Aug. 8, 2017 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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| In January this year, Politico put out an article called Trump is Making Journalism Great Again. | |
| In it, they broadly argue that Donald Trump is going to improve the condition of the media. | |
| And when I first read this article, I thought they might be right. | |
| The author says, in his own way, Trump has set us free. | |
| Reporters must treat Inauguration Day as some kind of liberation day, to explore news outside of the usual Washington circles. | |
| He has been explicit in his disdain for the press, and his dislike for press conferences, prickly to the nth degree about being challenged and known for his vindictive way with those who cross him. | |
| So forget about the White House pressroom. | |
| It's time to circle behind enemy lines. | |
| And in retrospect, I realised that this article had made me unreasonably optimistic. | |
| What's interesting is that the author goes on to justify the embedded state of journalism with the powers that be. | |
| Journalists groom sources, and sources also groom journalists. | |
| There's nothing inherently unethical about backscratching. | |
| When a reporter calls an administration source to confirm an embarrassing item, the source may agree to confirm as long as the reporter at the very least agrees to listen sympathetically to the administration's context. | |
| But Trump's hostile attitude towards the press, his dismissal of CNN for attempting to ask a question at the last conference, and his underhanded ploy at the last conference, where he loaded the audience with cheerleaders, has muted that mutualism. | |
| I remember how the press was treating Donald Trump on his lead-up to winning the American election, so I find it very unlikely that anyone at Polisco actually believes that Donald Trump took to the White House expecting any kind of mutually beneficial relationship with the press, because that's certainly not what he got. | |
| The author naively points out that as Donald Trump shuts down access to reporters, they may be forced to leave their offices and do some actual journalism. | |
| A tad optimistic in my opinion. | |
| It seems that the journalists stayed in their offices and took to Twitter, but we'll talk about that shortly. | |
| Our author does observe correctly that due to the sheer number of enemies Trump accrued on his bid for the White House, that leaks would be a persistent problem with his administration. | |
| And they are. | |
| But I think this is my favourite prediction. | |
| The harder Trump rides the press, and he gives no sign of dismounting, the higher he elevates reporters in the estimation of many voters. | |
| Again, rather optimistic, and possibly underestimating how insufferable and whiny progressive journalists can be. | |
| The author then refers to a rather interesting piece by Jay Rosen that predicts winter is coming for the American press under Trump, but he's sure that it's not winter that's coming with the inauguration of Trump. | |
| It's journalistic spring. | |
| This vaunted journalistic spring took a surprising focus around Donald Trump's Twitter account. | |
| The earliest evidence I could find for progressive journals realizing that they could use Donald Trump's Twitter feed to promote their own agendas and careers was on January the 5th of 2017. | |
| A tech journalist from Silicon Valley called Mike Elgin worked out that he could use Donald Trump's Twitter reach to improve his own profile. | |
| He points out that Trump is bypassing the very institutions that would keep his lies in check by going straight to Twitter and speaking to the masses without challenge, filter or context, and therein lies the opportunity for anyone who opposes him. | |
| He gives the example of this tweet from Donald Trump where he says, great move on the delay by Vladimir Putin. | |
| I always knew he was very smart. | |
| 32,000 retweets at the end of December. | |
| Mike responded by tweeting this as a reply. | |
| Trump sides with Russia against America. | |
| I knew it. | |
| He'd replied within 10 seconds of Trump's tweet and said that that comment got more engagement than anything I've ever posted on Twitter. | |
| It got 800,000 impressions and 24,000 engagements. | |
| Rip his mentions, am I right? | |
| That means 800,000 people got my take on Trump's tweet. | |
| Not bad. | |
| Also, in the 24 hours after that comment, my Twitter following grew by more than 300 people. | |
| He even wrote a little guide to turning Trump's own Twitter popularity against him and gaining a few extra followers in the process. | |
| Use a Twitter streamer, like Tweetbot, so you see Trump's tweets instantly. | |
| The most effective comment is one directly related to Trump's tweet that fact-checks or contextualizes what he's saying in a substantive and intelligent way. | |
| When you sift through the replies, block every abusive or trollish person who replies. | |
| The reason for this is that they waste your time and aren't your target audience anyway. | |
| Block them so you don't have to hear from them next time. | |
| It's one of Life's ironies that the tactics that Mike has suggested here to weed out the undesirables and prevent them from climbing the food chain while he attempts to climb it himself can also be used by those further up the food chain against him and the class of verified lefty Twitter journals who seem to spend all their time tweeting at Donald Trump. | |
