@Smokin Joe
I don't think Trump can win again. I was thinking about this today. Every day is Trump chaos. Working people come home every day and their news is trouble involving Trump; every day it is trouble involving Trump. They want peace in their house, in their government so they can do their every day job and live in peace. They get no peace from Trump's government. By the time 2020 gets here, they are going to vote to stop the chaos Trump brings with him. If you look back in Trump's history, all his adult life is living in chaos with one court case after another, always angry at others and trying to take them down and it never stopped during his adult life and he is the same now; always chaos. I think people are fed up with this now, and certainly will be by 2020. People don't want constant chaos in their government. They aren't going to vote for him if he lasts until 2020. I am saying Republicans aren't going to vote for him, either, because everyday Republicans don't want this chaos, either. I am thinking of the behavior of normal people; they don't want this in their lives - they have enough to deal with to keep food on the table and get family to the doctor and to school, and they are going to reject Trump chaos so they don't have to deal with it.
In all fairness,
@Victoria33 , the chaos is a media creation as much or more as Trump's doing. He gets full credit for his twitter habit, but even a lot of that is in response to actions by the MSM.
Had they (just imagine, in a world where the media really reported what was going on instead of sought paybacks for all those issues of "Madame President" Newsweek magazines destroyed and congratulatory articles and puff pieces they had to shelve or delete and replace with the bitter news that SHE did not win.
It has been a full court press. I can recall no other President (with the possible exception of Nixon) who was so severely hounded, not only by the press, but by 'unnamed sources' leaking like a colander, and even witch hunt investigations. Nothing in the past 60 years has compared, if ever. That makes it hard to do business, and with the animus of not only the Liberals, but a significant faction of the GOP who are every bit as much a part of the Deep State, the swamp critters are in full rebellion against him getting any thing changed or done.
Even when he does, the media take that as a loss, sulk and do not report it.
Keep in mind, please, that I voted third party (Constitution), I was not enamored of Trump, nor am I particularly so now, but in all fairness, this situation isn't fair at all. What I see as worse, though, is the distraction from major issues, like the Russians threatening to take out the source of any missiles we send to Syria--an implication that they would fire on one of our ships should we become involved over a WMD attack we aren't even sure occurred and an act of war which would be a global game changer, we're worrying about whether Trump paid hush money to an alleged paramour because so far that's the only straw the fishing expedition has been able to grasp. Besides, the whole alleged sexual misconduct thingy worked so well in Alabama, why not take it to the next level?
The perception is one of chaos, because that's what the media want you to perceive. He is being pursued by people (Comey and Muller) who are old cronies and who made a stellar mess of investigating the Anthrax Letter case in 2001 and beyond, burying Brady Material and putting an innocent man through years of unmitigated Hell while ignoring a more obvious suspect.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/05/21/when_comey_and_mueller_bungled_the_anthrax_case_133953.html They're hacks. But they will pursue to the ends of the Earth someone they decided is guilty of something, even if they aren't--which is how an investigation of Russian Collusion made a Hard Left turn at the gates to the truth and went down this this track. Kinda a lot like Janet Reno with a kid accused of sexual molestation at a church day care in Florida. I see a pattern.
All the while, it's fairly obvious who was colluding with foreign individuals in an effort to influence American Elections, but once again the teflon keeps the goo from sticking where it ought.
There are far more serious matters than whether a billionaire gave money to a past (alleged) paramour, and in the media parlance when Clinton was caught diddling a subordinate employee with hard evidence the media just winked and said "It's all about sex". Where is that wink now? It's reserved for those persons who want desperately to render this administration short and ineffective so they can get ba(ra)ck to the business of 'transforming' America.
This is how Liberals roll, if they can't have the pool table to themselves, they will find a way to stop the game, spill their beer on the table and jostle the players at every opportunity--only they are doing it with a country. Even those of us who didn't like him as a candidate, some didn't even vote for him, will, out of that conservative principle of fairness give him credit when he gets it right. But what is being done to him, his administration, the American People, and yes, America, too, just isn't fair.
You are a writer, you understand the power of words, the subtleties of semantics, how, for instance, 'slaughter' evokes more emotion than 'killing', and 'massacre' pushes the button even harder. note the terms the media use, especially the Liberals, who pump them so often they become the framework of the discussion. Things like "assault weapon" have become terms even those of us who own them occasionally use, even though the term is a meaningless reactionary trigger for those who aren't familiar with and enamored of those rifles as a tool, for sport and pleasure, and in extremis, self-defense, but not the murder and mayhem an outrageously small fraction of them are employed at.
If you look, too, at the way they refer to the President, (we saw this with "Bush", at best, but seldom referred to as "The President" or "President Bush" except on conservative news airings, whereas Obama was always referred to complete with title. Subtle biases affect thought, affect the way people see any topic, and the semantic nuance of Madison Avenue is brought into the arena to mold your attitudes, thoughts, even the terms you use to discuss any issue, with a liberal bias heavily overpopulating the Media, especially television and print. Even the terms 'global warming' and 'Climate change' have so permeated thought that it is rare to see a documentary without reference to a phenomenon which is well within the natural variation of the planet's surface's last 600,000 years of thermal history, just not the memory of most of those watching.
Then, of course, there is the gambit of finding a way to blame something, no matter how it goes, on a targeted cause, so no matter what the weather does, it's man made climate change (an unproven event) that causes it.
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Unfortunately, peoples' perceptions can create a reality different from what would have ordinarily been in more sane times. I believe the Salem Witch Trials were such an example, like the effect of telling ghost stories around a campfire has on the restful slumber of the campers later, starting at every sound. The media are trotting out their boogeymen, parading them back and forth in America's face, and doing their damndest to ensure no one gets any sleep at night. It's manipulative, it's a PSYOP, it's destructive of our ends and a means to theirs, fatiguing the whole country like a POW Camp guard by battering us all with their crap to the point where we'd do anything to get them to stop, which is exactly what they'd wanted in the first place.
No, I don't blame Trump for anything but being perhaps a bit naive to the machinations of the Deep State and their desire to retain power and possibly freedom from prosecution at virtually any cost, and the checkered past we all knew he had, whether or not we voted for that. I blame the Media who are relentlessly attacking him despite having far bigger fish to fry if they were the least bit honest.
Few deserve the honest title of commentator, most indoctrinator, but almost none "reporter", and those who do are often squelched. So if I had to choose who to vote out, it would be the MSM, whose ratings have gone into the tank, but somehow are remaining in business.
