God and Donald Trump by Stephen E. Strang

Author:Stephen E. Strang [Strang, Stephen E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charisma Media
Published: 2017-10-13T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

WHAT TRUMP BELIEVES

★★★★★

WHEN THEN-CANDIDATE TRUMP began responding to his critics at all hours of the day and night on Twitter, he surprised and embarrassed a lot of his detractors, tweeting strongly worded comments no one had expected. He had already waged highly publicized verbal battles with Meryl Streep and other celebrities such as Rosie O’Donnell and Oprah Winfrey, but this would be an altogether different kind of war.

With a level of technical savvy uncommon for a man of his generation, Trump was able to counterattack within minutes whenever his opponents made scurrilous charges against him. This was something new, and it delighted his fans and the public at large, even as it infuriated the increasingly volatile resistance. Before long Trump was a serial tweeter, and he provided the media with some riveting sound bites.

Not everyone, of course, was thrilled by this new development. Liberal news organizations such as National Public Radio, the New York Times, and the political news company POLITICO compiled exhaustive catalogs of Trump’s tweets to show how insensitive, ignorant, and wrongheaded he could be. But they couldn’t ignore them, and they followed his tweets faithfully, hoping to catch him in some word or deed that would be his undoing.1

Some of his comments and counterattacks were tactless and crude, that’s true, often attacking his detractors with salty schoolyard taunts. But Trump’s use of Twitter gave him a way around the mainstream media and his political opponents who had been getting free access to the media and were able to insult and demean him with impunity. Suddenly those same people were being held accountable in real time, and news hawks on both sides didn’t want to miss a word of it.

Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz concluded in an online commentary that Trump’s use of Twitter had turned out to be “an incredibly valuable tool for him to reach his 31 million followers, amplified by endless media coverage.” That was as true during the run-up to the election as it is today, because Trump hasn’t slowed his Twitter storm since moving into the White House. At one point he had said there would have been “ZERO chance of winning WH” if he had relied on the “Fake News” being churned out by the mainstream media. But his candid and unfiltered Twitter feeds helped turn the tables on his foes.2

Columnist James Lewis notes in the American Thinker, an Internet publication, that Donald Trump is the only Republican president since Ronald Reagan to be able to bypass the hostile mainstream media to reach directly into the hearts of the American people. Lewis writes that “conservatives have been under constant assault ever since the 1970s, when the Boomer Left conducted its infamous ‘Long March Through the Institutions’ guided by Saul Alinsky’s little red book.”3

Alinsky, with whom Hillary Clinton had worked closely early in her career, referred to the American middle class as “the enemy.”4 He preached a virulent form of sedition, more devious and dangerous than anything Machiavelli ever conceived. Leading

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