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Posted By: FlyRight, 7/10/2023 6:08:41 AM

On July 8th, New York Times columnist David French, strained to apply a human face on Trump supporters, but I don't think I am giving him too much credit when I infer a connection to Biden's vicious attack on Pres. Trump and MAGA Republicans of September 1, 2022. The writer summed the Trump years (from 2015 to the present) this way: "Everything is normal until, suddenly, it's not." Early in his Philadelphia remarks, Biden said:

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Flyball Dogs 7/10/2023 7:02:45 AM (No. 1509552)
As fellow LDotters frequently say: words matter. Watch for it. “Cult” will soon become the mot du jour in articles, news reports, daily talking points etc. This pejorative may be used to start laying the groundwork to silence us.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Subsuburban 7/10/2023 7:25:04 AM (No. 1509571)
What these soi-disant "true conservatives" are really saying is, "We have lost our power to these MAGA peasants!" They simply cannot abide the idea that their entire raison d'etre is now gone, eliminated by the influence of one man--Trump--to energize a vast swath of traditional Americans who realize the truth in his admonition that, "They're not really after me. They're after YOU! I'm just in the way." The thing that people like French, Noonan, and the rest of the "Tru-Cons" fear most is exposure; revelation that all their high-sounding verbiage and fainting couch reactions to Trump are being laughed to scorn by those whom they once sought to rule over. They turn to the left for affirmation, and find that leftists only use them for propaganda purposes and otherwise have no use for them either. They have become irrelevant! These people are in despair that their influence and status has been destroyed by a man they consider their social and intellectual inferior. They, like the king whose nudity was exposed by a single, truth-telling little boy, have been exposed for what they truly are: vacuous, shallow, self-seeking and self-aggrandizing frauds who are reduced to impotence despite the volume and intensity of the contumely they continue to spew in their effort to fend off their annihilation. All that is needed to complete that annihilation is for the rest of us to continue to laugh at them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: nwcudagal 7/10/2023 7:27:34 AM (No. 1509574)
I guess "cult" is the new buzz word. Look up "Pam Hemphill" who is getting a lot of press using that word.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: berthabutt 7/10/2023 8:21:22 AM (No. 1509611)
Hmmm? Hillary didn't think protest & disagreement was unpatriotic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYbgqYtYjxQ
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Reply 5 - Posted by: pixelero 7/10/2023 8:44:13 AM (No. 1509624)
They’re all out of their minds.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: The Remnants 7/10/2023 9:17:52 AM (No. 1509659)
Make America Great Again people are independent thinkers. We get our information from a lot of different sources and make up our own minds. We don't like group think and we believe in objective truth. Now, apply the same standard to those who are calling MAGA a cult. They are the ones who get their information from outlets all spouting the same party line (that's group think). They are NOT independent thinkers, and if they believed in objective truth, we'd never have an election result like we had in 2020 and people who came to the capitol on January 6 would be home with their families and friends. They are the cultists.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 7/10/2023 9:29:52 AM (No. 1509677)
If we don't literally CRUSH the Democrats they will surely finish crushing us.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: earlybird 7/10/2023 10:33:18 AM (No. 1509750)
The only thing more boring than reading David French’s drivel is reading about him and his drivel.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: nerdowell 7/10/2023 10:46:09 AM (No. 1509759)
Thank you #6, for spelling it out. When dems dismiss us as MAGA, just remind them what it means and ask them why they want our country's prestige, prosperity and standard of living diminished even more? There is no doubt that this is what biden wants. Remind them that biden and the dems have been getting rich by undermining America, that they evidently are fully aware of what they're doing-- that in the future only the very wealthy will have a chance at a decent life. That is why they are frantically, and to an unprecedented extent, leveraging their office to acquire wealth. Give the devil his due: to their credit they want to insure their family's continued happiness. future. Ask them why they want to reduce the majority of the working people in this country to serfdom? Do they exempt themselves from this grim future? Why? Are they expecting a cut? Are they a "big guy?" Or, are they expecting a big inheritance? If its the latter, remind them to move fast before their confederates (ha!) seize it. Explain to them that you'd rather be in a cult than be a chump making somebody who holds them in contempt-- rich enough to be comfortable in the future, rich enough not to in the future proletariat. The Stalins of the future will always have their dacha, but you prefer morality and integrity.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: dbdiva 7/10/2023 1:02:59 PM (No. 1509906)
Yep, they are masters of projection. The "Big Lie" of 2020 was actually theirs but suddenly WE were the stupid, ignorant purveyors of that lie. And now we are a "cult"!! When Mr. French looks in a mirror he should be aware that he is a true cult member.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: thomthomp 7/10/2023 1:35:34 PM (No. 1509944)
Sorry, but NYTimes columnists and a few deep state apparatchiks don't get to define "normal " 74 million REAL VOTERS for Donald Trump have a say too. The Democrats and the Deep State RINOs want convince themselves that half the country is not "normal".
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