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After Eight Long Years… Beleaguered Trump Has To Revive The Remnants Of Obama’d Nation

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By DEXTER DUGGAN

One kind of “marriage inequality” grew far more unfair by the end of the Obama era, but social radicals who’d successfully pushed for “same-sex marriage” were okay with this particular imbalance.
President Barack Obama had an eight-year honeymoon with the dominant media, but successor Donald Trump isn’t getting a single day, not even a half-day, of media honeymoon, and he wouldn’t even if Trump were to get married three more times and wrote “Just Married” in iridescent paint on the White House that Obama had lighted with the gay rainbow.
More than ever, dominant media identified themselves with Obama’s pro-immorality value system and forcefully attacked what looked like any potential dead end to nightmares like his supporters selling aborted babies’ skin, eyes, spines, and brains.
Should it matter to Trump’s new administration that whatever action it takes will be portrayed as monstrously cataclysmic and catastrophic, even immediately after years of the same dominant media ignoring, shrugging off or making excuses for one barbarity, scandal, or outrage after another by the Obama gang?
While Trump’s media enemies may be dominant merchants of the news, they no longer corner the market, and that makes a major difference. News consumers have plenty of other places to turn for reports these days, and feel they’re impelled to do so by untrustworthy media forever weighting the scale.
Gone are the days when story lines pretty much were determined by a few East Coast-based newspapers, television networks, and magazines.
Alternative sources work for Trump, even when a publicist phalanx mobilizes against him. Trump said he has 46 million followers across his various media platforms. That’s irreplaceable for his agenda. In addition, numerous websites, blogs, and other avenues can give him support.
Make no mistake, left-wing media yearn for the day when they literally can drive another Republican president from the White House, as they did in the 1970s to the GOP’s Richard Nixon, hardly a firm conservative but definitely a politician who had just destroyed leftists’ beloved Democrat George McGovern in the 1972 presidential election landslide, 520 electoral votes to 17.
Nixon and the leftist media both knew the GOP’s Watergate break-in to be routine dirty politics, but here was The Washington Post’s opportunity to stack the deck against Nixon in its coverage and clear the decks of his scowling countenance. Sweet revenge for Nixon’s humiliating their sweetie McGovern.
These days, the websites of the Post, The New York Times, and their big family of kinfolk shiver with loathing and seethe with rage against Trump, who beat their own presidential sweetie, the very unsweet Democrat Hillary Clinton, last November.
They did everything shameless they could to boost Hillary to victory, but still they failed. Loaded polls that oversampled Democrats and undersampled Republicans were just one of the tactics to enable their slant that she virtually was certain to win, and Trump hopeless. The polls were skewed not to predict, but to propagandize. Just as they continue doing today.
Unchastened, the newsers grow only more unhinged in their anti-Trump crusade, fooling both themselves and Democrats whose party grows weaker because they’re not made to face their leftist follies.
Each day when I take a few glances at The Washington Post’s site, there’s no need to attempt a serious response because there’s little serious there, just oceans of comical venom, if one could call an addled cobra comical.
Another historical parallel that applies is the liberal media’s slant after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas back in 1963. His suspected assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was found to be a left-wing sympathizer who had gone to live in the Soviet Union and belonged to the pro-Communist Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
These media insisted that somehow the alleged right-wing hatreds of conservative Dallas had killed Kennedy — although Oswald should have been the last sort of person to have been swayed by conservatives’ supposed dislikes. For years, though, Dallas was made to do penance for a wrong it never caused. The last thing the elite newsrooms wanted was to take their anger out on Communist Moscow or Havana.
Daily, Trump is caricatured by rabid dominant-media propagandists as a dangerous demon and threat to everyone and everything on this planet. Many media organizations aren’t so financially healthy these days anyway, but what if they had to pay for all of the extra Secret Service protection for Trump that he obviously requires because of the lunatic effusions of scurrilous Post and Times writers?
In pursuing their blind political prejudices, they do more damage to society than Trump ever could hope to accomplish. The same for their approach to reporting racial issues, inflaming resentments and reinforcing victimhood to serve Democrats’ goals of keeping minorities dependent and caged on the plantation, not freed to grasp higher goals.
