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President Donald Trumps approval ratings may have reached historic lows in record time, but even as 40 percent of the country wants him impeached, supporters of Trump seem mystified by the fierceness of the opposition he faces even as individuals on the fence often admit to feeling turned off by that same hostility.

Theyre stonewalling everything that hes doing because theyre just being babies about it, Patricia Melani, a 56-year-old New Jersey transplant who attended Trumps campaign rally in Florida on Saturday, toldThe Washington Post. All the loudmouths? They need to let it go. Let it go. Shut their mouths and let the man do what hes got to do. We all shut our mouths when Obama got in the second time around, okay? So thats what really needs to be done.

She later added, Theres such hatred for the man. I just dont get it.

The Post also quoted a 28-year-old car salesman named Tony Lopez, who said It was hilarious to see him give it to the media. The medias problem is that they keep wanting to make up stories so that he looks bad. It doesnt work. Hes talking right through you guys.

The Post also spoke to a42-year-old Cameroonian immigrant who believed that Trump had saved coal miners jobs: If he hadnt gotten into office, 70,000 miners would have been put out of work. I saw the ceremony where he signed that bill, giving them their jobs back, and he had miners with their hard hats and everything you could see how happy they were.

Of course, Trump supporters did not have a reputation for being calm during the 2016 campaign. One New York Times article reportedrallies that included chants of Kill her! Trump that bitch! and Build a wall kill them all! In that context, stories about a Trump opponent stating in a Craigslist posting for a roommate that Trump supporters need not apply seem mild by comparison.

At the same time, as The New York Times reported, people who have been on the fence about Trump often say they wind up supporting him due to the attitudes they perceive from liberals.

Were backed into a corner, a 46-year-old small business owner told The Times. There are at least some things about Trump I find to be defensible. But they are saying: Agree with us 100 percent or you are morally bankrupt. Youre an idiot if you support any part of Trump.

As he summited up, I didnt choose a side. They put me on one.

Bryce Youngquist, a 34-year-old salesman from California, argued that the name calling from the left is crazy. He also pointed out that liberals were making me want to support him more with how irrational they were being.

Ann OConnell, a 72-year-old registered Democrat who abandoned the party over what she felt was an inordinate emphasis on identity politics, complained that the Democratic Party has changed so much that I dont even recognize it anymore. These people are destroying our democracy. They are scarier to me than these Islamic terrorists. I feel absolutely disgusted with them and their antics. It strengthens peoples resolve in wanting to support President Trump. It really does.

As the article also pointed out, a Pew Research Center poll found that Trump has a 70 percent approval rating among Republican-leaning moderates.

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Liberals and the Trump Blame Game New York Times Trump grew out of the political right, including Fox News and the false birther conspiracy theory. He was able to become president because the Republican establishment ultimately rallied to him. Liberals clearly failed in their attempts to stop Trump ...

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Are Liberals Helping Trump? Not Much, Apparently Common Dreams Are Liberals Helping Trump? asks the New York Times national correspondent Sabrina Tavernise (2/18/17). She seems to think they are. Jeffrey Medford, a small-business owner in South Carolina [who] voted reluctantly for Donald Trumpshould be a ... Are Liberals Helping Trump?New York Times NYT piece asks, 'Are Liberals Helping Trump?' Conservative Twitter answers with a resounding 'DUH'Twitchy NY Times asks 'Are liberals helping Trump?' Resounding answers should clear things upBizPac Review Cosmopolitan.com all 9 news articles »

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There is an old story in politics from the 1950s, where Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson is approached by a confident aide who tells him that he has the thinking people on his side, to which Stevenson replies, ah, but I need a majority. Liberalism is rooted in condescension, which is hidden under the veneer of tolerance andsupportingfree speech. It is actuallyremarkable: a group of overly indoctrinated individuals have managed to successfully polish a turd--until now.

For liberals, Hillary Clinton was so amazingly qualified to be president. She could have been the first female president, and she had a long history of publicservice etc. except no one liked her. No one has ever really liked Hillary except hard-core liberals, and theyre not the majority of the country. She was also dishonest, inauthentic, not trustworthy, and overly secretive. These characteristics were hurled at her in the 1990s, and rehashed when her campaign stumbled endlessly trying to explain how her unsecure and unauthorized private email server was okay for her to use for official business secretary of state. The ethical quid pro quo allegations at the Clinton Foundationwere also another source of heartburn for the campaign. Though there was an absence of hard evidence, it appears a pattern as common: good things happened to big donors to the Clinton Foundation. Just take a look at the Rosatom takeover of Uranium One as an example. All feed into the notion that voters couldnt trust Hillary, that she was in it for herself, and that she was a typical politician:all talk, no action. She lost in one of the biggest political upsets in American history.

As liberals deal with ruins of their movement and the Democratic Party struggles to find its way out of political exile, theyre lashing out at Trump voters, even reluctant ones who theycould flip in 2020. Those who out themselves are then besieged by judgment by the urban-based elite, who still haven't noticed that their way of thinking failed to win over voters. In fact, it was the opposite; millions of Obama voters voted for Trump. Talk about compounding the suck that is Hillary Rodham Clinton.

