Donald Trump is the only Republican presidential candidate in modern history who not only ran against Democrats but also against the establishment of his own party.
Trump was also the
recipient of vicious and baseless attacks from the media, showbiz, academia,
intelligence agencies, big tech, big corporates, foreign leaders, etc.
While the absence of
these attacks would have helped him. They did not affect his popularity or
his electoral prospects significantly because Trump‘s candidacy was based on
grassroots support, not media hype.
As the late great
Rush Limbaugh observed, Trump created an almost unbreakable bond between him
and his voters, hence only Trump could break it. The media was just a bystander.
When he was elected
in 2016, the Democrat media complex launched a focused anti-Trump campaign.
From the Russian
Collusion hoax to the two baseless impeachments, the media tried their best to
evict him from the White House. They suppressed Trump's achievements of
prosperity for Americans and peace around the world. They concocted
stories of chaos in the White House. The amplified anti-Trump voices, including
that of former Trump White House personnel.
When nothing worked
they resorted to rigging the contest.
In 2019, the
Democrats shut down the economy using Covid-19 as a pretext. The media blamed
Trump for every Covid-19 case and death. They knew that despondent citizens
always vote against the incumbent. Big
Tech suppressed news about Biden’s abuse of power and corruption.
Mark
Zuckerberg donated $419
million to far-left outfits that infiltrated the administration and
infrastructure of the 2020 election and promoted universal
mail-in voting.
The result is a
record-breaking 64
million Americans to cast their ballots by mail. Also, private
ballot drop boxes were vulnerable to fraudulent practices such as
ballot-stuffing.
But despite getting
Biden ‘elected’, fears in the minds of Democrats that Trump will be re-elected
in 2024 haven’t allayed.
The purpose of the
biased January 6th probe and its scripted televised hearing is
to sway public approval and use legal means to prevent him from running in 2024.
But the media is
also resorting to petty little ploys.
Since
January they have been attempting to prompt a feud between their
two primary adversaries President Donald Trump and Florida governor Ron DeSantis
When Trump said condemned
politicians who were reluctant to talk about taking the vaccine
booster, the media characterized this
as a veiled attack on DeSantis.
The media used
‘sources’ to claim that President
Trump had called DeSantis "dull " with no realistic chance
of beating him in a potential 2024 showdown.
When DeSantis said
he regretted not challenging the federal COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, since he
didn't understand how extensive the measures would become. The media
called it a dig at President Trump.
The New
York Times and the Daily
Beast then declared war between the President and the Governor for the
GOP nomination.
DeSantis had said
last October that he isn’t running for president in 2024.
But facts and truth
hardly matter to propagandists.
This Trump Vs.
DeSantis's narrative is being pushed quite aggressively now.
During the White
House correspondent's dinner, Comedian Trevor Noah called DeSantis the T1000 as
compared to Trump’s Terminator, a reference to Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). The
implication is that DeSantis is a
more advanced and dangerous version of Trump.
Piers Morgan, who is
desperate for attention after his show has flopped miserable, recently wrote a
column entitled “Memo to Republicans: It’s time to dump The Donald and run with
The Ronald”
Bill Maher claimed DeSantis
would be a better choice than Trump and even claimed to have triggered
Trump by his utterance.
Even Politico is
claiming that DeSantis' national spotlight is growing
brighter.
They are claiming
DeSantis raised over
$100 million from myriad wealthy Trump donors. They are even comparing
the funds raised between Trump and DeSantis. What is not being stated
is that the funds are meant for DeSantis's Florida gubernatorial reelection bid
not for 2024.
The Washington
Post attempted
to pit DeSantis against Trump in a piece replete with wishful
thinking, projections, fabrications, and ‘sources’
There are new polls
such as a
Denver poll that show DeSantis winning 71% of the vote
to Trump's 67%.
A University
of New Hampshire Granite State Poll that has DeSantis receiving 39
percent support from likely Republican primary voters in the state compared to
37 percent for Trump has received great media attention.
The New
York Times carried news about these polls with glee. CNN called
it a
poll that should scare Donald Trump. Even Fox
News covered the poll. New York magazine also
carried a story about the poll claiming DeSantis could beat Trump.
So what’s the record
of polls?
Back in 2016,
pollsters claimed Trump had no
chance of winning against Hillary. The poll
also got it disastrously wrong in 2020.
The fact remains that
the function of these polls is not to reflect but to influence public opinion.
They have a narrative in mind for which they poll individuals. Only responses
that are in sync with their narrative are considered.
The hope is that
since the media has lost all credibility, perhaps the polls will do the trick.
What’s the goal here?
The media sees
DeSantis as the biggest enemy after Trump. The media also know that
they cannot hurt DeSantis too much, owing to his stellar record as Governor of
Florida during the pandemic and his strong stand on social issues.
They are hoping to outsource that task to President Trump.
The hope is their constant instigation will cause a war of words that devolves into a
fierce primary contest where Trump annihilates DeSantis much as he did
previously with Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio etc. during the GOP Primary in 2015-6.
They are probably
praying it will hurt DeSantis’s reelection prospects as Florida governor.
They also hope
DeSantis ends up harming Trump a bit.
They hope that after
a bitterly contested primary, perhaps DeSantis voters will stay away from the
main contest. They are probably hoping for an unlikely scenario where angry
DeSantis supporters vote Democrat out of spite.
So how should both
Trump and DeSantis react?
They don't have to.
They aren't obliged to issue clarifications every time the media carries
spurious stories about them. At times there is dignity in silence, but not for
too long.
The US is at a
critical juncture.
Every Republican has
to be focused on taking the fight to the Democrats. Infighting or even the
appearance of infighting is undesirable for both the party and its supporters
on the ground.
The best way to shut these rumors is not through words but through gestures. Perhaps they can conduct a rally together during the midterm campaign and publicly lavish blandishments at each other.
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