Obama’s adopted hometown of Chicago is a scandal of racial homicide, mainly one race killing the same race, so dominant media avert their eyes lest they have to call their own assumptions and their acquaintances to account and thereby end this tragedy they’ve come to feel comfortable with, no matter others’ suffering.
There’s a lot of difficulty Trump has to confront, but part of that includes his indulging himself where he needs to show discipline. The dominant media hated conservative Ronald Reagan, too, but about the worst they could say of him was “amiable dunce,” not “bombastic hothead.”
Trump may well need his social-media platforms to present his message, but he needn’t insult and disparage anyone who criticizes him, even if unfairly.
Reagan could deflect with a smile and a bob of the head. Trump’s image often is an insult, even though he invites some people on a different political page to visit with him for a chat at Trump Tower. Why not extend more such invitations in tweets rather than curt comments?
When liberal actress Meryl Streep, who loves Hillary and Obama, attacked Trump at the Golden Globes awards, Trump tweeted that Streep is a highly overrated actress and Hillary flunky.
Columnist Piers Morgan at DailyMail.com showed Trump a thing or two by writing that Streep was very wrong in her criticism, but she’s still a great actress — indeed, “the greatest actress in history.”
“Meryl, I still love you dearly,” Morgan wrote, “but you had a chance to bring your country together last night and you blew it.”
Conservatives take comfort in the fact that Trump has a self-made woman like conservative Kellyanne Conway as one of his top advisers, but he doesn’t make Conway’s job any easier in helping him succeed when he trumpets this way.
It’s probably true that many Trump supporters like his rough edges, too, as being a no-nonsense guy who gets things done. But must he seem needlessly offensive?
The nation was aching for an end to Obama’s arrogant, divisive presidency, but more people actually voted for Obama’s third term that Hillary would have been — although her awful campaigning and strategy buried her in the Electoral College.
Wouldn’t Trump have ended up with, say, 381 electoral votes instead of his more than adequate 304 if he just did a little bit of a Reagan personality transplant?
The coming two years should be a turbulent time, with the majority of Americans favoring Trump reforms, but a left-wing media and suicidal Democratic Party fighting tooth and nail against him.
The Republican Party did better than expected by the cross-eyed political soothsayers last November, so Trump goes into a White House with a majority-GOP Congress to help. He needs to keep that in place. What if, by the time of the 2018 mid-term elections, hostile media manage to switch just a few seats in the Senate, throwing a major Democratic roadblock Trump’s way?
We know Trump can play the tough guy, but more people need to feel he’d make a nice neighbor — oh, to afford to live in Trump’s neighborhood! — not just a no-nonsense traffic cop. Traffic cops are needed, but if one pulls us over, we’d like to think he can show some sympathy, too.
It says a lot about dominant media’s mindset that they barely could bring themselves to whisper criticism of a breathtakingly malevolent man like Obama even as they bulked up with ill will against nice folks like pro-lifers.
If there’s one proof of God’s existence, it must be that He rather preserved the U.S., and the world, through eight whole years of the unwholesome tag team of Obama and his adoring media.

Pray For Repentance

Is it too strong to say that Obama hated America?
He released unrepentant terrorists from Guantanamo when he knew they’d use their freedom to resume their deadly attacks. He saw to it that violent illegal immigrants were left free to prey on Americans. He hated it that anyone criticized radical Islam as such, even though Islamists were killing Americans right on their own soil. He stirred up racial resentment and the rioting that brings. He did all he could to encourage the culture of death and decadence.
By the way, many U.S. Catholic bishops held their tongues about this attempted ruination of their nation.
With so much hard work on his hands, Obama figured he needed plenty of relaxation, too, with lots of golf and as many extended luxury vacations as he could cram onto his schedule. He made billionaire resort developer Trump seem like a piker.
With only a month to go in the White House, Obama jetted off to Hawaii in December for another long treat on the beach. And as soon as his presidency ended, he reportedly was to head to Palm Springs. Not a bit like having to endure in Ferguson, Mo., or Baltimore, Obama gleefully thought.
Just go away, Obama, go far away and pray for repentance. Hand your media pals a Bible, too.
(This hardcopy issue of The Wanderer went to press the day before Trump’s inauguration was scheduled January 20.)

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