So, as liberals think theyre gaining ground with a Tea Party of their own (i.e. town hall protests)and continue to embrace identity politics because nothing says insanity than smashing your face against the same wall twice for a different result, they also have to know that its only emboldening Trump voters. The New York Times had an article that showed how even Democrats from the Clinton era are sick of the progressive antics that have taken over their party, namely that fact that BillClinton pretty much reiterated much of what Trump said about immigration. The only difference is that Bill was lauded for it; Trump is smeared as a racist. It also delves into how dating is becoming a game of cloak and dagger for some, with dates lying to their friends about political affiliations to avoid being shunned. While others make it very clear that theyre not interested in Trump supporters. So, in liberal America, your vote is all that defines you. And they say the GOP has an outreach problem.

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Mr. Medford should be a natural ally for liberals trying to convince the country that Mr. Trump was a bad choice. But it is not working out that way. Every time Mr. Medford dips into the political debate either with strangers on Facebook or friends in New York and Los Angeles he comes away feeling battered by contempt and an attitude of moral superiority.

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Liberals may feel energized by a surge in political activism, and a unified stance against a president they see as irresponsible and even dangerous. But that momentum is provoking an equal and opposite reaction on the right. In recent interviews, conservative voters said they felt assaulted by what they said was a kind of moral Bolshevism the belief that the liberal vision for the country was the only right one. Disagreeing meant being publicly shamed.

Protests and righteous indignation on social media and in Hollywood may seem to liberals to be about policy and persuasion. But moderate conservatives say they are having the opposite effect, chipping away at their middle ground and pushing them closer to Mr. Trump.

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Conservatives have gotten vicious, too, sometimes with Mr. Trumps encouragement. But if political action is meant to persuade people that Mr. Trump is bad for the country, then people on the fence would seem a logical place to start. Yet many seemingly persuadable conservatives say that liberals are burning bridges rather than building them.

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It is tempting to blame Mr. Trump for Americas toxic political state of mind. He has wreaked havoc on political civility and is putting American democratic institutions through the most robust stress test in decades. But many experts argue that he is a symptom, not a cause, and that the roots go deeper.

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The Democratic Party has changed so much that I dont even recognize it anymore, she said. These people are destroying our democracy. They are scarier to me than these Islamic terrorists. I feel absolutely disgusted with them and their antics. It strengthens peoples resolve in wanting to support President Trump. It really does.

Polling data suggest many center-right voters feel the same way. The first poll by the Pew Research Center on presidential job performance since Mr. Trump took office showed last week that while he has almost no support from Democrats, he has high marks among moderates who lean Republican: 70 percent approve, while 20 percent disapprove.

Looks like liberals are doing a bang up job getting Trump that second term, especially those who work in Hollywood.

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NYT: Yep, Liberal Tantrums and Identity Politics Are Helping Trump (Secure That Second Term) - Townhall

Every time I hear someone use the term liberal in reference to the criminals literally attempting to tear our country apart, I want to scream, No! I know plenty of actual liberals. Those people are not liberals!

After all, the dictionary definition of liberal includes phrases like open-minded and generous. Thats a pretty apt description of most of my center-left friends. We may not always see eye to eye, but for the most part theyre good people who want the same things I want: peace, prosperity, safe neighborhoods, good schools.

The same cannot be said for those using the presidential election as a pretext for rioting, looting, assaulting innocents, engaging in intimidation tactics and fomenting violent rebellion. They are neither open-minded nor generous, nor do they want the same things normal, rational Americans want.

Thats why todays political landscape is so much more fraught than it was even a few years ago. Once upon a time, I assumed virtually all Americans, whether they typically voted Democrat or Republican, had essentially the same values they just disagreed on the mechanics.

I no longer believe that. It is now obvious to me that a significant percentage of people who identify as Democrats, or at least vote for Democrat candidates, want nothing less than the utter destruction of our nation its borders, its culture, its identity, its moral code. I used to think that if the two sides could just sit down and talk, we could come to some sort of mutual understanding. Now I wonder how those of us in the normal and rational category can even begin to have a conversation with people like the Berkeley rioters. We dont even speak the same language, much less share similar values.

A bigger problem, however, is that those who vote Democrat but are still rational, what we might call classical liberals a steadily shrinking percentage of Democrat voters have been largely silent about the violence and intimidation perpetrated by others in their party. Ive heard very few voices on the left condemning riots or calls for the wholesale slaughter of police officers and white people.

In this way, the center-left has become very much like the moderate Muslims we keep hearing so much about, but all too rarely hear from.

I, for one, am perfectly willing eager, even to accept that the vast majority of Muslims do not condone terrorism. But that becomes more difficult when so few denounce the atrocities carried out in the name of Islam. We must conclude that most Muslims either support those atrocities or else are afraid to speak out and the latter seems far more likely.

So it is now with moderate Democrats. We assume they dont really want to see police officers or other innocents murdered, or the fabric of our society ripped to shreds. But silence can only persist for so long before it becomes consent.

Rob Jenkins is a local freelance writer and the author of four books, including Family Man: The Art of Surviving Domestic Tranquility, available at Books for Less in Buford and on Amazon. Email Rob at rjenkinsgdp@yahoo.com.

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