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Coney Barrett; she married even deeper into the tribe. Law degree from Notre Dame, where she also taught, and famously a Charismatic Catholic and member of Faculty for Life and People for Praise
You really didn’t send us your best people, manLast edited by ursus arctos; 20-09-2018, 21:18.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostConey Barrett; she married even deeper into the tribe. Law degree from Notre Dame, where she also taught, and famously a Charismatic Catholic and member of Faculty for Life and People for Praise
You really didn’t send us your best people, man
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Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View PostDid you read the WSJ article she wrote about Kavanaugh? Order of the Brown Nose stuff, with added crassness.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/kavanau...men-1531435729
On the diaspora, TAB's post made me think of Pat Buchanan or maybe various racist police chiefs down the years. But not the Klan, which was anti-Catholic and pro-WASP IIRC.
Catholics allying with WASPs to beat down the blacks (and now Mexicans and Muslims) is another throwback aspect of Trumpism, but I think its current manifestation traces to Buchanan or earlier.
Good Maureen Dowd piece from 1996 on this theme:
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/29/o...-for-eire.htmlLast edited by Satchmo Distel; 21-09-2018, 01:05.
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View PostBarrett, kavanagh, no wonder we can't allow the fucking diaspora vote.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostConey Barrett; she married even deeper into the tribe. Law degree from Notre Dame, where she also taught, and famously a Charismatic Catholic and member of Faculty for Life and People for Praise
You really didn’t send us your best people, man
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Worth pointing out too that the Irish subgroup almost certainly includes Scots-Irish. Glucksman House at NYU did a poll of self-identified Irish-Americans and found a huge lead for people identifying themselves as Democrats.
The Irish Times summed it up:
Political perspectives trended broadly towards Democrat/liberal. In the 2016 presidential election, 92 per cent of respondents voted: 47 per cent voted for Clinton, 27 per cent for Trump, and 20 per cent refused to indicate their vote. More generally, 41 per cent signified as Democrat while 23 per cent selected Republican. The preferred news sources were more liberal than conservative; for example, of those who got their news from television, 45 per cent used NBC while 36 per cent used Fox.Last edited by Flynnie; 21-09-2018, 17:12.
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Originally posted by Flynnie View PostIrish-Americans were by some distance the least Trump-friendly white ethnic group in a Buzzfeed poll. Now if you want reactionary, check out those Germans.
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I tend to think that an Irish-American living in NYC will develop very different attitudes than those living in Southwest Florida, some of whose kids I teach and tend to be more socially conservative than the average.
There's also the added problem generally that social conservatives ought to detest Trump but are voting tactically for Roe v Wade Supreme Court changes, after which some may switch back. Certainly after Trump retires/dies, there will be millions of current Trump voters who claim they always opposed him. A variation on the Bradley Effect, which has perhaps resurfaced after disappearing in the early Obama years.Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 21-09-2018, 19:29.
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much of my family are now in northern florida, in the panhandle. My Uncle Thomas moved from New York to Florida to be nearer his kids. he passed nearly 20 years ago, and I know nothing about his politics but the rest of my mother's family would all have voted for Trump, but would have expressed it as a dislike of Hilary.
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This Ed Whelan thing is absolutely nuts. A bloke who works for the Federalist Society has been hyped all week as having stuff that exonerates Kavanaugh (by a bunch of very senior people), then goes on a tweetstorm last night revealing that this exoneration is basically a smear against one of Kavanaugh's classmates, suggesting that the classmate assaulted Ford. And his proof seems to be a handful of floorplans from Zillow (although I still don't think Ford has even said which party the assault happened at).
It's utterly bonkers, and he's had to walk it all back, and the entire republican establishment has had to distance itself from him, because they don't want to be associated with the apparent libel.
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