| Whether it was Trump realizing that they were using him for their own benefit or whether it was just down to the fact that he has remarkably thin skin, he decided to start blocking them. | |
| And they weren't happy. | |
| President Trump, stop blocking me on Twitter, said CNN contributor Lauren Wolfe. | |
| She had responded to one of Donald Trump's tweets calling him a liar, and in response to that, Donald Trump blocked her. | |
| Lauren then went on to say that this should truly scare us all. | |
| Censorship takes many forms and in many parts of the world, governments jail or kill journalists to quiet them. | |
| Nobody is suggesting that anyone's killed reporters, although jailing is a different story here, historically. | |
| But there are warning signs we can't ignore. | |
| With this, she seemed to be implying that Donald Trump blocking journalists who insult him on Twitter is a prelude to some kind of purge. | |
| Needless to say, as progressive journalists realized that these were tactics that they could use to further their own careers, the more often it happened and the more hysterical it became, to the point where Donald Trump was blocking a remarkable number of them. | |
| So many in fact that they decided to create a website that tracks the people that Donald Trump had blocked on Twitter. | |
| You might think that this would be the nadir of journalists as a class, at least on Twitter, and you might think that they might decide to do some actual work to try and actually accrue an audience. | |
| But of course, you would be wrong. | |
| Trump blocked me on Twitter and it's costing me my career, said Rebecca Buckwalter Poser in an article on Fortune.com. | |
| She complains that most of my writing is about the Trump administration. | |
| In fact, my mandate from Pacific Standard is Trump and the law. | |
| On Twitter, the bulk of my recent follower growth and new relationships with others in the politico-legal sphere have come out of responding quickly when the president tweets and engaging the threads of conversation that flow from those tweets. | |
| So when President Donald Trump blocked me in June, apparently for suggesting Russia had influenced the outcome of the 2016 election, he harmed me professionally. | |
| Even though I knew real Donald Trump was important to my career, it still took me at least a few days to recognise how being blocked by the president on Twitter would affect me as a public intellectual. | |
| I find myself having difficulty sympathising with Rebecca here because it appears that she was using her position as a public intellectual and writer at various outlets to push a conspiracy theory designed to discredit Trump's entire presidency. | |
| I can't really see why he should give a platform to conspiracy theorists like Rebecca, but again, it's his Twitter account, not mine. | |
| But Rebecca took this very poorly, and with the lack of self-awareness that is, I think, only possible when you become a bourgeois left-wing journalist. | |
| I didn't think being blocked on Twitter was a big deal at first. | |
| It's just a button you can click, a way to mute an X or tune out trolls' attacks. | |
| But it turns out that when the person who blocks you is the President of the United States, it can matter quite a bit. | |
| Every day I'm blocked, I lose opportunities to advance my views and engage others. | |
| Literally, the reason a reader follows a writer's work and the substance a publication pays a writer for in these conversations. | |
| I can't fire off a 140-word tweet, character, create a thread, or share pieces I write to drive discussion within these very conversations. | |
| That quick click I thought was so inconsequential is constraining my career in ways I have yet to fully appreciate. | |
| Perhaps a normal person would have learned a lesson. | |
| Perhaps they would have looked at what had happened to them and gone, this is what I do to those people I called trolls. | |
| I was trolling Donald Trump, and he used the block button on me, so imagine how the people I call trolls feel when I block them. | |
| But of course, self-awareness was not forthcoming for Rebecca. | |
| Rebecca joined a small group of verified progressive journals who decided that they would sue Donald Trump for blocking them on Twitter, claiming that he violated their First Amendment rights. | |
| Needless to say, the spirit of the thing made her and her compadres a laughing stock. | |
| But the Americans are particularly legalistic, and there may well be something in the letter of the law that allows this to continue, as there is a precedent that she may be able to use to bolster her case. | |
| An American court has ruled against a Virginia County politician who banned a member of the public from accessing her Facebook page temporarily. | |
| A federal court in Virginia ruled that a local politician violated the free speech rights of a constituent she banned from her Facebook page in a case the judge said raises important questions about the constitutional restrictions that apply to social media accounts of elected officials. | |
| So it is possible that Donald Trump may actually, by the Constitution of the United States, have violated her free speech rights. | |
