https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/07/master_of_the_tweet.html
Master of the Tweet
By J.R. Dunn
Now that the threat of impeachment has dwindled away to nothing, the time has come to clear the decks for 2020 by removing all further impediments, obstacles, and annoyances from the path of Donald Trump. A crucial part of this effort will be closing the book on all further criticism of DJTs tweets.
We have all seen no end of pieces criticizing, condemning and apologizing for Trumps use of the tweet as his major weapon for undermining the left-wing media monopoly, driving his opponents into a frenzy, and striking fear and confusion into the left. In truth, seldom if ever are Trumps tweets mentioned in any context at all without the writer shuffling his feet, dropping his head in shame and whimpering, Maybe he shouldnt do that uh, right?
Not all these people are #NeverTrumpers. Many of them mean well, and are sincerely concerned with the impression that Trump makes and the unintended consequences that may result. But all of it, no matter what the intent, is without exception an exercise in missing the point.
That point is that DJT has honed the tweet, which on the face of it is no more than a social media comment limited in wordage to 280 (though most tweets use much fewer), where only basic concepts can adequately communicated, into a powerful weapon, a means of communication operating beneath the level of media interference that speaks to the public in language that voters understand and deals in concepts that are so intertwined with synthetic PC regulations that they can be handled publicly in no other way.
This marks Trumps major contribution to the politics of the Infowave epoch, one that no one foresaw and that no one knows how to deal with. The standard Silicon Valley method of handling dissent banning the violator wont work here. Much as Jack Dorsey would love to do it, you cant ban the President of the United States.
So Trump blithely continues tweeting, at his leisure and in his own time, on topics of his choosing and expressing them in his own unique style. Each tweet is utterly unpredictable, and all of them seem to strike at a weak spot in the American lefts defenses, like cruise missiles coming out of nowhere, striking their target and leaving the enemy with no means of counterstriking. The wails, shrieks, and gibbering arise from the left, and Trump moves on without even bothering to answer. With his tweets, which cost him nothing and require almost no effort, Trump has done more damage to the left than the last half-dozen Republican presidents.
Its true that he has fumbled his tweets in the past. The notorious Khizr Khan and Lyin Ted Cruz tweets of the 2016 campaign are nothing to be proud of. For a few days, I truly believed that hed blown his electoral chances with the obtuse and crude Khan tweets, and there are still people out there who believe to this day that Ted Cruz, one the most valuable, and not to put too fine a point on it, noble politicians in the United States, had some connection to the JFK assassination because the President said so.
But everybody makes errors, particularly in evolving a new technique, a process that relies on working through failures. And it cant be said that Trump has made any such errors lately. His use of the tweet in recent years has been no less than adroit, the results a marvel. They and their effect will be studied for decades to come.
Just consider the go back where you came from tweet aimed at the Squad, the most noxious, imbecilic, and vicious gaggle of pols to come down the pike in a long while. Both leftists and Republicans were quick to point out Trumps grievous error that the only actual immigrant among them was Ilhan Omar/Elmi. But if Trump had singled her out in the first place, all efforts would have dedicated to protecting the doll-like child-woman Ilhan from assault by Orange Man. As it was, they had to go into detail, in the process underlining exactly what Trump meant in the first place that Omar/Elmi (or whatever name shes using this week) originated from Somalia, the most dysfunctional state on the face of the Earth, and that any Somalian has absolutely nothing to tell any American (beyond perhaps how to construct an effective IED or properly aim a rocket-propelled grenade). The left wound up making Trumps case for him, tarring the rest of the Squad as a byproduct.
Trump welded the Democrats, who had been trying desperately to distance themselves from what they correctly perceived to be a pack of crazies, to the Squad. Omar/Elmi, Sandy O, Tlaib, and the other one whose name I forget have now become the face of the Democratic Party. All their upcoming antics, obtuse blurts, anti-Semitic ravings, and trials and prison sentences will be taken as archetypal Democratic. Trump will not be running against the nominee in 2020 he will be running against the Squad.
To top it off, his popularity in the polls shot up 5%.
All this with only a handful of words. How is this less than brilliant?
The same can be said of Trumps latest violation of Twitter good taste against Elijah Cummings, who has for decades posed as a champion of civil rights while doing absolutely nothing for his miserable Baltimore constituents living in what amounts to the American Somalia. Trump immediately put Cummings and the left on the defensive, rendering Cummings border machinations irrelevant and shifting the argument to territory where Cummings is most vulnerable his actual record in Congress. The lefts response was less than impressive. One left-wing critic on CNN burst into tears as he bemoaned Trumps use of the term infested to describe Baltimores slums. A political movement that has been reduced to tears is one that not much can be expected from.
Clearly, the mighty American left has been reduced to a posse of neurotic twitches trembling as they wait to see what DJT tweets next. How many other 73-year-olds have mastered the internet to this extent?
To deprive Trump of the tweet would be to deprive Cyrano of his sword, Bond of his Walther, or Richtofen of his Fokker Triplane. It would be worse than a blunder, it would be a crime. The GOP and conservatism in general have been on the run for decades. It was Donald Trump who turned this around, and in no small part due to the weapon he has created in the aggressive tweet. Its time to recognize that the 1890s are long over, that the day of white-glove politics has ended, and that any weapon is acceptable against the kind of trash that comprises the modern American left. Trumps supporters should not be criticizing him or turning away in embarrassment they should be paying close attention to learn how its done.
Not all these people are #NeverTrumpers. Many of them mean well.
Not at all. We got a gaggle of care bears right here on FR. People who don't quite understand the war for civilization that's taking place and think we can play the the old (derp) rules.
This article needs to be posted beyond the trees. Our people need to learn to fight. Each and every one of us.
#NoTimeForDaisies
Absolute record-setting Home Run.
#TookThreeYearsToGetAClue (Not you, mairdie...)
Sadly, the screaming headline on the front page of the Daily News is all most people will see of POTUS's tweets.
Master of the Tweet
By J.R. Dunn
oooh, that’s brilliant!