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Donald Trump won and this is how he did it (WaPo article - NAILS it imo.) -
Posted on 11/10/16 at 3:31 am
Posted on 11/10/16 at 3:31 am
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Donald Trump ran against himself and won. The Manhattan billionaire who for decades boasted of his playboy lifestyle, stiffed contractors and vendors, hired illegal immigrants, eschewed churchgoing, embraced liberal causes, and counted Hillary and Bill Clinton as friends and allies pulled off one of the most brazen pivots in American history, selling himself to American voters as a populist hero who understood their frustrations and guaranteed a blizzard of wins.
Trump did it the way he’d said he would for more than 30 years: He ignored the rules of modern politics and spoke to Americans in plain, even coarse, everyday language, without massaging his words through the data-driven machinery of consultants, focus groups and TV commercials. He scoffed at ideologies, preaching a tough, blunt pragmatism fueled by unbridled, unashamed ego. He told people what they wanted to hear: that a rapidly changing and splintering society could be forced back to a nostalgia-drenched sense of community and purpose, that long-lost jobs could be retrieved, that a pre-globalized economy could be restored.
Donald Trump ran against himself and won. The Manhattan billionaire who for decades boasted of his playboy lifestyle, stiffed contractors and vendors, hired illegal immigrants, eschewed churchgoing, embraced liberal causes, and counted Hillary and Bill Clinton as friends and allies pulled off one of the most brazen pivots in American history, selling himself to American voters as a populist hero who understood their frustrations and guaranteed a blizzard of wins.
Trump did it the way he’d said he would for more than 30 years: He ignored the rules of modern politics and spoke to Americans in plain, even coarse, everyday language, without massaging his words through the data-driven machinery of consultants, focus groups and TV commercials. He scoffed at ideologies, preaching a tough, blunt pragmatism fueled by unbridled, unashamed ego. He told people what they wanted to hear: that a rapidly changing and splintering society could be forced back to a nostalgia-drenched sense of community and purpose, that long-lost jobs could be retrieved, that a pre-globalized economy could be restored.
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Posted on 11/10/16 at 3:32 am to Eurocat
Melt?
Posted on 11/10/16 at 3:38 am to Eurocat
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He told people what they wanted to hear:
Wow, imagine that. A political office seeker telling people what they want to hear.
The Post is pissed because their 20 henchmen couldn't bring Trump down.
Posted on 11/10/16 at 3:42 am to Deuces
How about you read the story?
Posted on 11/10/16 at 4:14 am to Eurocat
I've never seen a more polarizing article in my life. Its almost as if an impartial journalist wrote the first half of every paragraph and a flaming liberal wrote the second half of the paragraph. I guess that counts as impartiality in the Washington Post.
I mean look at this hackish journalism.
Trump beat Hillary with College Educated whites.
For fricks sake, it's "illegal" immigration he was talking about.
He mentions her email server but completely leaves out how her party was actively influencing the democratic primaries, getting debate questions from media outlets and outright colluding with her campaign (I wouldn't be surprised if they sent this article to be approved first), how her party was paying violent protesters to incite unrest at Trump rallies, how she is a career politician who has done more for her donors than she has for the American people.
This journalist seems completely out of touch with reality.
I mean look at this hackish journalism.
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Clinton’s strength seemed limited to the most narrow definition of the Democratic Party — nonwhites and college-educated whites
Trump beat Hillary with College Educated whites.
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his oft-repeated call to build a wall against Mexican immigrants
For fricks sake, it's "illegal" immigration he was talking about.
He mentions her email server but completely leaves out how her party was actively influencing the democratic primaries, getting debate questions from media outlets and outright colluding with her campaign (I wouldn't be surprised if they sent this article to be approved first), how her party was paying violent protesters to incite unrest at Trump rallies, how she is a career politician who has done more for her donors than she has for the American people.
This journalist seems completely out of touch with reality.
Posted on 11/10/16 at 4:20 am to Eurocat
whatever helps the hacks at the WaPo sleep at night.
Trump won because America said "frick you" to the establishment. Plain and simple. The media, the two major political parties, and elites didn't see this coming, and they should have.
Trump won because America said "frick you" to the establishment. Plain and simple. The media, the two major political parties, and elites didn't see this coming, and they should have.
Posted on 11/10/16 at 4:21 am to Eurocat
Everything else pales in comparison to keeping that horrid Hitler-like c*nt away from the levers of power.
Everything else will work itself out.
Everything else will work itself out.
This post was edited on 11/10/16 at 4:22 am
Posted on 11/10/16 at 4:24 am to PairofDucks
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Trump won because America said "frick you" to the establishment. Plain and simple. The media, the two major political parties, and elites didn't see this coming, and they should have.
Thanks to message boards and social media, the mainstream news -- NYT- WaPo, all of them - are marginalized now. They ranted and ranted and ranted and no one except sheep bought their rant.
That is a watershed event.
Posted on 11/10/16 at 4:24 am to Eurocat
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He told people what they wanted to hear
Well some of the things I heard him say that I agree with was some of the things I heard him talking about back in the 80s...
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