President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

See also: Can't athletes find some other way to protest besides kneeling during the national anthem?

 

Sigh.

Katie Pavlich: Trump wants 'Fox & Friends Weekend' host Hegseth as next VA secretary

 

Like reading the comments around here.

 

Duterte Pulls Philippines Out Of International Criminal Court

 

Ten million dollars spent on that scarecrow of a candidate in Pennsylvania.

 

Good thing we live in a country that totally wasn’t founded upon acts of dissent.

 

Those were rich white people trying to keep the government from taking too much in taxes. That's the only kind of dissent allowed.

 

I told you folks blue dog democrats were the way out of this abyss.
Not gender pronouns and identity politics.
That is the gameplan - winnable candidates.

 

They're a part of the process. The way out is to maintain the enthusiasm. That will mean blue dogs for some, radical progressives for others, and tiny American flags for all.

 

Lamb is pro-choice, pro-DACA, opposed the Trump-Ryan tax cuts. He's not exactly a blue dog. More like a 50s-60s labor Democrat before Vietnam.

 

The Redskins agree.

 

Rick-
The balance of the country wants centrism ... whether it dresses up in blue or red matters not, as long as it sticks to the script.
Conor Lamb can call himself a Democrat, is probably more liberal than he's letting on, but is probably less liberal than say Joe Manchin.
If Trump had a brain, self-restraint or good people around him (pick one) he had a chance at being a moderate president.