Posted on 07/17/2019 3:48:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
Let's pretend President Trump didn't tweet.
Let's live in a universe where the president of the United States didn't see fit to insert himself into every controversy, to comment on every passing event, to blast out his inner monologue before tens of millions of Americans each morning -- often in the most foolish, controversial or outright xenophobic way -- while watching cable news.
Here's what the news cycle would look like.
Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., went to war with the most famous member of her House contingent, freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. After months of vacillating between praise for AOC's supposed energy and put-downs of AOC's radicalism and attacks on moderate Democrats, Pelosi's sneering finally triggered AOC, who promptly brought out her heavy guns: She suggested that Pelosi is a racist targeting congresswomen of color. She even suggested that Pelosi is responsible for the death threats she had received. This, in turn, triggered members of the Congressional Black Caucus to come to Pelosi's defense, and that triggered other members of AOC's so-called squad to come to her defense. By the end of the week, the seething, bubbling war between radicals and mere progressives was threatening to crack the Democratic coalition.
Also last week, Democratic presidential candidates continued their quest to push their party toward the far left. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., maintained her hypocritical attacks on former President Joe Biden for his lack of support for federal busing, a policy she herself doesn't support. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., trotted out a new spending plan with no way to pay for it. Harris and Warren prepared to attack each other for attention. Meanwhile, virtually all the major Democratic candidates outside of Biden kept up their drumbeat of criticism of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, demanding an open-borders agenda entirely at odds with the mainstream of American public thought.
This drumbeat came complete with an actual act of violence, as well as a public relations nightmare for the open-borders left. In Washington state, 69-year-old Willem Van Spronsen, armed with a rifle and incendiary devices, attempted to light a car on fire and ignite a propane tank outside a Tacoma migrant detention center to shut it down. He was shot for his trouble. Van Spronsen reportedly called himself a member of antifa, the far-left militant group.
And in Aurora, Colorado, some 2,000 people banded together outside another ICE detention facility, where a group of protesters pulled down the American flag and replaced it with the Mexican flag. Some of the protesters then attempted to burn and deface the American flag with anti-police slurs.
This would seem to have been a pretty decent news cycle for President Trump. The Democratic Party formed itself into a circular firing squad; the far left was busily reminding Americans that it's not especially fond of America altogether.
Then Trump tweeted.
For years, we've heard that Trump's tweeting is a key to his success. There's certainly truth to the notion that Trump is able to redirect the news cycle toward his personal whims based on the click of a few buttons. But with great power comes great risk. When the president decides to tweet, "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen ... originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe ... Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came," the narrative shifts. The news cycle becomes about Trump's xenophobia (three of the congresswomen he's apparently talking about were born in the United States); Democrats reunite against him; and the dangers of anti-ICE rhetoric are deliberately obscured by the media.
All too often, Trump's tweets are bad, both morally and politically. And the media would always prefer to jabber about those tweets than about news that harms Democrats. So why would Trump continue to provide them the oxygen they so desperately seek?
Neocon is *so* Bush-era.
Whaah.
Benji doesn’t like it when people stick up for America!
Trump is the main reason the demons are in disarray. He enrages them and thay let him.
Also as president he has a duty to point to those who HATE this country and who attack it. Kick them when they’re up and kick them when they’re down, Mr. President.
He should look into soy enemas, like the ones Beta O'Rourke is fond of...
I wouldn’t want to live in a world without @RealDonaldTrump.
Ben is forgetting one thing. None of this would have been reported and the media would have stayed on Russian collusion and impeachment.
Trump’s tweet just took an excellent week and made it even better.
Let’s pretend President Trump didn’t tweet.
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No, Let’s pretend instead that some loud-mouth, never-Trumper twerp named Ben Shapiro never existed.
Shapiro’s delusional.
The press ignored those two events, and to the extent that they were covered, it wasn’t in any way favorable to Trump. In fact, the Antifa guy was presented in reports that I heard as a right-wing lunatic.
What actually happened is that Trump set the stage for the greatest political theater of my lifetime, with kook radicals driving their own Speaker from the podium. Trump is running Pelosi’s party– she’s helpless and she knows it.
And now the Jihad Squad is front and center as the face of the Democrat Party.
Let them explain themselves.
Ah, #DeepState & #NeverTrump Ben. Not surprised that he would take PDJT’s statement out of context. Don’t they always.
Somebody is upset that nobody wants to go on a cruise with him.
Yup...or a dozen fake news stories involving Epstein and Trump
The First Amendment gives us free speech, but that does not mean that you can say things that is hurt full, you wouldn’t want anyone to say things to you that’s hurt full to you. So the best thing is to use your brain and think it over what you are about to say.
Shapiro’s thoughts are as grating as his voice.
“often in the most foolish, controversial or outright xenophobic way — while watching cable news.”
Ben,
You’re not helping. So sit down and shut up.
Regards,
L
Finally a President who has freed the Office of President, from the media pretending to be the mouthpiece of the President. Because of the President’s tweets, we will always know what the President says and means, instead of having to listening to a reporter’s distorted opinion of what they think they heard. Townhall writers and their opinions of the President, are no longer needed. Find something else to write about.
What's taking you so long, Nancy? You're losing control of the House to AOC and "The Squad."
LOL! It sucks to be you Nancy.
“Shapiro’s thoughts are as grating as his voice.”
What’s even worse is his incessant need to share both of them whether they’re wanted or not. He’s like that smarmy smart kid in high school who is absolutely convinced he’s right about everything and simply will not shut up about it.
Shapiro is smart. There’s no doubt about that. The two things he deeply lacks and desperately needs are humility and wisdom. I doubt he’ll ever acquire either of those.
L
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