James Delingpole observes that the God-Emperor is playing both the media and the European political elite like puppets in his ongoing defense of Western Civilization:
It might seem a stretch to argue that Trump’s recent trio of trolling retweets of Muslims-behaving-badly videos have much to do with this noble mission.
But cometh the man, cometh the hour. President Trump is no ordinary leader and he most certainly does not play by the conventional rules.
A key facet of his modus operandi is the way he manages to bypass a generally hostile media and speak directly to his constituency – essentially ordinary people who’ve had just about enough of politically correct nonsense – using social media.
Straight laced conservatives deplore this. They think it’s undignified. Even that it trivializes the presidential office and undermines Trump’s mission.
On the contrary, as Vox Day persuasively demonstrates in his new book SJWs Always Double Down, Trump wields Twitter like a cross between a surgeon’s scalpel and a theater commander’s Daisycutter bomb.
So, cut to the chase, what was Trump doing with these tweets?
First, let’s just establish what he was NOT doing:
Winning the hearts and minds of radical Muslims; making liberals love and respect him more; getting nice coverage in the Guardian and the New York Times; persuading Never Trumpers that they might have misjudged him; winning over Theresa May and the rest of the faux-Conservative political class.
No. Trump doesn’t give a damn for any of these people. (And who can blame him?)
Instead he was sending a message to the people he cares about: all those ordinary people out there, not just in the U.S. but in Europe and beyond, who are shocked, appalled, scared by the way their countries are slowly (or quite quickly in the case of some countries, Sweden, for example) surrendering to Islam; who feel betrayed by the pusillanimity of their political leaders and let down by the failure of most of their media to report on the rapes and the sexual grooming and the violence being committed disproportionately by Muslims, both immigrants and home-grown radicals; who feel unable to speak – except in embarrassed whispers – about their fears about being stabbed or machine-gunned or blown up or mown down by yet another jihadist simply for the crime of going about their daily, Western life; who bitterly resent being tarred as Islamophobic or xenophobic or uncaring when all they want is to be allowed to live their life in peace in a country whose traditions, laws and cultural values remain the ones they grew up with and which make their homeland worth living in.
These are the people Trump was reaching out to with those tweets.
As for the rest – all those politicians and media types and cry bully activist groups – they just fell into Trump’s trap.
Trump wanted them to react in the way they did. It was part of his strategy. If you don’t understand why – if you’re one of those “sophisticated” analysts who persists in persuading yourself that Trump is just an idiot, in the way the same people used to say about Ronald Reagan – then, again, I recommend you spend time reading Vox Day’s book.
But if you want the short version, ask yourself this: how do you think most ordinary people – the ones outside the politically correct politics/media bubble – responded when they saw the president’s tweets?
Did they go
a) “I heard some people on the BBC tell me that Britain First are far right and far right is, like, the worst thing ever. So by retweeting them Donald Trump was literally endorsing fascism!”
or
b) “Trump gets it. Why don’t the other politicians get it?”
I suspect it’s mainly the latter.
Mainly? Most certainly! For me, one of the most significant aspects of Trump’s much-protested retweets is that he has clearly learned that playing go-along-to-get-along will be fatal for him. He’s not trying to please Theresa May. He’s not trying to please Jean-Claude Juncker. He’s not trying to please any of the sex criminals in the media, either in the US or the UK.
Why should he? He is the champion of the people, the vox populi, and he is standing up for them against the modern-day, self-appointed Optimates. We can only hope that he will treat them in much the same way Sulla treated his political opponents.