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113 sats \ 7 comments \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 27 Dec Politics_And_Law

In the weeks before the 2016 Trump Electoral College victory, Trump was polling between 35 and 40 percent.

He would average only about 41 percent approval over his tumultuous four-year tenure.

No one knows what lies ahead over the next four years. But for now, Trump already polls at well over 50 percent approval.

Trump’s inauguration in a few weeks likely will not resemble his 2016 ceremony.

In the 2016-7 transition, Democratic-affiliated interests ran commercials urging electors to become “faithless” and thus illegally reject their states’ popular votes and instead elect the loser, Hillary Clinton.

Massive demonstrations met Trump on Inauguration Day.

In less than four months after assuming the presidency, Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate the hoax of Russian collusion.

That wasted 22-month, $40 million investigation found no collusion but did derail the first two Trump years.

They tried and failed to get Trump. They failed to kill the king. Now it is the king’s turn. I think there will be hard times in DC after the inauguration. Surprise, surprise!!

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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 27 Dec

So Trump wanted Mueller to become FBI director in the first term. It was then his admin who hired him and he could have fired Mueller at any point in time and didn't. That is Trump messing himself up not anyone else.

You are forgetting that in his first term as well Never Trump Republicans were all over the place in the House and Senate. That is no longer the case as Trump turned out to not be a fad but rather someone who has staying power and is the face of the Party.

Mass demonstrations have already applied for permits in DC on Dec. 6 and 20th to protest Trump.

Since Trump is now essentially a one-term president those people tend to poll better even if polling itself is awful and inaccurate as hell.

Also there is a whole new movement to get the current Congress, since it doesn't chance till the 3rd, to make moves to disqualify Trump even though he won due to "insurrection and Rebellion" via the 14th amendment. Granted this isn't going to happen and he won the Popular Vote but still the Dem and MSM machine doesn't stop churning.

10 sats \ 5 replies \ @Bell_curve 27 Dec

VDH is awesome

10 sats \ 4 replies \ @Bell_curve 27 Dec

My favorite paragraphs:

The left’s cultural revolution championed fringe policies never quite seen before: destroying the border, welcoming in 12 million illegal aliens, nihilist critical race and legal theories, institutionalizing a third sex, and mandating woke/DEI quotas and indoctrination sessions.

Trump also brought in disaffected Democrats, independents, and minorities in a way the Democrats could not with the evaporating and bitter Never Trump dead-enders.

Trump’s veritable campaign menagerie of RFK, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Dana White, and Kid Rock made it impossible for the left to demonize MAGA Republicans as right-wing aristocrats, warmongers, or laissez-faire capitalists.

Add all of these once unimaginables up, and the people trusted more—and liked better—the Trump reboot than grouchy Joe Biden or inane, inauthentic Kamala Harris and their shared extremist agendas.

11 sats \ 3 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 27 Dec

I think it was just the agendas that most people disliked, unless they had their hand in the cookie jar.