{"id":114680,"date":"2017-05-26T12:50:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T20:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=114680"},"modified":"2017-05-26T12:56:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T20:56:30","slug":"trump-the-montana-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=114680","title":{"rendered":"Trump & The Montana Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments at Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* The goy in Montana who allegedly punched a hostile reporter has comfortably won his special election to the U.S. House. Magically the election has immediately ceased to be an Important Test For The Trump Administration.<\/p>\n

Follow up on Montana from Jeff Bezos’ emo blog:<\/p>\n

The darker forces that propelled President Trump\u2019s rise are beginning to frame and define the rest of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

When GOP House candidate Greg Gianforte assaulted a reporter who had attempted to ask him a question Wednesday night in Montana, many saw not an isolated outburst by an individual, but the obvious, violent result of Trump\u2019s charge that journalists are \u201cthe enemy of the people.\u201d Nonetheless, Gianforte won Thursday\u2019s special election to fill a safe Republican seat.<\/p>\n

\u201cRespectfully, I\u2019d submit that the president has unearthed some demons,\u201d
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Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) said.
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Where is that name familiar from? Oh right, he used to be governor and he got caught having an affair… Anyway. You might think that this pos is going to whine that Trump’s anti media rhetoric has encouraged violence against the media. But actually,<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve talked to a number of people about it back home. They say, \u2018Well, look, if the president can say whatever, why can\u2019t I say whatever?\u2019 He\u2019s given them license.\u201d
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…
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\u201cThere is a total weirdness out there,\u201d Sanford said. \u201cPeople feel like, if the president of the United States can say anything to anybody at any time, then I guess I can too. And that is a very dangerous phenomenon.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The real danger according to this REPUBLICAN is that Trump might make people feel free to speak their minds and criticize their rulers… <\/p>\n

* Trump isn\u2019t a liar- he always means exactly what he says at the moment he says it. He always says exactly what he believes at the very second he believes it.<\/p>\n

The problem is, like Mr. Toad of Toad Hall, he\u2019s forever changing his mind about what he believes and what he values. Toad was being totally truthful and sincere when he declared that he wanted to spend the rest of his life in a gypsy caravan. He just moved on to something else (in this case, cars) in a hurry, and truthfully claimed, \u201cThe caravan? That was just a whim, a passing fancy. THIS is my true calling!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

Donald Trump was probably on the level when he said immigration is bad and that we should build a wall. He probably meant what he said. But he\u2019s already lost his enthusiasm for the project, and is likely to move on to another fad shortly.<\/p>\n

Which means anybody relying on Trump to do anything he promises is delusional.<\/p>\n

* Trump is an enigma inside a riddle, wrapped in a mystery. I suspect he never took any of his policies too seriously to be honest, and I\u2019m not expecting many huge victories on immigration. Anyone who still thinks we\u2019re getting a big beautiful wall for example is dreaming. However, Trump\u2019s near-superhuman election win against BOTH the Bush and Clinton machines was probably the greatest blow against the forces of crypto-communist political correctness I\u2019ve seen in my lifetime. He proved to us they aren\u2019t invincible, and for that he is a hero in my eyes.<\/p>\n

* Trump seems to have a cultural affinity to many of his supporters. If he were a Texan he would be accused of telling \u2018Texas Tall Tales\u2019, aka being a \u2018Cracker\u2019. Not a \u2018whip cracker\u2019, or racist, but part of the cultural continuum from the Celtic fringe through appalachia and the south.<\/p>\n

We recognize the braggadocio and the blarney, and don\u2019t take him literally. We don\u2019t take it as deep seated dishonesty, as was the case with Hillary. And we think he is on our side, which we never suspected Hillary of being, or Obama after at most the first year.<\/p>\n

* Trump\u2019s supporters take him seriously but not literally. Trump\u2019s enemies take him literally but not seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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