Trump in his own words
by digby
I’m going to guess that ads like this are going to be running a whole lot over the next few weeks. It will be very interesting to see if they have any effect:
I think the people who like Trump are so disaffected from ordinary politics that they refuse to believe any criticism of him even when it’s presented in his own words. They’ll discount this, saying the clips have been doctored or are out of context. (And they would be right in some respects.)
And he’s covered himself with the explanation that he’s a businessman who had to say and do things for the sake of his business. Republicans respect this about him.
I don’t think people really understand what right wing populism is — sure they blame banks and corporations for their loss of economic security but they don’t blame the people who run them for being greedy and avaricious. That’s natural. They blame the government for failing to “compete” properly with foreigners and letting those foreigner make a “better deal” with our virtuous businessmen.
Trump was forced to be completely without integrity because that’s how you do business, amirite? Not his fault. He needed to kiss up to all politicians.
It’s the politicians’ fault that he had to do it.