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Obama Helped Spawn The Donald Trump Phenomenon

  

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Via:  xxjefferson51  •  9 years ago  •  53 comments

Obama Helped Spawn The Donald Trump Phenomenon
Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
The more that analysts try to figure out Donald Trump's appeal, the more they sound baffled. Pundits cite Trump's verbal sloppiness and ridiculousness as proof that he must soon implode. But Trump sees his daily bombast as an injection of outrage for a constituency now hooked on someone who finally voices their pent-up anger.
The more reckless Trump's doses of scatter-gun outrageousness, the better the fix for his supporters.

Trump's vague "make America great again" was the natural bookend to Barack Obama's even more vacuous "hope and change." The popularity of such empty slogans reflects a culture in which no one any longer trusts institutions, the media, government or politicians.
The public no longer respects Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the IRS, the VA or the GSA. Even the once-hallowed Secret Service has become a near laughingstock of incompetence, corruption and politicization. Is a major purpose of NASA really Muslim outreach, as NASA chief Charles Bolden suggested in 2010?
The world that our government tells us about bears no resemblance to what we see and hear every day.
President Obama has exacerbated this current disconnect between the public and its officials. In unserious fashion, he shares his selfies, parades his annual Final Four picks and jets off to Los Angeles to appear on late-night talk shows, even as he hectors Americans in sermons about their Islamophobia, their carbon footprints, their immigration xenophobia and their gun obsessions.

Did the public earn such presidential rebukes because it believes that jihadism at home and the Islamic State abroad are more dangerous than global warming?
Or because disarming law-abiding citizens will not prevent law-breaking criminals and terrorists from obtaining illegal weapons?
Or because it is unwise to open the borders to anyone who can make it into the U.S., few questions asked?
The first reaction of Attorney General Loretta Lynch after the recent San Bernardino terrorist attack was to warn the country about Islamophobia.
Her implicit message to the families of the dead was not that the government missed a terrorist cadre or let Islamic State sympathizers carry out a massacre. Instead, she worried more about Americans being angry at the inability of the tight-knit Muslim community to ferret out the extremists in its midst.
So we live in an age of disbelief.
The government reports that a record 94.4 million Americans are not in the labor force. That is almost a third of the country. How can the same government declare that the official unemployment rate is only 5%?
Economists warn that a $20 trillion national debt cannot be serviced without major calamities once interest rates rise. Yet even as interest rates are scheduled to go up, the government still borrows nearly $500 billion a year. It calls that profligacy fiscal prudence, because the borrowing is below the usual $1 trillion a year.
It may or may not have been wise for the Supreme Court to sanction gay marriage, or for the Pentagon to allow women in the military to join all combat units, or for the president to tacitly end border enforcement.
But these changes were not made by majority legislative decision. And they have come thick and fast, without time for the public to digest their consequences. Instead, if a new idea or agenda lacks majority support, then activists can confidently look for a court or bureaucracy to implement change by top-down order.
In short, millions of citizens think the nation is headed for a financial reckoning. They feel threatened by radical Islamic terrorism. They sense that cultural and social stability has disappeared.
And they know that expression of these worries can be a thought crime — hounded down by politicians, media, universities and cultural institutions that do not enjoy broad public support and are not subject to the direct consequences of their own ideologies.
Amid these crises and the present absence of responsible leadership, if there were not a demagogic Donald Trump ranting and raving on the scene, the country would probably have to invent something like him.


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XXJefferson51
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link   seeder  XXJefferson51    9 years ago

Red box rules apply.  Please stay on the topic and remain civil within the coc dealing with other members.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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link   seeder  XXJefferson51    9 years ago

Obama has led by his arbitrary and divisive rule to the emergence of the xenophobic demagogue Donald Trump.  

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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link   seeder  XXJefferson51    9 years ago

Obama has led by his arbitrary and divisive rule to the emergence of the xenophobic demagogue Donald Trump.  

