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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2957 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: You Are Still Crying Wolf

A fundamental problem, as I see it:

"Trump said this insensitive thing that many are interpreting as racist." = Journalism

"Trump hasn't said this obvious, important thing that would allow people to interpret him as prepared for the presidency." = Editorializing

I mean, those of us on the "hate Trump already" side recognize that expressing a love for taco salads does not negate a domestic policy with muslim bans and deportations as centerpieces but those who aren't committed to how much he sucks only heard about the muslim bans and deportations when he mentioned them, and he did that infrequently. Stick his foot in his mouth? regularly. Slag on the press? daily. A disinterested observer could readily determine that "the establishment" "had it in" for Trump but only an educated observer could readily list why.

My worry is that the Republican party will use Trump to dismantle social programs, balloon deficit spending and do everything to drown government in the bathtub and that kind of wonky shit isn't going to get any attention from anybody because from an external perspective, Trump will be tweeting about Mexicans a lot less so he'll be "moderated" and "evolving" or some shit when in fact he's just a useful idiot for fucktards like Jason Chaffetz to hide behind while they make abortion ever harder across the heartland.