I don’t disagree with you.
Everyone knew what he meant, but the wording was imperfect and left him exposed to criticism from the grievance community.
He might better has said “some New York values”. Short of ISIS most every human group has some redeeming values - even NYer’s - and by implying all NY values, he was throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Whether it was tactically the correct move to go there at all, that’s debatable. But Trump is saying he won’t show up.
“the grievance community”....I’ve got to write that one down, it’s a perfect synonym for the Democrat party and all their allied lunatics.
Well Ted is doubling down on his NY Values comment in Iowa TV spots; I conclude that he must have some data supporting the tactic, at least in Iowa. I still think it’s a long term risk for a potential short term gain.
Actually I think Trump has a valid point on Megyn Kelly being biased, but I think her bias is the same as Trump’s - to be the center of attention, not specifically to pull him down. Ted’s statements notwithstanding, Trump is not afraid of her, he’s just figuring out another way to monopolize the spotlight.
If I were Ted I would argue now that Trump does not have adequate courage of his convictions to defend his Moslem-immigration-ban proposal with an actual Moslem woman on hand to question him.
And I would find a way to shift the burden of holistic American collaboration against radical Islamic terrorism back onto her, as a representative of American Moslems, rather than having her sit in judgment of everyone else’s “racism”. If Islam is a “religion of peace” then Moslems need to speak much louder about that, in their words and their actions, to drown out what the radical terrorists are demonstrating to all of us routinely. Getting all chapped about “Islamophobia” isn’t increasing security or freedom in America, for American Moslems or anyone else.