{"id":46497,"date":"2023-07-18T15:15:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T22:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=46497"},"modified":"2023-07-20T22:05:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T05:05:58","slug":"responding-to-hate-mail-from-trump-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/responding-to-hate-mail-from-trump-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Responding to Hate Mail from Trump Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Chuck Muth)<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 In response to\u00a0yesterday\u2019s Muth\u2019s Truths<\/a>, in which I stated that if the election was held today \u2013 which it decidedly is\u00a0NOT<\/u>\u00a0\u2013 that I\u2019d vote for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, subscriber Marty Prince emailed\u2026
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cBLOCKED!\u00a0 We have enough douche bags I don\u2019t need to follow you\u201d<\/em>
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\u201cDouche bags\u201d?\u00a0 What a classy guy.
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Another reader referred to DeSantis as \u201cDesaster\u201d and called him an \u201cidiot, backstabbing, traitor.\u201d
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Ah, how to win friends and influence people.
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Sadly, former President Donald Trump and *some* of his more rabid fans who hope for a return of \u201cThe Donald\u201d to the White House are often their own worst enemies.\u00a0
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Some observations\u2026
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#1: You win elections by\u00a0ADDITION<\/u>, not subtraction.
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For Trump to come back and beat Biden next year (*if* Biden is the nominee), he\u2019s going to need to get\u00a0MORE<\/u>\u00a0voters than he did in 2020, not fewer.
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And at this point, the level of hate held against Trump \u2013 as deranged and unhinged as it is \u2013 is at least as strong, if not stronger, than it was the last time.
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Which means to win, he needs to win over \u201cpersuadables\u201d \u2013 people willing to consider voting for him in 2024 but are suffering from a severe bout of Trump fatigue.\u00a0 Put me in that camp.\u00a0
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I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s Trump or DeSantis or any of the other Republicans who wins the White House next year.\u00a0 No matter who it is, they\u2019ll be light years better than Sleepy Joe & the Cackler.
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So for me, it\u2019s all about who convinces me they have the best chance to win the November general election.\u00a0 And if I had to cast my ballot today, it\u2019d be for DeSantis even though I was a staunch Trump supporter in 2016 and 2020.
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If Trump and his die-hard fans want my vote, then persuade me that he has the best chance to win the general election.\u00a0\u00a0NOT<\/u>\u00a0the primary.\u00a0 The general.
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Now\u2026I\u2019m going to vote for Trump if he\u2019s the nominee.\u00a0 However, if Trump supporters keep attacking supporters of the other GOP candidates with all the personal bile and vitriol I\u2019ve gotten since my column yesterday, others won\u2019t.
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Remember, over 120,000 active registered Republican voters in Nevada did\u00a0NOT<\/u>\u00a0vote at all in the 2020 presidential general election.\u00a0 They stayed home.\u00a0
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So if you don\u2019t want a repeat of that next year, then stop trashing the supporters of other GOP presidential candidates \u2013 the majority of whom are good, solid conservatives, not RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) or \u201cdouche bags.\u201d
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You\u2019re gonna need \u2018em in the general.
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#2: Stop whining about DeSantis not \u201cwaiting his turn.\u201d
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Look, I get it.\u00a0 Have heard it a million times.\u00a0 Had DeSantis waited four years, he\u2019d have been the front-runner for the GOP nomination in 2028.
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But that train has left the station.\u00a0 Whether you think he should have waited or not, he didn\u2019t.\u00a0 He\u2019s running\u00a0THIS<\/u>\u00a0cycle. It is no longer an open question.\u00a0 It\u2019s a reality.\u00a0 So get over it and deal with what is, not what you wish it was.
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Ditto the notion that DeSantis should be Trump\u2019s veep.\u00a0 Yeah, I thought that made sense six months ago, too.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not going to happen.\u00a0 OK, it still might\u2026but the odds are strongly against it.
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Why would DeSantis risk getting the ol\u2019 \u201cMike Pence Treatment\u201d?
