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Home Front: Culture Wars
Trump Is Blessed With Really Stupid Enemies
2018-07-16
Donald Trump goes to Europe, scandalizes the Euroweenies, libs, and cruise-shilling grifters of Never Trump, and comes back victorious. He’s about to get his second SCOTUS justice confirmed ‐ all they have on Brett Kavanaugh is that he likes beer and is named "Brett." In Congress, the Democrats decided to go all in on abolishing ICE because Americans love open borders and welcome MS-13 or something. In the Mueller farce, the Dems decided that the smart play was to publicly run interference for creepy weirdo Peter Strzok when he went on national TV doing his impression of Lotion Boy from Silence of the Lambs.

...Look, I was not a Trump fan at the beginning ‐ I was anti-Trump but never Never Trump, both because I was Never Hillary and because I wasn’t a Beltway squishboy who would take his white paper and go home when my guy Ted Cruz lost. I just had no idea what to make of Trump at first because he didn’t look like any mainstream Republican I had seen in the last few decades. But then, I soon realized that he didn’t look like any mainstream Republican I had seen in the last few decades because he wasn’t a hapless loser. He was the anti-Jeb!.

...How did this guy win, and in doing so crush the avatar of the establishment, the smartest woman in the world, Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit? One of his secrets to success is really no secret at all. It is to embrace the obvious. Unlike our exhausted establishment, Trump rarely holds to bizarre, indefensible positions. You would think that would be an instinctive thing for politicians of both parties ‐ "I know! I’ll adopt stands on issues that won’t make my constituents ask ’What the hell is wrong with you?’" ‐ but it isn’t. Instead, the establishment has somehow talked itself into taking positions that are so clearly ridiculous that Normals scratch their heads, baffled at what they are being told by their betters via the lapdog liberal media.

...One of the secrets of Trump’s success is having really, really stupid enemies, enemies who are so tone-deaf and out-of-touch that they simply cannot adopt commonsense positions that resonate among normal Americans. The establishment instead insists on telling Americans that up is down, black is white, and girls can have penises. Nope. No wonder the Normals have gotten militant, and no wonder a leader like Donald Trump came along with the vision to exploit the opening the establishment left for an outsider to rise and prevail by embracing the obvious.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#5  Great opinion piece plus the bonus of some wonderfully snarky comments dudes!
Posted by: warthogswife   2018-07-16 19:41  

#4  #1 That's his skill and it takes a lot of brainpower to do that.

True, BP. But also greatly aided by the fact that the self-described "elites" (*spit*) value and promote idealogical conformity (whatever that happens to be this particular minute) over intelligence and skill.
Posted by: PBMcL   2018-07-16 14:16  

#3  
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy   2018-07-16 09:10  

#2  Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit soon to become Felonia Milhous von Orange Pantsuit.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-07-16 08:12  

#1  Trump makes his enemies act real dumb.

That's his skill and it takes a lot of brainpower to do that.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-07-16 05:29  

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