That's not the point. The point is that for YEARS, the media claimed he was promoting "bigotry," when in fact he condemned it. And they were just forced to air the proof that they lied.
It is indeed the point. And instead of condemning it, he should have attacked them back along that specific front but instead, they were allowed to control the narrative all during the last 4 years, keeping "the right" constantly on the defense. That's not how you win.
That is the spirit. Too many people here are concerned with being liked; I am concerned with Us winning. We need to be on the offensive instead of the defensive.
People who are concerned with how they are view right now, in the zeitgeist, will go down in history as weak and evil losers. Cases in point: the Reds vs the Whites in Russia, Nazis (I don't subscribe to nazism, but we could learn a lot from it if we didn't dismiss it on the emotional level), Jacobins, and the whole French revolution nonsense, to name a few. Losers never have good optics through the prism of history without nuanced knowledge.
It's a shame thus far Trump hasn't exhibited this understanding, perhaps he isn't the right man for the job after all (I had very high hopes, not that my totally irrelevant opinion matters).
>plainly condemned bigotry.
Why is this some sort of qualified requirement for anything? It's not illegal to be a bigot, is it?
That's not the point. The point is that for YEARS, the media claimed he was promoting "bigotry," when in fact he condemned it. And they were just forced to air the proof that they lied.
It is indeed the point. And instead of condemning it, he should have attacked them back along that specific front but instead, they were allowed to control the narrative all during the last 4 years, keeping "the right" constantly on the defense. That's not how you win.
That is the spirit. Too many people here are concerned with being liked; I am concerned with Us winning. We need to be on the offensive instead of the defensive.
BUT MUH OPTICS
People who are concerned with how they are view right now, in the zeitgeist, will go down in history as weak and evil losers. Cases in point: the Reds vs the Whites in Russia, Nazis (I don't subscribe to nazism, but we could learn a lot from it if we didn't dismiss it on the emotional level), Jacobins, and the whole French revolution nonsense, to name a few. Losers never have good optics through the prism of history without nuanced knowledge.
It's a shame thus far Trump hasn't exhibited this understanding, perhaps he isn't the right man for the job after all (I had very high hopes, not that my totally irrelevant opinion matters).