 
 
 
Dowser
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link   Dowser  replied to  XXJefferson51   9 years ago

Do you want me to delete one of these double posts?  D

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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link   seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Dowser   9 years ago

Yes, please.  praying

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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link   JohnRussell    9 years ago

Victor Davis Hanson is a university professor. He should know better 

The government reports that a record 94.4 million Americans are not in the labor force. That is almost a third of the country. How can the same government declare that the official unemployment rate is only 5%?

"not in the labor force"  includes the retired, students, and stay at home parents or caretakers. This is millions and millions of people, people who are not looking for a job. The official unemployment rate refers to people who ARE looking for a job. "Not in the labor force " and those in the "unemployment rate" are two separate groups of people. 

Hanson is well aware of this, I am sure. He is pandering to an audience, and , along comes XX and such. 

 

 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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link   JohnRussell    9 years ago

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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The Washington Post is reporting today that the Republican Party will prepare for a "brokered convention" where it may be necessary for the "elders" to strong arm Donald Trump out of the picture. 

 
 
 
Nowhere Man
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link   Nowhere Man  replied to  JohnRussell   9 years ago

which is exactly what we heard the last go round.

"Brokered Convention"

Which means the fix is in......

Probably for Jeb Bush. (cause he already gots the money honey, he also has the name and he's the establishment poster boy for continued bad government policies)

But I digress, Yep "Brokered Convention"

Definitely heard that one before, while futilely sitting on the bus when the votes were taken to screw us over.

They gonna fix this one too and it will be the last fixed convention.

So quickly they forget......

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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link   seeder  XXJefferson51    9 years ago

Well it was words well worth repeating but I'm not sure why it posted twice.  I thought I'd deleted the 2nd one.  

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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link   Sean Treacy    9 years ago

Excellent, succinct summary of what "fundamental transformation"  results in. 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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Kavika
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link   Kavika     9 years ago

It was a brilliant political move by Obama. Getting the republicans so upset that Trump becomes a candidate and the front runner.   He has the republicans in total disarray.

If he wins the nomination, dems are a sure winner.

Great political move on Obama's part.

 

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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link   Sean Treacy  replied to  Kavika   9 years ago

Yeah fucking the country up was brilliant politics. Congrats. 

 
 
 
Kavika
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link   Kavika   replied to  Sean Treacy   9 years ago

In your opinion Sean, which doesn't much matter in the political world. Sorry that I didn't put the /s after it, but I thought that it was obvious. Guess that it wasn't for the dyed in the wool right wingers.

 
 
 
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sixpick
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sixpick
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sixpick
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This Only Goes Through Half of 2013

$6 trillion plus increase in the National Debt. Fewer people are working today than there were 5 years ago now . Buying oil from Brazil after giving them $2 billion to drill it. Oil and Gas production on Federal lands is down 40%. College tuition cost is up over 20% since Oba M a took office. Obama backed $535 million Solyndra aid as auditor warned on their finances. Nearly everyone of those green companies that $90 billion dollars were wasted on A re out of business today. 50 million people on Food Stamps or SNAP . Over 6.4 million more people in poverty.

Best 7 minutes on gun control I have ever seen!

Over 1 million construction jobs lost under Obama . Spending on Federal Welfare now exceeds $1 trillion dollars. Millions of homes in foreclosure. Obama the most polarizing president ever. We should have known since 20 years listening to Rev Wright. Obamacare is a disaste R even being admitted to be a train wreck by the main author of it. Over 2000 dead in Afghanistan. More killed under Obama than the entire time before Obama, 3 quantitative easings (printing money). Median family income down over $4,000 a year . E X isting home prices down by over 11%. US credit rating downgraded for the first time ever. Half of new college grads out of work. 36% of children never leaving home now because they can't afford to leave. Bypassed Congress to grant de facto amnesty to 1.6 million I llegals. No to Keystone Oil Pipelines after extensive studies were finished and showed it safer than means being used now. Gasoline prices doubled since January 2009 .

EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS OBAMA'S DRONES WAR ON Women And Children

Closing 175 coal-fired electrical power plant S . No formal Federal Budget since 2009. Sues Arizona for enforcing immigration laws. Benghazi disaster and cover-up. Makes "Muslim Outreach" NASA's main goal. Encouraged if not more the Arab Spring.   U.S. global competitiveness has dropped from 1st to 7 T h place. 51% increase in National Debt. Facing an increase in October which will probably be at least another $2 trillion. Arrogant, lying and incompetent . Lives like a king with his rich Hollywood friends and has been campaigning mostly at colleges where he can get an applause ever since he has come into office .

"Obama Most Radical US President ever" states prestigious Harvard PHD.


Promised to cut deficit in half in 2008 and before he was re-elected and has nearly doubled it instead. Said healthcare cost would come down if we passed Obamacare and it has skyrocketed instead.     In fact none of the promises he made about Obamacare have turned out to be true.

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He promised to eliminate lobbyist but is lobbyist best friend. Under Obama at his rate he will accumulate more debt than every single president before him. Gave away billions of dollars to his campaign donors for green jobs that have been a complete failure for the American people but have worked out quite well with the donors. Named Van Jones, a longtime revolutionary communist who famously declared that “we are gonna change the whole economic system,” as his “green jobs czar” in 2009.   Appointed Carol Browner, a former “commissioner” of the Socialist International, as his “environment czar”.   Appointed John Holdren, who not only views capitalism as a system that is inherently destructive of the environment, but strongly favors the redistribution of wealth, both within the U.S. and across international borders, as his “science czar”.   Named Hilda Solis, a former officer of the Congressional Progressive Caucus wing of the House of Representatives), as his labor secretary.

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Chose Anita Dunn, a woman who has cited Mao Zedong as one of her “favorite political philosophers,” to serve as White House communications director.  

  As Paul Roderick Gregory demonstrated in an outstanding article for Forbes, Barack Obama’s economic agenda matches the November 2011 Declaration of Principles of the Party of European Socialists almost point for point.     If a totalitarian regime is going to be successful, it needs a massive government bureaucracy to run things .

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Under Obama, the United States has been developing “Big Brother” surveillance technologies that dictators of the past never even dreamed were possible. 

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For example, a very highly sophisticated surveillance grid known as “Trapwire” is being installed in major cities and at “high value targets” all over the country.  Sadly, the mainstream media has not covered this at all, and most Americans still do not even realize that it exists.   Under Obama, unmanned aerial vehicles are not just used for war anymore Police departments are now starting to deploy surveillance drones in the skies over their cities all over the nation.   In fact, this is something that the federal government is greatly encouraging.     It was the Obama administration that came up with the “See Something, Say Something” campaign.  

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Now the federal government has even created an iPhone app that is designed to encourage all of us to take photos of “suspicious activity” and report our neighbors to the authorities.   First instituted “enhanced pat-downs” by TSA thugs at our airports.   As a result, countless numbers of men, women and children have had horrific experiences that they will remember for the rest of their lives .

"Liberals With Guns!"

The U.S. military now has the authority to arrest American citizens and hold them indefinitely without trial.   The Obama administration has no problem with this horrible abuse of power.     A key Obama ally in the U.S House of Representatives, Congressman José Serrano of New York, has introduced a measure that would repeal the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution so that Barack Obama can continue to run for additional terms as president after his second term ends.   The “cult of personality” that has built up around Barack Obama is getting quite ridiculous.   Shortly after he won the recent election, actor Jamie Foxx referred to Barack Obama as “our Lord and Savior Barack Obama” during a television broadcast of the 2012 Soul Train Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada .

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Such “leader worship” would fit in very well in North Korea.   Since Obama won in November, there has been an increasing number of incidences in which Obama has been referred to in religious terms.  

R.I.P. Bill of Rights 1789 - 2011

For example, a recent Newsweek article referred to Barack Obama’s second term as “The Second Coming”.   A painting by artist Michael D’Antuono that is now on display at Boston’s Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery recently made headlines all over the United States.

