Drudge is known for juxtaposing two headlines to make an ironic point. At the moment, Google News is showing me one headline about President Obama disputing as not jibing with reality Donald Trump’s dark characterization of the state of things during his acceptance speech. Higher up on Google News is a headline about the latest apparent terror attack in Munich.
People have pointed out to me that Trump came down strongly on the civilization vs. barbarism axis. My guess is that the Democrats will not end up trying to compete along that axis. I do not think that they help themselves by calling attention to the issue. In fact, no matter how much they may believe that facts and rationality are on their side, claiming that the problems of crime and terrorism are over-stated would be the most self-defeating way possible for the Democrats to call attention to those issues.
I expect that the Democrats will end up coming down strongly on the oppressor-oppressed axis. Generically, they will try to tie Mr. Trump to another headline I see on Google News, which is that ex-Klansman David Duke is seeking a Senate seat. Their message will be that “If you are an X, then a Trump Presidency will take away your rights,” where X will be alleged to include non-white, non-male, non-straight, non-Evangelical. . .
In other words, my prediction is that this election season we will see the three-axes model much in evidence, with Mr. Trump hitting the civilization-barbarism axis for all it’s worth and Mrs. Clinton hitting the oppressor-oppressed axis for all it’s worth.
Interestingly, the NYT has a dozen articles today criticizing Trump for spreading fear of terror. I doubt they will criticize Clinton for spreading fear of oppression.
Right, the politics of fear just IS politics. But conservatives are assumed to be animated by a base, reptilian conception of fear whereas progressives are simply the bearers of bad news of an almost dry and technical sort. “Structural” racism, etc.
Structural racism: we’ll see it when we know it.
Quote:
“for all it’s worth.”
So, the real issues become:
What is it worth?
Of course, the Munich shooter turning out to be a far right person seems to change the interest of the Press!
Yes, HRC will follow the Democratic version but given Trump’s speech could be compare The Masque Of The Red Death, HRC Democratics are definitely going in a sunnier direction.
“. . . for all it’s worth” . . . *and then some*!