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| Retired US Army officer Ted Johnson has a story to tell |
| 2024-01-28 |
| [Politico] BEDFORD, N.H. — "This," Ted Johnson told me, "is what I hope." We were here the other day at a bar not far from his house, and we were talking about Donald Trump and the possibility he could be the president again by this time next year. "He breaks the system," he said, "he exposes the deep state, and it’s going to be a miserable four years for everybody." "For everybody?" I said. "Everybody." "For you?" "I think his policies are going to be good," he said, "but it’s going to be hard to watch this happen to our country. He’s going to pull it apart." The notion that somebody might wish for the country’s dismantling would have sounded shocking coming from anybody, but it was especially jarring coming from Johnson. Because I was at a Nikki Haley town hall at the VFW in nearby Merrimack in the first week of September when Johnson stood up and asked her a question. He introduced himself as an independent voter and a retired soldier and said it felt like the nation was "in a civil war" and that some of his neighbors would hate him if he so much as put up a sign for her in his yard. On his mind, too, was his estrangement from his older brother — a rift the former president had done nothing but widen. He wanted to hear Haley’s plan "to pull us all back together." Haley at that moment was beginning to become the top non-Trump pick in the Republican primary process, slowly, steadily replacing Gov. Ron DeSantis. She pitched conservative policies with a more moderate mien, a split-the-difference escape hatch for MAGA movables to not have to outright denounce Trump but still turn the page. Could she finish second in Iowa? Could she win New Hampshire? Could she actually topple Trump? To do any of that, though, she needed a mix of GOP-leaning independents, Trump-averse Republicans and at-all-open-minded Trump voters. She needed Ted Johnson. And Ted Johnson was listening. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 Yes. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2024-01-28 15:12 |
| #10 The media FIFY - notice how they never interview a Trump supporter except to mock said supporter? Odd isn't it? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool in Texas 2024-01-28 13:06 |
| #9 I've been rereading my library and just finished FOUNDATION. Trump may be Hober Mallow. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2024-01-28 12:19 |
| #8 Statue of Jefferson removed. Whatever entity is currently ruling over us, it definitely needs to be dismantled. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2024-01-28 12:18 |
| #7 Ted would avoid a tough four years that would begin to end the replacement of our electorate via invasion, the systemic indoctrination of our kids, the looting of our treasury and revocation of our natural rights. Nikki or any other RINO would, at best, slow the slide into oblivion a little bit. DeSantis might stop the slide without addressing the issue with the Administrative State based on the composition of his donors. Trump is the war choice. It was Winston Churchill’s belief that America would always do the right thing after exhausting every other avenue. Our issue this time is that we have no smoldering fleet in Pearl. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-01-28 09:51 |
| #6 Politico. LOL! |
| Posted by: EMS Artifact 2024-01-28 09:40 |
| #5 He wanted to hear Haley’s plan "to pull us all back together." Uh-huh. Sleepy Joe said pretty much the same thing. a rift the former president had done nothing but widen. Yep, it's Trump's fault. (nod to Frank G.) |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-01-28 09:14 |
| #4 The media can always find people who are "concerned" about Trump. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-01-28 09:08 |
| #3 He wanted to hear Haley’s plan "to pull us all back together." I didn't know she had a plan. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-01-28 08:53 |
| #2 On his mind, too, was his estrangement from his older brother — a rift the former president had done nothing but widen. He wanted to hear Haley’s plan "to pull us all back together." Maybe your brother is just a lefty asshole. Not Trump's fault |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-01-28 08:43 |
| #1 It's not Trump. It's the oligarchs who expected you to get quietly into the boxcars. They desperately want to hang on to the power and money they are feasting upon. When was the last time you read the Declaration of Independence? There were a lot of colonists who agreed that the King was wrong and that they were violating the natural rights of Englishmen, but who could not break with the King. Ted Johnson doesn't want to have to make a hard choice. It's no longer a government of laws. The government itself breaks its laws with impunity. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-01-28 07:42 |