I am a cynic, and expect the worst from politicians as a baseline. But the extent of the Hilary/Clinton corruption was breathtaking even in that context.
I have my eyes closed and my fingers crossed for the next 4 years of Trump. I have no idea how his appointees will work out. But I am impressed that neither that fat fcuk Christie nor that 9/11, 9/11 all day nutjob Giuliani have a place in Trump’s administration. And I was impressed (nay, astounded) at Trump actually reaching out to Romney.
@SkyzykS: the issue has kinda moved past but I didn’t want you to think I’d missed your reply re: the F-35 / F-18 tweet. Good points, wanted to give you a shout for that.
Gov’t: keep pouring money at it, we can’t afford to pull out now that we’ve already spent so much, and we can’t admit we made a mistake in the first place.
Business: cut your losses, don’t throw good money after bad or you’ll go bankrupt, or accumulate soul-crushing debt -wait, that’s how the gov’t works!
Demagoguery is a function of how one presents themselves.
Let’s see…Off the top of my head we have:
“Build the wall! Build the wall! Build the wall!”
“Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!”
“Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!”
Can you come up with similar angry chants that made regular appearances at Obama rallies in '08 or 2012?
Trump is the epitome of a demagogue, which is “a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.” In the course of his campaign, Trump demagogued (again, off the top of my head):
Mexicans
Muslims
Wall Street
The media
HRC
‘The system’
Free-trade agreements
Washington insiders (professional pols, lobbyists, etc)
China
PC culture
AGW
Dog-whistling isn’t necessary when one feels free to call the dog by its name.
It seems that the same malware was used to infect the target calculation application for Ukrainian D-30 howitzers and relay their positions. It seems that the Russian counter battery fire was unusually accurate - further analysis discovered the malware on the targeting software.
But as the President-elect says “it could be China, it could be random some guy”
Its an accusation of demagoguery. It doesn’t have to be true.
I mean, if getting people to chant something constitutes an act of demagoguery, then there you have it.
Campaign slogans are now demagoguery.
Then you want to introduce a bunch of utterly subjective criteria like tenor or whether or not something is uplifting! Why don’t you just run around with the goal post for a while and let us know when you feel like setting at down somewhere?
Lock her up was easily as uplifting to me as anything could be. Fair application of justice for all…
Well, you’re the one advancing the argument that Obama and Trump were (summarizing here) equivalent on the demagoguery issue, and offered “Yes We Can” as an example of demagogic chanting at Obama campaign rallies. If you can’t/won’t make a convincing argument re who/what is the object of the demagoguery you claim adheres to the chant, it seems to me your argument takes a pretty serious hit.
I outlined Trump’s demagoguery above via 1) a list of the who/whats of his demagogic ‘ire,’ and 2) demonstrated how he whipped his audiences into a fury via several demagogic chants. I’d say that’s as close to ‘proof’ as one can get when discussing a subject such as this. So if after reflecting on the totality of Trump’s campaign, you choose to deny that he ran as a demagogue, all I can do is shrug my shoulders and say ‘OK.’
Here’s another one for you- by the standards of Soviet/Russian official vocabulary, this statement by Putin during his yearly press conference is an open admission.