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#3: Another subscriber wrote\u2026
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe fact is, Trump will be our nominee. \u2026 I’ll bet you a c-note that Trump will be the Republican nominee.\u201d<\/em>
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Another wrote\u2026
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cYou know Chuck, I am getting a little tired of reading your comments about POTUS Trump\u2026 Get this through your head. DeSantis will never beat Biden or any other Democrat, PERIOD.\u201d<\/em>
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OK, fine.\u00a0 That\u2019s your opinion.\u00a0 And you might be right.\u00a0
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But if you\u00a0REALLY<\/u>\u00a0believe that, then why p*ss in the Wheaties of conservatives and Republicans who are supporting other candidates right now?\u00a0 If Trump has it in the bag, why go scorched earth on the other candidates and their supporters?\u00a0
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As I\u2019ve noted over and over again, Trump is going to need those Republicans in the general if he turns out to be the nominee.\u00a0 Why? \u00a0At the risk of repeating myself, because you win elections by\u00a0ADDITION<\/u>, not subtraction.
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#4: Give the Jeb Bush crud a rest.
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Look, I have no love for the Bush clan.\u00a0 And I\u2019m reminded of that every time I\u2019m accosted at the airport by the TSA.
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But just because the Bushes are supporting DeSantis doesn\u2019t mean DeSantis is another Bush.\u00a0 Indeed, while Jeb supported amnesty for illegal aliens, DeSantis recently stated that illegal aliens trying to break through our border wall would risk getting shot if he\u2019s president.
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And remember the old adage that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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The Bushes hate Trump \u2013 especially Jeb after what Trump did to him in the 2016 GOP primary.\u00a0 So is it really any surprise that the former governor of Florida is supporting the current governor of Florida in the 2024 GOP presidential primary?
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Frankly, it doesn\u2019t mean beans. DeSantis is his own man, whether you like him or not.
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The Wonderful World of Disney<\/strong>
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Marketing expert Dan Kennedy weighs in on Disney\u2019s ongoing travails\u2026
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0On its first weekend, the new movie about the old Indiana Jones laid a box office egg, bringing in $160-million from all sources vs. a $250-million production cost. Its owner, Disney, will be lucky just to break even over many months, mostly from foreign distribution.<\/em>
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0It is my contention that the movie industry is destroying itself. And when Disney looks in the magic mirror and asks, \u201cWho\u2019s the dumbest of them all?\u201d the mirror will say, \u201cYou.\u201d<\/em>
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Disney has the added problem of alienating huge numbers of Dads and Moms with its political misadventures, remaking of classic films to force \u201cdiversity,\u201d etc.\u00a0 In the first quarter of 2023, they had a net loss of 4-million Disney+ subscribers. People ARE saying: \u201cWe want NOTHING to do with Disney. Not even Indiana Jones.\u201d<\/em>
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Go woke. Go broke.
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The Cackler Steps in Deep Doo-Doo<\/strong>
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The Human Gaffe Machine, Vice President Kamala Harris, did it again.\u00a0 In a speech in Baltimore this past weekend, Harris said\u2026
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cWhen we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water.\u201d<\/em>
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\u201cReduce population\u201d?\u00a0 I guess now we know why she\u2019s such a staunch supporter of abortion.
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The shovel brigade charged with walking behind Kamala and cleaning up her mess jumped in to say she misspoke (naturally), claiming Biden\u2019s #2 meant to say \u201creduce pollution.\u201d\u00a0
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And if you believe that one\u2026
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FAMOUS LAST WORDS<\/strong>
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\u201cCommunist China currently owns over 380,000 acres of American farmland. America cannot give China more control of our food supply, which is why I was especially proud to support the provision that will prevent adversaries like China from purchasing agricultural land.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV)<\/em><\/strong>
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Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, publisher of Nevada News & Views, and founder of CampaignDoctor.com.\u00a0 You can sign up for his conservative, Nevada-focused e-newsletter at MuthsTruths.com.\u00a0 His views are his own.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Chuck Muth)\u00a0\u2013 In response to\u00a0yesterday\u2019s Muth\u2019s Truths, in which I stated that if the election was held today \u2013 which it decidedly is\u00a0NOT\u00a0\u2013 that I\u2019d vote for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, subscriber Marty Prince emailed\u2026\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cBLOCKED!\u00a0 We have enough douche bags I don\u2019t need to follow you\u201d\u00a0\u201cDouche bags\u201d?\u00a0 What a classy guy.\u00a0Another reader referred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[748],"tags":[3466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46499,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46497\/revisions\/46499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}