Trump booed at World Series

[Belsnickel]

(10-30-2019, 12:13 PM)GMDino Wrote: Your entire response is wrong, but the bold is the most telling.

"tsk tsking" as you and "people like you" do has done nothing.  Mixed in among the GOP members of congress are butt kissing and lapping up everything DJT says there are a few who, like you, want simply say Trump should "be better" and what is does and says is "beneath the office".  Trump doesn't care.  He responds to strong people.  That's why he loves dictators and guys like Putin.

There is no one size fits all method for dealing with bad people.  Something I would have thought you would understand more than most.

I'm kind of disappointed that you feel that way.  I almost expected more of a stronger response to someone like Trump and his actions and words.  Guess I was wrong.

What does acting in kind achieve with Trump? Will he feel bad? Maybe. But the more likely answer here, because he appears to lack any ability for realistic self-reflection is that it will only entrench him further, it will inflame his base, cause more of the same behavior resulting in a tit-for-tat, and turn off a lot of voters that we would like to sway. Acting in kind achieves nothing positive. It's a bad look and can definitely have a boomerang effect.

If you want to hold Trump accountable for his actions then that has to happen at the ballot box and it has to happen in Congress. There is no alternative. A bunch of people booing him at the stadium achieves nothing good. We should put all of our efforts into demanding Congress hold him accountable for questionable conduct and anyone that doesn't should be voted out. That's the game, here. I don't want to just tut-tut at Trump, I want him reined in or gone because his behavior is abhorrent, disgusting, and it makes our country the laughing stock of the western world. Playing down to his level of boorishness isn't going to change that, though.