Because Hitler would have gotten Congress to pass “Review and Rename.”
With the failure of the Ryan healthcare bill, the illusion of Trump-is-Hitler has been fully replaced with Trump-is-incompetent meme. Look for the new meme to dominate the news, probably through the summer. By year end, you will see a second turn, from incompetent to “Competent, but we don’t like it.”
I have been predicting this story arc for some time now. So far, we’re ahead of schedule.
In the 2D world, where everything is just the way it looks, and people are rational, Trump and Ryan failed to improve healthcare. But in the 3D world of persuasion, Trump just had one of the best days any president ever had: He got promoted from Hitler to incompetent. And that promotion effectively defused the Hitler-hallucination bomb that was engineered by the Clinton campaign.
In all seriousness, the Trump-is-Hitler illusion was the biggest problem in the country, and maybe the world. It was scaring people to the point of bad health. It made any kind of political conversation impossible.
Now we move on to “Neil Gorsuch is Hitler” because he expects the law to be read according to words legislator’s wrote and not subject to reinterpretation by unelected judges and bureaucrats. Democrats think judicial rulings should be based on f-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-l-i-n-g-s.
Not that it is of any consequence, but the circles I’ve been running in Trump as Incompetent has been the running theme for almost two months now. It started with the failed EO regarding the, lol, “Pause of Migration from Seven Countries That Aren’t Muslim”. Also, Trump as Making Lots of Bad Choices is another (that has been going on for longer). I know there are others who have likened him to Hitler, but I don’t know anyone like that personally. That’s my experience. Not everyone’s though. Do with it what you will (i.e. throw it in the garbage).
Well, once again, when it comes to Republicans:
“You’re Hitler, he’s Hitler, I’m Hitler, we’re all Hitler! Ah, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!”
I haven’t been called Hitler–yet–for more or less supporting Trump, but I have been called a racist, misogynist (thank you, spell check), hateful, evil, kill everyone supporter. Just because I voted against Hillary. It’s going to be an ugly few years.
When I start seeing someone spewing garbage about Hitler this and Hitler that. I just tell them don’t look at me I didn’t vote for Hitlery Clinton.
Ah, more brilliant analysis from Scott Adams. I hope he’s correct (and I believe he is); the Hitler trope is fast losing its effectiveness except among the hardcore haters. (Thus proving the theorem that when everything/everyone is Something, nothing is Something.) And, from my cursory reading of the Internet in the past couple of days, I would say that the incompetence SLOB is dominating.
Even though it was spelled out in a book 25 years ago in just that way as a strategy, The Resistance is claiming that Mr Art-Of-The-Deal can’t make a deal and to prove it, he just walked away from a deal—which proves he’s incompetent. At the same time, they are also revising recent history as further proof of incompetence (eg, immigration ban block). When his budget gets rewritten to restore cuts that were made, that will be another sign of incompetence (even though most budgets submitted by the Executive Branch get rewritten by the Legislative Branch).
Meanwhile, all the polls (which are really supposed to matter, you guys) show an all-time high disapproval rating, and especially among his alleged base. Yet, they must not be polling any of the supporters I see online—they are more supportive than ever (and more and more dismissive of the rest of the GOP). But there could be a break, as there are now news stories admitting that his supporters don’t care if he’s down in the polls (and by extension, admitting that the polls are either wrong, irrelevant, or both).
the democrat party-media complex is the greatest threat to the freedom of the American people in the history of this country. a republican party-media complex would be just as bad. how do we get a free an INDEPENDENT press in america?
The DemonizingRats and the establishment are hot and ready to do the “amiable dunce” routine they pulled on Ford, Reagan, Bush 41, and ChimpHitlerBush 43.
But with Trump, it will be the Bumbling Dunce. Pelosi, Schumer, Leahy, Maxine Waters, Frankin, et al can’t wait to start the snark and snickering rolling road show.
Meanwhile, Trump will feed them on Twitter and eat their lunches as they stand around high-fiving one another.
