Literally the same words, expressions, and phrases were used by the out of touch liberal media to describe the President's acceptance speech at the GOP convention, as were used to describe yesterday's inauguration speech. Coincidentally the same manipulation of wording is being used to justify the descriptions that the progressive media herd would like to portrait as real.
Look at some of the headlines and stories accompanying them.
"Dark", "gloomy", "scary", "ugly".
The concept is the same in each example of each story. Donald Trump is trying to appeal to people's fear, hate, and divisiveness, and of course lure them away from the upbeat ideals of modern progressive liberalism. They draw these conclusions, of course, because he points out certain realities that people on the left would like to pretend don't exist. Rather than figure out how to combat crime and poverty in the urban areas of the country, the left would prefer to let the conditions fester and simply label everyone who brings it up as a racist or bigot. They understand that an angry urban minority voter is a Democratic voter. Rather than point out the tangible problems with how globalization effects the American economy, the left would rather declare "Nationalism" to be the new Nazism. They understand that correlating Trump with Hitler, that they can produce the negative image they seek in the weak minded that follow them.
Of course, every story has two sides, and of course the "losing" side is not going to like the story told by the victors. There are plenty of journalist writing positive things about the President's speech, mainly from those who live outside of California, New York, and D.C. Most of these people understand that the broad message of Trump's inauguration speech was no different than the broad message of his acceptance speech which was no different than the broad message of his campaign. This was an anti-establishment campaign, run against everyone in the establishment, including (of course) the liberal elitist media. Trump is not a high minded liberal academic who believes in the infallibility of a overreaching central government... he's a man who believes that the Government should serve the people, not the other way around.
Of course, somewhere along the line, the liberal elitist media has taken it upon themselves to push the narrative that the populist Trump must turn into establishment Trump, play by their rules, or forever be labeled a guy who cannot "pivot". More to the point, the liberal elitists media probably thinks such a pivot is necessary. He must come to understand that the progressive way is the correct way.
Reality check. It's not necessary or preferred that Trump should pivot at this point. Pivots are supposed to come after the conventions and during the general election campaign. He already won the election, and he won it on his terms. The only reason to believe that Trump should change is because liberals are inherently self absorbed to the point where even when they lose, they feel entitled that their preferred method of governing should continue. Their hubris so overwhelming, that what they see is so obvious that they cannot grasp the concept that anyone can possibly disagree with any good faith.
The sad part about all of this is that when the media played this hand in the general election, they were trying to influence an election to get their preferred candidate into office. Their continuance to play such a misguided hand now only works to undermine our President, our Presidency, and ultimately our Democracy.
Not only that, but it continues to undermines their own shattered reputation. Right now, they have very little reputation left to spare. If Donald Trump has accomplished nothing else to this point, he has pushed the main stream media into pounding nail after nail into their own coffins of credibility. For that, he's already a success in the eyes of many.
