A Defector From Conservatism With a Clear Vision of Trump’s Rise

Evmetro said:
He was a lefty like McCain, Flake, Ryan, and the rest of the lefty rhino Repubs. When Trump came along, the rhino shitbags were hearing the same air raid siren sound that lefties were hearing. Trump pointed the spotlight on on all these shitbag rhinos and lefties, and the cockroaches went all over the place.
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Nope a far-right conservative intellectual. He was a brain on the far right. you are not, and certainly not qualified to make any comment about him. He was never a RINO but a big-time leader. You are not qualified to make a comment on a guy who was deep into conservative politics and thought. But I knew you would pipe in with something stupid,. You obviously never read anything he wrote. just more noise.
 
guno said:
But what makes Boot’s argument admirable is that he doesn’t simply follow his ideology in a mechanical fashion. Instead he treats the rise of Trump with the seriousness an event of such magnitude demands. If you discovered your best friend was working on a plan to kill hundreds of people in a terrorist attack, you wouldn’t simply condemn his plan while continuing to appreciate his non-terrorist qualities. You would question your entire relationship and what it is about this person you missed in the first place. Likewise, when your political party has elected an ignorant, viciously bigoted, compulsively lying authoritarian crook as president, you need to raise fundamental assumptions about that party’s makeup, rather than treat it as an unfortunate turn of events one must muddle through.


Boot recounts briefing Sarah Palin, in his capacity as a McCain 2008 campaign adviser. (Unsurprisingly, he “found her to be nonresponsive and uninterested in foreign policy issues.”) After he began criticizing Trump, Boot describes the president of a conservative think tank expressing private agreement, but admitting he could not say so publicly for fear of offending his board of directors. When a friend got an appointment in the administration, she crossed Boot off the guest list for a party lest she be associated with a turncoat. Reexamining his career and the movement that brought him up professionally with a more skeptical eye, Trump’s rise becomes more explicable.

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Max Boot a Republican? :laugh:

Boot said he would “sooner vote for Josef Stalin than he would vote for Donald Trump.” Not a Conservative or a Republican. The guy has been surrounded by leftists all his life.

Boot was educated at the University of California, Berkeley (BA, History, 1991) and Yale University (MA, Diplomatic History, 1992).[1] He started his journalistic career writing columns for the Berkeley student newspaper The Daily Californian. :laugh:
 
Truth Detector said:
Max Boot a Republican? :laugh:

Boot said he would “sooner vote for Josef Stalin than he would vote for Donald Trump.” Not a Conservative or a Republican. The guy has been surrounded by leftists all his life.

Boot was educated at the University of California, Berkeley (BA, History, 1991) and Yale University (MA, Diplomatic History, 1992).[1] He started his journalistic career writing columns for the Berkeley student newspaper The Daily Californian. :laugh:
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Lefties can't tell the difference between Rhinos, righties, Repubs, and conservatives. To them, we are all the same thing.
 
Evmetro said:
He was a lefty like McCain, Flake, Ryan, and the rest of the lefty rhino Repubs. When Trump came along, the rhino shitbags were hearing the same air raid siren sound that lefties were hearing. Trump pointed the spotlight on on all these shitbag rhinos and lefties, and the cockroaches went all over the place.
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So basically all Republicans are RINO's except for Trump?

Bro, talk about cult of personality. Damn.
 
cawacko said:
So basically all Republicans are RINO's except for Trump?

Bro, talk about cult of personality. Damn.
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Don't even bother trying to understand. Lefties can't tell the difference between Rhinos, righties, Repubs, and conservatives. To them, we are all the same thing.
 
Evmetro said:
Don't even bother trying to understand. Lefties can't tell the difference between Rhinos, righties, Repubs, and conservatives. To them, we are all the same thing.
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I'm a lifelong Republican. I'm trying to understand if you think everyone is a RINO except for Trump?
 
cawacko said:
I'm a lifelong Republican. I'm trying to understand if you think everyone is a RINO except for Trump?
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Political identity terms have become obsolete. Lefties identify by whatever description they need to to do the most damage, so I can only tell if a person is a lefty or righty by talking to them.

Basically today's political landscape is a political war with only two sides. Lefties and righties. I say war, since the two sides are polarized, and there will be no negotiations. Civics and journalism are dead, and we are in the pre bloodshed stage of an ugly political war. People claim all various political identifying terms, but there is no way to tell what they are without talking to them. It does not take long to determine what side of the war somebody is on if you talk to them.

I realize that there was once more meaning to all the political identifier terms, but that was then. The Trump thing you mentioned has some merit, since there were only two possible outcomes of the 2016 election. Obviously, lefties voted for the lefty, and righties voted for the righty. Those who voted for something other than one of the only two possible candidates are lefties by default.
 
cawacko said:
So because Hillary said "I'm sorry" because it didn't go as planned all is forgiven? I'm sorry, she had actual power to determine whether we went into Iraq or not. What people say on an anonymous message board is irrelevant. No one has power here. And Hillary Clinton didn't vote for Iraq because of Max Boot. She knew what she was doing. You give her a pass because she's a Democrat (which is your right). But it belies your moral outrage otherwise.
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When did you oppose the invasion of Iraq?
 
kudzu said:
I wrote many letters in the fall of 2002 opposing the invasion of Iraq.. Did you?
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Nope. I supported it. (although I did attend three large anti-war rallies in SF out of curiosity) But me supporting it and Hillary voting for it are two very different things.
 
cawacko said:
Nope. I supported it. (although I did attend three large anti-war rallies in SF out of curiosity) But me supporting it and Hillary voting for it are two very different things.
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Bush and Cheney cooked the intel and sold the war to the American people who are largely ignorant about the ME. They marginalized EVERYONE who opposed the plan to include diplomats, historians, Arabs, oilmen and the Europeans.. and inspectors..

The British set up Operation Mass Appeal to sell the war in 1998.

You fell for it and you blame Hillary.
 
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