Saturday, January 23, 2016

"Bring Me My Pearls, My Fainting Couch, and My Smelling Salts..."

Arch-conservatives Talk About Trump.

18 of 'em, quoted.  #13:
13. He’s re-enforcing (the correct) stereotypes of conservatives.

“Trump’s brawling, blustery, mean-spirited public persona serves to associate conservatives with all the negative stereotypes that liberals have for decades attached to their opponents on the right. According to conventional caricature, conservatives are selfish, greedy, materialistic, bullying, misogynistic, angry, and intolerant. They are, we’re told, privileged and pampered elitists who revel in the advantages of inherited wealth while displaying only cruel contempt for the less fortunate and the less powerful… Trump is the living, breathing, bellowing personification of all the nasty characteristics Democrats routinely ascribe to Republicans.”

—Michael Medved, national radio show host
(I have to assume the parenthetical remark above is editorial comment.)

Those in the path of the blizzard, stay safe.  And warm, if you can.

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