Posted on 10/14/2016 2:30:13 PM PDT by oblomov
After last week’s revelations of Donald Trump’s raunchy braggadocio, his opponents feel warmly vindicated. They knew it all the time. But they remain incredulous. How, they still ask, could such a vulgar jerk have ended up a nominee for president? In this, they fail to recognize a core aspect of his appeal — not his specific policies or economic acumen, but his ability to subvert social norms that many people have come to loathe.
For example, early in his campaign, Trump took to making a certain terse directive a feature of his rallies. He would interrupt his monologue and tell everyone to turn around and face the reporters and camera operators covering the event. "Look at them!" he would shout as 3,000-plus crowd members stared and pointed their cell phones. "They’re dishonest!"
It was a tense moment for the press and a pleasing one for everybody else. People who felt condescended to by Katie Couric et al were able to put them on the spot. This was participatory democracy! You could see the gleam on the faces of the audience as they rotated as one, photographed the photographers, and heckled the writers who, in one instance I watched, squirmed and grinned nervously in the light of Trump and the Trumpists’ disdain.
You have to appreciate the brilliance of the move. Suddenly, the rules of political spectacle collapsed. The rules say that the media are there to broadcast and not to be noticed. Office seekers respect them because they crave coverage of their campaigns. But here was a candidate who declared open war on the media, drawing them out of the background and into the arena. "Look at them." This was no ordinary complaint of media bias. It was an antic, unnerving expose of fake neutrality.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
They are a THREAT, and we need to take apart their Liberal controlled monopoly.
Balls of steel. Bully!
The ONLY reason that America not only tolerated, but stood up and cheered, when Trump made a vile and vulgar menstruation crack about Megyn Kelly was the fact that she WAS a part of the vile, corrupt, loathsome, hated and detested media.
I guess some people are finally figuring that out.
Not the focus, but have you noticed that NO ONE AT ALL has asked Katie Couric about her flying out to Rape Island?
She didn’t go just once like Hillary, ya know.
They are talking about Jeb Bush here:
“Trump sensed that Republican primary voters didn’t want a sober, experienced conservative who might alter the course of the Obama years.”
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Pull the other one. There is not one thing conservative about Jeb Bush.
That's Christianity, not liberalism.
It's about your personal relationship with God and the rest of us respecting that.
Another neoconservative is my guess.
Really?
Ok dude, whatever you have to tell yourself to be able to face yourself in the mirror.
Personally I found the article full of poop with a sprinkling of kaka.
Jeb Bush was going to fix the debt? Really?
The wall can never be? India has already built one bigger and is working on a second.
Do these "scholar" ever take time out from sniffing their own farts to actually take a look at reality?
Well, he completely ran off the rails at the end, saying that Hillary will win. He better hope not. He might not like the civil war so much.
Reverse the perverse last 30 years I hope.
“How...could such a vulgar jerk ...”
Mr Trump may be a vulgar jerk, but he is OUR vulgar jerk.
Well .. when GOD gets ready to clean up a MESS .. HE usually chooses a man of fierce loyalty; honor; love of country; and A STEEL SPINE.
Certainly .. nobody believe Hillary could fill that requirement. She’s one of the most weak people I have ever known in my lifetime. She’s even more needy than Michelle Obama - who has a basket full of females to meet her every need. Why isn’t she or Hillary enough ..??
Think about it.
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