The press in the preparatory phase of the speech focused on how it emphasizes policy and showed Trump’s vision for the United States (and perhaps because he would run for president again in 2024. Set the stage for).
“I would like to ask you to present a hopeful agenda for America. Please tell me how to make chips without spending all this money. How can we be safer? Tell me. You don’t have to worry about your child. Just like today. ” South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said in a statement at the AFPI meeting prior to Mr. Trump’s speech. “You did it once, you can do it again.”
Well, let me stop you there.
The notion proposed by Graham that Trump a) gave a serious policy speech and b) drew a “hopeful” vision for America is simply wrong.
Return to Trump’s two most famous and infamous speeches. One is to start the 2016 presidential election and the other is to address the 2017 inauguration.
The first is, “When Mexico sends its people, they are not doing their best …. they are bringing drugs. They are bringing crime. They are rapists. And some I think the people in Mexico are good people. “
I wish for!
Uplifting!
The simple fact is that Trump’s appeal was never about policy or a hopeful vision. It was always completely and completely about Trump himself-and the soothing swelling sensations of dissatisfaction, nostalgia and scores at the heart of his personality.
Certainly, there was a problem that embodied that feeling. Trump voters gathered behind his call to build a border wall and have Mexico pay for it. His foreign policy stance appealed to voters who wanted the United States to return to an approach that they had remembered for decades without taking prisoners. (It was besides the point for these people that such an American foreign policy stance never existed.)
Let’s move on to Trump’s speech on Tuesday.
He said the country was “at risk” and the weakest country since the Civil War. (Trump quoted Newt Gingrich as the authority on that second claim.) He said we had “very little” public security. He said there was an “aggression” of immigrants coming to the country. “Our city is full of needles and immersed in the blood of innocent victims,” he said. He accused him of being a “drunk fanatic” and a “sadist” who claimed he had taken over the country. “Our country is now a sewage pool of crime,” Trump said.
What is his policy solution? “It has to stop and now it has to stop.”
It makes me a color that doesn’t surprise me, well.
point: Trump’s appeal to voters has not previously been about a single policy or set of policies. If he ran in 2024, that wouldn’t change.
Source: www.cnn.com
