So true, and that’s why I agree that Trump needs to focus like a laser on her stupidity and weaknesses as a senator and SOS instead of letting the media become the focus. He’ll never have them on his side, and the more he goes after them, the more he whines that they are being mean, the more they’ll double down on any little thing he does. He needs to develop a thicker skin. This is NOT business and he must have been warned when he began his run that these people are relentless and vicious.
Flame me if you want, but I’m right.....and if you don’t wear blinders, then you will see it too. You can love your candidate and still know when he needs to change direction.
You’re wrong. The media is so in the tank for Hillary they’ll accelerate attacks on Trump regardless if he says anything or not. The media was allowed to define W’s presidency because he never fought back, and they kept piling on. This being defensive about taking on the media is more hand wringing from our side. I say Trump should keep attacking them as well as Hillary. They’ve failed to destroy him and now they’re gonna go full blast on him. There are no GOP surrogates who will help him so he’ll do it himself.
Gov’t explained for the LIVs:
SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
The State forces you to give one to your neighbor.
COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk.
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, promises more free cows, lets you vote and gives you sour milk.
FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.
NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots your wife and kids.
BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away.
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.
CONTEMPORARY WALL STREETISM
You have two cows.
You sell one, bundle the other with a goat, a mule,
and two dry cows.
You pile into the derivatives market, buy a Gulfstream
and when it all comes down around your ears...
You go to the government for a bailout.
The specific issues about Hillary's character & lack of qualifications & about the differences between Trump policy & Hillary's policy, need to be pressed--to be sure. And that does not mean trying to cover the entire water-front in any one speech. But Hillary needs to be a daily subject.
At the same time, a separate approach to the press is essential. Again, it should never sound whiny. I would recommend Trump handle it in a series of fireside type speeches--half hours on various channels & internet vehicles. Start each with two or three different smears drawn from the most obvious attacks, each briefly stated, followed by carefully explained factual analysis--delivered without bombast, in a fatherly tone;--one making the case by offering a quiet battery of facts which demonstrate the lies being employed--but made all the more dramatic in contrast to the way he attacks Hillary & the Dems, by being carefully understated.
Let me be explicit. Properly handled the understatement, where the facts leave the viewer to feel the rage Donald Trump will be containing as he quietly demonstrates the points, is the key to the success of the tactic.
If anyone is not clear what I am suggesting, I will be happy to enlarge on the mental & rhetorical processes involved. Basically what he would be doing, is demonstrating sweet reasonableness by his tone & understatements, while unmasking the full level of deceit being used against him. If Hollywood were not so biased against us, there are plenty out there who regularly use this approach conceptually in all sorts of situations, that dictate the desired emotional reaction.