(02-22-2017, 05:28 AM)Thryleon link Wrote:What I was hoping to highlight was that this couldn't be trumps playbook as it has been repeated throughout history.And there you have it - a particularly impressive straw man argument. Please tell me where in hell I suggested he was the first to use such tactics. So you can't have a playbook unless it contains original strategies? You know there's no copyright on playbooks, don't you? It's been no secret that he's been riding on the coattails of the AltRight ever since he first called a press conference over Obama's birth certificate. Neither originality nor ideology has been his bedrock, but he's just been better at selling their politics. As I know you hate straw man arguments, I know you'll be giving me a grovelling apology in due course. Waiting, waiting ...
He isnt the first, nor will he be the last. The next president will be attacked with the same bullcrap, as this one and the previous one before him.
Now, if that was your big point, whoop-di-do.
PS: At least Trump can make a claim to raising bald-faced lying to a new level. His lack of embarrassment about being caught red-handed in lies must make him quite exceptional even in the world of politics. He truly is the Liar-in-Chief.