And there went out another horse that was orange: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
So just how good was Donald Trump's speech last night at the Republican convention in Cleveland? Perhaps the best way to judge that is to analyze the liberal reaction. And from reading the over the top panicked editorial from the Washington Post, Donald Trump: The candidate of the apocalypse, his speech must have been so incredibly effective as to inspire such a level of liberal panic that it reached the heights of unintentional hilarity. Before we read the Washington Post editorial that comes across as self-parody, please watch the following Trump Apocalypse video to put yourselves in the proper mood:
Belligerent and erratic, Mr. Trump nevertheless has a serious chance to win in November. In his acceptance speech, he sought to enhance his political prospects the only way he knows how: by inflaming public angst, so as to exploit it.
Mr. Trump took real challenges and recast them in terms that were not only exaggerated but also apocalyptic.
...Perhaps politically effective because of their simplicity, Mr. Trump’s now-familiar formulations would fail as actual policies — because they are simplistic.
Um, would you mind telling us how the unsimplistic, incredibly complex Obamacare is not failing as an actual policy?
As for law and order, the president has at most indirect influence over thousands of law enforcement agencies across the country. To the extent it can be taken seriously at all, Mr. Trump’s assertion that “safety will be restored” on the day of his inauguration implies a vast federalization of a traditional state and local function, contrary to long-standing law and custom...
Rather than make a long stretch to extrapolate a policy that Trump hasn't proposed, perhaps the Washington Post might take note of who really desires to federalize local police.
Mr. Trump began his speech by presenting himself as the bearer of painful but necessary truth. And no doubt, for many of his listeners, his words expressed a deeply felt emotional reality. There is real fear in the land; real pain. But it will take real leadership, not the wishful, demagogic brand Mr. Trump embodied Thursday night, to address this.
Leadership provided by the one branded as a serial liar by the FBI director? As you can guess, the Washington Post vision of the Trump Apocalypse was the target of much mockery from its readers.
More antiTrump catastrophe rhetoric from WaPo. Why is Bezos so scared of him?
It's fun watching the media's heads explode over Trump. They've dropped their mask and it's hilarious.
The mainstream media didn't expect Donald Trump to do as well as he did last night. And they looked ridiculous after the speech was over. They were speechless, like how do we criticize this without looking biased.
Wow! Trump gives a speech in which he gives a litany of facts showing America in decline. The WaPo disputes NONE of the facts, yet blames TRUMP for pointing them out.
When writing about Trump the Post's most common words are Fascist, demagogue, racist, xenophobe, divisive, and ugly. It all sound like 36 years ago when Democrats and MSM went right to work on trying to reinforce the darkest images that they could conjure about Reagan – that he would be a trigger-happy commander in chief, as well as a leader who was oblivious to the needs of the disenfranchised.
Exit question: By early November will we be entertained by an End of Times Washington Post editorial?