| This doesn't make her claim any less ridiculous, but it might be by the letter of the law. | |
| Journalists hassling Trump on Twitter was not the only strategy that they had to deal with his Twitter account. | |
| CNN, for example, found five people who purported to be Donald Trump voters who were asking him to stop his Twitter rants. | |
| Journos for minor outlets like Quartz would simply just say, it's finally time to take Twitter away from Donald Trump, as if they were scolding a child. | |
| Which made an op-ed in the LA Times all the more amusing. | |
| To save the Republic, take away Trump's Twitter account. | |
| Personally, I thought that was rather hyperbolic, but I suppose that if Trump's Twitter account is capable of destroying the career of a journalist merely by blocking her, maybe it could be a threat to the American Republic. | |
| Naturally, these petulant and hysterical demands were simply denied by Donald Trump, who said that his Twitter voice will not be taken away or denied. | |
| And the New York Times published an article explaining why they didn't think that Twitter would ban Donald Trump, because he brings in too many clicks. | |
| Instead, they consoled himself by explaining that actually, Donald Trump's Twitter reach is remarkably small, flying in the face of evidence presented by verified journals up until this point. | |
| According to tech analytics firms, analysts and social scientists, it's not that big. | |
| As 76% of Trump's followers are inactive, therefore bots, fakes, or just not influential, and 10% of his Twitter followers, about 4 million, are good. | |
| The most amusing part of all of this, after Twitter has failed to take action and they are incapable of restraining Donald Trump's reach on Twitter, in which CNN Germany decided to publish a parody article living out their fantasies by someone called Jimmy Rusling, in which Twitter apparently deleted Donald Trump's account, citing that they will not tolerate racism and hate. | |
| The entire article is filled with a desperate attempt to put the desired words in the mouths of the Twitter top brass, presumably because they'll never get to hear them in real life. | |
| The content of these statements is ideologically progressive, tone-policing, moralizing, and finishes with, he can find another website to spread his vitriol. | |
| I think now would have been a good time for me to insert a sad trombone noise. | |
| What I'm leaving out in this analysis is the social context surrounding the media's War on Trump's Twitter account, which is the elite's war on Trump. | |
| This can best be summarised with this picture of actress Kathy Griffin posing with a model of Trump's severed head covered in blood. | |
| A picture which incidentally appears to have destroyed her career. | |
| It has become a virtuous thing for liberal elites of all stripes to make their bones on social media by professing their absolute undying hatred of Donald Trump and telling him at every opportunity. | |
| So it's no wonder that he decides to punch back when the opportunity arises. | |
| When Donald Trump decided to tweet out a meme that was originally posted on Reddit of him body slamming CNN, the media went wild. | |
| This meme was Donald Trump encouraging attacks on journalists, with the director of the Committee to Protect Journalists telling The Guardian that charged rhetoric online issued by the White House undermines the media in the US and emboldens autocratic leaders around the world. | |
| I can't imagine what kind of autocratic leaders are emboldened by a wrestling meme, but I mean they must be pretty bad dudes. | |
| But this is just par for the course for Donald Trump after being attacked by so many people for so long, so consistently, one can hardly begrudge him when he strikes back. | |
| Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a spokesperson for him, told Fox News that this is a president who fights fire with fire and will certainly not be allowed to be bullied by liberal media, adding that she had personally been attacked many times. | |
| Fox News host Bill Hemmer said, I get it, but is it necessary? | |
| To which she replied that she thought it was necessary to push back against unnecessary attacks on the president. | |
| And I have to say, I agree. | |
| Not just the media, but the entire progressive intelligentsia appear to have decided that Donald Trump is an ideological foe that must be destroyed by any means necessary. | |
| It came as no surprise that after the first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency, a Harvard study revealed that 80% of the coverage of Trump had been negative. | |
| So naturally Donald Trump was using his awesome social media reach to publicize his side of the story, because as we saw from the politico article that we started with, there would be no back scratching with Donald Trump. | |
| Indeed, his Twitter account is one of the most powerful ways that he can fight back. | |
| For example, after the president sent a series of tweets in June insulting morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski, several Republicans pleaded with the president to stop launching personal attacks. | |
| This is rather ironic given the volume of personal attacks that are launched at Donald Trump and his administration. | |
| It probably seems very strange as to why the press and the president are fighting a battle on Twitter and that this takes up so many column inches. | |
