Don Surber explains why.
Surber begins by describing NYT exceedingly offensive approach to interviewing Trump supporters, "How can you possibly still support him?" (After all that we've said for so long and so harshly and so emotionally to destroy his support, why aren't our coordinated efforts working on you? What's wrong with you anyway?")
One man provided the answer:
1) Economy booming
2) Unemployment down
3) Border security addressed directly
4) Possible end of Korean war started before he was born
Actions are louder than words, and the press are all words, for that matter, so are Democrats.
Then Surber explains why resistance is futile.
1) It's top down, contrasted with Tea Party that was organic, less organized, more sincere.
2) Celebrities are not helping. An actress that sheds her clothing for a film is not credible in explaining why Trump saying "pussies" is disqualifying.
3) Attacks are personal. Obama took personal hits too, but the difference is his attackers feared government takeover of healthcare while attacks on Trump are on his hair and skin tone. They still call him orange and Cheetos and the like.
4) Resistance is unfocused. They're simply against everything Trump does. Trump now uses that impulse to his advantage by having them oppose tax cuts and oppose peace with North Korea.
[That makes me laugh]
5) Trump proves them wrong. He is not Hitler. Calling him a cock holster and calling his daughter a name that rhymes with runt, bunt, hunt, and punt makes Trump a victim and destroys the argument that he's a despot otherwise today's so-called comedians would all be dead.
6) Tea Party was American, the Resistance was French.
Surber concludes, as part of the Resistance the NYT cannot be objective and that's the reason why they're setting themselves up for another unpleasant November surprise.
Me: It's just the beginning of summer. Can't we enjoy a summer for once, free of political concerns and apprehension and war plans? We have gardens to tend, aquariums to maintain, beer to make and bottle, pizza classes to teach, learning to do. Can't we have a peaceful summer and fall without being cranked out of shape politically? Must all of life be political year round?
I suppose it must.
But I do enjoy the Star Trek mashup. The Borg is right there at the top of the best writing I've seen in science fiction, and their incredibly imaginative depiction on television and film is outstanding. The whole story device breathtaking. Because of that, A+ for the article. And NYT can wither without my attention.
8 comments:
Your point about summer is the biggie. People will be working on their tans, their gardens, their summer romances, their beach bods. They will also start driving like they're already on vaca, so a lot of this will slide under everybody's radar.
Unless, of course, somebody relatively well-known gets shot or shoots somebody.
the Resistance was French
And the Resistance was not only French, but Norwegian, Belgian, Dutch, Russian, Yugoslav, Greek, Italian, Danish, Polish, Czech, Filipino, Chinese, and Kachin. It was supported by Americans a long way from the nearest battleship or armored division.
It was also gutsy. A few little guys taking on people who would kill anybody for any reason or no reason at all.
The Resisters are only tough in Lefty enclaves and against women or guys whose backs are turned. Not to mention they're like a lynch mob in a Duke Wayne Western. And they know the law won't prosecute.
The French resistance was communists fighting socialists, AKA Nazis.
Agree with 60.
These tards don't realize that they are not "the resistance," they are the compliant and complicit status quo that has been rejected. They are big government storm troopers, borg units, brownshirts, nazis, etc. (fill in the blank with the losers from whatever show gets you going).
Sorry, "tards," though appropriate in the context of the above comment, has a long history of offensive and abusive misuse against good people with intellectual development issues. I apologize.
A lot of Resistance was Commie, a lot wasn't. There was always that ELAS/ELAM/EDES split.
Osprey's book on the Vercors campaign in '44 has some stuff on it.
Someone called Ivanka Allen Funt?
These NYT interviews of average people are always ridiculous.
Remember when Coulter caught them getting quotes from the same "man of street" for its news stories, year after year?
Here we're told the NYT interviewed "Dozens" of Trump supporters - aka somebodies in the DC Beltway and near Manhattan - who live in the "right" neighborhoods. Then they cherry-pick a few quotes, to show what they want to show.
50 million voted for Trump.
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