donsurber.blogspot.com Why do they doubt Trump?
John Hinderaker called it "A Blunder Of Epic Proportions."
President Donald John Trump had dared call out Democrat Congresswoman Ihlan Omar in a tweet.
Hinderaker at Powerline wrote, "This is the headline in my home town paper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune. It will be the same in every newspaper across the country."
Oh no!
Not a terrible newspaper headline!
How can President Donald John Trump survive a terrible newspaper headline?
This is worse than impeachment, isn't it?
Conventional wisdom holds that congresswomen of color are goddesses who cannot be criticized. You must worship them and admire their spunk.
The experts in Washington called President Donald John Trump's tweets racist, sexist, Islamophobic and xenophobic. He was a homophobic short of a full basket of deplorables.
And therein lies part of the problem. For 8 years, the press deemed any criticism of Obama or his programs racist. The word lost its power. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will make us laugh and laugh and laugh.
But the biggest problem is once again the experts and elitists -- whom President Donald John Trump has manhandled for four years -- still believe he does not know what he is doing.
Hinderaker's analysis is worthy of The Weekly Standard, which is to say it too is defunct.
He wrote, "The Democrats have been self-destructing, with the progressives denouncing Nancy Pelosi and other members of the party’s leadership as racists. That conflict has dominated the news, and I am sure Trump is right that Nancy Pelosi would be happy to work out travel arrangements to get rid of the Squad. But now she won’t have to. Trump’s attack on the Squad was so foolish that I would assume it to be a case of drunk-tweeting, except that the President doesn’t drink."
What Hinderaker missed was President Donald John Trump's entire point. Ihlan Omar is toxic because of her ungrateful and anti-American views. He forced Democrats to rally behind her.
He did not become president by listening to Bill Kristol.
The press meanwhile is going overboard to publicize President Donald John Trump's question of why the congresswomen of color do not help those lands they love. The press is unwittingly reminding us of Omar's ingratitude.
Recall three summers ago when then-candidate Donald John Trump went to Dimondale, Michigan, population 1,243 (93% white) on August 19, 2016, to woo black voters.
The next day, I wrote, "The brilliance of going to rural white areas to get the black vote."
Philip Bump of the Washington Post wrote, "It’s hard to imagine a much worse pitch Donald Trump could have made for the black vote."
One of us was right, and Bump was wrong, wrong, wrong.
He wrote, "There's no reason to think that Trump's suggestion that black Americans had 'nothing to lose' because they 'are living in poverty' will do anything to reverse that trend. Nor was his insistence in North Carolina that he should get votes from black voters because 'the inner cities are so bad.' Some black people, research shows, live in places besides the 'inner city.'
"So why make the argument? It could be, simply enough, that Trump doesn't have anyone in his inner circle that can provide a sense of how to reach out to the black community. One adviser said on CNN that Trump making his appeal in a mostly white town wasn't a big deal and that 'maybe it would have been nice if he went and had a backdrop with a burning car.' Or maybe Trump was listening to Ben Carson, who in May made a similar argument for Trump: He would only be president for four years, so what could go wrong?"
Others argued that he was wasting his time in making a pitch to black voters in a white town.
There were three reasons the speech was brilliant.
I wrote, "First, we are still in the dawn of the general election campaign. Trump is trying to stretch and widen the battlefield by adding Michigan and Wisconsin to Hillary's list of woes.
"Second, Trump is training his troops. To counter the rote trope of racism used against any Republican candidate, Trump is showing his followers how they must frame the issue as a failure of Democratic Party policy.
"Third, Trump is showing black voters that he is not dropping his G's when he speaks to them. No, no, no, when he was in Dimondale, he said the same thing."
And who took Michigan three months later?
President Donald John Trump won that day. He won the next day and the next day and every day since. Intelligent people would realize by now that resistance is futile.
And yet there was a Harvard Law graduate trying to tell you the guy he wrote off four years ago just made "A Blunder Of Epic Proportions."
There was a blunder all right, but it was a pedestrian one that happens every day to thousands of people who still, for some reason, think they are smarter than President Donald John Trump.
What they really don't get is the math. To win in 2020, Democrats have to peel some percentage of President Trump's supporters. Show me how going ballistic over this batch of tweets does that. Show me how going ballistic 1,000 previous times flipped one darned voter. All this does is drain the opposition emotionally. Support for impeachment was a pathetic 27% in June. It is down to 21%.
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