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What has happened to National Review with all these pro Trump articles????

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/trump-cpac-speech-spontaneous-endearing/

The Entertainer in Chief

By Kyle Smith

FTA:
When President Trump began the longest speech of his presidency by giving a full-body hug to an unsuspecting American flag at CPAC, it was one of the most cheerfully photogenic moments of his political career. What can top a president giving a PDA to Old Glory? It was wacky, it was unexpected, it was essentially unimaginable in most other countries. Don’t hold your breath waiting for Angela Merkel or Emmanuel Macron to follow suit.

The responses from the left were confused, disbelieving, snippy. “What the hell was that?” asked Colin Jost on Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update.”

You would think the point would not need to be explained to a professional entertainer, but in the Trump era many elementary things need to be explained, very slowly, to people suffering acute Trump-related loss of cognitive function. What the hell that was, was entertainment. It was fun, and it was funny. It came across as spontaneous and endearing and very, very American. And it was a reminder that in our two-party system, the more entertaining candidate pretty much always wins the election. Be a boring scold, and your chances fade.
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Judging by liberal reaction on Twitter, Democrats will continue to make the mistake of assuming that swing voters in the Midwest share their central fixation — opposing Trump no matter what, even if he is praising spring, or chocolate, or America. Instead of conceding even the smallest degree of amusement value to Trump’s flag bit, they tried to turn a cute moment into yet another bullet point on their infinite indictment of Trump.
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And he was at his best when meting out merciless ridicule, describing the Green New Deal as a program he was eager to run against: “I’ll take the other side of that argument . . . but they should stay with that argument, never change.” He imagined a country run on intermittent wind power: “When the wind stops blowing, that’s the end of your electric . . .’Darling, darling is the wind blowing today, I’d like to watch television, darling.’”
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