
‘It seems to me that over time you’ve been often ahead of your time, you’ve been sometimes misunderstood, fought off a lot of prejudice. Do you think that, today, America understands you and is ready to accept you?’
No, not a question to Trump, though it should have been, but a piece of fawning from a BBC journo to Clinton [H/T DB and Is the BBC biased?]
Has somebody died? Maybe the dream. [If only Spitting Image was still on our screens…Trump wouldn’t have stood a chance]
First thing I woke up to was the funereal tones of Nick Robinson announcing Trump has won. Cue avalanche of negative attacks on Trump…it’s the end of the world….and it’s so like Brexit, apparently…..a catastrophy for the world.
The BBC has almost completely ignored Trump’s economic policies other than to suggest he will reduce the US to an isolationist, nativist and protectionist irrelevance and Nick Robinson reinforced that simplistic caricature when he suggested this was the US withdrawing from the world as he spoke to Steve Hilton who responded by saying such a view was a misunderstanding based on sheer ignorance. That’s because the BBC just wasn’t interested in policy, just in demonising him…even now the BBC’s explanation for his victory dodges around mentioning economics or international politics….naturally it’s the fault of uneducated, hill-billy whites who were so fanatical and stupid that they ignored his terrible self, and of course the FBI who were in Trump’s pocket helping him out.
Russia? Trump looking to build relationships rather than fight? Dreadful says the BBC. How times change when they have spent the last 8 years praising Obama for his refusal to engage in world affairs with any forcefulness….an Obama who let Iran off the hook, allowed them to develop nukes faster, gave them billions of dollars and stopped sanctions……an Iran wich has nothing but hate for the West and in particular Israel….and an Obama who’s refusal to stand strong has led to Syria imploding and millions of immigrants heading to Europe.
Trump is getting the Thatcher treatment and will now have to deal not only with a hostile world but also a very hostile Media. The BBC spent years vilifying Thatcher, building a anti-Thatcher legend that she destroyed industry, the mines and welfare…the truth is she, not the EU, rebuilt the country and set it back on course. A similar negative legend is already in progress for Trump as they predict the end of the world under his rule.
The nice Alan Bennet got a lot of airtme over the last weeks on the BBC…a couple of weeks doing ‘Book of The Week’….he told us that Thatcher radicalised him [not years of a country being destroyed by a Labour Party in cahoots with Soviet funded Unions set on industrial and political sabotage?] and that she had no sense of humour..she was inhuman, a mirthless bully who deserved to be buried in the dark of the night. Charming. Gotta love these liberal luvvies…so forgiving and merciful.
Funny how mass murdering Muslim terrorists are almost celebrated by lefty ‘liberals’, definitely excused their murderous rampages because they feel a bit out of sorts with the world, but a right-wing politician should be buried in the dark of the night?…and probably shot first as the oh so liberal Hilary Mantell might dream about.
Ed West in the Spectator spells out the truth..that Liberals themselves created Trump and UKIP by ignoring what people really want and think….trying to force them to believe in the Bubble….decades of hate against white people, their history and politics….
Essentially his message is that extreme multiculturalism, identity politics and diversity leads to massive distrust and a breakdown in a unified society.
West articulates what Alan Bennett has shown to be true…
The more utopian dreams fail the more virulent its believers tend to become towards opponents, but it doesn’t solve the existential contradictions. As a child, I remember a superpower tried changing human nature to create a paradise on earth; that didn’t work out too well.
Thatcher, the eternal liberal hate figure, now joined by Trump in the luvvies’ pantheon of hate.