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Trump Says He Didnt Divide America. The New York Times Response Is Perfect [View all]
http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/12/09/trump-says-didnt-divide-america-new-york-times-response-perfect/Trump Says He Didn’t “Divide” America. The New York Times’ Response Is Perfect
By Natalie Dickinson
Posted on December 9, 2016
Potential election winner Donald Trump has been complaining about his TIME “Man Of The Year” cover, which labeled him the next leader of the “divided states of America.” Speaking to the Today Show, Trump whined that “When you say divided states of America, I didn’t divide them. They’re divided now.” He added later, “I think putting divided is snarky, but again, it’s divided. I’m not president yet. So I didn’t do anything to divide.”
New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow took Trump to task for his obvious attempts to dodge responsibility for exacerbating the deep rifts that cut through American society for his own personal gain:
Donald, thy name is division. You and your campaign of toxicity and intolerance have not only divided this country but also ripped it to tatters.
This comports with an extremely disturbing tendency of Trump’s: Denying responsibility for things of which he is fully culpable, while claiming full praise for things in which he was only partly involved.
As my mother used to say: Don’t try to throw a rock and hide your hand. Own your odiousness.
But Trump delivered the lie with an ease and innocuousness that bespoke a childish innocence and naïveté. In fact, his words disguised cold calculation. That is the thing about demagogy: It can be charming, even dazzling, and that is what makes it all the more dangerous.
Demagogues can flatter and whisper and chuckle. They can remind us of the good in the world because they have an acute awareness of the ways of the world. They can also love and be loved. They can reflect our own humanity because they are human, but their ambitions do not bend toward the good.Their ultimate end is distraction, which allows domination, which leads to destruction.
This comports with an extremely disturbing tendency of Trump’s: Denying responsibility for things of which he is fully culpable, while claiming full praise for things in which he was only partly involved.
As my mother used to say: Don’t try to throw a rock and hide your hand. Own your odiousness.
But Trump delivered the lie with an ease and innocuousness that bespoke a childish innocence and naïveté. In fact, his words disguised cold calculation. That is the thing about demagogy: It can be charming, even dazzling, and that is what makes it all the more dangerous.
Demagogues can flatter and whisper and chuckle. They can remind us of the good in the world because they have an acute awareness of the ways of the world. They can also love and be loved. They can reflect our own humanity because they are human, but their ambitions do not bend toward the good.Their ultimate end is distraction, which allows domination, which leads to destruction.
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http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/12/09/trump-says-didnt-divide-america-new-york-times-response-perfect/
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