Posted on 01/26/2018 2:22:52 PM PST by Kaslin
Recently, I was speaking with a friend of mine, a committed liberal and an equally committed member of the anti-Trump camp. Despising President Donald Trump is almost a default position in my Chicago-area community; however, my liberal friend has always impressed me as reasonable and well informed. Hence my particular consternation when he, in a most matter-of-fact way, said President Trump is costing us friends and influence around the world, as if it were an accepted truth.
This was more annoying than surprising, because ever since Donald Trump took office, the mainstream media and their political allies have been working overtime trying to convince us that the rest of the world has lost respect for the United States, that we have become something of a joke, and that there was a foreign policy "golden age" under President Barack Obama. (Many refer to a Pew Survey but fail to note that it was conducted about a month after Donald Trump's inauguration or other limitations on methodology.) While that might be the case for certain European elites, whose contempt for the United States and our values has never been more than thinly veiled, it has little to do with reality.
Those with a political agenda to delegitimize President Trump and the people who voted for him, reality be damned, might find cold comfort in the myth. But for the people who are putting themselves and their families in danger to fight for their freedom against the same enemies who want to attack us, the only thing farther from the truth than the anti-Trump drumbeat is the belief that Obama's foreign policy brought us friends and allies. I reminded my liberal friend that I see this close up regularly in urban centers and villages throughout South Asia in particular,
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Liberals speak only with other liberals, read only liberal rags an watch only liberal networks. They live in an echo chamber that reinforces all their liberal ideology, and reality has no chance to creep in..................
More importantly, they reject anything that does not follow the liberal narrative, regardless of what the facts my show.
Yep, alternate reality.................
Well, there you go. If a Pashtun village elder praises Trump, then Trump is obviously All That plus half a dozen darling pre-pubescent boys. Who knew?
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