Posted on 02/10/2020 8:39:32 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
Voters chose Donald Trump as an antidote to the growing inflammation caused by the . . . swamp-creature governing class . . . On taking office, Mr. Trump proceeded to hire smart people and create a massive diversion (tweets, border walls, tariffs) as a smokescreen to let them implement an agenda of tax cuts, deregulation and originalist judges.
Those reforms have left the market free to do its magic and got the economy grooving like it’s 1999. The daily Trump hurricane . . . makes the media focus on the all-powerful wizard while ignoring the policy makers behind the curtain.
Alfred Hitchcock called this kind of distraction a “MacGuffin”—something that moves the plot along and provides motivation for the characters, but is itself unimportant, insignificant or irrelevant. It can be a kind of sleight of hand, a distraction, and Mr. Trump uses his own public persona as a MacGuffin in precisely that way. The mobs decked in “Resist” jewelry fall for it every time.
. . . Sen. Bernie Sanders used his remarks during the Senate impeachment trial to point out that the media had documented some 16,200 alleged lies by President Trump. The MacGuffin worked! Mr. Sanders and his peers are focused on the president’s words, while most voters see the real plot unfolding in America—millions of jobs and rising wages.
. . . President Trump’s potential opponents running in the Democratic primaries . . . [are] missing the ways his MacGuffin game plan is working. The socialist wing wants to raise taxes and give stuff away, which would derail the economy and whack the 96.4% of labor-market participants who already have jobs . . . there’s a good chance voters will give the antibody more time to cure the country’s actual disease.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
The Left/Rats have always hung out the distractions while implementing their depraved, anti-American agenda. But unlike the Rats, Trump is focused on a healthy & prosperous America.
Now there is as stupid an article as has appeared on Free Republic this year, including everything from parody sites.
The border is not a Diversion, it is the number one existential issue and it still will be for at least the next three presdential elections.
People who did not understand this threw the 2008 and 2012 elections to the Democrats because they didn’t yet understand just why the left was pushing bringing in so many illegals. Because the idea of replacing American Voters with people whose votes were illegal was beyond their comprehension they did not forsee that people who did understand would vote only for candidates who did see the danger even if that meant write ins or constitution party candidates they imagined that open borders leftists could win and they humiliated themselves by pushing candidates who weren’t viable and who wished America harm.
Border security is Trump’s most important accomplishment, its what got him elected, and it’s what can keep him in office.
I forget which journalist it was (Salena Zito?) but someone pointed out in 2016:
The Democrats take Trump literally but they don’t take him seriously.
The Republicans take Trump seriously but they don’t take him literally.
Do his words really matter? Are his tweets the central issue? I don’t think so. I don’t take that stuff literally. But I see changes all across the country. I like those changes. I take that stuff very seriously.
And of course the Democrats are too busy being outraged over the tweets to actually stop any Trump policies or to enact any policies of their own.
Meanwhile, real lies from the left go unchallenged.
The voters understand Trump is a huckster and has been all his life. In advertising its called “puffery” ie “Biggest sale ever!!!!!”. In addition to that he’s from New York. That’s how most of them are....a bit flamboyant and over the top.
What he says is basically true. We see it with our own eyes. We can see the tremendous improvement in the economy. We see the wall being built. We see the flood of illegals coming in being drastically reduced. We see that cutting through the morass of red tape Obama implemented has not led to any kind of environmental catastrophe.
On taking office, Mr. Trump proceeded to hire smart people and create a massive diversion (tweets, border walls, tariffs) as a smokescreen to let them implement an agenda of tax cuts, deregulation and originalist judges... The daily Trump hurricane . . . makes the media focus on the all-powerful wizard while ignoring the policy makers behind the curtain. Alfred Hitchcock called this kind of distraction a “MacGuffin”—something that moves the plot along and provides motivation for the characters, but is itself unimportant, insignificant or irrelevant... The mobs decked in “Resist” jewelry fall for it every time.
MacGuffin is originally from stage magic, if memory serves -- and this makes the description even more apropos.
Nah, “MacGuffin” came from screenwriter Angus MacPhail (might not have spelled that right) who used to work with Hitchcock. Hitch said, in an interview, it came from a Scottish joke.
Hmmmm... originally a joke. You’re right; that is more appropriate! ;)
Iirc. Hitches example. The package is the maguffin. Used to build tension
A man makes a bomb and puts it in a box with Christmas wrapping and asks his landlady to mail it. She takes the bus and puts the bomb under the seat. She leaves the package under the seat. The driver stops the bus and hurries it to the walking woman. She takes it to the post office. When will the bomb go off. A boy in ny opens a box as we wait for the explosion. Then smoke and dark. A bomb goes off in a va ant office and we cut to the boy and his new erector set. Putting people in danger with a macguffin when the timing is unknow a Hitchcock specialty
When he did the shower scene in psycho. It was rare for him to show an actual assault and blood
The Democrats only have ad hominems because if they were honest about their own desired policies, no one would vote for them. I can't recall the last time a Dem presidential candidate actually debated the merits of their Rep opponent's position; rather it is always a "heartless" measure propose by a "mean-spirited capitalist," or something similar.
“Do his words really matter? Are his tweets the central issue?”
Trump is the troll in chief.
He’s a genius at using his daily barrage of tweets to make his enemies go apoplectic with insane rage and chasing their own tails while delighting his supporters.
Best show in town!
Haggis you're right. ;^)
the media had documented some 16,200 alleged lies by President Trump.
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