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Michael Goodwin
Millions losing faith in our system over
Watching the Tuesday circus in Miami and listening to media Trump-Biden divide: 'Can't vote our
way out of this injustice'
More From: poohbah pronouncements about the gravity of the moment, I

Michael Goodwin recalled a conversation with a friend about the indictment of

Donald Trump. Cindy Adams
Justice is hardly blind in the
federal case going against
Donald Trump He repeated a phrase he had heard recently: “We’re not How American women trekking far off
voting our way out of this.” places for royal men is nothing new
FBI's Biden bias is on full
display as Wray fences with “This,” ofcourse, is a reference to the great divide tearing
Republicans over 'bribe' doc America apart, and Exhibit A is a Democratic president’s Rich Lowry
willingness to use the Department of Justice as a weapon
Kamala Harris is a Biden fall against his leading Republican rival. Get rid of Pride rainbows — we
away from being in the Oval already have a flag that includes
Office everyone
There are many good reasons why no former president has
The Biden family is under the ever faced criminal charges, and it’s not because they See All Columnists
protection of the nation's top behaved as angels for the rest of their lives starting the
lawmen
minute they left office.
Trump can't dismiss Ron
DeSantis — he's never faced a
GOP candidate like this before
because previous generations understood there had to
It’s
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would tear itself to pieces every time the presidency changed
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But the far-left wing that has taken over the Democratic Party always knows best and believes it can Flip for back cover
cancel its opponents by shutting them up or, in this case, locking them up.
As always with them, this time is different because they are morally superior people.

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Cultural chasm
So while history was being made in a Miami courtroom, it’s the kind that inflames the political and cultural
chasm while offering no solution to the millions who feel left out.

For many of them, Trump was the reason they had any faith in the political system at all.

To see him tripped up by a president and a Department of Justice they believe is rigged against the Millions losing faith in our system
over Trump-Biden divide: 'Can't vote
opposition only fuels their estrangement. our way out of this injustice'
Their disgust suggests some possible meanings to the rest of phrase that “we’re not voting our way out of
this.” 39,292

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Trump is accused of improperly handling hundreds of classified documents.

Justice Department

A clear one is that the speaker, whom don’t know, is giving up on voting because he believes I it’s
pointless, since elections don’t bring any benefits to his America.
Another possible meaning is dark in a different way, suggesting there are paths outside the voting process
that can bring a desired result.

While have no reason to believe the speaker was talking about

I

violence, it’s obvious that many people on both the far left and the
right have come to believe that politically motivated violence is an
far
see also
acceptable means to an end.
They may vote, but what they really believe in is brute force and
instilling fear in their opponents.

After running through these options and thinking about the

conversation later, realized that no matter how you interpret the
I
editorial
phrase, all roads end in a bad place. How are Trump and
Biden — the two worst
Simply put, the speaker is among the many Americans who have lost men in America — the
frontrunners?
faith in their nation to do the right thing.
Ultimately, the notion that elections and exercising your voting rights
will not correct a mistaken course is a disturbing and depressing idea.

Itguts the hope that tomorrow will be better, which is embedded in the very spirit of our experiment with
self-government.
We are not subject to a king for life or a permanent social class.
We control our own fates with our rights to speak, vote and live as we please.

Joe Biden only has a 41% approval rating from Americans.

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On the wrong track

Yet faith in those foundational verities is in sharp decline, and polls consistently show that clear public
majorities, upwards of 75% in some cases, believe the country is on the wrong track and failing to deliver
on those bedrock promises.
Thankfully, not all of the people who believe that have given up, but many have — and that trend, if it

continues, will destroy the country.

Trump, of course, is a major focus of this current level of disillusionment though hardly the only one.
,

Cultural totems are a huge contributor, too, with the fight over transgender issues a mind-blowing example
of how quickly national and local battle lines can be drawn over a topic that barely registered on the radar
two or three years ago.
Unfortunately for Democrats, a transgender woman’s notorious
display of breasts on the White House lawn Tuesday shortly after
Keep up with today's meeting President Biden came as such a shock that the
most important news progressives shaping his policies felt forced to denounce the
Stay up on the very latest affront.
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They created the event as a counterprogramming virtue signal to
Enter your email address Trump’s arraignment, but backfired big-time. it

Even the lefties who can count votes know flashing your
surgically created breasts on the White House lawn has nothing
to do with inclusion and everything to do with demanding that all
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As such, the incident fed into the Trump argument that he is all
that stands between ordinary people of faith and decency and the madness of the left’s activist fringe.

That dynamic further cements his image as the defender of the forgotten Americans.
Recall that his 2016 election was largely the result of his appeal to those blue-collar workers in the
heartland who were left behind by the globalist policies of both parties.
Many of his supporters had dropped out of the political system because they believed that a uniparty
consensus had agreed to lopsided trade deals that shipped American factories, jobs and knowledge to
Mexico and China.
Despite some important successes, Trump, too, failed to gain anything like a consensus, but the
relentless attacks and false accusations that he was a Russian agent only added to the resentments of his
base, much of which shares his claim that the 2020 election was stolen.

