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Derelict's avatar

Trump's "knack for the zinger label" has told me an awful lot more about both Trump's supporters and the media than those zingers ever revealed about Donald Trump. In any other context, such zingers would be viewed for what they are: School-yard taunts one might expect to hear from the mouth of a 5th grader. They bespeak both an intellect and a level of emotional development barely at the middle-school level.

And conservatives laugh uproariously at these things and view them as the height of wit. And the media repeats them, parrot-like, because they, too, are on that same middle-school wavelength.

And all of this tells me that faaaaar more of my fellow citizens are emotionally stunted and intellectually challenged than I have ever wanted to admit.

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Lawguy's avatar

Like. But I've always remembered that the press mostly hated Nixon (after a short while, although to be completely fair they seemed to hate LBJ and Humphrey more). They loved them some Reagan and the elder Bush, and the younger Bush most of the time (after 9/11 until shortly after the Crash). They certainly loved them some McCain, but because a suitable and presentable Black man was running against him they couldn't pile on as if the Democrat had been say a White woman of some years.

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