{"id":2114,"date":"2016-01-27T09:38:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T14:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2016-01-27T09:44:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T14:44:20","slug":"a-serious-question-for-trump-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/a-serious-question-for-trump-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"A Serious Question for Trump Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not going to ask you why you’re a Trump supporter. I’m not sure I want to know the answer.<\/p>\n

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\n(Image: “Donald Trump Backyard Photo Sign at Night – West Des Moines, Iowa,” by Tony Webster, on Flickr under Creative Commons.)<\/em><\/h5>\n

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I will ask this, since it’s been reported that he’s unlikely to show up to the Fox News Channel debate<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Since Trump postures and preens and presents himself as a hard-nosed negotiator, a savvy dealmaker, and a “uniter,” how can he be unwilling to face a particular female reporter (Megyn Kelly) as the moderator of a debate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Note that I didn’t say he was unable<\/em> to face her, nor did I say he was afraid<\/em> to face her — although it does appear that way despite his campaign’s protestations to the contrary. But at the moment he certainly appears unwilling<\/em> to face her. In addition, he has been rather vocal in the past about not liking the way she asked him questions, even though it’s her job to ask questions and most reporters who take their jobs seriously ask tough questions. How does his unwillingness — or even his complaining about her being one of the moderators — show him as anything but weak, and petulant, and maybe a little pathetic?<\/p>\n

Oh, hell, I will ask the question anyway. In all seriousness, how can you support Trump?<\/em><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not going to ask you why you’re a Trump supporter. I’m not sure I want to know the answer. (Image: “Donald Trump Backyard Photo Sign at Night – West Des Moines, Iowa,” by Tony Webster, on Flickr under Creative Commons.)   I will ask this, since it’s been reported \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[435],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}