De følgende godt 3 minutter er noget af det sjoveste jeg har set i år.
“[Trump] is wearing them like a suit!” sagde Scott Adams om medierne, der er fanget i deres egen fortælling om, at Trump gerne vil være en diktator. Fordi medierne har besluttet sig for at skræmme vælgerne med denne orange trussel mod demokratiet, behøver Trump kun at gøre nar ad dem. The Hills Brett Samuels skriver at dette seneste forsøg på en dæmonisering af Trump har givet bagslag
Trump initially set off a furor last week when he told Fox News host Sean Hannity at an Iowa town hall that he did not plan to be a dictator if reelected, “except for day one.”
“He says, ‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said, no, no, no — other than day one. We’re closing the border and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator,” Trump added, drawing applause from the crowd.
As if to underscore that he relished the media’s reaction to his comments, Trump at a weekend gathering of conservatives in New York singled out a New York Times piece that outlined how the former president and his allies had leaned into concerns that he would rule as an authoritarian rather than try to dispel them.
“[Peter] Baker today in The New York Times said that I wanna be a dictator. I didn’t say that. I said I wanna be a dictator for one day,” Trump said at the Saturday event. “You know why I wanted to be a dictator? Because I want a wall. Right? I want a wall, and I wanna drill, drill, drill.”
The crowd again responded with applause and chants of “Build the wall.”
Som Adams har et godt blik for, rammer Trump præcist sine modstandere ved at gøre en joke ud af deres hysteri. Og fordi hysteriet er deres valgte fortælling, kan de ikke drosle det ned og er tvunget til at gentage det samme teater. Og Trump, som den sælger han er, kobler sine to mærkesager, grænsesikkerhed og energi-uafhængighed til fortællingen. Hver gang de skaber sig over den latterlige frygt for Orange Hitler, udstiller de sig selv, som de sælger Trumps valgkamp til deres egne brugere.
Og vælgerne tager det til sig, skriver Byron York i Washington Examiner
Two things are true today. One, former President Donald Trump’s polling, nationally, in key swing states, and in the first-voting state of Iowa, has never been better. And two, Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed by the Biden Justice Department to prosecute Trump, is taking self-described “extraordinary” measures in a rush to put Trump on trial before the 2024 presidential election. The two things are not unrelated. And nothing could more effectively illustrate the contrast between Trump’s rising political fortunes and the administration’s effort to imprison him before the election.
The Iowa polling was the subject of yesterday’s newsletter. The new Des Moines Register poll, considered quite reliable, showed Trump extending his lead to 32 points over second-place Ron DeSantis, 51% to 19%, with Nikki Haley in third place at 16%. The pollster called Trump’s lead “commanding” and noted that the shrinking GOP field, which was supposed to help Trump’s opposition, “may have made Donald Trump even stronger than he was.” The Iowa caucuses are now a little less than five weeks away.
As far as the key swing states are concerned, CNN released a new general election poll showing Trump leading President Joe Biden in head-to-head matchups in Georgia and Michigan. Biden, of course, won both states in 2020, but the CNN pollsters found Trump with a 5-point lead, 49% to 44%, in Georgia, and a 10-point lead, 50% to 40%, in Michigan. “Broad majorities in both states hold negative views of the sitting president’s job performance, policy positions, and sharpness,” CNN reported.
As far as the national polling is concerned, the Wall Street Journal released a new survey showing that Trump not only leads Biden in a one-on-one contest, 47% to 43%, but is stronger in a race that includes third-party candidates. The poll showed those third-party candidates, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., drawing a total of 17% support in a multicandidate race, while at the top, Trump led Biden by 6 points, 37% to 31%.
The really good news for Trump is Biden’s remarkable weakness. “Trump has double-digit leads on being able to best handle the economy, inflation, crime, securing the border, the Ukraine war, and the Israeli conflict,” political analyst Sean Trende noted on X. “Biden has a double-digit lead on abortion rights. Everything else is single digits, which sounds good except that things like healthcare policy and social security are supposed to be double-digit Democratic leads.”
And then there are the two candidates’ personal attributes. “Mentally up for the job of president? Trump +16,” Trende continued. “Physical stamina to be president? Trump +34.” And finally, the big question: “When they asked if a president’s policies helped or hurt, with Trump it was 49-37 helped. With Biden it was 23-53 HURT,” Trende wrote.
Trump ser meget stærk ud og der er nogle sager som kommer i spil, hvor han vil stå endnu stærkere. Om Ukraine-krigen sagde Trump under sit vælgermøde på CNN “I want everybody to stop dying!” Sammenlign det med de ekstra penge, som Biden appellerer til, skal gå til en formåls- og udsigtsløs krig, de fleste har indset er tabt. At kaste gode penge efter dårlige i håbet om at vinden vender ligner den samme hybris om Vietnam, komplet med dominoteori.
Bidens korruption bliver også et stadigt større emne, som Comer og Jordan metodisk afdækker med deres magt til at stævne. Og Trump vil ikke stå så ringe i abort spørgsmålet, når først valgkampen er i gang, fordi hans sammensætning af Højesteret blot har sparket beslutningen ud til staterne fordi det vedrører politik. Trump selv har forholdt sig neutral til spørgsmålet om abort.
Medierne og Demokraterne taber tillid blandt almindelige vælgere, som dermed bliver mere lydhøre overfor ikke blot Trump, men for den kritik, der har været af det løgne-fortællings-konglomerat, der udgav sig for den fælles forståelse. Hvorfor blev Hillary Clinton ikke retsforfulgt for at slette bevismateriale? Hvorfor blev Trump “aflyttet”? Hvorfor troede man, at Trump havde underløbet den amerikanske valghandling med ‘russernes’ hjælp? Hvad handlede den perfekte samtale om, der dannede rammen om Rigsrets-forsøget? Hvad skete der egentlig på Capitol 6. januar 2021? Og hvorfor valgte undersøgelseskomiteen at slette alt det materiale, de byggede deres konklusioner på? Og hvornår opstod begrebet ‘valgbenægtelse’?
Spørgsmålene er legio og ingen er stillet af medierne – er det ikke mærkeligt?
Der er dog den alvor ved dæmoniseringen, at den ægger enhver ustabil skæbne til at tage sin moralske pligt på sig og stoppe Orange Hitler ved et attentat. Det er ikke et tilfælde når lim-hjernen Dan Goldman at det er en nødvendighed at “eliminere Trump”. En skør fanatiker, skal gøre, hvad de mange retssager – de får sin egen behandling – ikke ser ud til at gøre, nemlig eliminere Trump. Indtil det sker
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