Nah he doesn't need to kiss their ass I agree there. But he does need to make them look like the ones unwilling to compromise and make the people in their districts know it. And there are ways to do that...but it involves more than 140 characters LOL.
You know, what you're saying is right in
theory, and I generally would prefer that approach myself. But I'm starting to believe that approach is mistaken.
First, I don't think the people in their districts would listen anyway -- they are unreachable politically. The true audience really must be broader than that. And I'm not sure that most of the media would even report accurately what Trump said if he did make a more measured statement. The MSM is pretty much in the tank in terms of trying to kneecap Trump, and is pushing the idea that Russian interference delegitimized the election. If Trump said something measured and reasonable, they'd just skip it and focus on something else.
The virtue of the Twitter approach -- and I can't believe I'm even saying this because I don't even do twitter -- is that it reaches people regardless of what the MSM says. And yes, the tweets themselves sometimes make me cringe. But -- and this is a Rosie O'Donnell-sized "but", the tweets have the effect of re-emphasizing/repeating what the target of the tweet (Lewis in this case) originally said. In other words, every time Trump tweets at Lewis, it amounts to saying "Lewis said the duly elected President of the United States is illegitimate." And I think enough people are repulsed by that thought that it is a net win for Trump.
Trump is drawing battle lines that needed to be drawn. Conservatism -- or anti-leftism, really -- has been on the ascension since 1987, largely because conservatives tend to be polite. At least we're now actually fighting back against leftism, even if it's not
conservatism per se doing the fighting. The war on political correctness badly needs to be fought, because the left has been winning by controlling the language. Trump may be throwing some haymakers that leave him open to counter-punches, but some of those haymakers are definitely landing.