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Democrats were outed as the party that is rooting for America's failure. Rooting against a booming economy. Rooting for misery, instead of prosperity. Rooting against job creation. Rooting against a booming stock market. Rooting against employee bonuses. Angry about the lowest black unemployment ever. Angry about the lowest Hispanic unemployment ever. Angry at the lowest female unemployment in 18 years.

^^^^WORD^^^^

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Any sane politician would have acted civil - just to fool enough voters to win elections.

That would be, this guy....

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Unfortunately at least 30-40% of the country doesn't get it yet either. They just hate Trump too much.

Close numbers to the 49% of America that pays ZERO taxes annually..... coincidence?

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Any sane politician would have acted civil - just to fool enough voters to win elections.

That would be, this guy....

In an amazing coincidence, Joe Manchin (D-WV) is up for reelection this year. Who would have guessed...

There was one male Democrat who appeared to be eating chicken wings.

If I can find that clip, I'll post it.

Poll: Majority of viewers give Trump a thumbs up for State of the Union speech

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...r-BBIAqxT?li=BBnbfcL

As the camera panned from one scowling dem to another, I thought they looked bitter and angry, just hell-bent on being the party of obstruction. This will kill them in the mid-term elections.

The dems should change their symbol from the jackass to the seagull. You know, the bird that flies in, shits all over everything, then flies away.

Ha Ha!

Brilliant move to put in stark contrast what Democrats love more. Illegal MS13 immigrants versus black people. Illegal immigrants versus legal immigrants. And it looks like the Democrats were even choosing MS13 illegals.

Name your poison, biatch. I think Trump makes Machiavelli jealous in terms of strategy.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
Ha Ha!

Brilliant move to put in stark contrast what Democrats love more. Illegal MS13 immigrants versus black people. Illegal immigrants versus legal immigrants. And it looks like the Democrats were even choosing MS13 illegals.

Name your poison, biatch. I think Trump makes Machiavelli jealous in terms of strategy.

+1

I was in Trinidad during the speech. The hotel I was at, Holiday Inn Express had Fox News blocked. I had to watch it on Fake News. I think I most enjoyed watching almost 100% hate. It gave me an inkling of how far stupid they are with hate. There is no common sense, noo
ability to reason logically, do simple math or even string together a coherent sentence. The dems are blinded by hate!

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The hotel I was at, Holiday Inn Express had Fox News blocked.

Blocked? Or just not a part of their cable package?
Either way, CNN does have a much broader reach, around the world. It's on in every airport it seems.

The Democrats look like dinosaurs entranced by the glow of the meteor that brought their extinction.

In actuality, both parties business model have been rendered irrelevant by the Trump administration.

I am impressed by how this President is redefining politics.

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The Democrats look like dinosaurs entranced by the glow of the meteor that brought their extinction.

That's good

All those faces she was making were here trying to swallow the meal of crow she's been feeding on since Nov 9 2016

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Amnesty-loving Democratic Congressman Luis Gutierrez WALKED OUT upon hearing chants of “USA, USA!” It was too much for him. He appeared to be on the verge of tears.

The camera kept switching to Pelosi every few minutes, watching her reactions I kept thinking "Any second now, her head is going to explode!" Unfortunately, I was wrong.

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The Democrats look like dinosaurs entranced by the glow of the meteor that brought their extinction.

In actuality, both parties business model have been rendered irrelevant by the Trump administration.

I am impressed by how this President is redefining politics.

https://townhall.com/columnist...publicanism-n2442987

Toward a Trump Republicanism
Michael Barone

Donald Trump's surprisingly good State of the Union speech got a record 70 to 75 percent positive approval rating from those who watched. Even if you discount (as you should) for the Trump haters who can't bear to watch him and chose another of their 100-plus cable channels, that's not chopped liver.

If they'd watched, their reactions would undoubtedly have been as sour as those of the Democrats in the chamber who stayed slouching and frowning in their chairs even after some patriotic lines.

White House staffers hinted that the speech would be nonpartisan, a reach out to Democrats from a president whose consequential first-year accomplishments -- judicial appointments, tax cuts, regulation repeals and rewrites -- were conventionally Republicanism.

The speech didn't live up to that billing, though it should not be forgotten that Trump's willingness to sign legislation giving "dreamers" a path to citizenship, together with other immigration law changes, is a genuine move in that direction.

Rather, what I think we're seeing is a reshaping of the character of the two major political parties, the emergence of Trump-Republican and anti-Trump-Democratic parties from the dried husks of the parties of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Back in the 1990s, I wrote an article for Irving Kristol's The Public Interest in which I divided parties that had emerged over the 150 years of electoral democracies in various countries into four types -- religious, liberal (classical free market liberal, that is), socialist and nationalist.

