Thank you so much for that article!!!
Democrats are targeting the 3rd grade or illiterate and below demographic as well as the Ruling Elites
Trump is winning by essentially rebuilding the 21st Century analog to the 1980's Reagan Coalition.
LS, you should write more.
Your product is well-received.
I still don’t fully trust him. But I’m damn sure gonna vote for him!
I just love the fact that he fights back against the MSM, democrats and slimeballs. The GOPe officials and elected reps prior to Trump appearing on the scene were tepid in response to attacks from the left, while us citizens fumed for a strong offensive punchback. Trump represents a wall against our enemies, in more ways than one.
I think a lot of it is that most Republicans probably in private just say, “Yes, I know I’m right on this, but there’s no point, the media will have the last say”. And then they slink away. Trump says no, I’m going to fight this thing out until both sides of the story get told.
Now, it must be admitted that Trump comes into it with some advantages that no other Republican has: (1) he has like 20 million people following him on social media, which means he can probably communicate with more people than the MSM can, so his story becomes the dominant one; and (2) he’s well-known outside of politics, so people have lots of data on which to base their estimation of him outside of the political context.
Whether his approach could be replicated by a typical Republican who’s unknown to the average person, I dunno. But glad that Trump can.
Plus the speed of the response. Shorter than a poll driven OODA.
As you have said, at first Trump will make a statement which is either oblique or only partial, leaving out a small but important detail.
It sounds outrageous and the press takes the bait and runs with it.
Then after Trump has the full attention of the media klieg lights, he and his spokespeople and surrogates insert the missing element which makes the original statement truthful and complete.
In the case of the judge, the missing piece of the original statement was that the judge is a member of the La Raza Lawyers of San Diego, a radical group that is in favor of illegal immigration.
The judge kerfuffle seems to also have some new elements to the standard Trump strategy to get earned media.
We know that Trump and Gingrich exchange emails throughout the day so it is highly unlikely that Trump would undertake a new stratagem for earned media without keeping him informed, particularly if Newt might play a role in making the new statement ever more outrageous thereby garnering even more earned media.
And there we have Newt on Fox News Sunday because of this very issue. More earned media.
And to wrap it all up, we have the op-ed of the first Hispanic-American Attorney General saying, in essence, that the judge's heritage might be a problem for Trump.
As this story develops, I have been wondering if Newt coordinated with McConnell and Ryan to further fan the flames of outrage and get even more attention to the issue.
If Trump and Newt and the RNC and other Republicans who express loyalty to the cause work together in the General Election, it will be very frustrating for the Democrats.
As a final note, one can see how Trump uses The Art of War to great effect.
Poor Hillary.;-)
Yes, Trump turns any publicity he gets into a double-whammy.
The heated discussion over the Mexican judge gives him a chance to reinforces his pledge to build a wall! <>p>On election day, the voters will forget about the judge deal, but will remember Trump's pledge to protect Americans jobs and security by building a wall.
The wall is so crucial to Trump's campaign, it can't be overstated because it's both a security and a jobs issue that no other candidate has been willing or able to drive.
Sure, Cruz adopted the policy, but you would never quite sure of his sincerity. For Trump, the wall is everything -- or close to it.
Bfl... and looking forward to it! :-D
Great piece. Trump understands the MSM - he knows that you must never back down one inch in the face of their insidious attacks or you surrender the advantage and moral high ground.
I think Trump set himself up to win the Presidential race the first time he uttered just these three words: “Build that wall!”
And what clinched it was that at the time the mainstream media didn’t grasp what he’d done and didn’t stifle those words.
All der Hildebeast can do is attack Trump’s unpredictability. It makes me laugh because these leftist dinosaurs are used to having their Alinsky tactics stick. Now they are lost in the fog with no controls and not certain if they will land the plane on the runway. That is the unpredictability we want.
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.
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Trump is nuking them from orbit.
Just a splendid opinion, LS. Thank you, very much.
Throw in the present week long media pile-on against TRUMP, which has reached critical mass, and is perfectly timed to attempt a boost to her poll numbers. The media want to enlarge her already expected bump from attaining the nomination number, on Tuesday.
The media would have used this same strategy against TRUMP, using any number of false flags, with or without Judge La Raza. It’s just that Judge La Raza lumbered into the plan by way of the oddly timed leak to media of the TRUMP University case documents.
And I will add that the GOPe will hate him more and more. Trump has changed all expectation, at least for a while. No more milquetoast, wishy-washy dithering.
I love this thread.
Trump should never perform a heimlich on the msm: let ‘em choke to death instead! :)
Great Post and Thanks!!
So what you’re saying is he doesn’t allow them to “drive-by?”
Good analysis bump.