Joe Walsh Also Wants to Beat Donald Trump

I heard that President Trump is winning IOWA dem Caucus tonight & has anyone noticed how horrible the dem 2030 candidates are? Sad but true

I don't see 45's base of supporters differs from anyone indoctrinated into a cult. I'm no expert but It feels strikingly similar.

Of equal importance in the upcoming election is the Senate. From the quote “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”, we can see, as we suspected, that the GOP senators are NOT good men and women. They are not good, and they too must be removed from office. Vote them out. And Trump: you're fired.

Let's assume Trump wins in 2020. Who are these people going to vote for in 2024? The same people who voted for McCain in 08 and Romney on 2012 now hate anything McCain did or that Romney now says.

This is even more proof that Trump's followers are cult followers, not simply people you can agree/disagree with in any logical manner. It's both sad and scary to witness how so many lost souls we have in America.

I am glad that Trump has opposition, no matter how much of a long shot. For conservatives and others who oppose Trump, visit the Lincoln Project, www.lincolnproject.us. The Lincoln Project is a conservative Republican effort to defeat Donald Trump and Trumpism.

Joe Walsh is showing himself to be truly courageous and patriotic. It takes guts to go against the Trump cult, it's much easier to go along with it, which is what many republicans are doing.

Mr. Walsh gives me hope. All conservatives are not of the current variety we see so much of. He can distinguish right from wrong no matter the party. Would there were more like him!

“He wasn’t serious!” Mr. Locke said. “He was joking. You gotta have a sense of humor.” This statement is at the crux of Trump supporter’s defense. They like him, because deep down they share the same bigoted sense of humor. It also echoes the same thing that men who joke about women being complicated and difficult make. They do mean it (and so does Trump).

The GOP effort to stifle intra-party challenges is remarkably similar to the strategies of the growing Nation Socialist party in the mid-1930's in Germany. This is not a coincidence, but rather the gathering storm of a populist dictatorship.

I can’t stomach the Trump supporters. And having been a newspaper reporter, I feel for the reporter who had to interview them. Brave.

Oh, the irony of one-term, deadbeat dad Joe facing the base he helped create.

Yeah hey, ya gotta have a sense of humor about all of this, right?

They have all drunk the Kool-Aid. So very sad that these ignorant individuals have lost the ability to critically think - or to think at all. I never realized just how many there were.

God bless people who still think America has a future. It has descended down the toilet drain and is irrredeemable. I will continue to vote for my State elections but the American Experiment has failed. I only hope my state has the nerve to leave the union to stand up for democracy.

Why hasn't this newspaper been reporting more about the 2 candidates, William Weld and Joe Walsh, who are courageously primarying Trump??

These people can't even be honest with each other. Of course the moment a Trump supporter admitted the truth their head would explode.

Trump is a demagogue. Truth means what he says it means. False equivalency is a justification for huge shortcomings. When the Stock Market crashes, it will be the mind power of dissenters. The deficit will be Adam Schiff's fault. The low pay issues are because of Fake News. Irrational excuses are for Trump and imagined dystopia is for any other candidate. The GOP has a monster on hand. If Trump loses, these folks will come up with any number of theories besides that he is just a terrible president.

Very reminiscent of the rise of the National Socialistic Party in Germany in the 1930s. Deny all reality, vilify minorities, and steal the democratic process. If there is only one candidate on the ballot, of course you will get 100% of the vote. They do the same in North Korea today.

It's a cold day in hell: I'm thankful for Joe Walsh, and I'd have hope for the country if he won. Now I'd almost campaign for Mitt Romney, were he running. It rips my insides out when I hear Trumpsters say that Trump says what he thinks, and he's "only joking." That's like saying, "Here's my money and my life, robber, at least you're being direct." The problem with many Republicans, in Democrats' eyes, is their black and white thinking, can't see shades of gray: "Trump is right, otherwise he's joking. Anyone different from me is scary, so I have to get rid of them." Gray: "We're all people and we love this democracy." The problem with the Democrats, which threatens to lose us the election, is too much hair splitting in the shades of gray: Not enough people of color in the race, how to build on Obamacare, making more things free without raising taxes. It's a contest of personality this time, and the Dem candidate must be articulate, must be honest, must listen to, "see and raise," people who don't agree with them. No one, not one, is saying this: "Your taxes are killing you slowly. Your 'blue collar' job is getting replaced by technology. You want to work. You resent people who don't seem to want to work. WE WILL RETRAIN YOU, FREE, FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY. We will support small business owners, and here's how. We will subsidize organic farming. We will empower all marginalized people, including white salt-of-the earth people."