The Bush Republican Party leaned free market liberal on economics and religious on culture. The Clinton Democratic Party leaned mildly socialist on economics and liberal on culture. Both were quietly nationalist.

Trump is different. He has embraced the causes of religious conservatives -- as anomalous as that may be, given his persona -- but you didn't hear much about that in his State of the Union address.

He has abandoned much of free market Republicanism. You heard no mention of the national debt, no hint of reforms in Social Security or Medicare entitlements. House Speaker Paul Ryan, sitting behind him, must realize with sadness that these are non-starters in the Trump presidency.

You did hear a lot about the new tax law, formerly known to Democrats and mainstream media as the "tax scam," how it's producing wage increases and bonuses for those at the low and modest ends of the income scale, and how paychecks will rise when the IRS' new withholding schedule goes into effect in two weeks.

What you heard most of was nationalism. To some Democrats, including many in the chamber, that sounds like Adolf Hitler's national socialism. To those who realize that we have no political prisons full of reporters and less government surveillance of the press than in the Obama administration, it sounds more attractive.

Trump did, appropriately, pay more tribute than usual to Americans' engagement in the world and aid to foreigners. But his repeated theme was that he will always serve Americans first -- such Americans as the heroes in the gallery whom he spotlighted with grace.

So though Trump Republicanism has elements of other party traditions, its dominant tone is nationalist. That puts the Democratic Party, now suffused with Trump hatred, in danger of positioning itself as anti-nationalist. The withering contempt of many coastal Democrats for heartland Americans who regard patriotism as normal and benign is probably not a political asset.

Two other issues mentioned briefly in the State of the Union address have the potential to move his party away from Bush's. One is his daughter Ivanka's proposal for family and medical leave, something free market Republicans have usually spurned.

Democratic versions of this feature yet another Great Society bureaucracy and new taxes on businesses. Trump Republicans might embrace the proposal of lawyer Kristin Shapiro and the American Enterprise Institute's Andrew Biggs to allow parents to finance leaves through early withdrawals from Social Security in return for delayed retirement. As with Social Security retirement, recipients would arguably be paying something for what they get.

The second issue is infrastructure, on which Trump called for $1.5 trillion in spending. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer pre-emptively attacked the public-private financing Trump is said to support. But public-private financing has been enormously successful abroad, whereas Schumer's preferred system, The New York Times reports, has produced subway tunneling costs per mile that are seven times the average of the rest of the world.

The State of the Union address probably won't elevate Trump's low job approval rating. But competition between Trump Republicans and Democrats wedded to socialism and a religiously intense secularism may not turn out the way the latter would like.

Good read. Worth sharing and remembering.

Great article, 2BobTanner, thanks for posting it.

One line jumps out at me, and it's something the Dem's might oughta consider, because it both explains what has happened and what will happen again over the next several election cycles:

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That puts the Democratic Party, now suffused with Trump hatred, in danger of positioning itself as anti-nationalist. The withering contempt of many coastal Democrats for heartland Americans who regard patriotism as normal and benign is probably not a political asset.

This is why you got Trump. And it's why you'll get Trump again, and before that happens, you're going to get pounded in the midterms. But yeah, keep on resisting.

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Yes, the Democrat reaction couldn't have been scripted better to ensure their failure. They just don't get it.

Very well put. They think their base is a huge portion of the country that thinks like Soros. But the radical left is a much smaller portion of the Democrat party.

People are tired of being lied to. The Dems told everyone that the tax cuts were going to be catastrophic for people, and then people started seeing more money in their paychecks and hearing about companies giving hundreds of thousands of employees sizeable bonuses.

Then people see Democrats sitting on their hands when Trump announces that unemployment among blacks is the lowest in years. The campaign commercials write themselves.

I believe we should praise the good things Trump (or anyone) does, and condemn the bad things.

I don't agree with the infrastructure spending he wants, or the child care entitlement Ivanka wants, but the rest of the address was quite well done, and the Dems came across as the America-hating traitors that they really are.

I’m not optimistic that the dem party is on the ropes. There’s an entire universe of young people who have been educated by the leftist university empire. I wonder if the current conservative success is the last gasp of an aging and dying demographic of old style patriots, capitalists and self reliant citizens.

The conservative “success” owes a lot to the economic boom that is resulting from Trump’s economic adjustments. That’s great and I hope it continues. It reflects the sort of economic benefits that are typical of a free enterprize system. I hope it isn’t sidetracked by the election of a dem majority or president in the future, or an unanticipated event such as war or other event that could stifle the effects of capitalism. Leftists are waiting in the wings for the chance to undercut any capitalistic economic success.

I’m almost 70. Boomers are dying off. It seems that most of the following generations have bought into the socialism thing and as they age and take elected office, the conservative base will continue to shrink until ineffective.

Hope I’m wrong.