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I’m confident that the great majority of FReepers will trash the Morning Joe crew for their comments. And there’s no doubt that the MSM tries to pull the Trump admin down at every turn.
But I don’t think Miller put in good performances yesterday. They were strident, referred way to much to himself, and bottom line don’t think they served well to advance the president’s cause, other than with his own base.
Some of Miller’s appearance was out of the successful Leftist playbook, however.
1. You need someone way past Trump to make Trump’s position the “compromise” position.
2. Unattractive strident geeky spokesman makes Trump look warmer when he does speak for himself.
3. Miller’s position is rationally supported by policies and facts.
4. Nothing wrong with playing to the base. The Commie/Muslim/Left will never change. The Base needs to stay on board.
I will grant you, however, that Miller has a certain resemblance to Vlad Putin from certain camera angles.
Just my opinion. Your concerns are not unfounded, though.
Oldplayer
You must have watched a different Stephen Miller than I did. Thought he did quite well.
Oh great more crypto-liberal #NeverTrump claptrap. When a district court has more power than the executive branch adhering to the law passed by the legislative branch that is tyranny pure and simple
I’m sorry, but I agree with Hostage on this. The piece is a hysterical concern ninny, big pile steaming of steaming cow sh$t. The histrionics and pearl clutching of these two near incestuous bed-mates on MJ is classic kabuki.
As for Miller’s statements you refer to as strident,I say “it’s about damn time” for somebody in government to grow a pair of balls. He was right - Trump is right, and there is no amount of liberal pearl-clutching or getting the vapours that will change that.
You politically don’t get it. Miller was practicing the fine art of deflection. By speaking for himself, he is preventing the corrupt MSM from being able to later go on the attack about what would be attributed as a Trump stance via Miller speaking for him.
This way the opposition, the MSM/Dems (same thing) can’t come down on Trump as having said something controversial because Miller took ownership of what was said on himself. Miller says exactly what Trump wants said, gets the message out there in the public arena, and protects his Boss at the same time.
Miller did a great job, stayed on the attack, and won the argument. Bravo, quite a stellar performance. What do you want, some milquetoast out there speaking for Trump? I want an attack dog, who gives as good as he gets. We’ve got to stop criticising and eating our own. Geez. The Dems seldom do that. They all stay on the message du jour and attack Pubs, not each other. We Pubs have got the circular firing squad down to a fine art.