Posted on 12/20/2016 1:58:46 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Edited on 12/20/2016 9:06:39 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
He grasped that what voters cared about were the very issues politicos were disdainfully ignoring.
The American middle classes, the Chinese, and Vladimir Putin have never been convinced that Ivy League degrees, vast Washington experience, and cultural sophistication necessarily translate into national wisdom. Trump instead relies more on instinct and operates from cunning and we will soon see whether we should redefine wisdom. But for now, for example, we have never heard a presidential candidate say such a thing as We love our miners not we like miners, but we love them. And not just any miners, but our miners, as if, like our vets, the working people of our moribund economic regions were unique and exceptional people, neither clingers nor irredeemables. In Trumps gut formulation, miners certainly did not deserve to be put out of business by Hillary Clinton, as if they were little more than the necessary casualties of the war against global warming. For Trump, miners were not the human equivalent of the 4,200 bald eagles that the Obama administration recently assured the wind turbine industry can be shredded for the greater good of alternate energy and green profiteering.
Two out of three ain't bad: Ivy League (Wharton School at UPenn) plus cultural sophistication, including being able to relate successfully to parts of our amazing, multi-faceted culture that many "sophisticated" people believe will give them cooties. Trump is a truly sophisticated man, in all the right ways.
This is from a 2013 official Obama team communication, urging people to spend their holiday talking about health insurance.. This young man was pretty much universally derided as "pajama boy"
She didn't do herself any favors with her streetwalker clothing selections (after the campaign wardrobe was returned) and terrible vocal tics. The great Margaret Thatcher humbled herself, before running for PM, to clothing and hair restyling and vocal coaching to refine her image and be more palatable to a skeptical public and more authoritative over male subordinates. Even the legendary Queen Elizabeth the First recognized that controlling her personal appearance, making herself look bigger, would help her rule a kingdom. Sarah stubbornly maintained her folksy personal choices.
Which I take as all nods of loyalty to her husband and children’s working class culture.
Oh, there was a certain amount of snark. My read is that VDH aimed it at Trump’s critics.
But most of the stuff he said is stuff people already know if they were paying attention.
That is why the media went nuts over it, they don't pay attention and why normal people nodded their heads in agreement, they do pay attention.
The media/academia/political class lives in gated communities, the only immigrants they see are the doctor and scientist that live down the road and the only illegal aliens they see are the ones who work for them.
So when someone tells them that immigrants on HB-1 visas are taking jobs away from natives and illegal aliens are criminals they have no frame of reference. And they scream that there is no evidence of those charges.
The guy who had to train his imported replacement and watched the house across the street where a gang of illegals lives finds those statement self evident.
Buckhead’s wife reports that he was actually in his boxers at the computer and not in his pajamas when he debunked the Texas Air National Guard forgeries which led to Rather’s downfall.
You are correct that VDH refers to a different pajama boy, that being one the one in the Obamacare ad, with a cup of cocoa, oozing metrosexualism and totally devoid of the manly virtues.
LOL. The image of that is too much. Now if you told me that he was at an Apple IIC or old Commodore, that would complete the picture.
I also enjoyed this observation: “Then members of the Clinton campaign and powerful Democrats joined an effort to pressure electors of the Electoral College to defy their state-mandated duty to reflect the vote totals of their states and instead refrain from voting for Donald Trump. That was all but a neo-Confederate, insurrectionary act that sought to nullify the spirit of the Constitution and the legal statues of many states part and parcel of new surreal progressive embrace of states-rights nullification that we have not seen since the days of George Wallace.”
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