https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/18/politics/donald-trump-james-woods-2020-reelection/index.html
"Donald Trump is a rough
individual. He is vain, insensitive and raw. But he loves America more
than any President in my lifetime."
Trump retweeted that assessment; "I think that is a great compliment," he wrote. "Thank you James!"
It's, of course, not a great compliment. If someone called you "vain, insensitive and raw," would you be flattered?
Trump is, quite simply, not likeable. He
says and does things on an almost-daily basis that even many of his
supporters think are over the line of acceptable conduct for a president
or, really, for anyone.
Nothing
will change that. Or certainly nothing that he can do between now and
November. The only way he wins is to make the case that may not be your
idea of what a president should look and act like but that he is someone
who knows how to make change in Washington. (He also likely needs to
disqualify Joe Biden, which his campaign is already working very hard to
do.)
If
that works, it would represent a fundamental change in the way in which
we elect presidents. Conventional wisdom has long dictated that people
vote for someone they'd want to have a beer with. Aside from his most unquestioning acolytes, it's hard to imagine most people would want to have a beer with Trump.
But will they vote for him anyway? They did once. And Woods (and Trump) have to hope they will vote for "their jerk" once more.
Imagine thinking, "I really want to vote for and elect a guy who does the best job at putting on a face for the public and is convincingly fake enough to successfully act and appear 'presidential' as we came to define that term"
ReplyDeleteImagine if that was your voting criteria.
All a false messiah needs to do is pretend really well, like the pied piper, and that means we should follow him because he's so "Messianic!" LOL
Imagine thinking since all real politicians try to make a good impression of competence intelligence derech eretz
ReplyDeletea politician who is a consistent bum refuses to act presidential and lacks elementary knowledge of reality shows he is different and more sincere and inherently a better person therefore i want him as my leader . chanifa is the worst possible sin. chazal disagree with you.