false equivalence and centrification

by MaxEntropy_Man Fri May 06, 2016 8:21 am

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/opinion/truth-and-trumpism.html?

You might think that this would be impossible on substantive policy issues, where the asymmetry between the candidates is almost ridiculously obvious. To take the most striking comparison, Mr. Trump has proposed huge tax cuts with no plausible offsetting spending cuts, yet has also promised to pay down U.S. debt; meanwhile, Mrs. Clinton has proposed modest spending increases paid for by specific tax hikes.

And what about less quantifiable questions about behavior? I’ve already seen pundits suggest that both presumptive nominees fight dirty, that both have taken the “low road” in their campaigns. For the record, Mr. Trump has impugned his rivals’ manhood, called them liars and suggested that Ted Cruz’s father was associated with J.F.K.’s killer. On her side, Mrs. Clinton has suggested that Bernie Sanders hasn’t done his homework on some policy issues. These things are not the same.

Now I’m seeing suggestions that Trumpism is driven by concerns about political gridlock. No, it isn’t. It isn’t even mainly about “economic anxiety.”

Trump support in the primaries was strongly correlated with racial resentment: We’re looking at a movement of white men angry that they no longer dominate American society the way they used to. And to pretend otherwise is to give both the movement and the man who leads it a free pass.

by MaxEntropy_Man Fri May 06, 2016 8:26 am

i fear this is going down a much worse path than the dubya era when the media simply put themselves to pasture and took a long vacation. here is a comment to the article:

Trmp's biggest problem is videotape. He lies with impunity
and our MSM stares into space. Case in point. Trump claimed
Hillary Clinton was first to raise birther issue. A complete lie.
Blitzer did not say jack to his face. Waited and then said it
was not true. Wilmore was right. Wolf does not do followups.
The MSM has decided it is "bad form" to quote Trump accurately.
No one has ever asked him how his health plan or tax plans
would work. Why? because they refuse to do their jobs.
The press has opted for the "mushroom treatment." Keep em
int he dark and smother em with horse manure
Poor Krugman he thinks facts still matter. He's right but
precious few do.

wolf blitzer is a bloody joke!

by garam_kuta Fri May 06, 2016 10:41 pm

on taxes - volte face of "read my lips" again

white men angry! - http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/04/news/economy/america-left-behind-white-men/

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