| But I think that Mika Brzezinski herself can explain this better than I ever could. | |
| Exactly. | |
| That's exactly what I hear. | |
| What Yamish just said is what I hear from all the Trump supporters that I talk to who were Trump voters and are still Trump supporters. | |
| It's like, oh, yeah, you guys are going crazy. | |
| He's doing, what are you so surprised about? | |
| He's doing exactly what he said he's going to do. | |
| Well, and I think that the dangerous edges here are that he's trying to undermine the media, trying to make up his own facts. | |
| And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. | |
| And that is our job. | |
| Yeah, if you look at the issue. | |
| Mika is, of course, absolutely correct. | |
| The president's reach on social media is absolutely undermining the narrative put forward by the media. | |
| The media cannot control what people think. | |
| And that, to Mika, is a problem, but not just to Mika, to the entire press as a class, as it's being evidently revealed that social media is making them irrelevant when it comes to political campaigns. | |
| But social media isn't the only way that Donald Trump spends his time actually trying to put his message across to the American people. | |
| With no quid pro quo from the press forthcoming, he has to do what he did to get where he was now. | |
| Not everyone is on Twitter. | |
| And so it took the press rather by surprise when Donald Trump decided to continue hosting rallies as if he was still on the campaign trail. | |
| Outlets that are usually held in high regard and produce high-quality content like The Atlantic by saying that Donald Trump had kicked off his 2020 re-election campaign, clearly a sign that he's planning for a second term, approximately 26 days into his administration. | |
| The Washington Post decided to take a stab in the dark by saying that Donald Trump was demonstrating that he was winning. | |
| These usually prestigious outlets will have to forgive me for being slightly skeptical, because I think that Donald Trump holding rallies only a few weeks into his first presidential term is a distinct sign of weakness. | |
| In fact, it makes him look like a man who is surrounded by enemies and therefore must personally go straight to his base so he can talk to them and tell him what he wants them to hear rather than what his enemies want them to hear. | |
| Trump was planning to hold rallies every two weeks of his presidency that apparently political scientists said would be largely unprecedented. | |
| And really, it's very difficult to disagree with his chief strategist Steve Bannon when he had previously said that the media was the opposition party and that it was best to connect to voters through rallies because the media really do appear to be acting for all intents and purposes as the opposition party. | |
| Given the weakness of the Democratic Party at the moment, they seem to be the only ones with any kind of influence or social clout to try and strike back at the president. | |
| The media class have, as Todd Starns of Fox News observes in an op-ed, been trying to overthrow the democratically elected president of the United States. | |
| I think he's correct when he says that the mainstream media, the Democrats and the establishment Republicans will do anything to bring down President Donald Trump. | |
| He says, some journalists are seething with so much rage and hatred, I would not put it past them to do whatever they deem necessary to destroy the Trump presidency, even if it means writing fake news stories and using anonymous sources. | |
| Which brings us nicely to the storm in a teacup, which is the Russia conspiracy theory. | |
| And I call it that, because at this point, that's all it appears to be. | |
| I will save you the long and very boring details of this conspiracy theory and skip straight to the progressive outlets who are trying to explain to their fellow progressives that they are falling for fake news. | |
| In a remarkably well-written article, Vox.com explained why these are conspiracy theories and should probably best be ignored as the symptom of confirmation bias, because polls show that more than half of Democrats believe that the Russians hacked the voting machines despite no evidence and FBI and DHS denials. | |
| And Noam Chomsky, the patron saint of the left, calling this obsession with the Russia conspiracy theories a joke. | |
| It should come as no surprise that with constant, endless negative press coverage and unprovable conspiracy theories being spouted by some of the most prestigious outlets in the world, Donald Trump's approval rating is not particularly high. | |
| What is a surprise is that it is as high as it is. | |
| While CNN will say Trump at 200 days, declining approval admitted widespread mistrust, they fail to mention that Donald Trump's approval rating is almost as high as it's ever been, even with the slight downturn in recent days. | |
| Another thing they fail to mention is that voters' approval rating of the media is only slightly better than Donald Trump's administration. | |
| Only about a quarter of the public actually find the media to be very credible, and when taken in totality, this is only a slight bit higher than the credibility ratings for the Trump administration. | |
