It's a man's job to be President

[UCmeNdc]

“Here’s the bottom line. You live in an America that’s still a lot like your parents’ America. It’s mostly white. Nobody’s displacing and replacing you. It’s pretty safe too. You can read about rising crime—you don’t live it. In your America, you worry about how there aren’t enough women making Hollywood films or sitting on corporate boards. In our America, the gender gap closed a long time ago—and then went into reverse. Obama in the Oval Office was humiliating enough. But Hillary will be worse: We’re going to lose any idea at all that leadership is a man’s job.

“You’ve been building up to this for a long time. No more Superheroes rescuing women in the movies. The girl always has to throw the last punch herself. In the commercials, Dad’s either an idiot—or he’s doing the housework with his boyfriend.

"And you know what? It’s not just our hillbilly voters who are going to vote ‘no’ to all that. A lot of men you never imagined will vote for us. Trump’s going to do better with Latino men than you expect—probably no worse than Romney. He’s going to do better with black men than Romney ever did. And his numbers with white men will be out of sight. Every time you demand that Donald show respect to Hillary—while laughing as Hillary disrespects Donald—you push those numbers up.

“You tell us we’re a minority now? OK. We’re going to start acting like a minority. We’re going to vote like a bloc, and we’re going to vote for our bloc's champion. So long as he keeps faith with us against you, we’ll keep faith with him against you. Donald's a scam artist, you tell me. You’re from The Atlantic? Read that great book by one of your former colleagues, Jack Beatty, about Boston’s Mayor Curley, The Rascal King. Curley was a scam artist. The Boston Irish loved him for it—even when he scammed them, too—because Curley pissed off the people the Boston Irish hated and who hated them. (I can still say ‘pissed off,’ right?) It’s going to be just that way with Donald. I mean, Mr. Trump. I mean, President Trump.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/backing-donald-trump/493619/

[liberal N proud]

1. I feel sorry for people who believe this garbage

They are missing so much.

[Rex]

2. What a bunch of delusional drivel.

Trump trolls are pathetic, they have no idea what it is like to be in the minority. So they are going to act like the minority bloc now and get use to nationwide voter suppression?

Clueless.

[oberliner]

7. It's a satire

"presented in the voice of an imagined Trump supporter"

[kcr]

13. Satire my ass

"And the cops! One minute you’re calling them murderers, the next you’re slobbering all over them. Our voters are cops. They know who’s on their side. Not you." Nope. That was a pointed comment right there. No way that's satire.

Same with this one: "Tom Kean/Tim Kaine? So, so sorry we got the name of your latest precious progressive New South governor a little mixed up. Just kidding: not even a little bit sorry. What you need to take on board is how profoundly so many Americans do not give a … oh yeah, you still live in a country where people don’t use language like that when they talk about politics. Come visit Reddit sometime and see how the other half lives."

But I believe him. He's not even a little bit sorry. It could not be more transparent. I'm not saying he supports Trump, but his disdain for Dems and progressives could not be more obvious. He thinks Trump is going to win and anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot.

[Motley13]

3. What are you doing here with your garbage?

n/t

[UCmeNdc]

5. How the election looks to backers of the Republican nominee

This is what the article says about Donald Trump supporters. I think reading the article will give DU members food for thought. Know thy enemy.

[underpants]

4. The last stand of the white guy

This is it. I'm as white as you get BTW. 21st century. It's all been changing too fast (50 -100 years) and now it seems like the world is about to cave in. And the weird part is that everything they were ever told about white privilege, not that they call it that, didn't actually happen for them no matter how many rules they followed.

[oberliner]

8. This is satire by the way

Not sure if you got the context.

[underpants]

10. I got that

[prarie deem]

6. What do you expect

from David Frum?

[Warren DeMontague]

9. That's kind of a stupid article.

It is the height of intellectual laziness to construct an opponent's imaginary argument and then stick it in their mouth, only to proceed to try and argue against it.

It's the kind of crap people do here when they just don't have the chops to actually engage with what people are truly saying. Here, I'm gonna make up a bunch of shit you never said, and then surprisingly I am fully prepared to dissect it point by point.

Okay, Frum claims he "constructed it from what people are saying". Still, it's silly. Kind of a pointless exercise.

[bettyellen]

11. It's the kind of intellectual laziness I saw here time after time directed at

Hillary's supporters. By people who were squalling about emails and hit lists instead of policies no less.

[Warren DeMontague]

12. I've seen a lot of it here, too.

Unfortunately bad arguments are rampant on ye olde intertubes.

Maybe the silver lining here is that they couldn't find an actual Trump supporter to explain in several paragraphs what the deal is.