09-27-2016, 08:44 AM
Nice to know.
I am tempted to believe that many people have put Donald Trump on their equivalent of the "ignore list" on news coverage so that they need not hear his outrages. With last night's debate, they had to open their ears to him again, and they apparently disliked what they heard from them.
I almost expected Hillary Clinton to cite Ronald Reagan's "There you go again!"...
Donald Trump has picked his crowds carefully, and he has allowed his staffers to use thuggish means to clear those crowds of protesters and hecklers. This time he faces a neutral crowd, a large national audience, and... he did badly. He could not go far beyond his base.
I am tempted to believe that many people have put Donald Trump on their equivalent of the "ignore list" on news coverage so that they need not hear his outrages. With last night's debate, they had to open their ears to him again, and they apparently disliked what they heard from them.
I almost expected Hillary Clinton to cite Ronald Reagan's "There you go again!"...
Donald Trump has picked his crowds carefully, and he has allowed his staffers to use thuggish means to clear those crowds of protesters and hecklers. This time he faces a neutral crowd, a large national audience, and... he did badly. He could not go far beyond his base.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.