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Related: About this forumTrump Often Flubs When ‘Speaking Conservative’
Trump Often Flubs When Speaking Conservativehttps://politicalwire.com/2016/08/10/trump-often-flubs-when-speaking-conservative/
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Vox: This isnt the first time something like this has happened: Donald Trump, trying to express an orthodox conservative view, ends up saying something that lots of Americans find brutal and extreme.
Think about when he answered a question about outlawing abortion by saying that women who sought abortions should receive some form of punishment. Think about when he answered a debate question about raising the minimum wage by protesting that wages are too high.'
These arent Trumps own core issues, or the issues of his base. But theyre important to swaths of the Republican Party. As the partys nominee, hes tried to learn how to speak their language. But he speaks it with a heavy accent and woeful miscommunication ensues.
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Trump Often Flubs When ‘Speaking Conservative’ (Original Post)
applegrove
Aug 2016
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It takes forever for dyslexics to learn something they do not know in a 3D way. Since most of
applegrove
Aug 2016
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applegrove
(118,676 posts)1. It takes forever for dyslexics to learn something they do not know in a 3D way. Since most of
GOP policy is bull****, Trump will always be flying without a net when he tries to talk about the GOP real policies.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)2. That's becasue he dumbs it down to its actual meanig, instead of the hidden meaning most Rs use.
Seriously, if conservatives were honest about what they really want, reasonable people would flee from their ideas.
(e.g. "school choice" really means "get public money into private hands by closing public schools"
applegrove
(118,676 posts)3. He certainly pulls down fictions.