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Rift in Conservative Movement Repairable?
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by DAVID LIMBAUGH
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Trump administration cuts El Salvador's temporary protected status for 200,000 recipients
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by Anna Giaritelli
The Trump administration will rescind temporary protected status for 262,500 people from El Salvador... who were granted permission to live and work in the United States after two earthquakes rocked their country, senior administration officials announced Monday morning. Salvadorans who have been in the country for up to 16 years will now be given 18 months to return to home. Recipients will be permitted to renew their TPS status between now and Sept. 9, 2019. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen consulted with the Salvadoran foreign minister, ambassador to the U.S., and President Sánchez Cerén about the decision, DHS said in a release...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-administration-will-rescind-temporary-protected-status-for-200000-salvadorans-report/article/2645260?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2001/08/18&utm_medium=email
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Judge Reinstates Hamas/AMP Lawsuit
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by Abha Shankar
{investigativeproject.org} ~ A Chicago federal judge on Thursday reinstated a lawsuit alleging that a virulently anti-Israel group and several of its activists... are "alter egos and/or successors" of a defunct U.S. based Hamas-support network previously found liable for the murder of an American teen in a 1996 terror attack.  American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) routinely sponsors conferences that serve as a platform for Israel bashers, and openly approves "resistance" against the "Zionist state." One AMP official acknowledged the goal is to "to challenge the legitimacy of the State of Israel." AMP is also one of the principal advocates of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Jewish state. Its BDS campaigns include: Ramadan Date Boycott, SodaStream, Stop the JNF, Stolen Homes/Airbnb, and Stop G4S. Because they include groups dedicated to Israel's elimination and single out Israel for criticism while they ignore other nations with severe human rights abuses, BDS campaigns are considered inherently anti-Semitic...  https://www.investigativeproject.org/7204/judge-reinstates-hamas-amp-lawsuit
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Lefty Site Pub Testifies to Grand
Jury in commie-Sanders Wife Fraud Case
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by Daniel Greenfield
{frontpagemag.com} The federal probe into a 2010 land deal orchestrated by former Burlington College president Jane Sanders... wife of U.S. Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has deepened. VTDigger has confirmed that a grand jury has compelled sworn witness testimony in the case. The Vermont U.S. Attorney’s office has interviewed at least one witness before the grand jury to determine whether indictments should be handed down. Former Burlington College board member Robin Lloyd says she testified for about an hour on Oct. 26 before a grand jury at the federal courthouse in Burlington...  https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/268957/lefty-site-pub-testifies-grand-jury-sanders-wife-daniel-greenfield
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NBC deletes Oprah 'president' tweet
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by Eddie Scarry
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ NBC deleted a tweet it published during Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony... that referred to Oprah Winfrey as "OUR future president." NBC said Monday that the tweet was a mistake. "Yesterday a tweet about the Golden Globes and Oprah Winfrey was sent by a third party agency for NBC Entertainment in real time during the broadcast," the network said. "It is in reference to a joke made during the monologue and not meant to be a political statement. We have since removed the tweet."...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/nbc-deletes-oprah-president-tweet/article/2645264?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20From&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20From%20-%2001/08/18&utm_medium=email
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CIA Director Mike Pompeo: Trump's Nuclear Button Tweet "Entirely Consistent" With U.S. Policy
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LIMBAUGH: We Need To Redefine 'SMART' In America
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Senator Cotton: Democrats Are In 'Unreasonable Negotiating Position' on Immigration, Need to Compromise
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TUCKER: If Conservatives betray voters on immigration, they're toast
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Rift in Conservative Movement Repairable?
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by DAVID LIMBAUGH
{wnd.com} ~ It is disheartening to see the ongoing rift between those conservatives supporting President Donald Trump and those opposing him – a rift that began before Trump and may survive his presidency.

Many conservatives opposed Trump’s nomination because they believed he was not a true conservative – not even really a bona fide Republican – but rather a narcissistic opportunist who wanted to take his game-show hosting and self-promotional platform to a grander stage.

Many also thought that a Trump presidency, even if it would somewhat forestall the liar-nObama/liar-Clinton agenda, would not be worth the long-term damage it would do to the conservative movement. They believed a Trump victory would embolden the so-called alt-right movement, which they saw as Trump’s main base. They saw a mob-like mentality among many of his supporters, saying they were fueled by rage and would rubber-stamp every crazy idea Trump might pursue and also push him to pursue even nuttier ideas.

