From the Trump POV, all his life, I suspect, the upper classes of “society” (NOT coterminous with the folks with loot) and of the academic/newsmedia/political axis have looked down on him.
He says, “Yuge.” That's a “class marker if ever there was one. He's brash with his wealth. He marries gaudy women. He's just “not one of us.” He's uncouth.
Under this frost, lesser shoots would have wilted. But DJT has always hit back, and hit back harder. I suspect that if you've hit him and have not yet been hit back, keep your guard up, because it's coming.
It's not my style. I'm not at ease with it. But over the years I have come to appreciate that some very fine and admirable people do not observe the same courtesies of my kith and kin. I have come to see that disdaining them is not to afflict them but to deprive myself of the benefit of their acquaintance.
Of course I wish he wouldn't do some of the things he does. But I'm not sure that's his problem.
So a great many of my friends get freaked out and become censorious when DJT swings back at some dope. But that's cultural. I suspect where DJT comes from it's “I hit you, then you hit me, then we laugh and have coffee or something.”
National Review? Lighten up. Relax a little. This guy is as entertaining a president as we're likely to see in a long time.
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(the bunny with a pancake on its head)