The left does not give up and they continue doing the same things that have worked in the past because the GOP has no spine. It does not work with Trump. They are so desperate to hyperventilate and find the “moment” it all fell apart for Trump that they blow everything up far bigger than it really is.
They are so hellbent on fantasy that people are really tuning them out. They are now the “boy who cried wolf” and we are ignoring them. I was a kid during the Reagan years, but I remember reading much about it as a young man and they were hysterical about Reagan as well, but it was not nearly as constant because media was different and even more polite. Trump has taken a page from Reagan and he connects directly with the American people.
I was in an airport a few weeks ago waiting for a flight and CNN was on - it was brutal. Two older women were sitting behind me and one remarked to the other “I did not vote for Trump, but this is ridiculous.” The other one agreed. That is what we are witnessing. More and more people cannot stomach the virulent left, but they are blind to it because they live in an echochamber.
great post
I was in a hospital emergency room with CNN on the TV and I heard basically the same remark. A black nurse looked at CNN and said that she didn't vote for Trump, but she wishes that they would leave Trump alone and let him govern.
Years ago I was in a meeting with a bunch of fellow special educators in my school district, and the behavior specialist who worked with the Emotionally Disturbed and Oppositional Defiant Disordered students (who were often shipped off to the alternative school) was griping about general ed teachers who had absolutely no compassion or tolerance for these kids’ outbursts, or even just their quirks. About one particular student she said, in her southern drawl, “They wanna call the cops if the kid FARTS three times!” Her hyperbole still tickles me so much and I don’t think I’ll forget her comment for as long as I live.
Your comment about how the left/CNN treat Trump reminded me so much of that behavior specialist’s remark. They are up his rear end all the time about every. single. thing. A few weeks ago I read (probably here on FR) about one “journalist” who tweeted out some nastiness about the commemorative Easter eggs for the White House Easter Egg Roll with the President and First Lady’s signatures, I believe. In addition to the typical pastel offerings for sale, there would be a golden egg available for a slightly higher price. This journalist tweeted something like, “Of COURSE Donald Trump has to have a golden egg!” I can’t remember what all the tweet said, but it was really witchy. Well, she ended up having to tweet out a retraction of sorts, because it turns out that OBAMA began the golden egg thingie just last Easter. Well, well, well. What a witch; so quick to blast Trump for some trivial thing...and she was wrong about it anyway. Her hero, Zero, was the originator of the “pompous” golden egg.
The left will never let up. They are tools of satan; there’s really no other explanation when you get right down to it.
Reagan was the one who woke me up to the outright mendacity of the Left. He’d get on TV and deliver a speech right to Mr. and Mrs. Main Street America, and then some Democrat dupe would get propped up there and follow this strategy:
1 - Quote Reagan out of context so as to set up a straw man that Reagan didn’t support.
2 - Beat up the straw man.
3 - Declare Reagan’s argument invalid by proxy.
OR (worse)
1 - MISquote Reagan so as to set up a straw man...
Steps 2 and 3 as above.
I don’t know HOW many times I saw these exact strategies employed. Reagan said one thing, and the guy pasted in there to give the Democrat rebuttal would NEVER say what Reagan said; they’d ALWAYS say something Reagan DIDN’T say, and then go to town railing against that.
Watching that dynamic repeated ad nauseum during Reagan’s Presidency iced it with me: Democrats are liars from Square One; they cannot win if they speak truthfully about the positions of their political opponents. In their arguments, they mimic Satan, himself, who speaks appealing half-truths salted with outright lies in a bid to win support from the unwitting, and the mentally dull.
To this very hour, the only difference between those Democrats, and the present crop is the ratio of half-truths to outright lies: today’s Democrats are nearly out of half-truths and have had to economize considerably on their usage.