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How Are News Magazines Accepting President Trump?
The Kübler-Ross model lists the stages of grief as Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. To check where in this process the left finds itself, I perused the covers of several news magazines. Here are some results.
Since it took the media about three months to hit Anger, I’m expecting Depression to be a serious concern by fall. Invest in pharmaceutical companies.
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I really thought, before the election, that if Trump won, world leaders would be falling all over themselves to meet him–he’s a celebrity, after all! But now I’m afraid they despise us Americans so much(witness the lines from TLS I quoted in #28) that the poor guy will literally be pelted with excrement if he goes to Europe!
They loved Obama, because he ALSO despises Americans; his very appearance a rebuke to us, his constant references to “our” arrogance a soothing balm to these has-been principalities. They hate Trump because he embodies revitalization of the America to which they owe SO MUCH.
I have to say: I’m grateful to the author of the OP for collecting these images. So: Trump has a thin skin? This puts paid to THAT trope: if he did, the offices of The New Yorker, Harpers,and The Village would be rubble by now…
@Hypatia, it’s a bit of a misrepresentation. It’s really the Germans that hate him, and Germany thinks it speaks for the whole of Europe.
world war 3 might end up being the same old movie as the first two.
On the other hand, I have a feeling already that Trump will set up good working relationships with the parts of East Asia that aren’t China. They were clearly getting quite infuriated with Obamas sermonising and weakness.
Have you seen Japans proposal to fund American infrastructure projects with its own pensions? And I don’t know if that will work out, but they’re very pragmatic people the Japanese, I think they’ll respond well to a businessman president. No SJW bleeding-heart scruples for them:
I guess it’s time to repurpose a joke from the George W Bush era:
Q: What’s the difference between Bush/Trump and Hitler?
A: The Germans liked Hitler.
Just before the election I had to put my mind into a state of reconciliation with Clinton’s presidency, reminding myself that God was sovereign and I still had a wonderful life. I knew a constant state of anger and anxiety would hurt only me.
So what is it with these people? Perhaps we are seeing the endgame of moral relativism—what is right is what I want!
Well I will say one thing for the Japanese and that is after the big tsunami they did not wait around to start cleaning up the mess. Unlike the citizens of New Orleans, that waited for help Japanese citizens got to work. They may have criticized their government, but that didn’t stop them from trying to solve their own problems.
Well done sir. I was starting to collect the same cover images, but your psycho spin is much better than I could have devised.
Their idiocy is the best gift they could possibly have given to Trump, and its done much to heal the bitter divide within the anti-Left coalition; I hope they stick with it for awhile longer.
Keep it going. You will need it in the months ahead.
I look at these covers and think of Psalm 139:22…
I remember reading somewhere that we politically repeat about every 30 or 60 years, but I have just realized that this is 1920. We have just elected Warren G. Harding. Who better after our modern Woodrow Wilson?
Part of my work for Michael P. Ramirez is searching for relevant essays to place on pages that feature his cartoons. 6 months ago, all I had to do was look up key words that related to the subject matter of the cartoon, say, “Obama”, “drive-thru” & “diplomacy”, and I’d find articles from all kinds of different sources, including Townhall, National Review, Heritage, etc. The more negatively charged, the better. I always found interesting, new conservative bloggers that way too.
About a month or so ago, all that abruptly changed. It’s become increasingly difficult to find any conservative essays by doing this kind of search. Google now shows lots of articles from Huff Puff, Time, TheAtlantic, PBS, CNN, even Mother Jones; many quite old, and not really useful, as if the views from the right has simply been expunged before google displayed the results. I’m not saying it’s a conspiracy, or that National Review and others are absent because of a new algorithm, but it sure seems like it.
There are other search engines and even search aggregators.
Hah, I read that the article inside makes the case against, not for, assassination. That is why there is no question mark on the cover. It’s not a question, but an affirmation. Good way I suppose to get some attention without getting into too much trouble.
Jon, it’s true these are left-ish magazines (I would say center left for the Economist) but they are not necessarily always wrong. Even your adversary sometimes speaks the truth.
The Left ultimately always gets what it wants. They always win in the long run on the big issues that really matter to them. That’s why all these temper tantrums they have just leave me depressed. There’s just this feeling they are going to scream like a spoiled child until they get what they want. And they will. For example, Does anyone really believe that a strong immigration policy of extreme vetting will become the new norm? No, it will be watered down or thrown out by courts until the tantrum stops.
Let’s not forget that we have an influential element here in the USA who are Republicans and conservatives that have propagated the idea that Trump is especially vile and therefore fair game. They have effectively shut down avenues for defense of the man. High school bullying. Defenders are ridiculed because Trump is going to appoint his sister to the Supreme Court, he hates Mexicans and called them all rapists and is on record saying something gauche about women etc.
