I look at them, I say, ‘That’s elite?’ We got more money, we got more brains, we got better houses, apartments, we got nicer boats, we’re smarter than they are, and they say they’re elite? We’re the elite. I meet these people – they call them ‘the elite.’ These people. Here’s one particularly telling riff on that front from 2018: Trump’s entire 2016 (and 2020) campaign was built on the notion that elites were out to screw the average (White) guy. “The World Trade Center came down during his watch.” “He shouldn’t be lecturing us about anything,” Trump said in a statement released via his Save America PAC. Trump, proving he never learns anything, released a statement bashing Bush on Monday. (Sidebar: The greatest trick Trump ever played on the American electorate was that he, a child of privilege who spent his entire adult life in New York City and who made his reputation on high-end luxury, was somehow the voice of the shrinking of the White working man.) He aimed his message of victimhood directly at a White Americans barely clinging on to their dreams of being the middle class and said a) I understand you b) it’s not your fault and c) it’s the “elites” fault. Trump understood from the jump that there was (and is) power in stoking resentments and anger. And he has done so for a simple and selfish reason: Pure political self-interest. Since emerging as a candidate in the summer of 2015, Trump has spent his time and energy desperately trying to weaponize that which divides us. THE POINT - NOW ON YOUTUBE! In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. If you have been alive and living on Planet Earth for the last 5 or so years, you know exactly who Bush is talking about with those words. That leaves us worried about our nation and our future together.”īush didn’t say Trump’s name there. ![]() ![]() So much of our politics has become a naked appeal to anger, fear and resentment. A malign force seems at work in our common life that turns every disagreement into an argument, and every argument into a clash of cultures. When it comes to the unity of America, those days seem distant from our own. “In the weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks, I was proud to lead an amazing, resilient, united people. Bush gave the speech at the Shanksville, Pennsylvania, site where Flight 93 was brought down – thanks to the heroics of the passengers who revolted against their hijackers. The man who was president during the attacks of September 11, 2001, used a speech commemorating the 20th anniversary of that terrible day to call out the “malign force” coursing through the country thanks to the presidency (and post-presidency) of Donald Trump and offered an alternative vision for his party and the country.
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