President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

The left seems to think they can draw more flies with vinegar than with honey.

Between Occupy, #BLM, and now the anti-Trump marches/demonstrations/riots, they push away people who might be sympathetic to their cause, forcing them to choose sides.

 

These groups have legitimate grievances, though, particularly #BLM. I can't say that the proper move is to ignore them out of political expediency.

 

He'll be the least ideological president elected in at least a generation.

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Least ideological nominee in decades.

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I also think that he is coming to this office with fewer set hard-and-fast policy prescriptions than a lot of other presidents might be arriving with. I don’t think he is ideological. I think ultimately is, he is pragmatic in that way. And that can serve him well as long as he has got good people around him and he has a clear sense of direction.

Read President Obama's Remarks From His First Post-Election Press Conference

 

Yeah, I have no doubt it's an efficient life saver for many people. It's just that once you've seen this, well . . .

 

That's a nice way of putting it. Another way of putting it is that he is completely bereft of actual thoughts and ideas.

 

His one big idea -- Make America Great Again -- said more than anything Hillary tried to put out there.

What was Hillary's campaign about?

 

What does anything I said have to do with Hillary Clinton?

 

The entire history of Brietbart News is just a big misunderstanding.

And, even if it wasn't, Bannon certainly didn't run the company or know anything about it, like the company claims, or like he himself and everyone around him has said.

And he totally misspoke when he said the news website to which he is in no meaningful way connected is a "platform for the alt-right."

#postfactualworld

 

Is it a reach for me to think the Bannon hire is a distraction to make potential hires like Giuliani and Bolton look OK by comparison?

 

Spectacular deflection.

Can we expect this for the next four years?

"Yeah but Hillary .... !"

 

Bannon's Breitbart definitely went after feminism. But, that's because their premise was that feminism had lost its way; that it was no longer pro-woman, but anti-man, and ultra liberal. The personification of this attitude is/was Milo Yiannopoulos, a gay man.

Now, maybe they're off base, but folks like @sportsguydave would say the same thing.

I think we also have to look at how the alt-right is defined, and who's defining it. I think Bannon has said that it may appeal to some creeps, but isn't defined by them. So, when he calls his site a platform of the alt-right, he's not including racists or anti-Semites.

But, seriously, maybe Bannon is a vicious racist and anti-Semite. But, he's a 62-year-old guy, who's hosted a daily radio show, who worked in Hollywood, and at Goldman Sachs, and no one he's worked with has called him either of these things, and we have no on the record comments from him that could be described as racist or anti-Semitic.

You'd think there might be some standard of evidence required to publicly, repeatedly call someone a racist and anti-Semite.

 

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