Joe and Hunter Biden are accused of taking $5 million bribes.

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Wide dissatisfaction
So here we are, more than halfway through Biden’s tenure, and the dissatisfaction with the alternative to
Trump is sky-high.
Biden took office with a vow to unite the nation, promising he would work as hard for those who opposed
him as he did for those who supported him.
Leaving aside the question of whether it was a sincere pledge, there aren’t many people who believe he’s
delivered.
A CBS News poll finds him saddled with an approval rating of just
41% with the remaining 59% disapproving of his presidency.
,
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Nearly two out of three disapprove of his handling of the economy, and
more than two-thirds of all respondents say he should not seek a
second term.
Even having Trump in the dock facing charges is not helping Biden.
Although most of the media is cheering for conviction, the public sees
it differently. Trump slams federal
indictment as
The CBS poll finds that fully half the country believes the prosecution ‘distraction’ from Biden
by Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, is politically motivated bribery allegations —
.
and labels Barr a
‘coward’
That includes 69% of Republicans, a plurality of independents and
even 8% of Democrats.
Among the subtexts of the political dynamic in play now, two stand out.

First, Biden’s physical and mental decline are so obvious that they simply can’t be ignored.
The fact that he would turn 86 before he finished a second term is weighing heavily on his support,
including from Democrats.
The idea that he might not be able to finish the term, and hand the Oval Office to the completely unfit
Kamala Harris, is an ingredient in the argument against his seeking that second term.

Donald Trump has been indicted twice.

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The other dynamic at work is the growing body of evidence that Biden was always part of his family’s
corrupt influence-peddling scheme.
The investigation by GOP-led House panels is beginning to crack through the media wall of silence,
thanks largely to complex bank documents showing that nine members of the president’s family shared in
a huge payout from China.

Also, whistleblowers from the FBI and the IRS have come forward to

see also complain that son Hunter Biden is getting kid-glove treatment from
probers.
On top of all that comes an informant’s bombshell claim that both Joe
and Hunter got $5 million bribes from the owner of a corrupt Ukrainian
energy company .

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) added another element Monday when

Donald Trump’s he claimed tape recordings exist from the man who allegedly paid the
indictment case has a bribes.
looming 2024 end date
An increasingly important development to many Americans is the
realization that the FBI has known all this and probably much more for
years, and done nothing about it.

Now, day by day and drip by drip, more voters are getting wise to the Biden grift.

884 What do you think? Post a comment.

Perhaps Donald Trump does deserve to be prosecuted for taking and withholding classified documents.
But unless the nation sees Biden being held to the same standards by the same prosecutors and courts,
the great divide will grow deeper, wider and more dangerous.

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Bryce
3 hours ago
Thank you NY post for being real journalists and reporting the truth. The current
dministration is 100% compromised and their actions are destroying this great country. I do
understand how any Democratic can ignore the evidence? The democratic politicians who
allowing this to happen shoul...
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thatsprettyneat
1 hour ago
as evidenced on recorded tape, Trump was hoarding national defense secrets and sharing
How are you ok with that?
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Heff317
12 minutes ago
Actually, there is no evidence or charges that say he shared them, just that he had
Please get your story straight.
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MakeSense
9 minutes ago
So, you haven't read the indictment, is what you're saying?
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Heff317
4 minutes ago
Replying to MakeSense
State the passage where it says he shared it.

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Mike
1 hour ago
and Clinton had them on her PC, her husband on recordings and Biden in his garage
a number of other places. Are you ok with that?
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Joe Maguire
2 minutes ago
Their all crooks at this point but in reality it's about the crooked gangs they

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John Smith
2 hours ago
‘Can’tvote our way out of this injustice’
No you can't when only a minority back a crinminal over their country. In United states
Donald Trump real Americans support their country.
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Megan
37 seconds ago
You have just proven the point of the article.
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Bmilo729
8 hours ago
Michael Goodwin talks about knowing the limits of the use of government power, yet thinks
rump hoarding top secret documents for God Knows what, and leaving them scattered around
golf resort for anyone to see, is no big deal. There WAS no bigger abuse of power than this.
bad Goodwin is s...
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SKYDOG
7 hours ago
Biden had classified documents scattered over two homes and the Penn Center in DC. The
BI knew about these docs but decided not to to investigate Biden especially because they
found out before the midterms and any investigation would have hurt the Dems. Also
when is a former VP of the ...
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Sinead
52 minutes ago
Your comment factually wrong. First of all Trump did not leave documents strewn
is all
ver his resort. They were in locked facilities guarded by Secret Service. The photos
in the press lately must've been manipulated because none of them were
last year. The presidential records ... See more
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JuJuBee
3 minutes ago
"Too bad Goodwin......" Are you better off than when Trump was President????
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Wayne
2 hours ago
When you have a country in which a significant portion of the population has concluded that
heir government does not represent their interests or evcn worse, that their government is
them unfairly, you have a recipe for civil unrest or even worse. It's an unstable
- the question...

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