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In the painting, Barack Obama is wearing a crown of thorns on his head and his arms are stretched out as if he was being crucified.   In the background of the painting is the presidential seal.   Relentless praise from the mainstream media played a huge role in each of Obama’s election victories.   The mainstream media is supposed to be objective, but there have been reports of members of the media “swooning” in his presence, and most mainstream news broadcasts leave little doubt that Obama is the “good guy” and anyone opposed to him is the “bad guy”.   The Obama organization has tirelessly gathered data on potential voters.

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At this point, the amount of information that the Obama campaign has compiled on the American people is absolutely frightening .   If you voted this election season, President Obama almost certainly has a file on you. His vast campaign database includes information on voters’ magazine subscriptions, car registrations, housing values and hunting licenses, along with scores estimating how likely they were to cast ballots for his reelection. The Communist Party USA is cheering on Barack Obama’s efforts to disarm the American people.   According to one of their official publications, “the ability to live free from the fear or threat of gun violence is a fundamental democratic right — one that far supercedes any so-called personal gun rights allegedly contained in the Second Amendment .”

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Just as in North Korea, our lives are being increasingly micromanaged by a government that is packed with control freaks .  At this point they even are telling us what kind of light bulbs we are allowed to buy.   Federal agencies have become increasingly brutal under Obama.  For example, if you milk your cow and sell some of that milk to your neighbor next door, you could end up having your home raided by Federal Agents.   Obama has gone to great lengths to demonize his opposition.   Since he has been president, numerous government papers, studies and reports have been released that identify groups of people that are opposed to Obama as “potential terrorists ”.  Some of the groups targeted as “potential terrorists” include those that “revere individual liberty”, “conspiracy theorists”, “returning veterans”, anti-abortion activists, those that visit “extremist websites”, those that are “fiercely nationalistic”, those that “believe in the right to bear arms”, anyone is opposed to illegal immigration, anyone that is anti-UN, and anyone that is “suspicious of centralized federal authority”.

Obama's Lies and Broken Promises from 2007 and 2008

 

Many Obama supporters are becoming enamored with the idea that we should either start ignoring the Constitution or that we should get rid of it entirely.   For example, Georgetown law professor Louis Michael Seidman recently appeared on CBS and said the following the American people…   “I’ve got a simple idea: Let’s give up on the Constitution. I know, it sounds radical, but it’s really not.”

22 Things Obama Has Done Which Are CLEARLY Socialist

Rice promoted…. Hicks demoted. Lie=promotion Truth=demotion.   $11 trillion increase in debt in one year.   Millions of people will become slaves to the IRS because of Obamacare.   "I'll have more flexibility after the election .”   Department of Justice attacks Gibson, who is not unionized for the same thing other companies are doing and doesn't attack the unionized companies .    Presidential appointees are made in the middle of the night illegally but doesn't seem to have any consequence. Jobs Czar is head of GM who owns one of the media outlets, doesn't pay any taxes and the medial outlet supports the president without question,    A bill designed to help the returning vets with their mortgages is turned into a monster health care bill that was rejected by most Americans but passed anyway, even though majority of Americans were against it.   Supreme court judge actually rewrites the constitution and lets the federal government start for the first time in history charging a tax for not buying something.   President says it's unpatriotic for doing something he has been doing ever since he's been in office and the media doesn't call him out on it, I don’t trust him or the media .   Green Energy companies get billions of Federal money and fail within a year and the executives still get bonuses and are found to be Obama financial supporters,    A terrorist kills a bunch of people at Fort Hood. Guess what......Work place violence.    Obama Busted for Lying, by MSNBC, About His Support For A 100% Hand Gun Ban.   If your president promises to bring people together, yet people are more divided than any time you can remember in your lifetime, who do you blame?   House has passed numerous bills and Harry Reid won't let them come to the floor,   When it is completely obvious the leader of your country will say anything to get elected and then change about everything he said once the election is over do you feel deceived?

 

All pertinent comments I may already have copies of somewhere else and their links.

