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From liberal columnist Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. She can be honest at times. I hope that none of her usual readers pay any attention and try to learn from this.

My basket of deplorables

Good read.........

She pretty much nailed it, and no, they won't listen.

Had it their way so long, they can not except the change.

The "Democratic" party has morphed into the American Communist Party. There really wasn't much difference between the Reagan Republicans and the John Kennedy Democrats. The people who supported them were the Salt of the Earth. Today, we have simply communists in socialist clothing, wanting to suppress dissent.

Except, if you read the article, Ms Dowd did not write it. She merely co-opted her conservative brother's written words.

I would like to hear her say she has learned something from this election and her "scoldings".

That was an AWESOME read. She nailed it.

Are we allowed to copy and post the article content if we give the source? If so, somebody please do. It won't let me view, over my limit for the month. Sorry, newbie question...

Here ya go:

WASHINGTON — First I had to deal with the president-elect scolding.

During his interview with The New York Times on Tuesday, Donald Trump chided me twice for being too tough on him.

Sitting next to our publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Trump invited everyone around the table to call him if they saw anything “where you feel that I’m wrong.”

“You can call me, Arthur can call me, I would love to hear,” he said. “The only one who can’t call me is Maureen. She treats me too rough.”

Then I had to go home for Thanksgiving and deal with my family scolding me about the media misreading the country. I went cold turkey to eat hot turkey: no therapy dog, no weaving therapy, no yoga, no acupuncture, no meditation, no cry-in.

The minute I saw my sister’s Trump champagne and a Cersei figurine as the centerpiece — my brother, Kevin, nicknamed Hillary “Cersei” during this year’s brutal game of thrones — I knew I wasn’t in a safe space.

My little basket of deplorables, as I call my conservative family, gloated with Trump toasts galore, and Kevin presented me with his annual holiday column with an extra flourish.

My colleague Paul Krugman tweeted Friday that “affluent, educated suburbanites” who voted for Trump are “fools.” What else is there to say, he asked.

Well, here is what Kevin, an affluent, educated suburbanite, has to say in his column, titled an “Election Therapy Guide for Liberals”:

Donald Trump pulled off one of the greatest political feats in modern history by defeating Hillary Clinton and the vaunted Clinton machine.

The election was a complete repudiation of Barack Obama: his fantasy world of political correctness, the politicization of the Justice Department and the I.R.S., an out-of-control E.P.A., his neutering of the military, his nonsupport of the police and his fixation on things like transgender bathrooms. Since he became president, his party has lost 63 House seats, 10 Senate seats and 14 governorships.

The country had signaled strongly in the last two midterms that they were not happy. The Dems’ answer was to give them more of the same from a person they did not like or trust.

Preaching — and pandering — with a message of inclusion, the Democrats have instead become a party where incivility and bad manners are taken for granted, rudeness is routine, religion is mocked and there is absolutely no respect for a differing opinion. This did not go down well in the Midwest, where Trump flipped three blue states and 44 electoral votes.

The rudeness reached its peak when Vice President-elect Mike Pence was booed by attendees of “Hamilton” and then pompously lectured by the cast. This may play well with the New York theater crowd but is considered boorish and unacceptable by those of us taught to respect the office of the president and vice president, if not the occupants.

Here is a short primer for the young protesters. If your preferred candidate loses, there is no need for mass hysteria, canceled midterms, safe spaces, crying rooms or group primal screams. You might understand this better if you had not received participation trophies, undeserved grades to protect your feelings or even if you had a proper understanding of civics. The Democrats are now crying that Hillary had more popular votes. That can be her participation trophy.

If any of my sons had told me they were too distraught over a national election to take an exam, I would have brought them home the next day, fearful of the instruction they were receiving. Not one of the top 50 colleges mandate one semester of Western Civilization. Maybe they should rethink that.
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Something for some members of the Dowd family to celebrate their candidate’s victory, and at least one to drown her sorrows. Credit Kevin Dowd

Mr. Trump received over 62 million votes, not all of them cast by homophobes, Islamaphobes, racists, sexists, misogynists or any other “ists.” I would caution Trump deniers that all of the crying and whining is not good preparation for the coming storm. The liberal media, both print and electronic, has lost all credibility. I am reasonably sure that none of the mainstream print media had stories prepared for a Trump victory. I watched the networks and cable stations in their midnight meltdown — embodied by Rachel Maddow explaining to viewers that they were not having a “terrible, terrible dream” and that they had not died and “gone to hell.”

The media’s criticism of Trump’s high-level picks as “not diverse enough” or “too white and male” — a day before he named two women and offered a cabinet position to an African-American — magnified this fact.

Here is a final word to my Democratic friends. The election is over. There will not be a do-over. So let me bid farewell to Al Sharpton, Ben Rhodes and the Clintons. Note to Cher, Barbra, Amy Schumer and Lena Dunham: Your plane is waiting. And to Jon Stewart, who talked about moving to another planet: Your spaceship is waiting. To Bruce Springsteen, Jay Z, Beyoncé and Katy Perry, thanks for the free concerts. And finally, to all the foreign countries that contributed to the Clinton Foundation, there will not be a payoff or a rebate.

As Eddie Murphy so eloquently stated in the movie “48 Hrs.”: “There’s a new sheriff in town.” And he is going to be here for 1,461 days. Merry Christmas.

Thanks JT

Damned good read. I'm surprised that Dowd (Maureen) "got it", she's about as lefty as they come.

I guess her brother forcefully opened her eyes, enough for the light to get in, anyway.

Again, Dowd did not write it, her brother did.

Nowhere does Dowd say anything about agreeing with the content.

She, in fact, referred to her family as "deplorables" in her prologue.

If you've read Dowd these past couple of years, especially when she writes of "Barry" Obama, you'll know she may not completely agree with her brother, but she definitely understands that he makes some valid points. When Krugman writes about suburbanite fools that voted for Trump, and asks "what else is there to say", she let's her brother answer him.

I'm convinced of this as well. A lot of people I tell this to think I'm nuts, but more and more come on board eventually.

I guess after the seed is planted it gives them time to think about it.

They are in decline because they showed their true colors during this election. Lying conniving, corrupt at every turn. And they were going to vote against hate and anger, now they are the ones spouting the hate and anger...further showing their true colors.

+1 to the above post.

Her brother is correct.

Yeah, I GOT that her brother wrote it. What surprised me, is that she was objective enough to understand the truths he wrote. That's what caught my eye.

Some of you fellas need some reading comprehension skills updated.

I don't think she really understands,since she stated this:

"My little basket of deplorables,as I call my conservative family, gloated with Trump toasts galore, and Kevin presented me with his annual holiday column with an extra flourish.

I can understand giving her some credit for publishing her brothers column but again,she never stated that she agrees with him.