Charlottesville and Hypocrisy of the Left and the Media
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Joe Fan
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Seattle Husker
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Some internal polling by a Trump-related group shows his approval among Republicans is 70%+ in swing states with regard to his Charlottesville response
Only 17% disapprove.
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Is this anything like the poll Trump sent to his mailing list asking whether they approve or strongly approve of the job he's doing? Notice there was no disapprove option?
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Interesting take from Buck Sexton. His credentials: Nationally Syndicated Radio Host of Buck Sexton with America Now; Former CIA Analyst; Ex-NYPD Intel Division.
Abstract from his blog/radio show site: bucksexton.com
Forget the Culture War, This is Now a ‘War on Culture’
Speaking on ‘America Now,’ host Buck Sexton called the left’s all-out barrage on Confederate War memorials not an example of the ongoing culture war between liberals and conservatives, but rather a “war on culture.”
“It’s not just a culture war that we see happening right now over the monuments,” said Buck. “I think it can be more accurately described as a war on the culture”
“A culture war has this connotation of people who are on one side of the culture versus people who are on the other side of the culture. Should we say ‘Merry Christmas’ or should we say ‘Happy Holidays?’” he asked.
“A war on the culture is something a bit different, and I think that’s what we have going on right now,” said Sexton. “That just means an effort to destroy, to raze, remove and eliminate […] That’s a way of trying to take whatever the foundational elements of American culture and just remove them, destroy them, light them on fire.”
“It’s the burn it all down approach,” he added.
“They want to destroy what we think of as American culture. Those institutions, ideas, historical figures that bind us together. They want to eliminate all that,” said Buck. “It’s only a matter of time before we are all told that we have to judge every historical figure by the moral compass of today.”
“Based on what social justice warriors think is acceptable today, we must now go back and judge all the figures in our past,” he warned.
Abstract from his blog/radio show site: bucksexton.com
Forget the Culture War, This is Now a ‘War on Culture’
Speaking on ‘America Now,’ host Buck Sexton called the left’s all-out barrage on Confederate War memorials not an example of the ongoing culture war between liberals and conservatives, but rather a “war on culture.”
“It’s not just a culture war that we see happening right now over the monuments,” said Buck. “I think it can be more accurately described as a war on the culture”
“A culture war has this connotation of people who are on one side of the culture versus people who are on the other side of the culture. Should we say ‘Merry Christmas’ or should we say ‘Happy Holidays?’” he asked.
“A war on the culture is something a bit different, and I think that’s what we have going on right now,” said Sexton. “That just means an effort to destroy, to raze, remove and eliminate […] That’s a way of trying to take whatever the foundational elements of American culture and just remove them, destroy them, light them on fire.”
“It’s the burn it all down approach,” he added.
“They want to destroy what we think of as American culture. Those institutions, ideas, historical figures that bind us together. They want to eliminate all that,” said Buck. “It’s only a matter of time before we are all told that we have to judge every historical figure by the moral compass of today.”
“Based on what social justice warriors think is acceptable today, we must now go back and judge all the figures in our past,” he warned.
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Even if we assume this poll is accurate, it's going to be pretty damn hard to win elections with a 35% approval rating and a -13% spread among Independents.Some internal polling by a Trump-related group shows his approval among Republicans is 70%+ in swing states with regard to his Charlottesville response
Only 17% disapprove.
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Joe Fan
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Long way to go. I remember LOLng at my liberal D.C. workmates after the Gulf War thinking Geoge HW Bush had it in the bag
Joe is correct that we have a long way to go, but Trump needs a big reversal. If he's floundering around like this 6 months from now, we're in serious trouble, because the House will flip. Once that happens, Congress will shutdown, and we'll spend 2019-2020 on impeachment inquiries.
Joe Fan
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I dont think Rs are losing the House. If for no other reason than Rs controlling so many statehouses everywhere and who, in most cases, draw those district lines
(But, for the record, I didnt think Bush 41 could lose either. As I recall, his approval rating was somewhere near 90% at the time)
I believe Trump's approval rating has stayed at about the same % since he was running the primaries. It didn't stop him from winning it all.
I agree with the other comments about having some time to improve the approval numbers before next year's elections. However, I would caution against extrapolating too much from a close win over one of the worst Democratic nominees in our lifetimes.
Brad Austin
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Yes, but the left's 2020 candidate and his/her policies will make HRC look like a right-leaning moderate.
Their vocal base is only drifting more left by the day and further away from flyover country and moderate America. Left coast popular vote won't cut it next time either.
I am not sure HRC lost because she was so far to the left. She lacked a consistent message, was perceived to be corrupt, and worst of all she was ridiculously unlikeable. I would actually place Obama further to the left than HRC, but Obama was a master communicator and came across as very personable. Hell, even I had a hard time disliking the guy at times even though I thought he was a complete disaster as POTUS.
Now I am not sure who the Dems will run in 2020 but I am nearly positive that the candidate will be tougher to defeat than HRC.
I learned today on progressive radio that anything they do, including violence, is okay. They are anti-fascist.250k seems like alot for one of these things
Seattle Husker
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That's happened since the beginning of time. How was Joseph McCarthy viewed in the '40s and '50s vs. now? Richard Nixon? FDR? I'll say it again, this idea that history is somehow static seems to be a new rhetorical device. Most of these statues were erected in the 1920's and 1960's. The achievements (and misdeeds) of these individuals won't be forgotten. You may have to read/listen to a book but they are immortalized.
ESPN in on a death march like the NFL. Killing the golden goose.
Good. let them flame out. should have stuck to football on the field and stayed away from personality, social and cultural pieces.
Joe Fan
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This is Trump's own pollster
Assuming this is correct, its makes all the handwringing about Trump and the GOP base misplaced.
It is Republicans in Congress are the ones losing the base.
Joe Fan
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Too bad there was not a Confederate General named Anderson Cooper or Chelsea Clinton
Joe Fan
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Come on man, it's easy to see how ESPN got so confused
They are practically the same guy
ProdigalHorn
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I thought that ESPN story had to be a fake, but the post ran with it as well. Some of the Twitter stuff is gold!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...r-his-name-robert-lee/?utm_term=.f05ec9985477
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...r-his-name-robert-lee/?utm_term=.f05ec9985477
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Amen.
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