Trump tribute thread: thank you for everything you did for America, Donald, but it's time to get out of politics & let a new generation take over!

[basquebromance]

When Larry Schweikart calls Trump's victory the most astounding election in American history, he knows whereof he speaks.


Larry is a professional historian with decades of college teaching, groundbreaking historical research, and numerous popular history bestsellers to his credit. He has written extensively on the American presidency, particularly in the nineteenth century, and so he brings a long historical perspective to the astonishing events of 2016 that culminated in the election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States.

 

[Hossfly]

When Larry Schweikart calls Trump's victory the most astounding election in American history, he knows whereof he speaks.


Larry is a professional historian with decades of college teaching, groundbreaking historical research, and numerous popular history bestsellers to his credit. He has written extensively on the American presidency, particularly in the nineteenth century, and so he brings a long historical perspective to the astonishing events of 2016 that culminated in the election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States.

Trump has a lot of unfinished business to take care of. He promised to get rid of the Swamp now that the RINO herd have been exposed.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Let a new generation take over. have you seen this bunch? LOLOL

the males think they're women...the women think they're men and that's only the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

 

[JGalt]

When Larry Schweikart calls Trump's victory the most astounding election in American history, he knows whereof he speaks.


Larry is a professional historian with decades of college teaching, groundbreaking historical research, and numerous popular history bestsellers to his credit. He has written extensively on the American presidency, particularly in the nineteenth century, and so he brings a long historical perspective to the astonishing events of 2016 that culminated in the election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States.

Why? This new generation of conservatives is only promising us what Trump already has promised. From what I"ve seen so far, they're riding in on Trump's coat tails. Why settle for a plagiarized and slightly tuned-down version of MAGA when we can have the real thing?

 

[Dante Reawakened]

When Larry Schweikart calls Trump's victory the most astounding election in American history, he knows whereof he speaks.


Larry is a professional historian with decades of college teaching, groundbreaking historical research, and numerous popular history bestsellers to his credit. He has written extensively on the American presidency, particularly in the nineteenth century, and so he brings a long historical perspective to the astonishing events of 2016 that culminated in the election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States.

"In December 2020, President Donald Trump appointed Schweikart to the Board of Directors of the National Board for Education Sciences, which advises leaders of the Department of Education’s research division." - Wikipedia entry, that if true shows Trump appointing a hack during the time he's also fabricating a Big Lie about an election steal.

 

[Dante Reawakened]

Why? This new generation of conservatives is only promising us what Trump already has promised. From what I"ve seen so far, they're riding in on Trump's coat tails. Why settle for a plagiarized and slightly tuned-down version of MAGA when we can have the real thing?

Trump promised to build a wall -- he did not. Though his pals stole money intended to go for bricks in a wall LOL

Trump promised Hire only the best people LOL

 

[Moonglow]

 

[basquebromance]

"The air shimmers in the high desert heat above the asphalt esplanade of the Las Vegas Strip.

In the distance stands the golden massif of the Trump International Hotel, commanding the very center of the boulevard an optical illusion created by the fact that the road curves to the right as it heads toward downtown, while the tower is set just far enough from the prime property of the Strip to dominate the skyline, regardless.

Above it all, in ornate gold, the name: Trump

In the lobby, behind a phalanx of hotel security and Secret Service agents, a small gaggle of campaign employees gathers, whispering quietly among the curious hotel guests.

The rest pace nervously, smartphones in hand, as they exchange messages with colleagues high on a floor above, where the man himself is hunkered down with a close circle of advisors, preparing.

A few familiar faces mill about, a supporting cast.

There is Patricia Smith, the bereaved Benghazi mother, whose son Sean was killed while his country's leaders slept, and who had poured out her grief on the stage of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. There are Diamond and Silk, two robust black women, volunteer emissaries for the ticket whose pro-Trump videos had made them an internet phenomenon. Even Obama's estranged Kenyan half-brother, Malik, poses for pictures with fans.

Kellyanne Conway, the pollster and campaign manager who is widely credited with creating the campaign's short-lived era of good fortune in late summer, makes a brief turn across the marble floor, poses for photographs, returns upstairs.

The small crowd becomes even more sparse as groups of staffers leave for the short but congested drive to the other side of the Strip, the venue for the third and final presidential debate of the brutal and bruising 2016 presidential election cycle.

Outside, at a sudden signal, traffic stops everywhere, for miles.


A motorcade of local police, highway patrol, and Secret Service rolls out of the Trump International Hotel and down the back streets to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. For a few minutes more, at least, the real estate tycoon who had struggled to secure his place among the hostile Vegas oligarchs can bring Sin City to a standstill. The outsider can bring his rivals to attention.

