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How Trump Survives

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The litany has been repeated so often that it’s easy to recite: The walls are closing in on Donald Trump, person x or y or z is going to bring him down, it’s only a matter of time before he is caught or exposed or loses his base of support and driven from public life. The phrases sound out from our cable channels. We see them in newspaper headlines and in our Twitter timelines. This time Trump has gone too far. The end is near. Take that, Drumpf!

What is forgotten is that the president has operated in this atmosphere of emergency and crisis and imminent doom since he announced his campaign. No matter how dire the outcry, he moves on. His political standing remains stable. At the end of last week, after Manafort and Cohen, after Trump found himself on the receiving end of the reality-politics playbook, NBC News and the Wall Street Journal polled his job approval. There was no appreciable change.

Why? Well, there's the economy.

And then, of course, the economy has been good.

And did I mention the economy?

And then there is his opposition. Everyone knows the news media hates Pres. Trump, and so people tend to discount what the news media says about Pres. Trump. And as for the Democrats, they are off on socialism, abolishing ICE, and single payer health care. Pres. Trump has intuited that there is no success at the national level without addressing the concerns of the working class, i.e., a tight labor market, border security, trade reciprocity, patriotism, traditional values, and law and order. Democrats have not even tried.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/trump-survives-thanks-to-economy-and-detractors/
 
Specifically, what has Trump done in his policies to make the economy so good?
 
Had the good sense to follow Obama and the salesmanship to take credit.

On Jan. 21st 2017 conservatives around here were already copy and pasting their Glorious Republican Economy threads from their Word document folder.
 
Had the good sense to follow Obama and the salesmanship to take credit.

What did Obama do to create a 4.2 GDP?

Slowest economic recovery since 1949 ............….wasn't it?

Picking winners and losers didn't help much I guess.
 
Why? Well, there's the economy.

And then, of course, the economy has been good.

And did I mention the economy?

And then there is his opposition. Everyone knows the news media hates Pres. Trump, and so people tend to discount what the news media says about Pres. Trump. And as for the Democrats, they are off on socialism, abolishing ICE, and single payer health care. Pres. Trump has intuited that there is no success at the national level without addressing the concerns of the working class, i.e., a tight labor market, border security, trade reciprocity, patriotism, traditional values, and law and order. Democrats have not even tried.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/trump-survives-thanks-to-economy-and-detractors/

The Dems and their multimedia are their own worst enemy.
 
Here is how Trump survives:

Wacky MOLE: Liberal Media Upset By Trump Supporters



The MSM and those who oppose the Administration are simply shocked that their "Tidal wave of negative coverage" has not had the expected impact.

You know, the idea that if you don't agree with the negative narrative then you are "deluded" (or worse, intentionally evil).

Yep, somehow some people still think denigrating people who don't agree with them is a convincing argument. :coffeepap:
 
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Specifically, what has Trump done in his policies to make the economy so good?

In 1984, new owner Tom Monaghan saw his Detroit Tigers win the World Series.

To this day fans are asking the same question about what exactly he did to make the team so good.

Being in the right place at the right time when the manna falls from heaven upon your head is a good bit of luck to have.
 
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Why? Well, there's the economy.

And then, of course, the economy has been good.

And did I mention the economy?

And then there is his opposition. Everyone knows the news media hates Pres. Trump, and so people tend to discount what the news media says about Pres. Trump. And as for the Democrats, they are off on socialism, abolishing ICE, and single payer health care. Pres. Trump has intuited that there is no success at the national level without addressing the concerns of the working class, i.e., a tight labor market, border security, trade reciprocity, patriotism, traditional values, and law and order. Democrats have not even tried.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/trump-survives-thanks-to-economy-and-detractors/

So far Trump's economic success has been based on giveaways. First he gave up huge tax cuts. Then he gave up clean air. Then he gave up clean water.

What's going to happen when he has nothing left to give?
 
Yep, somehow some people still think denigrating people who don't agree with them is a convincing argument. :coffeepap:

That's Trump's GoTo act. And it convinces his base every time.
 
Why? Well, there's the economy.

And then, of course, the economy has been good.

And did I mention the economy?

And then there is his opposition. Everyone knows the news media hates Pres. Trump, and so people tend to discount what the news media says about Pres. Trump. And as for the Democrats, they are off on socialism, abolishing ICE, and single payer health care. Pres. Trump has intuited that there is no success at the national level without addressing the concerns of the working class, i.e., a tight labor market, border security, trade reciprocity, patriotism, traditional values, and law and order. Democrats have not even tried.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/trump-survives-thanks-to-economy-and-detractors/

Please point to the date in the following job approval graph where voters rewarded trump for the strong economy.

