Trump Worship

[Running Gator]

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/447282/trumps-faithful-believers-harm-presidency

 

Trump isn’t just effective — he’s supremely effective. Trump isn’t just conservative — he’s the most conservative. How do we know this? We know it because he has promised things. 
...

The deep and bizarre allegiance Trump worshipers have for his promises — not his actions, his promises – gives the lie to one of the greatest justifications for his presidency: political cynicism.

...

All of this would be palatable except for one fact: Trump’s biggest supporters weren’t jaded at all. They weren’t cynical. They were just angry.

And anger without cynicism makes you credulous.

That means Trump can get away with virtually anything, and those who cheer him on will continue to cheer him on. Like acolytes of Barack Obama, they celebrate Trump’s mere presence.

...

Then there’s the problem of a working government. True cynicism about government leads to the constitutional system of checks and balances: If nobody can be trusted, we divide power and set it against itself. But when you believe that the system is broken while the leader is perfect, the system disintegrates. Nothing Trump can say will dissuade some of his supporters from backing his every move. Every problem will be blamed on the system itself, or on the media, or on the First Amendment. Counterintuitively, every Trump failure will become a new excuse to tear down the system in order to make way for Trump to bring messianic politics to life. This was the logic of the Democrats under Barack Obama, and it led them to abandon basic notions of American unity and governmental checks and balances. Republicans should not make the same mistake.

 

[other one]

I don't see us doing that.

[LadyKay]

Dang the Gator beat me too it. I was going to post this! 

[Running Gator]

4 minutes ago, LadyKay said:

Dang the Gator beat me too it. I was going to post this! 

Seemed appropriate based on the current crop of threads on here. 

[PlanetChee]

3 hours ago, other one said:

I don't see us doing that.

That's true. Because the implication is accusatory and incendiary not reality. Hopefully this thread will not lead the Saints down the road it hopes to pave with this falsehood. 

 

1 John 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

 

[Running Gator]

5 minutes ago, PlanetChee said:

That's true. Because the implication is accusatory and incendiary not reality. Hopefully this thread will not lead the Saints down the road it hopes to pave with this falsehood. 

 

1 John 4:20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

 

And yet somehow the dozen other accusatory and incendiary threads on the front page of this section of the forum have escaped your condemnation. 

Partisanship at its finest. 

[MorningGlory]

3 hours ago, other one said:

I don't see us doing that.

You don't see it because it's just another lie in the big bucket of lies.  You're a Trump supporter and so am I but we don't blindly agree or blindly follow anything or anyone.  I think the lefties are projecting their own allegiance to socialist ideals on to people outside their ideology.  All for nothing; blatherings like this article will never change ANYTHING, or anyone, who is not a liberal lefty already.  Waste of bandwidth.

[Running Gator]

1 minute ago, MorningGlory said:

You don't see it because it's just another lie in the big bucket of lies.  You're a Trump supporter and so am I but we don't blindly agree or blindly follow anything or anyone.  I think the lefties are projecting their own allegiance to socialist ideals on to people outside their ideology.  All for nothing; blatherings like this article will never change ANYTHING, or anyone, who is not a liberal lefty already.  Waste of bandwidth.

This from the person that posted basically the same article except it was attacking the left.   

One more example of how there is no difference between the far left and the far right. 

[missmuffet]

7 hours ago, Running Gator said:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/447282/trumps-faithful-believers-harm-presidency

 

Trump isn’t just effective — he’s supremely effective. Trump isn’t just conservative — he’s the most conservative. How do we know this? We know it because he has promised things. 
...

The deep and bizarre allegiance Trump worshipers have for his promises — not his actions, his promises – gives the lie to one of the greatest justifications for his presidency: political cynicism.

...

All of this would be palatable except for one fact: Trump’s biggest supporters weren’t jaded at all. They weren’t cynical. They were just angry.

And anger without cynicism makes you credulous.

That means Trump can get away with virtually anything, and those who cheer him on will continue to cheer him on. Like acolytes of Barack Obama, they celebrate Trump’s mere presence.

...

Then there’s the problem of a working government. True cynicism about government leads to the constitutional system of checks and balances: If nobody can be trusted, we divide power and set it against itself. But when you believe that the system is broken while the leader is perfect, the system disintegrates. Nothing Trump can say will dissuade some of his supporters from backing his every move. Every problem will be blamed on the system itself, or on the media, or on the First Amendment. Counterintuitively, every Trump failure will become a new excuse to tear down the system in order to make way for Trump to bring messianic politics to life. This was the logic of the Democrats under Barack Obama, and it led them to abandon basic notions of American unity and governmental checks and balances. Republicans should not make the same mistake.

 

I can see this happening in the seven year tribulation. 100% allegiance to the Antichrist no matter what he says or does. Trump is a stepping stone to usher America into the tribulation.

[MorningGlory]

7 minutes ago, missmuffet said:

I can see this happening in the seven year tribulation. 100% allegiance to the Antichrist no matter what he says or does. Trump is a stepping stone to usher America into the tribulation.

I think that was Obama.