| And in addition to this, most people believe that the mainstream media publishes fake news, with 65% of voters believing that there is a lot of fake news in the mainstream media. | |
| In their war against Trump, they have not only failed to unseat him, but they have also destroyed their own credibility in the process. | |
| And I don't like the idea of Donald Trump launching his own real news service to fight negative media coverage, but I can understand why he's doing it. | |
| What other options does he have? | |
| It seems at this point that the media is just totally unprepared to stand down. | |
| At this point, Trump needs a victory. | |
| He needs to be able to put the press in their place and remind them that their job is to hold the elected president to account, not to overthrow him because they don't like him. | |
| The arrogance and hubris and naked self-interest of the liberal elite is what landed them with Donald Trump in the first place. | |
| Instead of doing some soul-searching and wondering, in fact, is it us that is the problem? | |
| They have decided to continue on the attack. | |
| Donald Trump needed to beat them. | |
| Enter Stephen Miller. | |
| Stephen Miller is a 31-year-old senior advisor to Donald Trump, and in the wake of the departure of Anthony The Mooch Scaramucci as White House Communications Director, he was given the task of fielding a press conference to explain the White House's new immigration reform bill. | |
| Compared to Sean Spicer, the previous incumbent of this office, Miller did remarkably well, handling all questions directly and refuting or correcting where necessary, and showing an excellent command of the facts and the issues that the general public actually want to see addressed. | |
| And it got to the point where the press, having so little ammunition with which to fire at him, found themselves resorting to CNN's Jim Acosta making a rhetorical and emotional appeal based on a poem to dictate White House immigration policy. | |
| This seven minutes interaction went viral, with Stephen Miller being the clear winner of the altercation, as evidenced by the collective reaction of the press after the event. | |
| Even Fox News anchors were saying that Trump should never let Stephen Miller speak for him again. | |
| And it's really hard to tell why. | |
| This is the entire reason why Stephen Miller should never be allowed to deal with the press again. | |
| Here's the problem with what happened today. | |
| And I'm going to bring this all together right here. | |
| Trump came out with an immigration policy that certain parts of it I don't like, but I think is really important for the country. | |
| Merit-based immigration is fantastic. | |
| At the top of the list you have English-speaking highly skilled people, and then you work your way down, you do it that way. | |
| Conservatives behind it, going about time, awesome. | |
| And then they put Stephen Miller out there to deliver the message and look what we get. | |
| We get, listen, he's a brilliant guy, okay, he's a great policy advisor, but he's not a communications person. | |
| Don't put that guy in front of the cameras again, and the message gets stepped on because everyone is going to play the inks to interchange with CNN reporter Jim Acosta instead of talking about how great this immigration policy is. | |
| They really have to fix their communications department. | |
| That should never have happened. | |
| This seems like a particularly mealy-mouthed way of saying, Stephen Miller handled the press with no problem at all. | |
| And if you are a member of the press class, why would you want that? | |
| But the response from the left was absolutely appalling, with many Twitter commentators calling Stephen Miller creepy, as if that is in any way relevant to the subject, and various left-wing quote-unquote comedians, like Paulie Shaw, doing their own best impressions and impersonations without addressing the substance of his argument. | |
| Needless to say, when it came down to John Oliver doing it, it became thunderously ironic. | |
| John Oliver did a segment on his show last week tonight where he called Stephen Miller one of the most revolting humans I have ever seen. | |
| In a segment that seemed to be nothing but insults comparing him to a minion from the film Despicable Me, as if that's in any way relevant. | |
| It was a petty, childish tantrum, because as the Washington Post shows us, Stephen Miller was right. | |
| When the journalists quabbled with Stephen over whether English was a proficiency requirement for naturalization in the United States, Miller was right. | |
| When Jim Acosta was arguing the toss with him about the levels and ebbs and flows of immigration into the United States, Miller was right when he said that it had been controlled. | |
| But the coup de grace came when Miller managed to nail Jim Acosta in a moral argument, not just a factual one. | |
| Because up until this point, Jim Acosta had been making rhetorical arguments based on a poem inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty that America was welcoming to everyone, etc., etc. | |
| And implying that somehow, restricting immigration to only English speakers was racist. | |
| Do obtain a green card at some point. | |
| They do it through a lot of hard work. | |
| And yes, they may learn English as a second language later on in life, but this whole notion of, well, they have to learn English before they get to the United States, are we just going to bring in people from Great Britain and Australia? | |
