This amounts to ‘Levin spin’ to try and make you believe he is still relevant. The labels he attaches to Trump’s common sense approach to running this country are old non-applicable straw men, which he resurrects from the past to serve his continuing criticism of Trump’s amazing movement. He essentially is telling half the population of the country who voted for Trump that they are idiots and he is “The Great One.” None of his constructs fairly describe Trumpism, which boils down to nothing more than using basic common sense, which the people of this land generously possess, but the know-it-alls totally lack. None of his chosen terms fit the current movement and he knows it. He dwells in the past, refusing to realize that time has passed him by.
None of his constructs fairly describe Trumpism, which boils down to nothing more than using basic common sense, which the people of this land generously possess, but the know-it-alls totally lack. None of his chosen terms fit the current movement and he knows it. He dwells in the past, refusing to realize that time has passed him by.
Levin falls into the same trap most of those 'inside the beltway' fall into -- being political ideologues and seeing the world in political terms. The ideologues try to define Trump in terms of political concepts. That is their error. Trump is not a politician. Trump is a pragmatist. Pragmatism is not a politican concept.
As such, Trump will never be perceived by the ideologues -- whether politically left or right, liberal or conservative -- as 'their guy'.
That is also why so many polsters and newsies missed the appeal and connection Trump established with about half of the voters.