Bernard Goldberg: Voters Will Tolerate a Lot -- Until They Start Losing Money

"Voters Will Tolerate a Lot -- Until They Start Losing Money

Let’s begin with a question now that President Trump has crossed that traditional marker of 100 days in office: How much chaos are Americans willing to tolerate if their money is in the crosshairs?

Yes, the MAGA faithful — the ones who would jump off a cliff if the president told them to take a flying leap — are unshakable. Maybe they make up 25% of his base.

But the real story lies with the broader coalition that put Trump in office — folks who weren’t obsessed with him, just tired of being ignored. They didn’t show up for the circus; they showed up because they liked the promise: secure the border, shrink government, stop the woke madness, and put America first again.

Give Trump credit. He pretty much shut down the southern border — illegal immigration went from a flood under Joe Biden to a trickle now. And DEI is on the run. But Trump has problems: Americans have lost faith in his ability to handle the economy — and maybe more important, they’ve lost faith in Donald Trump himself...

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From Joe Walsh: Dear leader says the people only need 3 or 4 dolls. He says they only need 5 pencils. Dear leader is a communist. Way to go MAGA.

Aaron Rupar: Trump: "I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls ... they don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five."

From Joe Walsh

Today, I had a choice as far as best available stories to talk about. And since unlike with my colleague Erik Schneider, I haven't seen any films recently that interest me, (ha, ha) it came down to a political satire piece about socialism, (1 of The New Democrat's favorite verbal punching bags) or President Donald J. Trump (MAGA, Florida) trying to make the case for communism... the extreme version of socialism. So I'm sort of going with socialist humor and The Communist Don in the same post. I hope it works out.

Before some whacked-out leftist try's to tell me that Communists don't believe in "paying more for less"... fine. I'm not actually saying that they believe that. More like that tends to happen when Communists are in power: empty store shelves and whatever is left, is too expensive for the average consumer in that country. 

As Bernard of Clairvaux so accurately said: the road to Hell was paved with good intentions. Meaning that you shouldn't just look at the intent of any policy, especially government policy, but the consequences of that policy as well. 

Communists might not want their people to spend more money for less, but in an actual Communist State, (take North Korea) that's exactly what tends to happen. Because the national government is the only source in town for the basic necessities and there's no one there pushing them to be as efficient and productive as possible. And 1 of those reasons, is the people there can't even complain to their government, (without risk of going to jail) when state-run-businesses aren't producing enough affordable goods. 

So when MAGA's Dear Leader President Donald J. Trump, tells Meet The Press Anchor Kristen Welker: 

"I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls ... they don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five."

The President doesn't even sound like a Republican. He sounds more like a Communist, because he's telling everyone what he personally thinks, every American needs to live well... at least on this issue. And that's what Joe Walsh was congratulating (I'm sure sarcastically) MAGA and I'm sure everyone else who voted for Donald Trump last year: "Congratulations! You voted for a Communist for President!"

If Americans wanted to spend more money for less, tax hikes would not just be popular in this country, but all the Socialists in America would be emptied out of their closets... all the Socialist closets would be emptied, because leftists would no longer fear about being outed as Socialists.

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