Economist Ben Stein said much of what President Trump says on Twitter is “unbelievably sensible.”
“It’s a beautiful thing that he can strike back at the overwhelmingly negative press,” Stein said. “Some of [what he says] is incredibly sensible.”
Stein said Trump’s usage of social media to go around an overly critical press is “such basic common sense that you really have to love the guy for it.”
I wholeheartedly agree.
President Trump’s tweets are not about Donald Trump. They are about a president’s ability to go over the heads of an intellectually dishonest, morally corrupt media and talk to people in honest terms.
Whether you like what Donald Trump has to say is not the point. The point is that in a democratic republic, we do not elect kings or czars. We elect people to represent us. Because Donald Trump was elected by people who have no use for the media elites who now claim to report on him, another medium was required.
I won’t say thank goodness for Twitter. Despite the capabilities of its founders and possibly some who run it, it’s mostly represented by the same kind of rotten, dishonest leftist airheads who dominate the rest of the media. But I will say thank goodness for freedom of speech and capitalism. Without those two things, Twitter would not exist and we’d rely on the likes of The New York Times and The Washington Post for objective truth. And we all know that’s never going to happen.
People who condemn President Trump’s tweets don’t pass judgment on the content of his posts, in most cases. They pass judgment on the fact that he tweets at all. If they read his tweets, they don’t usually admit it. Their moral superiority supposedly resides in the fact they refuse to read any of the President’s posts. This spares them the bother of having to objectively judge what President Trump is conveying in those methods of communication.
Tweeting is no more an invalid form of communication than radio or television were when they first came into existence. FDR is praised for his skillful use of radio. JFK and Ronald Reagan are praised for their skillful use of television. In the early twenty-first century, the president who can communicate is the one who utilizes the technology of the day. In today’s context, that includes social media like Twitter. The puffy, arrogant jackasses who moralize about President Trump’s tweeting are due to get over themselves. They’re free to criticize his politics, but they’ll have to convince with substance and persuasion, not by relentless ranting about the content or style of his own communication.
And then there are those ridiculous Democrats who dominate 90 percent of the media. Democrats claim to love democracy. We all know they only love democracy when it delivers the votes to the people they support. The moment someone they do not support is elected, they’re ready to install a dictatorship. Why do you think those snowflake Antifa thugs are all they have?
It’s not about tweeting or Twitter. It’s about the ability of the population in a democratic republic to communicate freely with its chief representative in national office. The sincerest form of flattery is imitation. When President Trump is gone, we’ll see that flattery expressed by his Democratic or Republican Never Trumper successors who –rest assured — will be doing the exact same thing, with far less effect.
Tweet on, President Trump. Tweet on.
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