talk politics. But when they get in the voting booth, they’re going to look at the wonderful success he’s had.”

and this

The next day at the Golf Club of Dublin, two other players finished their games, a veterinarian and a medical physicist, and sauntered into the Tudor-style clubhouse, where they ordered chicken wings and beers.

The golfing buddies were on opposite sides of the nation’s roiling political gulf, but had managed to remain friends. “Can I try one of these?” the veterinarian said, reaching for the physicist’s plate of Buffalo wings.

Paul Lundahl, the physicist, who works in cancer treatment, said he had long been apolitical, “reluctantly” voting in 2016 for Hillary Clinton while not caring much about the outcome.

“I’ve never really considered myself a Republican or Democrat or whatever,” he said.

But he has grown to detest Mr. Trump.

“I just cannot believe what comes out of that guy’s mouth every time he speaks,” Mr. Lundahl said. “I feel like I’m on the playground as a second-grader.”

The veterinarian, who would only be identified by his first name, Steve, was a fan of Mr. Trump’s.

He praised the Republican tax cut because it put more money in his clients’ pockets, which has meant more of them come to his clinic for heartworm and flea treatments for their pets.

“That helps me,” the veterinarian said. “So I don’t really care what the president says. He’s a crude guy. It’s embarrassing. But what he’s done is what he said he was going to do.”

He credited Mr. Trump for getting Justice Kavanaugh confirmed and for meeting with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. “How many people over the past 50 years between Obama and Clinton and Bush failed?” the veterinarian said. “Who made the deals? Trump did.”

Mr. Lundahl has become so numb to the president’s trampling of political norms, he said, that he recently decided not to talk anymore about Mr. Trump. “It’s so exhausting,” he said.

It seems that white men are

rmrd0000 — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 14:36:02 +0000

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It seems that white men are the only ones staying strongly in Trump’s corner.

Some white, male voters "have

artappraiser — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 03:52:22 +0000

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Some white, male voters "have quietly struck a bargain with Mr. Trump: They will overlook his trampling of presidential norms because he is delivering just what they want on the economy, deregulation, immigration and foreign affairs"https://t.co/ar5Q802GBs
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 13, 2018