No Politician Is More Popular or Unpopular Than Trump..By Conrad Black

[mystery-ak]

No Politician Is More Popular or Unpopular Than Trump

The last laugh could be the president’s. But even if it isn’t, his achievements in becoming president and as president vastly exceed those of his unimpressive enemies.

By Conrad Black
December 7, 2020

America is sleepwalking into the next chapter of its history. A president who has had one of the most successful first terms of any—surpassed only by Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Richard Nixon—is being replaced in a seriously tainted election by the most unimpressive person ever elected president, and one who has not, in fact, even campaigned for the office.

It remains a mystery as Donald Trump apparently enters his last 10 weeks as president, why 95 percent of the national political media detest him to the point of regularly inventing false and malicious news stories about him, though it presumably has something to do with his contempt for them and their failure to prevent his election.

Despite some plausible efforts to explain it, another mystery is why the very wealthy people of America prefer a traditional liberal Democrat standing on an outright socialist program to a tax-cutting fellow billionaire, and author of an immense non-inflationary economic boom. Thanks to them, the incumbent president has been outspent two to one by more or less socialistic candidates promising sharp tax increases, wealth redistribution, and socialized medicine.

Fifty-six percent of voters said they were better off now than they had been four years ago thanks to Trump. Yet he has been sent packing in favor of a completely unprepossessing, terribly tired, congressional political journeyman best known for plagiarizing from an unsuccessful British opposition party leader, assisting Teddy Kennedy in the character assassination of an outstanding Supreme Court nominee (Robert Bork), and subjecting another distinguished Supreme Court nominee (Clarence Thomas) to a disgraceful series of unsubstantiated allegations of lewd comments, in what Thomas described as “a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks,” and then apologizing 30 years later for that justice’s confirmation.

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[goatprairie]

Black, a convicted felon, just doesn't understand how the president, who as a matter of course publicly calls his opponents and even fellow party members names, has generated so much dislike. Gee, it's a mystery isn't it?

[skeeter]

Black, a convicted felon, just doesn't understand how the president, who as a matter of course publicly calls his opponents and even fellow party members names, has generated so much dislike. Gee, it's a mystery isn't it?

I suppose it's too much to ask them to consider the president's record. 'He calls names. I hate him.'

We really are up shiite creek

[goatprairie]

I suppose it's too much to ask them to consider the president's record. 'He calls names. I hate him.'

We really are up shiite creek

What I'm saying is that, unfortunately, many voters ignored the record because they found Trump so irritating. For those voters what Trump did rightly or wrongly barely affected their perception of what was going on.
Remember, many people don't follow politics closely like we do. They're easily influenced by the little bit of news they get from Big Lib Media and blurbs on tv. What they read, heard, and saw about Trump from the media was exceptionally negative.
Acting presidential would have helped Trump mightily. That's what many voters  remembered about Trump. The braggart at the party who just wouldn't shut up.

[Fishrrman]

Conrad Black:
"It remains a mystery as Donald Trump apparently enters his last 10 weeks as president, why 95 percent of the national political media detest him to the point of regularly inventing false and malicious news stories about him, though it presumably has something to do with his contempt for them and their failure to prevent his election."

There is no "mystery" here, Mr. Black.
Those people you mentioned above are leftists and communists.
Mr. Trump is not -- he is 180 degrees the opposite.

That's why they hate him so much, and why they will continue to rail against him long after Mr. Trump has passed from this world.
To them, he is to be denigrated and attacked as "a new Joe McCarthy" for generations to come...