Okay homie, you're getting me revved up for work today. A nice little mind exercise before I begin my day of trolling for contracts.
Your first question can be divided into two. So I'll treat it as such.
1. Do you think Trump will fight back every time they push another fabricated story against him?
Not every single time, but every major time, yes. If it's trending on Facebook and Twitter, he'll likely respond. I predict that the Left is going to play it smart and bait him into distraction on minor things so he cannot focus on his major policy objectives.
What he'll then have to do is discredit them as a whole and leave the little fights to his underlings. Either way, he won't respond to each and every bogus claim. Some of them, he'll just have to ignore.
2. Do I think he'll fight back against conservatives?
Absolutely. But you'll notice that in his disputes with conservatives, the overall tone will be different. The House and the White House will clash on a few things, but there will be actual substantive policy discussion. A lot of it will be over his economic populism and their dogged support of global free trade.
In the background of that policy discussion, there will be a wider philosophical struggle over what it means to be a conservative in the present day. That could get fairly nasty and I'm sure he'll weigh in some, but he has shown that philosophical matters are not his bag. He doesn't care.
It will be interesting to see how far "
intellectual Trumpism" goes and how it integrates with the populism that has gained a recent bit of popularity.
To sum things up- he'll fight conservatives in policymaking and weigh in on whatever conservative faction poises itself to bolster and protect his legacy.
3. Do you think he will continue to be successful in exposing the MSM for the fraud that it has become?
Excellent question. He'll definitely continue his war with them as an institution. The fact he was elected shows they have little control over how people perceive the overall narrative of things. I think that trend will continue, but not necessarily fast enough for them to be rendered a complete non-factor. There yet lives a generation who gets their news from them and only them.
But a lot of their discrediting if you will is just natural attrition, people are paying less attention to NBC, ABC, CBS, and cable news, because they are chiefly being entertained via internet. A wider availability of sources, real and fake, make discerning and choosing sources an easier affair. This is true across the political spectrum and true shortly before Trump came on the scene.
What he did is kick in the social media door and set himself up as the chief opponent of the dying MSM and the crazy, pronoun-changing, trans-dating, liberals on the internet. He currently has a hammerlock on the growing media platform.
I wouldn't confuse his discrediting of the MSM with discrediting the Left as a whole. The Left will have an Alt Movement of its own. If they learn to adapt to the comparatively conservative voting population's whims at large, they could be wildly successful. If they continue to do the idiotic America-hating and white-shaming, we could see a more permanent state of temperamental conservatism developing in the nation.
It'll be an interesting few years. Don't trust anybody who claims to have a crystal ball. Especially post-2016 Larry Sabato
Do you think the media will continue it's onslaught of Trump by pushing fabricated fake news topics about him. They did it with Bush and pretty much got away with it. Do you think Trump will fight back every time they push another fabricated story against him or against anything conservative for that matter? Do you think he will continue to be successful in exposing the MSM for the fraud that it has become?