There’s a particular tiny herd animal about which, if two of the cute little critters aren’t not getting along upon first meeting, standing them in just a tiny bit of harmless water — the conventional wisdom goes — will cause them unite. When faced with adversity, the foes will bond in order to form a stronger defense.
The same can happen, it may be assumed, with Democrats.
Recently, we’ve seen striking infighting across the aisle — Mama Bird Nancy stuck it to Baby Bird AOC, and a bunch of feathers flew.
During the melee, as RedState’s Bonchie put it, The Donald “[stripped] naked and [ran] onto the battlefield.”
So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2019
….it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2019
Rather than let them continue to destroy themselves, Trump interrupted with his own pecking, turning their attention — and the audience’s — toward him.
A number of Republicans gave him an A for…well, just pick your A word for “not good.”
But could it have been smarter than perceived?
Some think so — perhaps he was making a genius move to make the Dems define themselves by the most extreme among them:
https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1150902240183574529
It's almost — ALMOST — as if the election of 2020 isn't about the Woke Caucus and is in fact an Electoral College contest being held in just a few moderate swing states.
ALMOST.https://t.co/wyC3v2RGzv
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 15, 2019
With his tweets, @realDonaldTrump
made #TheSquad the face of the Democratic Party https://t.co/kGLtVVGxzJ— The American Spectator (@amspectator) July 16, 2019
Interesting idea.
Consider Rush Limbaugh’s Monday statements on the matter:
“I think Trump sees this rift developing between Pelosi and the Democrat leadership and these new communists on the left led by Cortez, and I think he wants them back together again. I think Trump wants the Democrat Party to become known as the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Green New Deal socialism party. I think he wants to hang that label around all of them, and for that to happen they have to be unified.”
So the President galvanizes toward the goofy a party intent upon taking him out in 2020. And at a time, no less, when a poll indicates that swing voters are down on the socialist squad of new left-wing representatives.
It’s an eyebrow-raiser.
Is it accurate?
Let us know what you think in the Comments section. Trump over the last week: fumbler of the football or touchdown-running titan?
-ALEX
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