Posted on 07/16/2019 7:54:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Once again, President Trump has flaunted his scorn for the media-defined norms of the American political conversation. Under those informal rules, Republicans can be labeled racists with impunity and America can be trashed as irredeemably racist, evil, and shameful. But any criticism of “people of color” for expressing such views is racist, as Nancy Pelosi discovered so recently.
Many Republicans have internalized these norms, knowing that their colleagues in professions dominated by an educated and credentialed workforce have scorn for Trump’s attacks on the four freshman congresswomen Nancy Pelosi ruefully dubbed “The Squad.” Their neighbors in upscale communities are equally likely to be “aghast” that anyone would mention that people who frequently proclaim a racial and ethnic identity that sets them apart from just plain Americans would be reminded that, unlike Communist East Germany for instance, they are free to leave. And they can come back after showing how well their ideas work in places they imply America has impoverished and oppressed.
President Trump has, from the beginning of his campaign, cared not a whit about the criticism he receives for violating those norms. He believes that those rules of the game slant the conversation toward victories for the Left, eagerly enforced by the Mainstream Media, academia, and the cultural institutions dominated by progressives.
He also knows that people who already believe him to be a vulgar, racist, unacceptable “occupant of the White House” (as Ilham Omar called him yesterday, unwilling to concede that he is a lawfully-elected president) will criticize anything he says. So, there is no loss to him in provoking that camp.
The key group that he must worry about are the undecided voters who swing elections, and the much-vaunted suburban women, who shun harshness and who live in neighborhoods where Trump may be less than popular.
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Trump tried to make them the face of the democrat party and they sure took the bait, that press conference was awful and the only take-away was Omar refused to condemn Al-Queda... These people are stupid.
It’s a Tiger by the toe
Well it is
Well it is
I never heard ‘tiger’ until well after the Civil Rights movement. Where I grew up, the ‘N-word’ wasn’t used in polite company, yet it was used in the rhyme. Don’t know if we even thought of it referring to black people when we chanted it—the point of the rhyme being to pick someone.
But in the end they will be held unaccountable and the squad knows it.
Their obnoxiousness will only increase with time.
Squat-hole Squad.
LOL.....I agree
LOL
Someone threw a large marshmallow at her and she can’t get it out...
I listen to Ben Shapiro at night here, mainly because the radio choices then are pretty bad otherwise. He is a pretty good Conservative who has not quite shed his NeverTrump roots. He likes what DJT is accomplishing but still gets all bothered by the Tweets and the uncivil manner of the Donald. He is very bright but unable to understand Donald Trump. He is ever predicting bad results for Trump’s “random” tweets and pronouncements and doesn’t see that they always end in advancement for DJT. Ben loves that Donald is winning but constantly cringes and says Donald is throwing it all away. His analysis is therefore well off the mark. Trump “throws it all away” at least once a month according to Mr. Shapiro.
The idiot GOP who complain about Trump remind me of the idiots who wanted to fire Patton during WWII. Like Patton, Trump is a natural born fighter and a winner who is greatly feared by his enemies.
Or, was one until Trump was elected.
After that, GWB found his backbone and his tongue.
His enemies consistently underestimate him. They seem to have fallen for their own BS and do not recognize Trump’s IQ that is far higher than theirs. It’s been a hilarious ride to watch this great POTUS repeatedly pull their strings. Long time in coming with all we have had to endure over the decades, but immensely satisfying after such a long wait.
Great post my friend. After his 8 years are up, we will miss Trump as much or more than Ronald Reagan.
Everything he does is either calculated or Instinctive and his instincts are the phenomenal.
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