The problem in American politics is we’ve stopped being honest, and we’ve gotten all caught up and ultra-sensitive about the words people use instead of debating the ideas behind them. Trump is trying to blast through it.”
Exactly.
The problem in American politics is we’ve stopped being honest, and we’ve gotten all caught up and ultra-sensitive about the words people use instead of debating the ideas behind them. Trump is trying to blast through it.”
Exactly.
And then there’s Donald Trump.
It was here that in delivery, after the crowd booed at the first mention of the GOP nominee, that Obama ad-libbed one the best lines of the convention: "Don't boo, vote!"
Given the jeers from "Bernie or Bust" delegates over the first few days of the convention, it was hard not to read the line as a broader rebuke to those who might sit this one out.
or jihadists or homegrown demagogues
This is a powerful line (read: burn), basically lumping together Trump--the homegrown demogogue--and terrorists.
make it harder for those wanting to major in the liberal arts at nonelite institutions to obtain loans.
It's great to be at Trump Tower.
Speeches are often made at symbolic spaces--like Obama's "A More Perfect Union" delivered steps from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. If this location is symbolic of anything, perhaps it's Trump's egotism.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says his trademark hairdo is for real. He told 1,800 people in South Carolina Thursday: “It’s my hair … I swear.”
Stunning, hair raising bullshit!
I watch as their networks expand, and as followers find one another as they voice ever more extreme opinions.
This is the first time in a long time (maybe ever) that I've felt sympathy for the downfall of traditional journalism. Social media as a kind of echo chamber is really scary and almost sounds like a science fiction story.
As an academic, I study social media and social movements, from the uprising in Egypt to Black Lives Matter
Fascinating to think about the simultaneously democratic and demagogic potential of social media from #ArabSpring to #MakeAmericaGreatAgain.
I stick up for people when they're right.
This may be Trump's main point. He is sticking up for Lewandowski because 'he's right'. A show of loyalty despite the cost - "It would be easier to fire him than sit talking to you about this all night long". The show is political, and appeals to his base.
while Trump sidestepped the question of gun control by calling Dear a “mentally disturbed person.”
Typical disrespect from trump, does any agree?
Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction.
Another Trump ref