Ryan Says Trump Stands Up for the 'Forgotten Man'

[applegrove]

Ryan Says Trump Stands Up for the ‘Forgotten Man’

June 24, 2019 at 4:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 175 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/06/24/ryan-says-trump-stands-up-for-the-forgotten-man/

"SNIP.....

Former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) told PBS Newshour that President Trump’s popularity is because he stands up for the “forgotten man.”

Said Ryan: “He’s not taking any crap. I mean, he’s taking on political correctness; he’s taking fights that a lot of people want to see fought. The forgotten man that he speaks to is a person that finally feels like they’re being taken seriously, they’re being paid attention to. And he’s concerned about their issues.”

He added: “That is the guttural core of what I would call the party base right now, the Trump base.”

......SNIP"

And the GOP trickle down will ensure they stay poor, with no healthcare, and forgotten. The old GOP bait with a simpleman dyslexic and switch to GOP no upward mobility things, like unions, for the forgotten and tax cuts only for the rich. The 'Wall' was supposed to ensure good jobs for the forgotton when all the ceos do is get temp worker programs for foreigners if they have any trouble hiring.

[dem4decades]

1. Putin is forgotten?

[struggle4progress]

8. And Kim Jong Un? and Mohammad bin Salman?

[dem4decades]

9. Thank god for Trump. Somebody has to stand up for what's wrong.

[Achilleaze]

2. Who stood up and got more juicy tax breaks for forgotten republican fat cat?

Dirty Donny* - he's the special KGOP guy!!!

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[tanyev]

3. Oh, hey, I forgot about Paul Ryan.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Paul Ryan is a forgotten man, and that's a good thing.

[applegrove]

6. Ding ding ding. Winner!

[htuttle]

7. Who?

[sop]

10. He's that guy who looks like Eddie Munster

[htuttle]

13. Oh, him.

I think I saw him stocking shelves at Walmart last week.

[Scurrilous]

15. LOL

[bdamomma]

31. What the rich

are forgotten men?????? Eff off Ryan.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. *Ugh*

I was hoping we'd never have to hear from that wiener again.

[CatMor]

11. Ryan must be looking for a job.

[hlthe2b]

12. Maybe the "incels"

[John Fante]

14. "gutteral core"

You misspelled "gutter", fuckhead.

[LaurenOlimina]

16. racists

They deserve to be forgotten

[gopiscrap]

34. welcome to DU

[a kennedy]

17. Forgotten man my ass.......THEY ALL NEED TO BE FORGOTTEN IN THE NEXT ELECTION.

[ProudLib72]

20. +1

I was going to say that I can't wait to forget about them after 2020.

Notice it's the "forgotten MAN" and not "forgotten people." The subtext is that white men are losing their privilege and want a fascist dictator to return it to them by whatever means necessary.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

18. Repubs have got the formula down... "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better

Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

[captain queeg]

19. Crawl back in your hole you scum bag

[poli-junkie]

21. What's the matter, Paulie?

Run out of Koch money? Wanna get in on the Russian mafia?

[Downtown Hound]

22. Yeah, low 40's is not popular.

Trump's approval may be solid but that doesn't make him popular. That just means there are about 40%-45% of Americans who are either stupid or just assholes, or both. He won with a minority of votes and his peak popularity was in the first few months of his presidency.

[Vinca]

23. The forgotten man? Does he mean the "overtaxed billionaires?"

I'd love to know how Trump refers to his deplorables behind the scenes. According to Michael Wolff's book he referred to a Florida campaign worker who was a woman as looking like a refrigerator with a wig.

[dhill926]

24. Didn't know Ryan was a fucking

comedian...

[Turin_C3PO]

25. Poor "forgotten" white supremacists.

My heart aches for them.

[Baitball Blogger]

26. Stupidest shit I've ever heard.

Republicans are having such a difficult time of redistributing wealth to all the white people. Woe is them.

[stillcool]

27. did he come up with that himself?

Sounds like PR firms are hard at work coming up with a Trump re-branding campaign. Any man that Donald stands up for, deserves to be forgotten.

[Guilded Lilly]

28. The Forgotten Man...who lived under a rock, in pond scum. Yup....

“Gutteral” core. Interesting descriptive choice.
That is exactly where that forgotten man and Ryan belong. The gutter.

[bitterross]

29. The men Trump stands for need to be forgotten.

Trump, and the type of man who thinks he's the best, need to be forgotten in the dust bin of the past.

[Blue Owl]

30. Trump stands up for the rotten man

n/t

[applegrove]

32. Yup.

[raging moderate]

33. There is a book called "The Forgotten Man."

This book, "The Forgotten Man," was written by a right-wing author. It was an effort to discredit Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR saved many Americans from starving/freezing to death during the Great Depression and blocked the actions of the plutocrats who were causing the economic chaos which triggered the Great Depression. About halfway through, things were looking up a little, but the plutocrats and their cohorts threw monkey wrenches into the recovery efforts and caused a second little crash. I know about it partly from history books and partly because my mother suffered through it all, and she told me about it. Anyway, this book, "The Forgotten Man," claimed that FDR had "forgotten" about the so-called "plight" of the upper middle class and that they should have been maintained in their privileged little cocoon. Sorry, upper middle class. Not buying it. FDR had many genuine tragedies to think about. If anything, he should have done more for the underclass and for the Black people of all economic strata. I suspect that Paul Ryan's career has sprung from his family history, the history of a family that did not realize that their minor inconvenience during the Great Depression could not outweigh genuine suffering and death that happened to other groups.

[malaise]

35. What fucking popularity?