Posted on 08/17/2017 11:45:08 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
If Van Jones was right, that a moving tribute to the widow of a fallen Navy SEAL in a speech to Congress earlier this year was the moment Donald Trump became president, Trump’s news conference on Tuesday was the moment he became a Breitbart contributing editor.
Charlottesville has been a diminishing event for President Trump. He has been unable to summon the moral authority of his office, even though this wasn’t a difficult test.
It doesn’t take political skill or crisis-management ability to show largeness of heart. Future historians will marvel that one of the most damaging events in the early Trump administration came in a botched response to a neo-Nazi rally.
Over the past few days, Trump hasn’t spoken as the leader of the country, or even leader of one party, but as a leader of an inflamed faction. This is why it was almost unthinkable that he would give a unifying talk, as any other president would, at the funeral of Heather Heyer, the young woman slain in the vehicular attack by an “alt-right” protester.
Trump’s sensibility is highly unusual for a politician — let alone for the leader of the free world — but very familiar from the Internet or social media. As his news conference showed, his level of argument is at the level of a good Breitbart blogger, or of a Twitter egg of yore. He would absolutely kill it in the comments section of a right-wing Web site or trolling a journalist.
Trump knows some things; covers the weaknesses of his case with sheer aggression; doesn’t care about consistency or common sense; wants to play to the base rather than reach the persuadable middle; and feels liberated from any standards of respectability.
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Lowry writes for Politico. Enough said.
It wasn’t a botch response. He condemned the bigotry and hatred but it just wasn’t good enough for his critics who were itching to called him an outright racist when a racial crisis arises as president. I believe though this has more to do with what’s about to come out about the hoax of the Russia collusion investigation. Subversive elements of federal government along with the DNC and media peddled this hoax to undermine the administration intentionally, so it’s a conspiracy. When it comes out that they lied and a dead young man lies at the center of it then all hell will break loose but they’ll point out that while this is huge and ugly mess....Trump is still a racist and we proved that blah blah blah
If Van Jones was right …No constitutional conservative would ever think of uttering those five words. It goes without saying that Van Jones is a monster that is never right about anything.
Uhmmmm....last time I read him many years ago, uh...wasn’t editor for National Review???? When did he go left!?
Shouldn’t he be at Bill Kristol’s house, cleaning the rooms in assless chaps?
He’s that too. Another infiltrator.
He’s written for the Slimes (New York and LA), Washington Compost, the WSJ (infamous for another author there calling for the communistic amendment with five words: “There shall be open borders”) and even Time Magazine. Must have been always on the left.
Lowry looks like a lost child to me. Stay strong Bannon, the ankle biters just need to vent, no one gives a dang what children having a tantrum have to say
“I believe though this has more to do with what’s about to come out about the hoax of the Russia collusion investigation. Subversive elements of federal government along with the DNC and media peddled this hoax to undermine the administration intentionally, so it’s a conspiracy.”
Yup. The reason they’re going full throttle against Trump. It’s a can of treasonous worms no one in D.C. wants exposed. Hannity has been teasing that he has some earth shaking info on 3 different fronts that he’s going to be announcing soon. Whatever that means.
lolol...His ‘elton john’ signature leather cheek-chillers.
Lowery, the never Trumper, has lost! ...
Lowry is cut from the same cloth as our feckless GOP Senate.
/eyeroll.
Isn’t Lowry a never-Trumper?
This is foreigner enemy Rupert Murdoch at work here.
Murdoch has barking out orders since he is a Never Trumper pissed that TPP was killed .
Murdoch is a the scum behind the anti- Bannon campaign .
Deport this scum .
He and National Review are “conservatives” who are Never-Trumpers.
Rich Lowry: AlwaysChump/NeverTrump
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