The Sharpton Effect: Trump's Knee-Jerk Opponents Are Actually Helping Him.. Guy Benson

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The Sharpton Effect: Trump's Knee-Jerk Opponents Are Actually Helping Him
Guy Benson

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Posted: Aug 02, 2019 10:25 AM

As the political chattering class has been focused on parsing and analyzing every syllable of this week's Democratic debates, I'd like to briefly revisit an illustrative episode that helps underscore one of the President Trump's most powerful advantages heading into 2020.  Because the Resistance-minded media and Democratic Party are on constant hair-trigger alert to signal their strident and total opposition to Trump, this impulse often leads them to make dumb, indefensible, strategically-damaging, reactionary decisions.  This is true on the policy level, of course, but it also bleeds over into associations and alliances.  As Katie pointed out on Tuesday, several top-tier presidential candidates went out of their way to extol the supposed virtues of Al Sharpton, in response to Trump's hard swings at the infamous New York City-based race hustler -- which arose out of the whole Baltimore blow-up.  A sampling: 


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.@TheRevAl is a champion in the fight for civil rights. The fact that President Trump continues to use the power of the presidency to unleash racist attacks on the people he serves is despicable. This hate has no place in our country. It's beneath the dignity of the office.
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NYT, WaPo Op-Eds Blast Dem Candidates After Trump Once Again Makes Them Embrace Race-Baiting Extremist
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/nyt-wapo-op-eds-blast-dem-candidates-after-trump-once-again-makes-them-embrace-race-baiting-extremist/

[Cyber Liberty]

So first Trump performs a shotgun wedding of Pelosi and her "Squad," and for his next magical trick he weds Sharpton to all the presidential candidates.

Sounds good.

[aligncare]

I tried many times to make the same point. But, the headline of this article made it best. Trump does bring out the worst in his enemies for all to see.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

This is the flip side of the argument that Twitter is a net negative to Trump.  There clearly are times his tweets absolutely hurt him.  But those have to be weighed against the effect it has on the Democrats' own behavior, which very often helps him.  In this instance, some of those Democrat endorsements of Sharpton are just ridiculously strong -- and therefore will cost them in the general election.

[PeteS in CA]

Because the Resistance-minded media and Democratic Party are on constant hair-trigger alert to signal their strident and total opposition to Trump, this impulse often leads them to make dumb, indefensible, strategically-damaging, reactionary decisions.

I think it is no exaggeration to say that Trump has been doing this for over 4 years. And the Dems and their MSM shills still do it.

[aligncare]

I think it is no exaggeration to say that Trump has been doing this for over 4 years. And the Dems and their MSM shills still do it.

The very definition of insanity—at least one of its manifestations. The other is registering as a Democrat.