Hillary Clinton Warns Against Treating Donald Trump as ‘Normal’ Candidate
As we’ve seen in post after post on Trump here at LGF he is always willing to croon the bizarre tune the GOP fringe is requesting at the moment, while denying the implications in “moderate speak” Sometimes the denials come in the very same breath as Charles last post from Sunday points out.
He’s relying on a built-in human cognitive bias that most populist demagogues use: people listen for and hear the parts of speeches that they want to hear, and tend to forget or downplay the parts that disagree with their position view. Trump is counting on that bias, and our timorous, apathetic press is not challenging him on it. We just might end up with our country being run by a couple of casino moguls if this continues.
Even as she contends with Mr. Sanders’s unflagging critique from the left, Mrs. Clinton said it was vital for her to pivot to confront Mr. Trump now, lest he successfully repackage himself for wider consumption, rather than appealing to the Republican primary electorate alone.
“I do not want Americans and, you know, good-thinking Republicans, as well as Democrats and independents, to start to believe that this is a normal candidacy,” Mrs. Clinton said of Mr. Trump’s campaign on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“I know he has a plurality of Republicans who have voted for him,” she added. “But I think in the course of this campaign, we are going to demonstrate he has no ideas. There’s no evidence he has any ideas about making America great, as he advertises. He seems to be particularly focused on making himself appear great. And as we go through this campaign, we’re going to be demonstrating the hollowness of his rhetoric.”
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