But after November 8? Once the election is over, it seems they'll be able to ignore him again."

 

[BS Filter]

Trump promised to build a wall -- he did not. Though his pals stole money intended to go for bricks in a wall LOL

Trump promised Hire only the best people LOL

We decided to save the bricks for "Bricks and Bats Day", which will probably occur shortly after President Trump is arrested.

 

[basquebromance]

Trump had offensive views about Mexicans, Muslims, and others, it was said, and he was willing to tolerate violence at his political rallies, even encouraging retaliation against protesters. He threatened the media with new libel laws that would muzzle freedom of the press. And he practiced a centralized decision-making style at odds with the constitutional role of the president. Trump's success only showed that America was flirting with fascism, the argument went.

Accordingly, to his opponents, both left and right, it was important not only that Trump lose the election, but that his supporters be crushed by his defeat...so crushed that they would never again entertain any idea of another candidate like him.


Democrats had good hopes that this populist outsider would lose so badly...perhaps even losing control of the House that he might bring the long-delayed ambitions of the political Left, including so-called immigration reform, to fruition. A thorough drubbing of Trump would be a definitive rejection of his racist position on immigration.

And the Republicans who opposed Trump also looked forward to a settling of scores. Establishment types anticipated a Trump loss as an opportunity to purge the Republican Party of its pesky Tea Party base. Some conservatives looked forward to Trump's defeat as a chance to rid the GOP of the insufficiently conservative insurgents who were bringing it to defeat by choosing a candidate who was a mere reality-show Hollywood celebrity, a lifetime liberal who was hijacking their party and their cause with a vain cult of personality.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Trump promised to build a wall -- he did not. Though his pals stole money intended to go for bricks in a wall LOL

Trump promised Hire only the best people LOL

no they didn't. The left stood in his way...the never trumpers stood with the left and the left charged trump supporters with lies and the very things they themselves were doing.

Not being a politician, like the rest of us, President Trump, no doubt,, thought that the back stabbing rinos were more honest and more supportive than the lying corrupt left. He got a hard lesson didn't he.

 

[basquebromance]

Trump defied easy political categorization; he flip-flopped on some of the most important issues in contemporary political debate; he even seemed, at times, to forget, or to misstate, his own positions. But at the core of it all was an unapologetic patriotism that Americans had become unaccustomed to seeing in their politicians.

Trump's MAGA slogan was derided by seasoned political observers.

And yet it was easily the best and most effective slogan of any candidate since Obama's Yes We Can.

 

[easyt65]

When Larry Schweikart calls Trump's victory the most astounding election in American history, he knows whereof he speaks.


Larry is a professional historian with decades of college teaching, groundbreaking historical research, and numerous popular history bestsellers to his credit. He has written extensively on the American presidency, particularly in the nineteenth century, and so he brings a long historical perspective to the astonishing events of 2016 that culminated in the election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States.

Democrats are out to 'get' Americans, to trick / con / tax / beat them down into submission to their authoritarian control / rule.

They are out to destroy Trump because he is their 'champion', who has fought against tve 'Swamp', the 'Washington Establishment', the socialist / fascist authoritarian dividers and opressors.

They are out to destroy him because he has beaten and bested them at every turm.

Even now a DA that has no authority to prosecute a deferal campaign finance case and Democrats are so desperate they are going to attempt to criminally turn a misdemeanor violation of the law into a 'Felony' just to strip Americans of even the opportunity to make their own choice whether to vote for Trump or not...

He is THAT much of a threat to Demcrats.

Based on the fact that Democrats have tried for over half a decade by such extreme measures (violations of Constitution and law, scandal, treason...) to take Trump down, Donald Trump might be the most feared political figure / politician in US history.

 

[Dante Reawakened]

Not being a politician, like the rest of us,

HA, ha, ha, ha...

 

[Dante Reawakened]

Trump defied easy political categorization; he flip-flopped on some of the most important issues in contemporary political debate; he even seemed, at times, to forget, or to misstate, his own positions. But at the core of it all was an unapologetic patriotism that Americans had become unaccustomed to seeing in their politicians.

Trump's MAGA slogan was derided by seasoned political observers.

And yet it was easily the best and most effective slogan of any candidate since Obama's Yes We Can.

I agree with some of what you say, but you go off the rails with "at the core of it all was an unapologetic patriotism" unless you mean the message as it was heard by people. There's no way in hell Trump or any of his male family line in America or back in Germany were ever truly patriotic. Not one male Trump ever saw fit to serve in military and when called to ran away