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In reply to the discussion: I Listened to All Six Trump Rallies in October. You Should, Too [View all]mia
(8,361 posts)31. ..bleak and threatening world view...accompanied by an increasingly grandiose rewriting of history
...Many of the statements are not only untrue but are repeated from event to event, despite the industry of real-time Trump fact-checking and truth-squadding that now exists. This summer, the Washington Posts Fact Checker looked at all the statements in one rally and determined that seventy-six per cent of the ninety-eight factual assertions Trump made were untrue, misleading, or baseless. Since then, Trump seems not only undeterred but to be stepping up his pace. He claimed that Justice Kavanaugh was No. 1 in his class at Yale and Yale Law School in at least three of his events over the past week, despite Yale not even calculating class rankings. On Wednesday, Trump repeated several of his greatest-hits fallacies, such as asserting that fifty-two per cent of women supported him in 2016 (that number was forty-two per cent), and that numerous new steel-manufacturing plants are being opened (none are), and that clean, beautiful coal is coming back (it isnt).
Still, fact-checking is far too narrow a lens through which to view the rallies. Certainly, Trump pours out untruths and whoppers at these events; the more defensive he is, the more he seems to unleash them. But I found myself reeling most at the end of my rally-watching marathon not from the lying but from the bleak and threatening world view offered by a President who is claiming credit for making America great, strong, and respected again, while terrifying his fans with the grim spectre of the scary enemies he is fending off. Even more than they did in 2016, these threats come accompanied by an increasingly grandiose rewriting of history.Whats happened since his election, Trump said in Pennsylvania, has been the greatest revolution ever to take place in our country, or maybe even anywhere in the world. His victory superseded even Andrew Jackson. America, he said, is winning like never before.
Still, fact-checking is far too narrow a lens through which to view the rallies. Certainly, Trump pours out untruths and whoppers at these events; the more defensive he is, the more he seems to unleash them. But I found myself reeling most at the end of my rally-watching marathon not from the lying but from the bleak and threatening world view offered by a President who is claiming credit for making America great, strong, and respected again, while terrifying his fans with the grim spectre of the scary enemies he is fending off. Even more than they did in 2016, these threats come accompanied by an increasingly grandiose rewriting of history.Whats happened since his election, Trump said in Pennsylvania, has been the greatest revolution ever to take place in our country, or maybe even anywhere in the world. His victory superseded even Andrew Jackson. America, he said, is winning like never before.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/i-listened-to-all-six-trump-rallies-in-october-you-should-too
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I Listened to All Six Trump Rallies in October. You Should, Too [View all]
babylonsister
Oct 2018
OP
It's the political equivalent of evangelicals testifying about being saved by their gawd
malaise
Oct 2018
#1
Thanks for the info. I did not know that the Feds had intercepted info. prior to his death (assumed
riversedge
Oct 2018
#52
not just creating the space to do the unthinkable, actually doing the unthinkable
EleanorR
Oct 2018
#3
actually, he's channelling 1500 radio stations, that's why he has any standing at all, and those
certainot
Oct 2018
#29
Sorry I can't stand to listen to his voice let alone watch him - he disgusts me. I'll read articles
iluvtennis
Oct 2018
#19
I can't bear to watch him, but it is absolutely necessary that someone should document & analyze...
Hekate
Oct 2018
#23
Rep Kelly: "retake this nation" back from people of color & women he means, back fr Obama & Hillary
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2018
#28
..bleak and threatening world view...accompanied by an increasingly grandiose rewriting of history
mia
Oct 2018
#31