2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTrump is the Churchillian leader we need - By Jerry Falwell Jr.
By Jerry Falwell Jr. August 19 at 9:36 PM
Jerry Falwell Jr. is president of Liberty University.
In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, American voters were forced to choose between a liberal Democrat and weak establishment Republicans. Democrats won both times. In the 2010 and 2014 midterms, tired of the leftist agenda, voters sent an unmistakable message to Washington: Republicans took control of the Senate and filled more seats in the House than at any time since 1929. Still, nothing changed. In 2016, we have a clear choice. This moment is historic because Donald Trump is not another establishment Republican.
We have lived through nearly eight years of weak leadership from a president who did not sign the charter to create the Islamic State but whose policies had the intended or unintended effect (we will be debating that for decades) of breathing life into the lungs of the terrorist group. President Obama and Hillary Clinton most definitely signaled to Islamic State leaders that they had no intention of seriously challenging them, or even of calling radical Islamic terrorism by its name. Instead, Obama and Clinton pulled our troops out of Iraq, drew and then quickly erased a red line in Syria and tried to convince us that unverifiable pinpoint drone strikes (after leaflet warnings) would win the war against the Islamic State.
All of this was enabled by a feckless establishment Republican Congress.
The policies of Obama and Clinton have made the world unstable and unsafe and created a world stage eerily similar to that of the late 1930s. We could be on the precipice of international conflict like nothing we have seen since World War II. Obama and Clinton are the Neville Chamberlains of our time. The deal to make $150 billion available to Iran, the leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world and a nation committed to the destruction of Israel, clearing the way for Iran to become a nuclear power, reminds me of Chamberlains deal with Hitler in 1938, when the British prime minister declared peace for our time.
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tanyev
(42,592 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)bluedye33139
(1,474 posts)Hos article claims that in 2008 America threw itself behind leftism, but in 2010 reversed course, but in 2012 chose leftists and then 2014 regretted leftism. It's like he doesn't even understand the concept of off-year Elections or unrepresentative sampling in off-years.
On the other hand, very few Americans understand the demographic patterns of off-year Elections. Otherwise, Millennials and progressives would have turned out in 2010 and 2014.
catbyte
(34,418 posts)I didn't think anybody would be stupid enough to compare Don the Con with Churchill. Jerry Falwell, Jr. Give me a goddamned break. It's depressing to see that the son is as disgusting as his old man.
I'll bet that Sir Winston is spinning so wildly in his grave that he's liable to come shooting out of it like an MX missile.
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pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)lake loon
(99 posts)Radio monster Michael Wiener Savage has been pushing the Trump-is-Churchill bullshit for weeks.
cap
(7,170 posts)Churchill only resonates with the republican elite.
They don't dare bring up FDR when they talk about the greatest generation or the good old days.
BumRushDaShow
(129,279 posts)I love this equivocation -
He deems himself allowed to throw the man he embraced under the bus in an effort to pivot the talking point to something more code-talky.
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)Trump is the chinchilla on his head leader we need today
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)but it doesn't sound good on TV.
Comparing Don the con to Winston Churchill is a real joke!
Maeve
(42,287 posts)Never mind the ignorance of the 1930's....try reading a book about the rise of fascism and get back to us, okay?
He's right on one thing--Il Donald is not another establishment Republican. He's a much nastier creature!
Initech
(100,095 posts)Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)a thrice-married serial adulator, accused rapist, liar and casino gambling mogul with a nude pin-up wife.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)to suppress the Woman's vote!