Well I guess this is why we should have elected Hillary because Trump ‘represents’ us and all of our values. Just like before in our internal disputes. Now we all ou find ourselves defending him on all kinds of crazy charges even when we don’t want to and would like to focus on the issues – the real issues that face our nation and the world. One simply cannot say “he’s really not so bad” to these people without getting mocked and dismissed. So I say with some sadness, welcome to the club.
You might say, well now it’s really over the top, but I hope you might be able to garner some small retroactive sympathy for his earlier defenders who had a lower tolerance for rampant misinformation and abject demonization, and also perhaps have some introspection on how this Trump hatred got so far off the rails.
And remember, the persona is proxy. They are globalists. They want their share of America. Pure self-interest. Choose sides.
So much is being illuminated and it’s quite ugly. This is the family Thanksgiving dinner that finally exploded after keeping Mom’s drinking problem, Dad’s affair, brother’s drug-dealing and sister’s serial boyfriends out of polite conversation for so many years. Now it’s all out on the table.
So this is Europe’s globalist tantrum, left, right and center. They were blindsided by Brexit, and now this!
I particularly object to their using our President (whoever he is) and one of our iconic monuments and a jihadi image all on one cover. This proves they know nothing of us and should stay out of our affairs.
Nationalism is looking better and better to me now.
Big middle finger shout out to Der Spiegel. That’s your mirror, Gemany, look into it again.
Arahant
could you do a post on that?
I agree. Remember the silly “sit in” the Dems did a year or so ago? They carried themselves with this false air of gravity that just barely covered their giddiness at having the chance to speak truth to power, or some such. The media were practically drunk on their excitement to cover such a historic exhibition of strength and heroism. Of course, today, I can’t remember what it was they were protesting and just remember it looking like a bunch of overgrown kindergartners with their thumbs in their mouths proud that they could sit criss-cross applesauce so well.
I gave up on crooked Google a long time ago. Try Bing. Some of the “I’m better than you” Internet types will make fun of you, but the reality is that it is a much better search engine. It will take you about a week to get used to seeing REAL results, but now I will never go back. Google shows you the results based on who paid them the most advertising revenue.
Switching your search engine will change your Internet experience.
Why are you surprised ? This was predictable, and was predicted in the comments at Ricochet.
The Leftists in mass media were happy to circulate NeverTrump conservatives. They were fêted and celebrated; their columns were given prominent places and they were interviewed on all the shows.
It was obvious that they were tools. They were of much higher value to Team Hillary than Hillary was.
http://ricochet.com/archives/nevertrump-is-good-for-the-pundit-bidness/
Right on. What really surprised me about this election was that the Hillary team didn’t use quotes from the Republican debates! I mean, all the candidates were just trashing Trump non-stop during the debates, saying really awful things (and vice-versa, of course) and the DNC could have made dozens of political ads featuring nothing but those quotes.
I’m glad they didn’t, though.
Was in the bookstore last night, and was glad I quit subscribing to Time and Newsweek years ago.
I thought of that incident too, but you’re right, I couldn’t remember what the issue was.
I hope and pray that you, and the others here who’ve voiced faith that these antics will only turn people against them and heal the divisions on the Right, prove to be correct. ButI’m scared. God bless, preserve and guide our new President.
There doesn’t seem to be much interest now in disputing overstatements like this. Even I’m ready to throw in the towel and just occasionally pop off (like now). There is no excuse for the magazine covers that are the actual topic of this thread, and attempting to tie them–even by implication– to principled opposition to Trump (which arose during the primaries BTW) is just wrong. I suppose it’s OK to continue to misrepresent some of the arguments against Trump in service of the cause, but the Trump loyalist victimization thing also could and should die a slow death.
I have completely divorced myself from left leaning media. They are fake news as far as I’m concerned. Their hysteria is not a surprise. I think Trump gets under their skin more than other Republicans. Trump is so anti elitist that there is no common ground. Conservative elitist at least have a common basis of being in the same milieu as leftist elitists.
By the way, I would not have classified The New Yorker as a news publication. I know they do some news but I wold have thought it was still a literary magazine. But I haven’t opened one in quite a while.
Let me speak for the NeverTrumpers. I commented above that I oppose this type of demeaning cartoon, and the snide attitude it represents. I will bend over backward, as a conservative, to give Trump the benefit of the doubt, to support him when he does the right thing. But no man in history is less deserving of loyalty from Republicans than Donald Trump. It reminds me of OJ Simpson garnering the solidarity of Black Americans after murdering his wife, what did he do for Black America before that? Trump refused to support any nominee other than himself,he refused to foreclose his option to run third party and throw the election to Hillary… He hasn’t earned our support.
On the other hand, at least three of the other republican candidates who did “take the pledge” to support the nominee, whoever it was, failed to do so.