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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKarl Rove says if Trump was "normal" or acted "normal"
His numbers would be off the charts.
Ive said this before here, if this evil buffoon had charisma or leadership abilities we would be in an absolutely horrifying position as a country. He would be virtually unstoppable.
We have been given a small opening by fate to stop the destruction of our democracy. Trump must be linked to republicans, and them to him. It will never end.
The state investigations may be our only hope for justice.
From the article:
The president should be, if he were the normal president, acting in a normal way, his numbers would be off the charts, Rove said. But hes an unusual character and sometimes the things that he does, and the tweets that he sends out, might otherwise put off people who would otherwise be his natural allies.
https://tylerpaper.com/news/local/ut-tyler-leaders-and-legends-events-brings-the-perspective-of/article_9e7dd966-e5ff-11e9-9aab-a7cdacc974bd.html
NRaleighLiberal
(60,015 posts)Garrett78
(10,721 posts)...things like Birtherism and his calling Mexicans rapists and drug dealers.
The racism, misogyny and conspiracy theory nonsense is exactly why he has as much support as he has. Rove, as usual, is wrong.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)he is giving the Trump voters an out concerning their real motivations for voting for him. Hes an OG Rat F-er.
sop
(10,193 posts)The base nominated exactly who they wanted. If theyve become disenchanted with Trump, its because he hasnt hurt the right people.
rampartc
(5,412 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)kind of turn the rest of us off.
Rove was all about power and twisting things to make his president assume power he wasn't supposed to have. So of course he doesn't notice that Trump's problem goes a lot beyond "being gross."
After all, Bush was pretty "normal", and his approval rating at the end definitely showed that the US population thought he was a really bad president. It got down to 25% at the end there, once he'd tanked the world economy.
It wasn't his personality that cratered his approval rating. And it's not the only reason Trump is so widely hated.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)I didn't have the energy to say all that. The argument I immediately had going in my head alone exhausted me.
K&R
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Geez.
ooky
(8,924 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)I've never used this smilie but have always wanted to.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)ooky
(8,924 posts)It does sound like something that would spill from Hewitt's mouth though.
Its so accurate.
Jarqui
(10,126 posts)Real genius from Rove ...
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)The above board Rat F-ers.
Cha
(297,323 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,435 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)It is beyond me why anyone continues to listen to that dirty, filthy asshole. Especially considering he was one of the main orchestrators of the 2009 economic crash. He should be in fucking prison.
Maru Kitteh
(28,341 posts)So a wise man with too many children from Arizona once said.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)he would still be a orange blob lacking social graces and rather stupid.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)there is not ONE redeeming feature to Trump - not as a human being, not as a "president", not as ANYTHING - he is SICKENING
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)to save our democracy. A very deep cleansing must take place.
dweller
(23,641 posts)✌🏼
Moostache
(9,895 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)He was on Kojo Nnamdi's show and Kojo asked him if Trump represented a new kind of threat. Coates said "The real worry is not Trump, the worry is the smarter and more disciplined politician who has been taking notes this whole time."
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)Response to Baked Potato (Original post)
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)If a person watches fox news and believes everything they see and hear, they ain't normal.
brewens
(13,596 posts)What if the Nazi's hadn't wasted so many resources on their final solution? Plus having quite a few more loyal Jewish citizens fighting and working for them. It couldn't have happened that way. They needed the hatred of Jews to get control in the first place.
True Blue American
(17,986 posts)I just heard Pat Robertson compare the Trump capitulation in Syria to Neville Chamberlain.
He went on to say that Russia, Turkey and China would be coming after us.
On Karl Rove I remember the hissy fit he pulled on Fox when they called Ohio for Obama. He ranted that could not be right waving his chalk board. They had to go in the control room to show him. Ohio put President Obama over the top!
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)I think that was a turning point with the GOP.
The new Rat F-ers pushed the old ones out if the way.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,350 posts)If he was "normal", he'd care about workers, he'd be honest in business, he'd have a sense of humor, etc, etc.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)Hmmmmmmm
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)I would like to ad I think TurdBlossoms failure to beat President Obama is why we got Brad Parscale and Cambridge Analytica.
Their RatFucking went high tech.