The Left’s biggest problem now The rise of Trumpism certainly comes with its own potential perils for conservatism, which I’ve written about several times before.
However, it’s not devoid of its benefits, either. And one of them is becoming increasingly obvious, as the Left continues to make almost all the wrong moves in the two months since the election.
Since Ronald Reagan left the national stage, the Left has never lived in a world where its dominance of the media did not do one of two things: control the narrative or have the power to change the narrative quickly. Even if the media’s power was overblown, the Right’s fear for whatever perceived power it had gave it traction nonetheless.
But that’s over now....
...The Left/media no longer controls, or even determines, the narrative anymore ...long comes Trump, lacking the tact and dignity of Dutch. But like him, a product of the very media culture he’s now up against. So he has out-shamelessed them. He has out-blustered them. He has out-spun them. He called their bluff, and he outed them as the emperor without any clothes.
Which is not to say the Left/media is irrelevant. Rather, it is impotent.
It speaks now to the already-converted, as it likely did all this time. It’s just that those running our side of the game were so deathly afraid of it they made Harambe out to be King Kong. The Left/media may have too large of an audience to be irrelevant, but Trump proved you no longer need to pander or genuflect to its false premises to win. Because there’s a great, big world out there of people who not only don’t care what the Left/media think (despite maybe even consuming it on a regular basis), but are also looking for an excuse to sneer back at those who have been condescendingly sneering at them all this time....
...Thus, for the first time in a long time, the Left is going to have to win a fight where the opponent really hits back. And when Trump hits back, it’s even further below the belt than the Left/media has been willing to go. For better or for worse....
- See more at:
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2017/01/lefts-biggest-problem-now#sthash.3hX8Wvhq.dpuf
