Donald Trump's Red Meat Political Philosophy
Though he’s nowhere near as rich as he pretends to be, Donald Trump is nevertheless wealthy enough that he could eat nothing but the finest haute cuisine the world has to offer for the rest of his life if he so desired, real four star Michelin fare.
Yet Trump famously chooses not to eat food that can reasonably be considered “good” or “healthy” or “non-garbage” in favor of a maddeningly non-fatal diet of nothing but artery-clogging fast food from the likes of McDonald’s and KFC.
It’s one of many ways in which Trump can profess to have the tastes of a common man despite being an Ivy League-educated son of millionaire and former most powerful man in the world.
Despite a world-class education, Trump has a powerful connection to the un-educated, un-cultured, un-curious masses because he himself is un-cultured, un-curious and would sooner consent to getting kicked in the nuts for eternity than read a book for pleasure.
Name a more iconic duo!
It makes sense that Trump loves red meat because that’s his political philosophy as well: tossing out juicy, irresistible red meat to his cultists in the form of an endless series of catchphrases, chants and slogans, all designed to whip the base into a mindless frenzy of hate and hero worship.
We all know the endlessly repeated catch-phrases. When Trump was running for president in 2016 it was all about “Lock her up!” and “Build a wall!”
Trump and his evil minions diligently socialized his followers to react to those noxious buzz words with the mindless enthusiasm of a Saturday Night Live audience hooting and hollering at the big catchphrase of the hottest recurring character.
The disgraced, twice-impeached ex-president trotted out new catchphrases at a rapid clip throughout his presidency and then once he was defeated in the 2020 election.
It was all about FAKE NEWS and the RUSSIA HOAX and STOP THE STEAL and SLEEPY JOE and ELECTION FRAUD and STOP CANCEL CULTURE.
As long as Greene vouches for him, he’s okay in my book!
It’s such a lazy, foolproof formula that it does not require Donald Trump’s presence in order to work smashingly.
I recently read about a rally that Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene, two of Trump’s most deplorable hellspawn, held at The Villages.
Gaetz and Greene are easily two of the most hated politicians in the world, both in the sense that Progressives and Republicans of conscience despise them with a white-hot burning passion and see them as damning evidence of cultural de-evolution AND they’re famously hated by their fellow Congresspeople, who resent having to be part of their sordid, stupid freak show. Yet all these evil dullards have to do to be loved by Trump’s base is gush about his greatness and recycle his catch-phrases and buzzwords.
The Villages is a famously pro-Trump retirement community in Florida that got the ex-President into trouble when he re-tweeted a brief clip of a resident waxing rhapsodic about the Celebrity Apprentice host, not realizing that it also contained the phrase “White power!” being shouted loud and proud.
It was a quintessential case of saying the quiet part out loud. The Villages’ Trump worship positively screams “White power!” But being associated with the actual phrase itself was too much even for a white supremacist like Trump, who deleted the tweet, professing not to realize that, in addition to pro-Trump sentiments, it also contained an enthusiastic endorsement of white power.
(Clint Eastwood in In the Line of Fire voice) That’s not gonna happen!
Gaetz is of course fighting for his political life as news of Venmo payments to underage girls he may or may not be paying for sex dominate the news cycle. Greene is notorious as perhaps the single most ignorant, hateful and narcissistic member of Congress.
Green’s persona is a dumb, hateful white lady who derives way too much pride in being dumb, hateful and white. The idiot wing of the GOP likes to think of her as Lex Luthor to AOC’s Superman but she’s more like Bizarro, without the muddled good intentions.
These half-wits should be hiding from the world out of richly merited shame. Instead they’re essentially holding a Donald Trump rally without Donald Trump at a time when their political capital and currency are at all-time lows.
It shouldn’t work at all yet it seems to have gone over like gangbusters with a crowd powerfully nostalgic for a MAGA age that has barely ended yet thankfully already seems to belong to the distant past.
All Gaetz and Greene have to do to inspire a Trumpian frenzy in the Villages crowd was trot out all the old catch-phrases along with the new, knowing that the brainwashed masses will hoot and holler and jeer for every invocation of a “stolen” election and laud paranoid jibber-jabber about back-stabbing “RINOS” and Communism-loving Leftist extremists.
Greene and Gaetz realize that they don’t have to say anything of substance when they can follow in their God’s footsteps and simply toss out red meat to a crowd that is positively salivating for whatever cynical, pandering garbage they have to offer. They just need to lovingly recycle his claims of having a “sacred” landslide election stolen by BLM-loving Antifa Far Left Socialist extremists.
At the end of the article about Greene and Gaetz’s rally at The Villages, it quotes Gaetz promising the amped-up crowd that the fight had only just begun, and just as Trump promised, there would be so much winning that people would get tired of winning.
It’s an ironic statement considering that Trump recently lost the presidency, and then something in the area of 60 electoral challenges and played a big role in ensuring that the GOP lost the Senate and Congress. Oh, and he also lost his Twitter account and was de-platformed extensively elsewhere.
If that’s winning I can’t even imagine what losing would look like.
Gaetz teased that he and Greene would be doing more dual events, possibly with Donald J. Trump as a special guest. It’s doubtful that even Trump would be stupid and self-destructive to throw in his lot with two of the most embarrassing human beings (let alone Republicans) ever to walk the earth at a time when they’re even more radioactive than he is.
In a sense, it does not matter: no crowd of MAGA-loving Trump worshipers could resist the red meat of him heading back on the road to entertain the masses and bring joy and life and hope back to their lives, whether that’s a real possibility or merely a deluded politician’s impossible fantasy.
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