Frank wrote on Jan 12
th, 2020 at 5:08pm:
Trump knew precisely how the Democrats would react, much as I knew exactly how Emily Thornberry would react, i.e. with hand-wringing, hypocrisy, idiocy and denunciation. The American public in election year, then, has to choose between an administration which acts quickly and successfully to extinguish threats to its country and its servicemen, and a bunch of challengers who can easily be portrayed as utterly averse to the US taking any action to protect itself and its interests. A satirical publication, the Babylon Bee, suggested Democrat candidates had demanded that flags be flown at half-mast to commemorate the death of Soleimani. It was, fairly obviously, a joke. And yet it gained a lot of traction on social media, especially in the US, precisely because that is the sort of thing one could imagine coming from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who once denounced cauliflowers as being agents of colonialism, the almost senile Bernie Sanders or the anti-Semitic congresswoman, Ilhan Omar. Fake news — but fake news which one could conceivably believe, because it rang true.
The problem for the left, then, is two-fold. First, it is utterly devoid of patriotism, thinking it the last refuge of a fascist, whereas the left’s voter base tends to have a certain love for its country and its history and traditions, as we perhaps saw in our own general election. Second, the left always tends to give Islamic countries a free pass, for a whole bunch of confused and convoluted reasons. It will scream its little heart out if western countries (or, of course, Russia) contravene any one of a myriad of LGBTQI shibboleths, but take no notice when homosexuals are hanged from a crane in Tehran, have their heads chopped off in Riyadh or are subjected to Quranical denunciation from a mosque in, say, Birmingham.
I think it is fair to say that the vast majority of the population, either in the UK or US (or Australia), does not go along with this kind of airheaded doublethink.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/01/world-war-three-no-this-was-about-trumps-se... Well said frank.
If the left continue to play identity politics.
If the Dow continues to sty up.
Unemployment is now t 3.5 %, the lowest in 50 years
Even the cosmos is behind trump.
Iran shooting down a plane full of Justin trudeaus constituents.
Trump is proof positive that success breeds success.
And the resentful left may well , catastrophically for them, double down and choose a more radical candidate.
In truth, Hilary had way more appeal to real America then any of the current chodes.
trump is going to tool the democratic candidate so badly
He is going to be so entertaining as he provides a running commentary on the poor dem they put up.
I actually feel sorry for whoever that is.
I think, short of trump having a coronary , he may win in the biggest landslide ever.
I don't think the left know jut how much thy are on the nose.
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