When people start believing that everyone but Trump is lying it is very disturbing . Trump has taken a page out of a book that says if you repeat a lie long enough and loud enough and you also accuse others if lying people will believe you. Trump is the Most DANGEROUS person ever to be in public office. It is so sad that people can be so mislead but refuse to think for themselves and do a little investigating to find out what really is true. This is how certain persons throughout history have come to power and taken countries in very wrong and destructive direction. When people makeup ridiculous reasons for " their person" you cannot deal with them on any level. The USA is so close to having a dictator it is frightening. Trump is of the mentality that taking power would be easy for him to rationalize and his followers would approve. If he is not taken out of office we face a crisis the likes we have never seen. God save the Republic!

We're up against a 10-year climate deadline and these people are in love with the lying con who claims it's a hoax. This is what we — and the world — are up against. Forty years of Reaganism coupled with less than 30 years of the Web have made people much, much dumber. Add to those the fantasy of American Exceptionalism nurtured over that period, and we've become the greatest threat to life on earth. The constant flood of disinformation has turned Americans to putty: "When he mentioned Ukraine, a Trump supporter said that “Obama got that started.” When Mr. Walsh pointed out that Mr. Trump had vowed to make Mexico pay for the border wall, but was instead using money from the United States military budget, another supporter first said that Mexico was indeed paying for it...” Beating Trump is a tall order. He’s a TV villain. I pray Biden isn’t nominated, though I’d vote for him in a second. Trump’ll trounce him. He’ll trounce Bernie, too. I’m hoping Warren or even Bloomberg will take the nomination, though a Jewish president? I doubt it. If Trump wins again, he’ll take the world down with him.

US children now have the perfect role model who lies, cheats and steals.

I appreciate that Joe Walsh has, for the most part, rid himself of his past delusions. Nonetheless, his personal history as a conservative crank and weather vane populist instantly disqualifies him from leading any sort of resistance against the Trump Reich. A partially awakened crank is still a crank.

Joe Walsh hasn't a clue. Trump's lies don't matter. His broken promises don't matter. The fact that he cheats in elections and takes Putin's side against US intelligence doesn't matter. Trump is out there every day fighting these peoples' "culture war". And in return, they bestow Trump with servile loyalty.

These are the saddest people on the planet. Delusional. I commend Walsh for doing the right thing - opposing Donald Trump. HIs is one vote Trump will not get this time around, and there are others. Whoever the Democrats put up, they are better than Trump.

When you teach people to ignore facts, you wind up with people who, well ... ignore facts. When you teach people to not listen and to believe without question, you wind up... When you teach people to hate, well, you wind up... Joe was a teacher. You reap what you sow.

A former liar now doesn't like a current liar, a pox on them both. Vote Blue and drain the swamp.

I wish he was the other Joe Walsh. The Tea Party’s not been good to me so far.

So Joe Walsh who consistently badmouthed and lied about President Obama, now wants a shot at the presidency because the guy he helped get elected has dramatically increased the debt, far more than Obama. Trump is a bad actor and a conman, the damage he’s doing is falling on all of us, including his supporters, they just don’t know it yet! At a recent rally he told his supporters “they want to kill all the cows” then added and you’re next!” Never in my 77 years have I ever heard another president consistently spew such hatred and devision! As a one time independent voter, I will probably not live long enough before a decent republican runs that I would vote for!

Only one name on the republican primary ballots in some states - sounds remarkably like Russia or Turkey or North Korea or China ...

When he lies get bigger, and the purity tests more common....it will be too late. The GOP is redeemable? Maybe, but soon it wont be and America the Beautiful, its people and environment will suffer for it, bigly.