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Why? Well, there's the economy.

And then, of course, the economy has been good.

And did I mention the economy?

And then there is his opposition. Everyone knows the news media hates Pres. Trump, and so people tend to discount what the news media says about Pres. Trump. And as for the Democrats, they are off on socialism, abolishing ICE, and single payer health care. Pres. Trump has intuited that there is no success at the national level without addressing the concerns of the working class, i.e., a tight labor market, border security, trade reciprocity, patriotism, traditional values, and law and order. Democrats have not even tried.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/trump-survives-thanks-to-economy-and-detractors/

Are you saying that a good economy overrides the rule of law? Is Trumps wage freeze on Federal workers addressing the "concerns of the working class"? Did his tax where 83% of the benefits go to the top 1% do that either? Was siding with Putin on Russian election interference patriotic? Was separating children from the parents at the border a "traditional value"? It seems you think Trumps rhetoric is what he actually does. It is not.
 
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Why? Well, there's the economy.

And then, of course, the economy has been good.

And did I mention the economy?

And then there is his opposition. Everyone knows the news media hates Pres. Trump, and so people tend to discount what the news media says about Pres. Trump. And as for the Democrats, they are off on socialism, abolishing ICE, and single payer health care. Pres. Trump has intuited that there is no success at the national level without addressing the concerns of the working class, i.e., a tight labor market, border security, trade reciprocity, patriotism, traditional values, and law and order. Democrats have not even tried.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/trump-survives-thanks-to-economy-and-detractors/

This is also an undercurrent building over the last few years that things are not all that great. We have big data making people nervous, we have huge data thefts by unknown actors all over the world. Multinatinal companies are all the rage as they shut down factories and outsource manufacturing and sell it at prices the unemployed can afford. Then we have FAANG who rightly or wrongly are blamed for hollowing out main street in one way or another, and every scrap of data about you is being sold for billions because the boilerplate said you said they could.

Of course, the elites don't have to put up with illegal aliens with five kids barging into your neighborhood, your schools, and your welfare and medical system. No one asked me if I wanted my country to change into a suburb of Mexico. Then we have the homeless. You do have to come up with an answer for your kids when they ask about them. And "They didn't do good in school" isn't the answer.

Dad might wonder, "Where are all the drugs coming from. Why can't we stop it?" I'll bet people know of as many people with drug problems as they do cancer victims. What is being done about it? "Oh, you mean it just waltzes over the border?" For how long now? Decades, you say...

But at the end of the day, the last best thing, "multilingualism" has led citizens to wonder "Why hasn't' capitalism worked for me?". And "every thing seems to be made in China". And "China is stealing us blind" and no one is going a thing but talk, talk, talk.

Nearly all of America has one or more of these concerns. And the last several presidents were entirely ineffective at doing anything for Ma and Pa Mainstreet. It was all about economic growth with the use of the fewest American workers possible.

Trump, warts and all slashed, burned, and destroyed our polite "But it's was her turn" path to political power where one elite passed the torch to the other and went on about selling out the voters to multinational economics. Trump has demonstrated that he means it when he says to the American worker that "I put you and America first". Many presidents have said that, and they all turned out to be poll tested bull****ters.

Trump is ending a lot of things that didn't work. And he has his wind at his back because the old guard is dying off or retiring. In less that two years Trump has accomplished more than the last five presidents combined, and all of his accomplishments for the most part have put America and American workers first. What kind of American citizen is against that?

Funny, to whom ever wants "specific accomplishments" because they don't know of any: They are all over the place if the corrupt media would talk about them, or Plan B, you did some research yourself. It's not my job to the media's job just to enlighten you.
 
On Jan. 21st 2017 conservatives around here were already copy and pasting their Glorious Republican Economy threads from their Word document folder.

Actually, they were praising Trump's successful economic policies on November 10, 2016.

economy.jpg

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news...ties-views-economy/100502848/?from=new-cookie

From November 15, 2016...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans' confidence in the U.S. economy increased sharply after the election, moving from a slightly negative evaluation (-10) to a slightly positive one (+3). Gallup's U.S. Economic Confidence Index had been consistently negative throughout the year leading up to the election.

The increase in economic confidence mostly stems from Republicans' more positive views after Republican Donald Trump won the election. Gallup has previously noted that Americans view the economy through a political lens. Republicans have had a dismal view of the economy -- especially of its future direction -- during Democratic President Barack Obama's two terms.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/197474/economic-confidence-surges-election.aspx

And we certainly saw that right here on this forum. Conservative posters' impression of the economy instantly went from suicidal to bloody fantastic in the space of a day.
 
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