This has happened before, and it supports something the genius has been saying: there’s a lot of fake news out there. The fact is that most of the fake news supports him.
Yesterday CNN had a panel of Texas female Republican. They were presented as representative of 2016 Texas females who voted for Trump. Nothing he has done, they all said, has made them change their minds, and of course its the Democratic congresswomen that are the real racists.
Although CNN didn’t disclose this, Google tells me that Dena Miller is the national director of Trumpettes for America, a network of socialites who work to gin up support for Trump in the media. Well done, Dena!
Gina O’Briant, Geni Manning, and Kathleen Lieberman are members of the Texas Women for Trump Coalition. So they’re not your typical housewives, either.
Republican Cami Dean ran for Congress (TX-3) in 2014.
These are not ordinary Republican women. These are people who are deeply invested in Republican activism, and their appearance here tells me they can’t come up with enough mainstream Republicans for this focus group. They’re only talking to the true believers — which makes Trump look more popular than he really is.
I take issue with that last quoted paragraph, in that I don’t believe for a second that CNN went looking for a representative sampling of Republican women. It looked for what it got, women who would say that nothing Trump does could ever shake their faith. Reminds me of the fact that you’re not allowed to eat in a diner in the Midwest unless you still support the genius.
This is a common trope for our media. Consider this article from the Washington Post, which was reprinted in this morning’s New London Day (though I couldn’t find a workable link there). The gist of it is that Trump’s racist rant will only help him politically. After all, he’s firing up the base.
Which leads me to a question I’ve ranted more than once to my long suffering spouse. How come it’s always good for the Republicans when they play to their base, but if the Democrats play to theirs it will always hurt them?
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