ChicagoBlue
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The “talking down to them” argument falls right into the trap populists lay. I posted this before — how should experts deal with the objections of non-experts? The only answer, apparently, is just to lie to them — every other option has been rejected as too “offensive” or “hurtful”, and you can’t ignore them because they have influence — as they should — in a democracy. Of course, as we discussed before, this was precisely what certain Greek philosophers and the founding fathers were concerned about in a democracy.
The “genius,” if there is any, in Trump is that he tells you what will happen, but shapes it so you believe he is omniscient!
He knows he is going to go against the norms of society, so he tells you it’s not abnormal, but the liberal media are going to lie about it because they’re against America!
Then, he does something completely illiberal, the media decries it, he says “See, I told you so!” and the ill-informed and cultists say “That guy is a genius! He called it!”
Throw in a completely ineffective, lily livered, “never met an argument I couldn’t shy away from,” media, that is far too shy to stand on point and defend itself anymore for fear of offending some sliver of society, and it becomes a fait accompli that he dominates the domestic news IN HIS OWN WORDS!