For Trump Supporters, the Real Outrage Is the Left’s Uproar Over Comey

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

For Trump Supporters, the Real Outrage Is the Left’s Uproar Over Comey https://nyti.ms/2q4ZKEy

WASHINGTON — The script should be familiar by now. President Trump takes action that stuns the country, eliciting indignation and disbelief from Democrats and leading them to conclude that the vitality of American democracy is under assault.

Yet among those who are sympathetic to the president — a minority, to be sure, but somewhere around 40 percent of the country, according to recent polls — the outrage is that Mr. Trump is again being held to an unfair standard set by the very people and institutions that tried to stop his election in the first place: Democrats, resentful Republicans and, perhaps most of all, the news media.

That has certainly been the divide as the country absorbed the news that Mr. Trump had fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director. The move was widely hailed by conservatives online, on talk radio, on Fox News and among the president’s allies in Washington: the universe in which views of Mr. Trump quickly harden in the right’s collective consciousness.

More clearly than other recent Trump-induced uproars, the reaction to the Comey firing illustrated how many conservatives now justify their defense of the president as part of a fight against a rising tide of overreaction and manufactured hysteria by the left. Mr. Trump, who has long understood the political power of demonizing his opponents as crazed and irrational, has helped stoke those resentments.

“In a word, they see him as their voice,” said Frank Luntz, the Republican consultant and pollster. “And when their voice is shouted down, disrespected or simply ignored, that is an attack on them, not just an attack on Trump.”

 

[IAMX 3,055]

According to the left Trumps election was an assault on Democracy. So you'll have to forgive me if I don't share the lefts melodramatic sentiment that everything Trump does is heinous. All we can do is pat the left on the back and tell them "there, there", like they're upset kids who need their blanky and binky.

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[Teddy B 17,252]

17 minutes ago, IAMX said:

According to the left Trumps election was an assault on Democracy. So you'll have to forgive me if I don't share the lefts melodramatic sentiment that everything Trump does is heinous. All we can do is pat the left on the back and tell them "there, there", like they're upset kids who need their blanky and binky.

I look at Trumps election as an assault on intelligence.

[IAMX 3,055]

1 minute ago, Teddy B said:

I look at Trumps election as an assault on intelligence.

And tantrums like this are exactly why he's appealing. Honestly, I don't see anything special about Trump, I just think it's hilarious if he gets re-elected and I get to watch the left stomp and throw fits everywhere for the next 7 and a half years.

 

There's nothing intellectual about this dramatic anti-Trumpism, especially considering you guys wanted Hillary to be President.

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[Teddy B 17,252]

1 minute ago, IAMX said:

And tantrums like this are exactly why he's appealing. Honestly, I don't see anything special about Trump, I just think it's hilarious if he gets re-elected and I get to watch the left stomp and throw fits everywhere for the next 7 and a half years.

 

There's nothing intellectual about this dramatic anti-Trumpism, especially considering you guys wanted Hillary to be President.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

[IAMX 3,055]

5 minutes ago, Teddy B said:

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Exactly.

 

- Trump is Hitler

- Trump is fascist

- Trump is a dictator

- Trump is racist

- Trump is an islamophobe

- Trump is misogynist

- Trump will be impeached!

- Trump is a narcissist

- Trump is this

- Trump is that

 

#Intellectualism 

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[Teddy B 17,252]

8 minutes ago, IAMX said:

Exactly.

 

- Trump is Hitler False

- Trump is fascist False

- Trump is a dictator Things are shaping up that way, time will tell. He appears to be treating the presidency like it was the Apprentice tv show.

- Trump is racist Haven't seen anything that proves that yet.

- Trump is misogynist There is ample evidence to back this claim.

- Trump will be impeached! Time will tell, not there yet.

- Trump is a narcissist The most accurate thing on your list, no doubt about this one.

- Trump is this I'm sure Trump is a little of this..........

- Trump is that ....and a little of that

 

#Intellectualism   Constantly labeling anyone who disagrees with you as "the left" or as "throwing a tantrum", is definitely not an example of intellectualism.

 

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[IAMX 3,055]

I'm not the one associating and branding myself with "intellectualism", "science", and "realism", so there's no label to defend, nor a President I didn't vote for. Attacking the lefts arguments for being illogical, counter to what they try and brand themselves as, I find 100% necessary. If criticizing the lefts arguments and antics triggers them, maybe they should be considering adding "introspective" to their imaginary brand portfolio, or perhaps just running to their own safe spaces from criticism (rather than trying to stifle debate and opinions they don't want to read/hear).

[Teddy B 17,252]

1 minute ago, IAMX said:

I'm not the one associating and branding myself with "intellectualism", "science", and "realism", so there's no label to defend, nor a President I didn't vote for. Attacking the lefts arguments for being illogical, counter to what they try and brand themselves as, I find 100% necessary. If criticizing the lefts arguments and antics triggers them, maybe they should be considering adding "introspective" to their imaginary brand portfolio, or perhaps just running to their own safe spaces from criticism (rather than trying to stifle debate and opinions they don't want to read/hear).

[IAMX 3,055]

http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/11/heres-a-reel-of-a-bunch-of-liberals-flip-flopping-on-james-comey-video/

 

 

 

[LionessDeon 2,060]

I have yet to see anyone stomp or throw a fit.  I have seen people speak out, protest, and stand up for their beliefs.  I guess that amounts to a "snowflake fit" 

[IAMX 3,055]

6 minutes ago, LionessDeon said:

I have yet to see anyone stomp or throw a fit.  I have seen people speak out, protest, and stand up for their beliefs.  I guess that amounts to a "snowflake fit" 

When the left find themselves so upset they're wearing female genitals on their heads, making hilarious comparisons of Trump to Hitler, and turning every non-political celebration of womens rights into an anti-Trump tirade, it's pretty obvious this is a childish tantrum.

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[JimandChristy 1,689]

7 minutes ago, IAMX said:

When the left find themselves so upset they're wearing female genitals on their heads, making hilarious comparisons of Trump to Hitler, and turning every non-political celebration of womens rights into an anti-Trump tirade, it's pretty obvious this is a childish tantrum.

Of course we never saw Conservatives ever make derogatory comments about Obama...........Stalin, Hitler, Born in Kenya etc etc 

[IAMX 3,055]

6 minutes ago, JimandChristy said:

Of course we never saw Conservatives ever make derogatory comments about Obama...........Stalin, Hitler, Born in Kenya etc etc 

I'm sure there are plenty of those on the right who did. But that doesn't absolve the left of being criticized for their actions too.

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[Dashinka 24,505]

2 hours ago, Teddy B said:

I look at Trumps election as an assault on intelligence.

That is an interesting view, but the candidates running really didn't give us much choice.