Thursday, October 20, 2016

The Media Will Learn to Love Trump in Due Time

The Media Will Learn to Love Trump in Due Time
This one is the worst ever, nothing at all like the nice moderate one we called the worst one ever in the last race. "Such cries will be replayed and amplified in 2020 no matter who Republicans nominate, because presumably Republicans won’t repeat the mistake of nominating a Democrat. Democrats in the media would prefer two Democrats battling it out for the White House. This is their favorite election ever: not only do they get a Democrat running against a Democrat posing as a Republican, they get to castigate the Democrat posing as a Republican as a racist and sexist, then smear other Republicans with him. And then, they’ll get to claim that Trump was part of a moderate new wave rejected by the GOP in 2020 in favor of “extremism.” This was just one of the problems with nominating Trump. In the latter days of his campaign, holed up in his bunker at the top of Trump Tower, campaigning for $10-per-month subscribers to Trump TV (“Hair, Unbalanced!”), tweeting incessant paroxysms of rage at members of his own party, Trump has become the id of the “burn it all down” Republicans. But for most of his life, he was a blue-dog Democrat. This provides the media and the Left with a convenient blackjack: when they want to portray Trump as extreme, they simply shine a lens on his current radicalism, and note that he’s far out of line with Mitt Romney and John McCain. Later, when they wish to portray the next Republican nominee as extreme and outrageous, they’ll point out Trump’s leftist policies and lament that the GOP has gone so far that they’ve rejected the broadminded politics of that lovable lug from Manhattan. One of the reasons Trump has been able to maintain a broad base of Republican support is the media’s tendency to overplay its hand with Republicans: They portray every Mitt Romney as a Donald Trump, and they have nowhere left to go when Republicans actually nominate a Donald Trump. But that won’t stop the media from playing this game all over again in four years, when Donald Trump magically transforms into a white knight for reason and jovial bipartisanship . . . as opposed to whichever Republican gets the nomination, that extremist radical."

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