 

All taxpayers are being forced by law to pay bills for reckless spending and bad progressive government "sponsored" programs no country or state can afford.  Why is this?  The disastrous and failing social policies of the codependent Marxist Liberals. These delusional policies and legislation are criminal, selfish and thieving in nature “redistributing other peoples possessions” destroying the USA and the world's economy with endless wasted handouts and economic, redistributive and lets call it what it is... criminal legislation that is nothing but theft or stealing.

The historical evidence of how damaging socialistic policies are crystal clear. However, the selfish delusion is so strong in those under its “spell” they continue to insist this “works” and “is correct” in spite of massive historical evidence to the contrary.  Socialism is responsible for the deaths of over 150 million people, and that is a conservative estimate.  Yet the chanting sheeple demand its return and now we have the occupy “dependents” hijacked as useful idiots by the communists, socialists and Islamist demanding “off with their heads” and “you will pay us” because we refuse to take personal responsibility for anything, It is just “not fair” that some people have stuff. That's a great argument.

Liberal codependent care taking creates dependents that cannot and eventually will not fend for themselves.  Do not provide for them and they will camp on Wall Street and blame everyone EXCEPT themselves.  Truth is the false Godless morality of liberalism advocates for "helping" people when every policy is hurtful, demeaning, enslaving and inherently selfish to make those handing other peoples money out "feel better" or just flat out purchasing votes.  It's just plain thuggery and criminal thievery.  Why break into my house and steal from me if you can legislate or in Obama's case execute. Just make your crime law or do it by Executive Order and take what I have worked for and my possessions away?

The truth is liberal self worth is based upon a selfish false morality.  They will attack people who question their "handout policies".  Codependent liberals know better what is good for you and society .... you will pay for it and provide for them no matter what or they will call you names.  Welcome to Satan's playground.

Liberalism, ideas so GOOD they have to be mandatory.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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link   JohnRussell  replied to  sixpick   9 years ago

Here goes Sixpick again , saturation bombing the forum with dozens of factoids from far right sources, knowing that no one in their right mind will spend the time it would take to answer or debunk all the nonsense contained. The eyes glaze over. 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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link   JohnRussell  replied to  sixpick   9 years ago

"Obama Most Radical US President Ever" States Prestigious Harvard PHD.

Richard Rubenstein

 

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It's hard to even find the reply button amidst all this mess, lol.

 

This particular video, which appear farther up the page, comes from an outfit named The New English Review, which is a home of "intellectual"  islamophobes and white nationalists.  These are people of considerable education and are well spoken , but who express extreme pro-Israel, anti-Muslim and "white European" viewpoints. The speaker in the video says Obama is the most radical president ever, but most of his argument centers around his belief that Obama wants to disarm Israel. He even goes so far as to say that Obama wants Israel to give up it's nuclear weapons. Even though people like this are highly intelligent, they are essentially cranks, with viewpoints that do not withstand objective analysis. 

 
 
 
sixpick
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link   sixpick    9 years ago

This is for the video that didn't work above.

KNOW SAUL ALINSKY AND YOU KNOW BARACK OBAMA AND HIS REGIME

 
 
 
sixpick
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link   sixpick    9 years ago

Boo! chuckle

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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link   JohnRussell  replied to  sixpick   9 years ago

News about  Saul Alinsky

bing.com/news
 
 
 
 
 
Anita Blackman
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link   Anita Blackman    9 years ago

Trump is the end game for Repugnantcans. He is their fascism out of the closet.

 
 
 
sixpick
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link   sixpick  replied to  Anita Blackman   9 years ago

@anita-blackman :

Trump is the end game for Repugnantcans. He is their fascism out of the closet.

If you think Trump is a Fascist, then you can blame it on the Marxist in the White House who has doubled the National Debt, allowed thousands of dangerous people into this country without vetting them, reduced the size of the middle class, used Executive Orders to accomplish his agenda of "Fundamentally Transforming" the USA into a third world country and many other illegal acts including being the biggest liar of our time.  This is proof based on your assumption that one extreme produces another extreme from the other side.

 
 

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