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“…In short, this president can do no right, ever. Whether he is turning it up to eleven or dialing it down to three, he knows from experience the media will react with the same supercharged hostility. He knows from the popped balloon of the two-year Robert Mueller extravaganza that at no point will the media even admit to overplaying their hand; when one scandal peters out, they’ll simply keep the hysteria level at DefCon Three while shifting the new source of alleged crisis to some silly thing the president said on Twitter or, if all else fails, to a deliberate misconstruing of fact. “Trump falsely says the Constitution gives him ‘the right to do whatever I want,’” the Washington Post reported breathlessly on July 23, though Trump was clearly referring to the power to fire Mueller, which he did in fact enjoy. As long as Trump resides in the White House, the media can never concede that any condition other than a state of emergency obtains in the United States of America…”
“…Biden’s words on Thursday revealed the harsh, condescending racism and elitism that drive Democratic politics. They view themselves as the politically divine benefactors of several classes of people who they feel to be beneath them. Everything they do politically is geared to ensure that those people remain beneath them…”
Paul Bedard:
“…At the Republican National Committee, top aides have also charted examples of shocking and distorted statements about the crimes and President Trump, even by a former Republican White House spokeswoman.
Rapid Response Director Steve Guest called the reactions “unhinged,” and provided four examples:
The Left’s collective response to the mass murder events is to scream racism and blame President Trump. What is the Left going to do when their latest hysteria dies away, similar to the Mueller Investigation, and they are left high and dry like Wile E. Coyote with his head stuck through an overhanging slab of rock?
President Trump has the innate power to cause people to destroy themselves.
STEPHEN KRUISER:
“…El Chucko expressed his concerns about President Trump’s “credibility” as a “moral leader” and “blah blah blah.” It means that he can’t do all of the healing and unifying that the people who keep telling him they hate him demand.
As we saw yesterday with Ana Navarro, it’s another case of there being virtually nothing that President Trump can do that will please these idiots. Thankfully, he knows that and doesn’t try.
He does, however, still have to be the president of the United States.
He did that yesterday in Dayton, Ohio. And he did it despite the fact that the city’s mayor was cheerleading protesters ahead of his visit.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am beginning to doubt that these lefties really want peace and love.
It is obvious that the Democrats and their various offshoots truly believe the path to victory next year and beyond involves trying to destroy this president. They no doubt also believe that by repeatedly lying about him they’ll wear down and push away some, many, or most of his supporters.
Turns out that strategy may be having the opposite effect, as the president’s support is still ticking upward, even after some of the most egregiously biased and awful media coverage he’s had to endure. The Dems and their media mouthpieces are minting new Trump fans every day now, a fact of which they remain blissfully unaware…”
Byron York:
“…The manifesto written by accused El Paso mass killer Patrick Crusius is the basis for the argument that the shootings were inspired by President Trump. Media commentators, Democratic presidential candidates, and all types of Trump critics have made that case in the days since the murders…
…So what did Crusius actually write?…
…First, to be clear: The manifesto is insane. Part of it discussed commonly debated issues such as the environment and the economy in ways that are well within the boundaries of political conversation going on today — indeed, that might have come out of the New York Times or many other outlets. Other parts of it mixed in theories on immigration from far right circles in Europe and the U.S. Then it threw in beliefs on “race-mixing” straight from the fever swamps. And then it concluded that the solution is to murder Hispanic immigrants, going on to debate whether an AK-47 or an AR-15 would best do the job. By that point, Crusius had veered far from both reality and basic humanity.
But the question is, was he inspired by President Trump? It is hard to make that case looking at the manifesto in its entirety.
Crusius worried about many things, if the manifesto is any indication. He certainly worried about immigration, but also about automation. About job losses. About a universal basic income. Oil drilling. Urban sprawl. Watersheds. Plastic waste. Paper waste. A blue Texas. College debt. Recycling. Healthcare. Sustainability. And more. Large portions of the manifesto simply could not be more un-Trumpian…
Chris Buskirk:
“…Democrats have complained about police brutality for years. The police, they assure us, are out of control. And, the story goes, they have it in for anyone whose skin is not lily white. You can’t trust the racist cops, they tell us. Remember Ferguson, Missouri, Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Tamir Rice, and others.
But these same Democrats also tell us that the police are the only ones who should have guns, which is to say that the police we’re not supposed to trust, who are guilty—in their view—of unspeakable crimes against Americans, should be given a monopoly on physical force and that private citizens should be deprived of their most effective means of defending themselves. That’s a headscratcher, but I’ll come back to that later.
For now, I want to focus on faithless Republicans who are being stampeded by an activist-driven, media-empowered hysteria into passing ill-advised gun control legislation that is bad on its surface and is rife for abuse. Not only are congressional Republicans making noise about gun control laws that Obama could never get passed but the New York Times reported that President Trump is looking for ways to enact gun control through executive action.
Allow me to propose a radical thought: Rushing important legislation that affects people’s most fundamental rights based on what’s trending on Twitter is not the best way to run a serious country…”