Former Reagan/HW Bush speechwriter. In Murdoch owned, Trump friendly oped page
“Some cops failed to do that this week—unnecessary roughness, targeting journalists. Some really came through. Among them were the police who were face to face with demonstrators & took a knee. This has been criticized as obsequious..No, it is how we are saved, by showing love...
“& sympathy....In Flint, Mich., Sheriff Chris Swanson told protesters, ‘I took off the helmet and laid the batons down. Where do you want to walk? We’ll walk all night.’ Protesters cheered. In Fayetteville, NC, ...the officers..took a knee before marchers...Witnesses said..
“some officers and protesters had tears in their eyes.”
“As to the president, this week he altered his position in the political landscape. Something broke. He is no longer the force he was and no longer lucky. In some new and indelible way his essential nature was revealed.”
“It got out that faced with protests around the White House, he hid...Then, upset that people might be getting the impression he was a physical coward, he set out to prove he is brave. Protected by a phalanx of police, Secret Service, sharpshooters and what looked like...
“a Praetorian Guard with shields, he marched to St John’s, the church of the presidents... Upon arrival with his friends, the people who work for him, he brandished a Bible like—who in history?—the devil?
“In all this he gave up the game and explicitly patronized his own followers. It was as if he was saying: I’m going to show you how stupid I know you are. I’ll give you crude and gross imagery and you’ll love it because you’re crude and gross people.”
“He has maxed out his base. He’s got his 40% and will keep it, but it isn’t growing...As for suburban women, they’d crawl over broken husbands to vote him out. He is proud of his many billionaire friends and think they love him. They don’t. Their support is utterly transactional
“They’re embarrassed by him. When they begin to think he won’t be re-elected they will turn, and it will be bloody and on a dime.
“This will not end well. With his timing he’d know it. He should give an Oval Office address announcing he’s leaving...” 🔥🔥
“This will not end well. With his timing he’d know it. He should give an Oval Office address announcing he’s leaving...” 🔥🔥
“he hid” ... “upset that people might be getting the impression he was a physical coward, he set out to prove he was brave.”
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Trump is being called a physical coward who is going to lose and whose billionaire friends are ready to drop him on the oped page of the Murdoch owned WSJ. the Kremlinology is fascinating. wsj.com/articles/on-so…
