****He never Trusted Ted****
Donald Trump’s success in business deals etc., certainly had to be based on his ability to help his competitors self-destruct.
His campaign of seemingly uncouth ‘personal insults’, was so clever. Arguing policy does not stir the blood, but touching a nerve is a subtle, effective weapon.
“His campaign of seemingly uncouth ‘personal insults’, was so clever.”
I think you are buying into the left’s narrative here. They are not ‘personal insults’ if they are true. I’ll agree Trump knows how to hit back hard, but he’s not cleverly hitting a nerve - he’s bravely telling the truth and refusing to back down.
Of course, Trump’s Democrat and MSM enemies on the left push this narrative and constantly try to conflate his supposed harshness with claims of racism, sexism and bigotry.
Spineless and short sighted Republicans join the left in demonizing Trump. Some are freshly butt hurt from the primary trouncing, and others like Romney are making some sort of misguided political calculation that they would be better off with status quo gravy train Hillary than with the Trump train.
I would just like to say this ‘campaign of personal insults’ is a completely false narrative. Trump is telling the truth and sometimes the truth hurts. Ted IS lying. Hillary IS crooked. Jeb IS low energy. Rosie o’Donnel IS fat and disgusting (or whatever he called her).
No one is used to hearing a politician tell the unvarnished truth, especially a Republican. It sounds shocking because we are not used to it. We have been trained to think it’s rude to call someone who is lying a liar, or call that which is stupid stupid, or that which is evil evil.
The left is even training us (especially our children) to believe it is racist or xenophobic to name or describe our enemies. To do so is profiling. Anything that describes their appearance, their behavior or even their stated mission to kill us, is considered to be a racial, religious or cultural slur.
Is it any wonder that a man who tells the unvarnished truth would be demonized for it in this politically correct environment?
Don’t fall for the false narrative that Trump cleverly uses personal insults to ‘raise the blood’ of his opponents and gets them to self destruct.
He is just telling the truth and nobody is used to hearing it.
Thank God after a 30 year wait we will again have a president who has the guts to say what needs to be said and do what needs to be done.