Donald Trump wasn’t despised by the Left until he ran for President.
“[Americans have] a continuing normative commitment to the ideals of individual freedom and mobility, values that extend far beyond the issue of race in the American mind. The depth of this commitment may be summarily dismissed as the unfounded optimism of the average American—I may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I don’t make it, my children will.”
—-Obama authored with his friend Robert Fisher, 1991
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As long as he is bankrolling the nimrods, they praise him. However, considering the success record of their programs, their praise is not worth a plug nickel with me.