Paul Ryan effectively gelded himself with the Ryancare train wreck. As Prof. Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) writes in USA Today: “Colossal GOP failure and not just on health: Why aren’t bills on infrastructure, tax reform and free speech lined up like planes on a runway?”
McConnell and Ryan are not behind Trump. For all intents and purposes, they appear to be giving him enough rope to hang himself.
Does anyone here think that Trump is such a Bumbling Dunce that he hasn’t noticed? My bet is that if any rope is being let out for a hanging, it is from Trump to Ryan and McConnell.
Trump is from the school in which being fooled once is information and being fooled twice by the same crowd is not in the cards.
If Congress won’t write the legislation, guess who will. If Trump has to spend his first term draining the swamp of obstructionist Republicans, he will do it. He is totally at ease with four year projects.
Look for outside experts to be empaneled to hose out the horse sh*t filled Congressional law writing Aguean stables.
The DemonizingRats and the establishment can write Trump off to their heart’s content. Unless his rallies start to wane, The Donald is very much his own man.
The WaPo reports that Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is creating a new White House “innovation office” which will help the government run like a “great American company.”
This is purely a “volunteer” operation which totally circumvents Congress. Who would be surprised if a bevy of “commissions” made up of American citizens were to write a boatload of legislation which would be sold to the public and then presented to the establishment for their rubber stamp, pro-forma “approval”? How the heck do you think Trump built his skyline of towers in New York City?
This is what lefties are saying is already being done per the budget submittal: “Right from the Heritage Foundation!” “Another example of white oligarchs running the country!” “This is typical when Republicans run the show.” While I have few qualms with an entity like the Cato Institute coming up with proposals for some legislation, an actual mostly-transparent commission (at least more transparent than the one that dreamed up HillaryCare in the 90s) would be preferable and more palatable to those who haven’t started up knife-sharpening enterprises since January 20th.
Not Hitlerian nor incompetent, just unmoored to any philosophical principles. He was a democrat 5 minutes ago, appoints a good conservative judicial nominee, declares war on the EPA and yet embraces national healthcare and praises national childcare. Political schitzophrenic or just takes the opposite view of whoever he hates the most on that particular day. Better than Hilary, I hope, worse than Cruz, I’m sure.
antiphobe: Do you have any specifics to back the statement that Trump “takes the opposite view of whoever he hates the most on that particular day”?
Also, what is the antiphon stance on cancer?
The Donald defines himself as a vengeful man, ” hit me and i hit back ten times harder” and the verses that has most influenced him is the ” eye for an eye” passage. Richard Branson said Donald vowed to him that he would take revenge on the people who refused to lend to him. Those suggest to me that revenge is a motivator for him. Couple that with how often he changes his stance on a given issue (deport all 11 mil., deport only the 3 mil. criminals, deport all 11 mil.but let good ones back in, do the same as past presidents, definately no amnesty, not ruling out path to citizenship…) and I surmise he’s either clueless or unmoored and agrees with whoever the last person he talks with or in some cases he’s is motivated by revenge.
During the campaign, Scott Adams used examples like this to show that the now-POTUS was using a persuasion technique called “pacing and leading”.
He essentially defines it as choosing an extreme position (one your intended audience will likely agree with, but others may see as far-out) then carefully walking back that position until a more middle ground is reached (the middle ground being the option which is most palatable to the greatest amount of citizenry). In theory, once the acceptable position is reached, the base will already be on board with whatever policy initiatives are implemented, so long as they are within the realm of what was promoted.
As SA would say, in the two-dimensional world that most refer to as “reality”, this looks crazy, wishy-washy, or “clueless” and “unmoored”. But in the three-dimensional world of persuasion, it appears to be a rational compromise to a complicated situation. Is this a correct analysis of the situation? We won’t know until the passage of time. However, it is a plausible theory. This is why I don’t see POTUS DJT as being “unhinged” “irrational”, or, as a professional psychologist on a listserv I belong to calls him, “a sociopath”. Yes, it’s possible he could be all of those things, but much like many are misinterpreting his Obamacare repeal efforts as a failure, I currently see it as being a strategic play to accomplish his eventual goals. He could very well be crazy—like a fox.
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— Alphonse Allais