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Home Front: Politix
The Amazing Super Power Of Donald Trump
2019-07-06
[Daily Wire] Donald Trump’s super power is now on full display. As I’ve mentioned before, the president has an uncanny ability to make other people destroy themselves. And what he has done to countless individuals, he is now doing to the Left en masse.

I first noticed this super ability of Trump’s way back during the 2016 Republican primaries. Reacting to Trump, Marco Rubio descended to Trump’s level of grotesque personal insult ‐ and basically ended his campaign. Reacting to Trump, Jeb! Bush tried to appear forceful and dynamic and rendered himself ridiculous ‐ and he was done. Even the brilliant Ted Cruz, reacting to Trump, was lured into an attempt to out-strategize "my friend Donald," and only managed to get himself devoured last. Trump didn’t beat them, he simply magicked them into beating themselves. It really is a remarkable kind of Jedi mind trick.

And now, after two and a half years of the Left trying to strike Trump down, he has only become more powerful than they could possibly have imagined!

Who couldn’t see the extraordinary Trump Effect playing itself out in the Democrat debates, as candidate after candidate promised to destroy our borders, give free health care to millions of illegals, and immolate whole job sectors on the altar of climate hysteria? Even sympathetic left-wing commentators were covering their eyes at the self-engineered train wreck: the latest exercise of the Trump super power.

And it didn’t stop there. In the course of a single week, signs that Trump had amped his Jedi game to Melee Level were everywhere. Antifas fascists nearly murdered a journalist ‐ and leftists made excuses for them. The Fourth of July approached ‐ and leftists declared the American flag a symbol of white nationalism. Our border forces struggled valiantly to handle a crisis the Left had repeatedly claimed was imaginary ‐ and leftists condemned them as dangerous thugs running concentration camps.

Finally, Trump organized a delightfully Trumpian Fourth of July extravaganza on the National Mall ‐ and the leftist commentators flocked to cable to proclaim the celebration the act of an evil dictator.
Posted by:Besoeker

#2  "IT'A ALL TRUMP"S FAULT I ACT LIKE A HOMICIDAL MANIAC!!" ---screamed by Antifa rioters and MSM news presenters (one wears a face mask so you can tell them apart).
Posted by: magpie   2019-07-06 12:10  

#1  Victor Davis Hanson, The Case for Trump, pages 316-317.

The Very idea that Donald Trump could, even in a perverse way, be heroic may appalling to half the country. Nonetheless, one way of squaring both Trump's personal excesses and his accomplishments is that his traditionally non presidential behavior may have been valuable in bringing long-overdue changes in foreign and domestic policy. Tragic heroes, as they have been portrayed from Homer's Iliad and Sophocle's plan (e.g. Ajaz, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes) to modern western fim, are not intrinsically noble. They can often be obnoxious and petty, if not dangerous, especially to those around them. The mercurial sorts rarely end up well, and on occasion neither to those in their vicinity. Oedipus was rudely narcissistic. In the film Hombre, antihero John Russel (Paul Newman) proved arrocant and off-putting.

Tragic heroes are often unstable loners. They are aloof by preference and due to society;s understandable unease with them. Sophocle's Ajax soliloquies about a rigged system and lack of recognition accorded his undeniable accomplishments is Trumpian to the core. They are akin to the sensational rumors sthat late at night Trump is hold up alone, brooding, eating fast food, apart from his wife, and watching Fox News shows.



Posted by: Besoeker   2019-07-06 09:11  

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