old salt wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 9:22 pm
youthathletics wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 8:45 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 4:42 pm
youthathletics wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 3:31 pm
a fan wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 3:22 pm
youthathletics wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 3:16 pm
Same can be said on the flip side. People are realizing that the handout lip-service of the left is really just that....talk. I have many friends and work associates that are die-hard trumpers (cult people) as you ascribe. The cultishness (new word) is not so much a love for Trump, but he is their voice that is never heard and pushed aside in politics.
Oh, they were 100% listened to. By Bernie Sanders. That man hit every working class person's problems for decades, including his candidacy. TrumpFans, who are in epic denial, won't listen to reason.
They didn't want to hear it. Until they're ready to hear the message, they're F'ed.
And you know exactly what that message is, because I've said it a million times.
It's why I believe Ron is that new shiny toy for the R party. He's not as horrible as Trump, he turned a purple Florida into fire engine red, and he is not Bernie wanting to give everyone something for free.....while the redwing working class pays for it all.
I think you guys are both ignoring the major issue. Bernie's not a bigot. He's not going to tell Americans that the problem with their lives is because there's some Other out there that's determined to "replace" them.
Otherwise, he's
all policy for the working class, the blue collar family; paid for by the hyper rich....just no bigotry...and the cult is really, when the onion is fully peeled, all about the bigotry, the excuse, the blame.
DeSantis is playing the bigotry card...
Here we go again, flirting with bigotry, oy vey, you working for Rachel Maddow or a writer for The View?
Trump is not a bigot.....all he cares about is Green, Gold...and of course Orange.
Desantis & several other (R)'s did pretty well winning the votes of those "Other/replacements" -- he turned Miami-Dade Red.
Yup, Cubans.
Are you really telling me that DeSantis isn't playing the bigotry card (s) ??? Good lord.
Check the banned book list in Florida...notice anything?
Expect him to play these cards hard as he tries to get to the right of Youngkin and Abbott.
They're ALL playing these cards now, because that's what gets the applause lines in MAGA world.
Look at Graham's faux tears...dog whistling like crazy.
The Tea Party was infected with this disease, it's what was actually animating that movement, with the supposed philosophy of fiscal restraint tossed aside as soon as the GOP was in charge, the great white hope was in charge.
I'm not questioning people's legitimate concerns that get them exercised, but this was what was driving MAGA right from the beginning...and that's what currently owns the GOP...and DeSantis recognized it and decided he wanted to play in that sandbox.
He didn't need to do so to be a very successful popular Governor (see Hogan, Baker, Dewine, etc) but he decided he wanted national attention from Fox and MAGA world....it worked, we're talking about him.
And that's who he is.