Posted on 12/27/2023 3:33:25 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
No one explained Trump's 2016 triumph, which so confounded the liberal media, as well as did Salena Zito. She famously said that the press took Trump "literally, but not seriously," whereas Trump's supporters took him "seriously, but not literally."
There was an echo of that analysis on today's CNN This Morning. Co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Phil Mattingly were trying to understand why Trump's fiery rhetoric, far from hurting him with Republican primary voters, seems to actually be helping him.
First up was Shelby Talcott. Now at Semafor, Talcott worked at The Daily Caller for over three years, including a stint as its senior White House correspondent. She said:
"A lot of the voters that I talked to on the ground have the mentality that, A: this is just sort of something you have to deal with when Donald Trump is involved, and, B: they view this rhetoric as that fighter mentality that we talked about last week. And it's, like, it's been really interesting because this rhetoric isn't taken like a lot of the media is taking it. It's just taken as, this guy is a fighter, he's using this language because he cares about us."
Get the rest of the story and view the video here.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Liberal media still don’t understand Trump’s appeal to millions of Americans.
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
Because the liberal media owe thier jobs to the rat regime ad thier corporate handlers
From the article......
“What I see right now and I really think it’s an important point you made, two-thirds of Americans are looking for a fighter. They want someone who is going to say, who is going to fight back to a system that seems to be working against them. .
“So when he does this, it actually energizes them. They don’t hear it the same way everybody else does. Everybody else is hearing what he’s saying as a threat to democracy. As maybe he’s going to be an autocrat dictator, all those kinds of things. And the more people call him a dictator, an autocrat, the more the Republicans dig their heels in and say, we’re going to support this guy because we want somebody who’s going to fight for us, and nobody else will.”
The only threat to “democracy” that the demonrats/LSM are screaming about comes from THEM.
Who is working so feverishly to take away our 1st and 2nd Amendments?
It ain’t President Trump!
Guess who’s going to "win"...snx?
Cleary though the priorities for Trump votes has changed a bit amongst voters, I can’t be the only one who wants to close the border and deport millions of illegals as #1, removing paying for trannies in the military #2, chopping the hell out of our budget/agencies #3, anything else is a bonus.
They are a bunch of delusional, self-absorbed, self-licking ice cream cones who only parrot what is in their echo chamber. Any outside voice is scoffed at and belittled. if there is threat to their world view, sacred cows, or group dynamic it is ridiculed until the guilty verdict has been rendered by the judge or public opinion. then they throw the offender under the bus to protect the rest and continue on thier merry way like nothing happened (confirmation bias).
Petty and savage little group
Its very simple. When Democrats and the corporate media say “our Democracy”, what we hear is “our power”. We know that’s what they actually mean.
The press doesn’t understand that not everyone is a roll-over-and-take-it kind of Republican. 🙄
I think you are right.
BTTT
“Liberal media still don’t understand Trump’s appeal to millions of Americans.”
Of course they do. That is why they talk like that. There job is to convince Americans of their point of view, and to further convince them of the folly of running our own country.
How does anyone communicate with people who think that someone who advocates for the Constitutional rule of law is trying to destroy democracy?
There’s a reason for that. The DEMOCRAT press hear every word from every Republican and think to themselves, “is there any way we can twist this to potentially vanquish or at least damage this particular Republican (even though we know what was meant)??”
While ordinary people just hear what was said.
You are 100% correct!
And it irritates me to no end that the demonrats/LSM talk democracy, democracy, democracy and not REPUBLIC.
These types of liberal hit pieces are a waste of time. The people they play to are mind altered liberals like themselves who are going to vote liberal if satan was running. And the first words of the byline automatically dictate the stupidity of the piece: CNN Panelists.
Did you ever hear of what the liberals are going to do if they are put in power? If they told you honestly they wouldn’t get the chance if anyone with just a little electricity is running through their brains who votes. Thus...a hit piece is all they have. To ne, this isn’t political jargon. It’s slander.
wy69
These types of liberal hit pieces are a waste of time. The people they play to are mind altered liberals like themselves who are going to vote liberal if satan was running. And the first words of the byline automatically dictate the stupidity of the piece: CNN Panelists.
Did you ever hear of what the liberals are going to do if they are put in power? If they told you honestly they wouldn’t get the chance if anyone with just a little electricity is running through their brains who votes. Thus...a hit piece is all they have. To ne, this isn’t political jargon. It’s slander.
wy69
this rhetoric isn’t taken like a lot of the media is taking it.
While they think River to the Sea is just a cute chant.
And CNN and democrats don’t hear that two bit liar Sniffer the way we hear him...
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