Loser Pope takes on Donald Trump, suffers massive humiliation, slinks off to Vatican
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/02/18/loser-pope-takes-on-donald-trump-suffers-massive-humiliation-slinks-off-to-vatican/
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Let’s pause for a moment of silence to marvel at the degree to which Trump managed to stay on his core message here. Remember, the story that Trump has been telling for at least six months now has not changed. Our elites are failing you, because they are allowing you to be cheated by a whole cast of villains — illegals, multinational corporations, other countries (usually China, but more recently, Mexico, which Trump now says is “the new China”) — whether through stupidity, corruption, weakness, or some combination of the above.
In his response to the Pope, Trump hit every one of these buttons: Mexico wants to continue to “rip off” America; our stupid leaders continue to allow it to happen because they are getting “outsmarted”; Trump would not, because he is “wise” to the scam; and so, “they” (Trump’s word) have now enlisted the Pope “as a pawn” in keeping the scam going.
The only slight tweak to Trump’s storyline on display here is that he merely said the Pope was an unwitting victim of this scam, rather than suggesting that he is one of the elites who is actively complicit in it, either through corruption or weakness or stupidity (though arguably Trump did hint at the possibility of the latter two).
(Entire article is at the link. Zim.)
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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