12-21-2018, 08:09 AM
(12-11-2018, 01:14 PM)Dill Wrote: No, they cannot admit they bought the snake oil because this goes much farther than NK. And it is not possible to point that out in Foxworld without "looking down your nose" at "flyover America."
That is the genius of Fox. For over three decades now Fox and friends have been constructing the elitism charge to explain why views of the foreign policy establishment don't mesh with the "common sense" of their nativist consumers, who have never bothered to learn much about it. For the Trump base, his success is now linked to their very identity, a worldview constructed for them over decades as they have heard how foolish nation-building, weak PC liberals giving away billions in free aid and opening our borders have dominated US foreign policy. Trump meant a STRONG leader--a CORPORATE CEO and self-made BILLIONAIRE who knew how to cut deals--would step onto the world stage and start putting upstart countries in their place. All the stereotypes of the successul American businessman who could build companies and cut through crap making tough deals that favored the US were evoked by right wing talk radio hosts leading up to the election.
Trump would "fire" allies who didn't toe the line, making liberal heads explode.And look out China, Mexico, Iran, North Korea and Syria!
Recall all the crowing when Trump won and the elite liberal pundits were wrong. See, Trump KNEW something they and Hillary didn't. He was "in touch" with the guy in the street. A winner. And this has been the ground of a faith-based support since. He sees something the establishment doesn't. He won the election when the elite said he wouldn't. All the history and foreign policy precedents are just more elitist blather. WHY NOT meet with the NK leader. No one has tried that, right? Trump's "unpredictability" would make Kim and China pay attention and get results.
Last Saturday I listened for an hour as Tucker Carlson plugged his new book, Ship of Fools, on C-span. He insists Trump is asking the right questions--like "Why do we need NATO"--and Carlson demands to know why "no one can answer him directly." Jeezus. The reference to "elites" was a drumbeat throughout.
Sure, he tweets things we might not agree with.But he is only failing insofar as Congress and the establishment don't support him enough, says Carlson. During the entire hour there were no questions about why Trump is so easy on Russia. And so it continues.
"Trump meant a STRONG leader--a CORPORATE CEO and self-made BILLIONAIRE "
Just curious. If your given over 400 million dollar, being born on third base, is a person really "self made"?
