That’s a good article. Did you write it?
I’d add one tidbit to it (though it ended up being longer than I thought, I tend to rant). The media write the news. So they will judge the debate by who parrots the media. Of course, media is far too incestuous with the establishment politicians and they all too often publish what the establishment tells them the story is. Not just out of bias, but also because of access. They spin the establishment story as much out of fear of losing the next story as much as because they serve to protect the establishment.
Hence when the media repeats the talking points handed down from the press rooms telling us that the economy is great, jobs are rebounding, people are doing better, they score the candidate who spits this back out on the debate stage higher for being ‘better prepared’ and ‘well versed in the facts’. But of course the American people know better what is happening in their own lives and the lives of their friends, family, neighbors. They see the 20-somethings (and 40-somethings!) moving back in with their parents. They see their take home pay dwindling. They know that 2 part time service jobs are not as good as one full time career. And the ill-conceived, unsustainable and unwanted Obamacare premium/deductible hikes are eating through a huge portion of what used to be their discretionary spending and savings. Life is harder for far too many and more than ever it is easy to see that this time these hardships truly are the fault of an obtuse, selfish class of politicians and bureaucrats who exempt themselves from the folly that is their governance.
And this, just on economic issues. On security, border, race relations, law and order... the establishment has made a great miscalculation thinking that the American people would support their doubling down on the status quo.
You know someone should tell Trump to get on the part of the elite politicians exempting themselves from some laws, they are o different than any other American and should always live under the laws that they create.
No answer.
ALL he does is post blogs. NEVER answers any questions.
Too bad he’s a hit and run blog pimp.