https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/donald-trump-duluth-rally-w521806
Link one takes you to Power Line coverage of the presidential visit to Duluth, link two takes you to the Rolling Stone coverage of same.
Minnesota’s lonely island of electoral blue in the midst of Donald Trump’s upper Midwest Republican bloodbath was on the minds of nearly everyone inside Duluth's Amsoil Arena Wednesday night. Every speaker, including President Trump, referred to it, though perhaps no one quite as dramatically as state GOP chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan, who warned the thousands in attendance about a “red tsunami rolling across Lake Superior.” (Just add it to the list of greasy Wisconsin imports, I guess.)One of the things about the left, "nice", in any form, "Minnesota" or otherwise fails to come to mind.
By the time Trump reached the end of his speech, it felt familiar even if you hadn’t heard it before. The phrases had the too-neat, predictable parallelism of a jingle: “We will never give in, we will never give up ... we will never stop fighting for our flag, or our freedom. We are one people, and one family, and one nation under God.” The last lines were chanted out in half-unison, half-hum, the way you might mumble-vamp through the verse of “Sweet Caroline” only to land with ecstasy at the chorus: “We will make America safe AGAIN! We will make America strong AGAIN! We will make America GREAT AGAIN!”Well, we were supposed to be a Republic, not a "democracy", but one really would not expect to have a lot of detail on such topics from the Rolling Stone. Who is reporting on "sex, drugs and Rock and Roll" now days? Wasn't that their mission?
That’s the way the end of democracy sounds, I think: People so eager to join a chant they do it before they know all the words.
Actually, tribalism is exactly what you get in "democracy", and we have slid long that way save for basically the Senate and the Electoral College, which of course the Rolling Stone would like to abolish. Yes, tribes know their chants "Hope and Change"! Comes to mind -- at least "Make America great again" has a subject. "We are the ones we have been waiting for!"????
Political rallys have never been much in the way of intellectual pursuits -- unlike rock concerts of course!
I kinda like this one ...
... like his riff about “elites”: “You ever notice they always call the other side ‘the elite’? The elite! Why are they elite? I have a much better apartment than they do. I’m smarter than they are. I’m richer than they are. I became president and they didn’t.”As recently as "God And Man at Yale", in order to be a US "elite", you needed a blood line, some old money, some classical education, an upper New England accent, and such. Now, Trump is right -- other than money and a posh address, the only real qualification is to parrot all the lefty positions that you can read in "The Rolling Stone"! No standards means no standards ...
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