2aguy
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The 2016 election lives loudly in everybody right now.
On the Trumpian right, “the polls were wrong before” isn’t merely an observation, it’s a catechism.
And on the anti-Trumpian left, it’s a constant source of anxiety bordering on panic. It’s making a lot of folks a little crazy.
My friend John Podhoretz, conservative editor of Commentary Magazine, pointed this out to me a few months ago. He lives in New York City, surrounded by Upper West Side liberals prone to flights of jangly rage if you suggest that Joe Biden has the race in the bag.
“Don’t jinx it! That’s what people said in 2016!” they shout.
Since then, it’s only gotten worse. The fear that the country could reelect President Trump after so much muchness these last four years is almost an existential dread, manifesting as quick-tempered outrage at anyone or anything that might upset Biden’s trajectory.
BJ - and Jonah is a full blown Anti-Trumper
I used to like jonah...till he turned into a Never-Trump moron..........
Why did you used to like him? His conservative values?
Yes.....he is a conservative and I also enjoyed his book "Liberal Fascism." But then he became a Never-Trumper in the face of hilary clinton possibly being President....that showed that he is an idiot.....who doesn't understand the fight, and is the type of republican who let the democrat party throw sand in their face without responding......
If he had had his way, and Trump had lost the election....hilary clinton would be appointing the 3rd Supreme Court pick to the Supreme Court and packing the federal bench with left wing, democrat party activists dressed in robes.....
And it was one thing to be afraid of Trump in 2016 when he was unknown other than being a New York, likely democrat, with no track record....but we now have over 3 years of actual Trump achievements.......ranking him as one of the best conservative Presidents in my lifetime and at least in the last 60 years...... fullfilling all of the things that republican politicians have promised but never delivered on.....all the while fighting both the democrat party and the republican party to get it done..
On top of that, we know that obama, biden and the democrat party leadership used the FBI, CIA, DOJ, and state dept. to get illegal FISA warrants to spy on Trump, and used the FBI to destroy General Flynn.....
Jonah Goldberg's opposition to Trump makes no rational sense in any way shape or form...
He didn't support Clinton over Trump. Goldberg holds all the same principles he had when you liked him. That means you changed not him.
No......neither of us changed, he just doesn't understand the fight.....he doesn't see the democrat party as the existential threat to this country that it actually is....which is why he could be so against Trump and so unconcerned about hilary winning....
Very little has changed in the last 12 years.
More has changed in the last 4 - for the better - than the preceding 24.
Little to nothing has changed outside of having a president that believes insults are presidential.
And you are dishonest ......a troll.
Trump created a booming economy....
He has appointed about half the Federal bench filling it with actual judges, not democrat party activists in Robes......and will now likely have appointed 3 conservative justices to the Supreme Court......this alone was worth electing Trump and you not acknowledging this shows you are not honest. Had hilary won the courts would be packed with anti-American democrat activists creating laws from the bench and backing up unConstitutional actions from the democrat party.
Trump has taken on China, fighting both democrat and republican party hacks to get it done.
There is no way you can honestly look at Trump's time in office and say nothing changed in 4 years..........you are simply a troll...