Jan. 17, 2024 - Dennis Prager Show
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| Brett Stevens hates Donald Trump. | |
| But he wrote a... | |
| In fact, he said he voted for Joe Biden, even though he is essentially conservative in his instincts. | |
| And nevertheless, he wrote a piece for the New York Times this weekend, January 11th. | |
| What is today? | |
| The 15th. | |
| So last week. | |
| The end of last week. | |
| I just read it this weekend. | |
| And the New York Times readers hated it. | |
| Just hated it. | |
| Do you know how many comments there are? | |
| It gives you an idea of the passion that arose. | |
| 2,945 comments. | |
| I don't know if you can still make a comment. | |
| After 100, I don't assume most are read. | |
| But I read them and they hated him. | |
| And so this is the finest piece, or one of the finest pieces I have read on the case for Trump. | |
| And it's titled, The Case for Trump by Someone Who Wants Him to Lose. | |
| After reading this, don't you wonder why do you want him to lose? | |
| So there is only one answer, and that is he hates the man. | |
| And I had a number of dialogues with Brett Stephens over this, including the New York Times Facebook page. | |
| And a while ago he wrote a column criticizing me for supporting Trump. | |
| And it's somewhere in the archives. | |
| Barring a political miracle, you really need to hear this piece. | |
| You should send this, really send this, to... | |
| Every person in your life who is angry at you because you will vote for Trump if he is nominated and say, this is a New York Times columnist who hates Donald Trump. | |
| Maybe you will read him whereas you won't listen to me. | |
| This is really a good thing to do for you, for your relationships. | |
| Barring a political miracle or an act of God, it is overwhelmingly likely that Donald Trump will again be the Republican Party's nominee for president. | |
| Assuming the Democratic nominee in the fall is Joe Biden, polls show Trump with a better-than-even chance of returning to the White House next year. | |
| Lord help us. | |
| What should those of us who have consistently opposed him do? | |
| And he has. | |
| He has consistently opposed Donald Trump. | |
| You can't defeat an opponent if you refuse to understand what makes him formidable. | |
| For that alone, you should send this piece. | |
| Are we putting it up at DennisPrager.com? | |
| You should send this piece to your son or daughter who is deeply angry to the point of perhaps even alienation from you. | |
| You can't defeat an opponent if you refuse to understand what makes him formidable. | |
| For that alone, you should send this peace to all the Democrats in your life. | |
| Too many people, especially progressives, fail to think deeply about the enduring sources of his appeal. | |
| And to do so without calling him names or disparaging his supporters. | |
| By the way, he admits he's called him names. | |
| He compared him to Mussolini. | |
| He admitted it. | |
| Or disparaging his supporters. | |
| You hear that? | |
| Are you a supporter who's been disparaged by members of your family or friends? | |
| Too many people have done this. | |
| Or attributing his resurgence to nefarious foreign actors or the unfairness of the Electoral College. | |
| It's already off to a good start. | |
| Since I will spend the coming year strenuously opposing his candidacy, let me here make the best case for Trump that I can. | |
| Begin with fundamentals. | |
| Trump got three big things right, or at least more right than wrong. | |
| Arguably the single most important geopolitical fact of the century is the mass migration of people from south to north and east to west, causing tectonic demographic, cultural, economic, and ultimately political shifts. | |
| Trump understood this from the start of his presidential candidacy. | |
| In 2015, the same year Europe was overwhelmed by a largely uncontrolled migration from the Middle East and Africa. | |
| As he said, a nation without borders is not a nation at all. | |
| We must have a wall. | |
| The rule of law matters. | |
| Many of Trump's opponents refuse to see virtually unchecked migration as a problem for the West at all. | |
| The lines in this piece are just so true. | |
| Many of Trump's opponents refuse to see virtually unchecked migration as a problem for the West at all. | |
| I would go further. | |
| Liberals don't see it as a problem. | |
| Progressives see it as a great thing. | |
| The more the West stops being the West, the more progressives Our today's communists like it. | |
| How a society produces, how a good society produces people like this, that's a real, real problem trying to figure that out. | |
| I've devoted my life to it. |
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