I like Dennis Prager very much. The fact that he was once a never Trumper and got over it speaks well for his intellectual honesty.
He’s getting part of it right - that there are conservatives who can’t admit they were wrong, and whose vindication depends on Trump failing.
Prager calls this being “only human”, I call it selfish and cowardly - pure vanity.
The real story of Trump is about the war he is waging with the media.
It’s impossible to understate the vast power of the media and the tight grip they have on the very airwaves that human beings use to communicate with one another.
We The People simply cannot receive information about the happenings on this huge planet without submitting to the large media institutions and whatever spins, filters or outright lies they might choose to apply.
They say “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”, - nowhere does this apply more than on the avenues of communication. The fierce battle to gain control over information in the last century makes the gold rush look like a walk in the park.
Yes, there are a few exceptions, like FR (thank God), but for the most part, the information and communication industry serves the agenda of those who own it and control it, not the recipients.
This is widely misunderstood. News casters go to great lengths to reinforce the myth of objectivity and apparently many buy it. They are far from objective - they are bought and paid for just like the federal government and like the federal government they do the bidding of their owners.
Who are the owners of the government and media? The large industries which discover over time that they can protect themselves from free market competition by purchasing and “weaponizing” government and communication outlets. Bastiat called it legal plunder - using the government (laws) and media to circumvent market competition.
Conservatism is the natural enemy of big government and big media.
This is what Trump is up against - they don’t want him to drain the swamp (they created the swamp for their purposes and they do not want it drained). Trump is s business man - he sees that this bought-and-paid-for government and this bought-and-paid-for MSM are preventing the prosperity that would naturally occur in a competitive market. He wants to fix it. They will do and say anything to stop him.
Everything you hear about DJT is a lie except in a few free spots like FR and Twitter (for the time being). But the minute he twitters, the MSM rushes to repackage it as stupid, childish or foolish.
The last couple tweets I read from Trump were not only spot on true, and things that desperately need to be said.
Dennis is going way to easy on these anti Trump conservative journalist friends of his. They are missing the scoop of the century because they are too close to the problem.
Great post.