Why is everyone so polarized as concerning President Trump?

[Captdon]

Exactly. I find him lacking in economic knowledge but just right when it comes to court nominations.


Said the same yesterday about Reagan, that we shouldn't hold him up as a God, he was just a man who did good but made mistakes.

So the boom just sort of happened?

[Captdon]

His public behavior is that of a spoiled, ignorant child having an endless series of temper tantrums. He doesn't appear to understand how the government of which he is ostensibly in charge of one-third works, what the powers of his office are and are not, or that the Congress and courts do not work for him. If I agreed with him on 100% of his agenda - whatever that would appear to be today - I would still find him to be a huge embarrassment and want him to be gone.

I know that. Success bothers TDS sufferers. His agenda hasn't changed an iota and he has gotten more done in his first two years than Obama got with his super-majority.

I love these posts. I can enjoy the crying liberals over and over again.

[Standing Wolf]

The republicans I know believe in fiscal responsibility, our allies and our military. Those who have chosen to stay with this President do not believe in any of those things. It's difficult for me to consider them true republicans. I'm quite baffled by the whole thing.

The run-up to the general election in 2020 is going to be an interesting test of exactly where the Republican Party is and where it is headed. I believe we're going to see a head-to-head conflict - some of it behind the scenes and some of it public - between those who believe in traditional conservative values, such as those you mentioned, and adherents of the Trump cult of personality. Stand by to see whatever Republican candidates dare to oppose Trump's reelection slandered, attacked and flat-out lied about unmercifully. Hopefully, a sufficient number of the American people, including especially moderate Republicans and right-leaning Independents, will declare themselves tired of Trump's monkey cage antics and go another direction.

[Standing Wolf]

Some of us want the US to stay ours and some of you want to give it away. I'd settle for you leaving a place you hate so much but...

You've made the accusation - now why don't you enlighten us. What has Trish ever written that would lead you to the conclusion that she hates America?

[Captdon]

We tried to agree that he was just an American citizen, who, through our US Constitution, had the right to run for and win the presidency. Then - he started governing and his cabal and every one of his hundreds of habitual lies started to be undone, yet he continues to lie and undermine the country AND our constitution and laws.

So, what part of that demonstrable evidence: just read the news papers, do you not see as a problem?

What laws has he upset? Where has he undermined this country? How has he hurt our Constitution?

Don't whine and cry about how he has dome what you don't want. That's one of his selling points.

[Tahuyaman]

But to some on the left, to be a Republican, or on the right, means you're a racist...of a fascist, or both. It doesn't mean anything, just a way to self-righteously moralize.

To them, being anything other than a liberal in complete lock-step makes one a racist.

[Standing Wolf]

I know that. Success bothers TDS sufferers. His agenda hasn't changed an iota and he has gotten more done in his first two years than Obama got with his super-majority.

I love these posts. I can enjoy the crying liberals over and over again.

If I didn't feel the obligation to actually respond to posts I disagreed with, and simply tossed around the "TDS" meme when I felt myself at a loss for something intelligent to say, I'd probably enjoy the forum as much as you do, Cap.

[Captdon]

There is an old proverb that states that you cannot make a silk purse of a sow's ear. Trump's history is a rather sordid tale of greed and discreditable behavior that left other people the poorer for knowing him or doing business with him. I will not go into the more salacious aspects. Suffice it to say that he is a salesman and the ends do not justify the means.

Hillary Clinton was the epitome of trash.

[Tahuyaman]

The run-up to the general election in 2020 is going to be an interesting test of exactly where the Republican Party is and where it is headed. I believe we're going to see a head-to-head conflict - some of it behind the scenes and some of it public - between those who believe in traditional conservative values, such as those you mentioned, and adherents of the Trump cult of personality. Stand by to see whatever Republican candidates dare to oppose Trump's reelection slandered, attacked and flat-out lied about unmercifully. Hopefully, a sufficient number of the American people, including especially moderate Republicans and right-leaning Independents, will declare themselves tired of Trump's monkey cage antics and go another direction.

I hope that the Democrats continue this drift to the left and Republicans return to their conservative roots. This would give people a real choice for a change.

[Captdon]

The republicans I know believe in fiscal responsibility, our allies and our military. Those who have chosen to stay with this President do not believe in any of those things. It's difficult for me to consider them true republicans. I'm quite baffled by the whole thing.

Why do you assume we are all Republicans? Trump isn't.