Not a Twitter person myself, I do visit sites that reference tweets or give links to them with surprising frequency. Here is a particularly funny one that Scott Adams linked in a recent blog:
It's still early days and much too soon to think this tweet will hold for his entire presidency. Indeed, he only just got his Attorney General confirmed. Maybe he will use the IRS to silence his enemies, just like his predecessor. Dr. Ben Carson endured his first IRS audit in the wake of speaking against Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast and countless Tea Party groups were harassed by IRS and other federal agencies. Maybe he will selectively enforce laws to punish his critics, just like his predecessor did to Dinesh D'Souza or Senator Bob Menendez. He has already rolled out the attacks on some news agencies, just like Obama did with regard to Fox News Channel. I suppose all of these would just be a status quo ante with new management.
2 comments:
Perhaps the Tweet was to show contrast-
NO ONE fears speaking out against the conservatives,
while MOST liberals fear speaking out against Hillary and democrat inner circle.
I did not take it that way but it is a good point. Reasoned criticism of the left is invariably painted as mean-spirited and partisan but ad hominem attacks against the right are described as brave and speaking truth to power. To avoid being labeled racist, homophobe, sexist, fascist, etc., Republicans have become increasingly mild in their criticism of Democrats. Facing no such risk of labeling, Democrats have grown increasingly incendiary in their rhetoric. Thus we have a playing field where Democrats can safely shriek "Republicans are Nazi fascists" while the Republicans respond with a barely audible "Democrats are nice people but our policies are better." Trump has changed the tone by replying to Democrat accusations with "I know you are but what am I?" A balance of maturity has been reached through the lowest common denominator.
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