His failure to abide by institutional norms and play by the rules of Washington propriety is not damning in their eyes, but a sign that he is the real deal, and that he is making progress. This is largely the fault of a political establishment that has taken power for granted
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It is really imperative that people in the D.C. blob internalize and accept that *Trump voters like what Trump is doing*, because otherwise you end up in the inexcusable position of trying to attack the President for the things that make him most popular among disaffected voters.
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I am sorry that we don't live in a 1953 Eagle Scout handbook on civics, but I am also interested in winning power, and the endless focus on attacking Trump for the thing people LIKE, when there are so many things available to attack him on that people hate, drives me up the wall
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Part of the reason people like Trump is that he lies bigly to supporters about how his tax cuts have benefitted working families, brought manufacturing jobs to America, and how he's prevented Democrats from taking away health care. So we then attack him for procedural arcana? No!
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The best way to preserve the norms and institutions of American democracy is to win the 2020 election, not chastise the sixty million people who voted for Trump for their continuing failure to be shocked because he's doing what they put him in office to do—tear down government.
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This is certainly true of some Trump supporters, but many Trump voters are not like this, and likely have a wide variety of opinions on his conduct.
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I support this, and I also move to allow the use of the term “socialism” because not everyone is opposed to it and that is what they use in Norway to describe the thing we want.
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We should be way past pearl clutching and well into surprised monocle dropping
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it's called "popping" Michael
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I doubt this force is really that rational. It's a bunch of people who dislike educated city elites and grasping immigrants and minorities. They don't really give a damn about improving government. Just sticking it to their enemies.
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You're talking about 60 million people, so it's pretty useless to generalize.
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