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      "body": "So crazy... I think the greater story here that's shaping up is the lefts strategy of personal attacks... their media narrative is so bent toward personal destruction (Madonna blowing up the White House, DeNiro \"punching him in the face\" Kathy Griffin beheading trump, this weeks assassination of Trump in N.Y. version of Julius Caesar. Its unending.) \n\nDoesn't take much for a marginalized loner to be radicalized on this diet, in fact, the guy that did the shooting was on a diet of MSNBC where he, not unlike millions of others, listens to Rachael Madcow, inhales the swamp gas and looses touch with reality. The danger is that this deranged hatred of Trump programs the Left to feel much like Jihadist. They soon start thinking it's their moral duty to save the free world from their imaginary Adolph.\n\nThe left has always avoided debate and preferred branding and vilifying their enemies. Its easier to label the opposition as a homophobe, islamaphobe, racist, whatever...\n\nIn this sense they are progressive, as they have moved from battling ideas to destroying individuals livelihoods, careers and reputations to the final phase- flat out doing violence to those they disagree with. We saw it at Trump rallies where the left infiltrated with paid agitators and then held up signs saying \"love Trumps hate.\" Truth is - the Left loves to hate Trump. It works. \n\nThey get to raise lost of money and keep their base engaged till midterms 2018. We saw this stoked up hostility at the D.C. Inauguration where they destroyed property and torched a limo and hurt a Hispanic driver.\nWe saw it again a few weeks ago in a crazed knife wielding Bernie supporter and with another Bernie supporter targeting Republicans on a ball field.\n\nAt the end of the day this is a SPIRIT we are battling. But it is a spirit that is taking over more and more minds all the time. It is rooted in an ideology and that ideology is now rooted into an American political party and that party has control of media and media is in a full tilt 24 hr filibuster to prosecute and impeach Donald Trump. They are stoking the violence and discontent.\n\nLets pray as David prayed when exasperated by rebellious plotters, \"they prepared a pit for my feet and have fallen into it themselves.\" May the nature of this spirit be so manifest that it brings the nation to its collective senses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahqLdjSBEHY\n\n\nWhen people you know well, admire, and who share your values do something you strongly oppose, you have two options:\n1) Cease admiring them or 2) try to understand them and change their minds.\n\nIn the case of my conservative friends who still snipe (or worse) at President Trump, I have rejected option one. The reason — beside the fact that I simply like many of them — is what I refer to as “moral bank accounts.”\n\nEvery time we do good, we make a deposit into our moral bank account. And every time we do something bad, we make a withdrawal. These conservatives have made so many deposits into their moral bank accounts that, in my view, their accounts all remain firmly in the black.\n\nThat means my only choice is option two. But to try to change their minds, I must first try to understand their thinking.\nI have concluded that there are a few reasons that explain conservatives who were Never-Trumpers during the election, and who remain anti-Trump today.\n\nThe first and, by far, the greatest reason is this: They do not believe that America is engaged in a civil war, with the survival of America as we know it at stake.\n\nWhile they strongly differ with the left, they do not regard the left-right battle as an existential battle for preserving the nation. On the other hand, I, and other conservative Trump supporters, do.\n\nThat is why, after vigorously opposing Trump’s candidacy during the Republican primaries, I vigorously supported him once he won the nomination. I believed then, as I do now, that America was doomed if a Democrat had been elected president. With the Supreme Court and hundreds of additional federal judgeships in the balance; with the Democrats’ relentless push toward European-style socialism — completely undoing the unique American value of limited government; the misuse of the government to suppress conservative speech; the continuing degradation of the universities and high schools; the weakening of the American military; and so much more, America, as envisioned by the Founders, would have been lost, perhaps irreversibly. The “fundamental transformation” that candidate Barack Obama promised in 2008 would have been completed by Hillary Clinton in 2016.\n\nTo my amazement, no anti-Trump conservative writer sees it that way. They all thought during the election, and still think, that while it would not have been a good thing if Hillary Clinton had won, it wouldn’t have been a catastrophe either.\n\nThat’s it, in a nutshell. \n\nMany conservatives, including me, believe that it would have been close to over for America as America if the Republican candidate, who happened to be a flawed man named Donald Trump, had not won. Moreover, I am certain that only Donald Trump would have defeated Hillary Clinton.\nIn other words, I believe that Donald Trump may have saved the country. And that, in my book, covers a lot of sins — foolish tweets, included.\n\nThe Never-Trump conservative argument that Trump is not a conservative – one that I, too, made repeatedly during the Republican primaries – is not only no longer relevant, it is no longer true.\n\nHad any Never-Trump conservative been told, say in the summer of 2015, that a Republican would win the 2016 election and, within his first few months in office, appoint a conservative to the Supreme Court; begin the process of replacing Obamacare; bomb Russia’s ally, Assad, after the country again used chemical weapons; appoint the most conservative cabinet in modern American history; begin undoing hysteria-based, economy-choking EPA regulations; label the Iranian regime “evil” in front of 50 Muslim heads of state; wear a yarmulke at the Western Wall; appoint a U.N. ambassador who regularly condemns the U.N. for its moral hypocrisy; restore the military budget; and work on lowering corporate tax rates, among other conservative achievements — that Never-Trump conservative would have been jumping for joy.\n\nSo, why aren’t anti-Trump conservatives jumping for joy?\n\nI have come to believe that many conservatives possess what I once thought was a left-wing monopoly — a utopian streak. Trump is too far from their ideal leader to be able to support him.\n\nThere is also a cultural divide. Anti-Trump conservatives are a very refined group of people. Trump doesn’t talk like them. Moreover, the cultural milieu in which the vast majority of anti-Trump conservatives live and/or work means that to support Trump is to render oneself contemptible at all elite dinner parties. In addition, anti-Trump conservatives see themselves as highly moral people (which they often are) who are duty-bound not to compromise themselves by strongly supporting Trump, whom they largely view as morally defective.\n\nFinally, these people are only human: After investing so much energy in opposing Trump’s election, and after predicting his nomination would lead to electoral disaster, it’s hard to for them to admit they were wrong. To see him fulfill many of his conservative election promises, again in defiance of predictions, is a bitter pill. But if they hang on to their Never-Trumpism and the president falls on his face, they can say they were right all along.\n\nThat means that only if he fails can their reputations be redeemed. And they, of course, know that.\n\nBut there is another way.\n\nThey can join the fight. They can accept an imperfect reality and acknowledge that we are in a civil war, and that Trump, with all his flaws, is your general. If this general is going to win, he needs the best fighters. But too many of them, some of the best minds of the conservative movement, are AWOL.\n\nI beg them: Please report for duty.",
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