Re: US Presidential Election 2016
Reply #413 –
It'll be interesting to see how the Turkish airport terror attack impacts the race. Ordinarily, it should help Trump given it should drive xenophobia. Yet he lost ground after the Orlando shootings. Does he fare better when these attacks happen overseas?
His first response at one of his rallies was predictably poor. He went on about the fact that something bad, something very bad is going on and we have to figure out what it is. This is the sort of thing you'd expect from a moron or a primary school kid. Hmmm ... I'm thinking that everyone knows that ISIS is almost certainly involved. Of course, he is really dog whistling to the rightwing wingnuts. The 'something' is that Obama is a secret Muslim and Clinton is helping him orchestrate a takeover of the US by radical Islamic terrorists. But I hope Clinton uses his words in their literal sense to show how stupid and ignorant he is, clueless about how to deal with Terrorism. After all, he doesn't even know what's going on let alone know how to address it. That is how he would appear to moderates and independents. At some point, she should remind the public that Trumps only involvement with the Middle East was to fall over himself to hire out one of his properties to Gaddafi when he visited the UN in New York, and this was after the Lockerbie tragedy.
I think it is wrong to assume he is stupid, perhaps he is just pandering to stupid people?
The media will come out and call him an idiot, and the true idiots will view that as media telling them how to think which only reinforces their support for Trump.
The media think labeling Trump an idiot helps Clinton, it's like the UK media labeling the Brexit foolish. The outcome may be the exact opposite of what they desire.
If the media do not want Trump, the media need to highlight to the voters that Trump is manipulating them. But I fear with their early grab for ratings through pandering to Trump's largess they may well have shot themselves in the foot. God help the media if Trump is in charge, they may have some real conspiracies to look out for, or he may just shot a few of them dead in the street and keep on walking.!