Admittedly, in the red-hot contentiousness of the primary campaigns, some of the alt-right types did surface as among the most vocal of Trump supporters. Trump supporters seemed to defend anything Trump said or did, even if indefensible.

I admit that during the primaries, I was concerned about Trump’s commitment to conservatism and worried that the justifiable outrage of many of his most ardent supporters at the direction the country was headed under liar-nObama was clouding their judgment. Trump was not the answer to the quintessentially anti-conservative and fundamentally leftist liar-nObama.

Then two things happened. The first was that Trump won the GOP nomination fairly and squarely. This meant that he would be facing off against liar-Hillary Clinton, the most corrupt, self-serving and politically opportunistic presidential candidate in decades – someone who had tied herself to the far left and who promised to double down on the liar-nObama agenda.

There is nothing to blunt one’s concerns about flaws in a GOP presidential candidate like the sober realization that unless he wins, the abominable liar-Hillary Clinton will be the next president and drive America past the point of returning to anything resembling its founding principles. Only conservatives who didn’t view America’s trajectory with similar urgency could rationalize their refusal to vote for Trump against liar-Clinton.

This same obliviousness to the urgency of our situation also led to GOP establishment inertia regarding the liar-nObama agenda. The establishment’s insufficient energy and willingness to oppose him sowed the seeds of Trump’s rise to power. How ironic that the people who remain most opposed to Trump today are to some extent responsible for the emergence of such an unorthodox character to fill the void they helped to create.

The second thing is that I came to realize that I had misunderstood much of Trump’s grass-roots support. Yes, grass-roots voters were convinced that there was no difference between the two parties and that only an outsider like Trump could break the mold and inaugurate a new paradigm in Washington. But they were not a mob, and they saw something others may not have seen.

This epiphany came to me when I was debating a longtime friend who is respected in the community and every bit as conservative as I am but had supported Trump from the beginning. I saw that he was not the exceptional Trump supporter but the typical one, someone who had not given over his critical faculties to runaway emotions but who genuinely believed that Trump, flaws and all, was the answer for these unusual times. As time passed, my epiphany was repeatedly confirmed: Trump supporters are patriotic Americans – not bigots, not political illiterates, not overreacting zealots – who just wanted our country and culture back. It’s that simple.

Based on my observation of those on the right who continue to oppose, even revile, Trump at almost every turn, I conclude that their ongoing opposition can largely be traced to disagreement on the two factors I describe – not to mention a healthy dose of stubborn pride, in some cases.

Many of them still deny the urgency in the liar-nObama/liar-Clinton agenda and seem to hold the average Trump supporter in contempt. Another irony emerges as to their willful blindness when it comes to the imminent dangers to America from the liar-nObama/liar-Clinton left. While they claim to have a monopoly on pure conservatism, they frequently hold hands in shared disgust with the leftists still pushing that agenda, and they often diminish the strides Trump has made toward rolling back liar-nObama-era “progress” and advancing conservatism. Their opposition also goes beyond policy, as evidenced by their reflexive sympathy for Trump’s Democratic Russia-collusion accusers and their revulsion at conservatives pointing to liar-nObama and liar-Clinton corruption. To them, even to utter criticism against liar-nObama and liar-Clinton is “whataboutism” – an alleged effort to divert attention from Trump’s supposed corruption. What they don’t realize is their cries of “whataboutism” reveal their own version of the malady; when you point out a Trump success, they say, “What about his character?”

The Trump opponents have a variety of excuses to deny Trump credit for advancing this agenda and discredit those who foresaw the landscape better than they. They can’t stand his tone, his manners or his tweets. They view him as temperamentally and mentally unfit for office. Even when he achieves policy success after policy success, they childishly huff that it is only because other people besides Trump are running the White House – that he has delegated foreign policy matters and “outsourced” his legislative agenda. Come on, people.

Well, I don’t know whether Trump has morphed into a full-blown ideological conservative, but I do know that he’s largely governing as one – and an effective one at that, accomplishing some bold things that few other conservative presidents would have even tried.

Why are some never-Trumpers obsessively bogged down in evaluating Trump’s character and competence and preoccupied with sanctimoniously judging Trump’s supporters instead of admitting that Trump’s supporters are just rooting for America and that Trump’s policies are – to this point – moving us back toward the direction of the American dream?

This shouldn’t be a contest over who’s more conservative; it should be about what’s best for the United States. I’m pleased with how things are going. If the conservative movement doesn’t come together in the future, I don’t think it will be primarily the fault of the Trump supporters.

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