Critics Discount Too Much of Trump’s Job Performance
This president’s accomplishments are not small. Substance outlasts style and his style pleases as many Americans as it repulses. Most important, his substantive achievements will be remembered on Election Day and thereafter.
Conrad Black
- January 13th, 2020
Among the Trump-haters, the scramble is on to rationalize the successful killing of Qassem Soleimani. These include all brands of Trump-dissenters, from the civilized supporters of other approaches to the presidency to those who regard the incumbent with distaste but wish the country well, down through the ranks of the obsessive, the paroxysmally mad, the fully demented, and the rabid who are dangerous when they bite.
The fallback position of the most intelligent and articulate Trump-haters, exemplified by the veteran columnist George Will, is that Trump exhausts us all, even his supporters. There is some truth to this. The president is always the principal story, and when the media do not come to that conclusion spontaneously, he prompts them with his tweets.
Trump built his candidacy on the theory that all publicity is good for electoral purposes, and spent decades on the social pages and in gossip magazines, as a boxing and wrestling impresario, pulled over 25 million viewers every week for 14 years to his reality television program, and after a near-death financial experience, branded himself everywhere: buildings, clothes, mattresses, mineral water, real estate study, fitness, inspirational addresses. It was an unprecedented campaign of name-familiarization, much of which was not at all flattering to him. As president, he has used the animosity of the media to justify his constant direct contact with the army of his supporters and the public generally, by Twitter as well as television news.
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