Posted on 06/06/2016 11:28:31 AM PDT by LS
I have been ruminating on Trump's success with the media for many months. Why don't things "stick" to Trump that would doom other candidates?
The latest "controversy" with insisting that a Hispanic judge may have an agenda finally clarified this for me.
First, if one believes anything the Left says, then we MUST believe that everything is seen through a prism of race and class and gender---otherwise why even have a "wise Latina" on the USSC? Why would she bring anything that a "wise" Pole, or a "wise" Fiji-an, or a "wise" Navajo wouldn't bring? The Left is hoisted on its on petard with this. Having argued for preferences, quotas, special appointments for decades, now they cannot with any degree of seriousness claim that such people are NOT biased. So Trump is right.
Second, though, is more important, namely how does Trump get away with being right? Other Republicans are turned into quivering blobs of Jello under the accusation of "racism." I think the answer can be seen in Trump's tactics going back to the announcement of his candidacy.
When faced with a charge---as we all know---Trump doesn't back down. He repeats his assertion (with Tom Llamas, for example, "The guy is a sleaze." Then he gave details, then he repeated the phrase again). But what happens next is key. Normally the drive-bys would hammer, hammer, hammer until they had an apology, a retraction or even total destruction.
The difference with Trump is that he is already on offense with the NEXT statement (no, not "outrageous," just often true) and they are forced to reacquire the target. It reminds me of the "Predator" movie, where the Predator had this camouflage shield that distorted the visual field all around him.
Thus the helpless media is whipsawed: do they stick with the "old" charge and continue to push it? If they do, they will already be outside the news cycle of the "new" charge. It's the Trump Heimlich: he forces them to upchuck the last story. So, after the Hispanic judge dustup, Trump tweets about Muhmmad Ali, about "his African-American" supporter, and so on, all heavily ladled over with new attacks on Cankles.
This is another of his brilliant tactics. Not only does he fire back on the original charge, not only does he REPEAT the original charge, but he always finds a way to work in a) the media's culpability ("where is the reporting on Hillary's e-mails?") and b) a new attack on his opponent.
Trump gets a "three-fer" every time they attack. He gets to slam the media; point out in public how they are biased; AND get in new attacks on Cankles.
We knew early on that Trump was different, but I think once some of these techniques are appreciated, we'll see just how different he really is.
Another good point.
You are no doubt correct. Everything he is doing is in there. Essential classic. Have read it, but need to go back and actually study it.
Maybe I’ll just pop some popcorn and watch Trump instead.
Yeah - see the Art of War on display in 3D. Trump haters and detractors have so underestimated him that words cannot describe...
LOL! Ain’t it GREAT???!!!!
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