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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5801215" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/opinion/columnists/donald-trump-election.html" target="_blank">Opinion | The Case for Donald Trump By Someone Who Wants Him to Lose - The New York Times (nytimes.com)</a></p><p></p><p>"Barring a political miracle or an act of God, it is overwhelmingly likely that Donald Trump will again be the Republican Party’s nominee for president. Assuming the Democratic nominee in the fall is Joe Biden, <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/" target="_blank">polls</a> show Trump with a better-than-even chance of returning to the White House next year.</p><p></p><p>Lord help us. What should those of us who have <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-donald-and-the-demagogues-1441064072" target="_blank">consistently</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/impeach-trump.html" target="_blank">opposed</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/opinion/trump-indictment-documents.html" target="_blank">him</a> do?</p><p></p><p>You can’t defeat an opponent if you refuse to understand what makes him formidable. Too many people, especially progressives, fail to think deeply about the enduring sources of his appeal — and to do so without calling him names, or disparaging his supporters, or attributing his resurgence to nefarious foreign actors or the unfairness of the Electoral College. Since I will spend the coming year strenuously opposing his candidacy, let me here make the best case for Trump that I can."</p><p></p><p>--------</p><p></p><p>"I don’t see Trump’s opponents making headway against him until they at least acknowledge the legitimacy and power of the fundamental complaint. If you’re saying it’s “Morning in America” when 77 percent of Americans think the country is on the wrong track, you’re preaching to the wrong choir — and the wrong country.</p><p></p><p>Trump’s opponents say this is the most important election of our lifetime. Isn’t it time, then, to take our heads out of the sand?"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5801215, member: 48469"] [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/opinion/columnists/donald-trump-election.html']Opinion | The Case for Donald Trump By Someone Who Wants Him to Lose - The New York Times (nytimes.com)[/URL] "Barring a political miracle or an act of God, it is overwhelmingly likely that Donald Trump will again be the Republican Party’s nominee for president. Assuming the Democratic nominee in the fall is Joe Biden, [URL='https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/']polls[/URL] show Trump with a better-than-even chance of returning to the White House next year. Lord help us. What should those of us who have [URL='https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-donald-and-the-demagogues-1441064072']consistently[/URL] [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/impeach-trump.html']opposed[/URL] [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/opinion/trump-indictment-documents.html']him[/URL] do? You can’t defeat an opponent if you refuse to understand what makes him formidable. Too many people, especially progressives, fail to think deeply about the enduring sources of his appeal — and to do so without calling him names, or disparaging his supporters, or attributing his resurgence to nefarious foreign actors or the unfairness of the Electoral College. Since I will spend the coming year strenuously opposing his candidacy, let me here make the best case for Trump that I can." -------- "I don’t see Trump’s opponents making headway against him until they at least acknowledge the legitimacy and power of the fundamental complaint. If you’re saying it’s “Morning in America” when 77 percent of Americans think the country is on the wrong track, you’re preaching to the wrong choir — and the wrong country. Trump’s opponents say this is the most important election of our lifetime. Isn’t it time, then, to take our heads out of the sand?" [/QUOTE]
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