| Jim, actually, I have to honestly say, I am shocked at your statement that you think that only people from Great Britain and Australia would know English. | |
| It's actually, it reveals your cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree that in your mind... | |
| No, this is an amazing, this is an amazing moment. | |
| This is an amazing moment that you think only people from Great Britain or Australia would speak English is so insulting to millions of hardworking immigrants who do speak English from all over the world. | |
| Jim, have you honestly, Jim, have you honestly never met an immigrant from another country who speaks English outside of Great Britain and Australia? | |
| Is that your personal experience? | |
| Of course there are people who come to the United States. | |
| But that's not what you said. | |
| it shows it shows your cosmopolitan bias and i just want to say you're trying to engineer the racial and ethnic flow of people into this country yeah that one of the most outrageous insulting ignorant and foolish things you've ever said and for you that's still a really the notion that you think that this is a racist bill is so wrong and so insulting Jim, the reality is that the foreign-born population into our country has quadrupled since 1970. | |
| That's a fact. | |
| It's been mostly driven by green card policy. | |
| Now, this bill allows for immediate nuclear family members to come into the country, much as they would today, and then it adds an additional point-space system. | |
| The people who have been hurt the most people are not hurt the most by the policy you're advocating are apparently just unfettered, uncontrolled migration. | |
| The people who have been hurt the most by the policy are immigrant workers and minority workers and African-American workers and Hispanic workers. | |
| And once again, Miller was right. | |
| English is an official language in dozens of countries other than Great Britain and Australia. | |
| It's the official language of half of Africa, and it's spoken in roughly 100 countries. | |
| It is the most commonly studied foreign language in the world. | |
| But he had done a fantastic job of addressing what he called Acosta's cosmopolitan bias. | |
| This is his bourgeois bubble that is being popped. | |
| Because everything about the narrative that is being pushed by progressives is built on stereotypes that do not reflect the real world. | |
| The immigration policy being set forth by the Trump administration, as described by Stephen Miller in that press conference, is entirely sensible. | |
| It is not racially based. | |
| It is meritocratic. | |
| It is beneficial for the United States. | |
| And for some reason, the press can't take it. | |
| For some reason, they are busy arguing for a position rather than reporting on the facts. | |
| For some reason, they are trying to make the United States accept everyone based on a rhetorical argument from a poem written 100 years ago that is in no way reflective of the current realities of the political climate of the United States. | |
| The press have lost. | |
| They have lost the arguments. | |
| Miller handled them perfectly. | |
| And in the process, he got them to reveal what they really are. | |
| Activists. | |
| And John Oliver's statements about Miller are so unbelievably telling. | |
| John Oliver called Stephen Miller an entitled elitist asshole who refuses to take responsibility. | |
| I don't know if there is a way of describing the unfathomable irony of that statement, John. | |
| You are a very popular part of a very entitled, very elitist group of arseholes who refuse to take responsibility for losing an election to a buffoon like Donald Trump. | |
| Instead of taking responsibility, instead of doing a bit of honest self-reflection, you have concocted conspiracy theories, you have pushed fake news, and you are now simply attacking Stephen Miller on his looks or on the fact that he has a $1 million city center condo. | |
| Oh, he blasted someone else's cosmopolitan, but he's just like us. | |
| Yes, he's just like you, except he works for Trump, and Trump appears to actually care what the American people think. | |
| That's what his policy agendas have been based on. | |
| All of this hysterical nonsense about, oh, he didn't drain the swamp, he didn't drain the swamp. | |
| Okay, let's assume he didn't. | |
| But he is still enacting the policies that people elected him to enact. | |
| Take some fucking responsibility for yourselves. | |
| You are the problem. | |
| You are the ones who are utterly divorced from and completely contemptuous of the working class people in your country. | |
| And to your chagrin, there are lots of them. | |
| No matter how imperfect a vessel Donald Trump is, they need representation. | |
| You are more concerned about representing people who don't even live in your fucking country. | |
| Get a fucking grip. | |
| Remember who you need to help. | |
| It isn't poor brown people overseas. | |
| It is poor people in your own nation. | |
| They are your countrymen and you treat them with nothing but contempt. | |
| Miller is right. | |
| You should be ashamed. | |
| And that's why he beat you with a moral argument. | |
| Because you are not making a moral argument. |
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