Problem is the statement *taken in its context*: a rally obviously organized & peopled by white nationalists. If there were fine people in the crowd, they should have known better & the president shouldn't have spent political or moral capital on them. https://twitter.com/JasonHornbuckle/status/1108827007725551617 …
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Presidential communication is important, one of the strongest tools of the modern presidency. It has political, moral, & diplomatic power. Trump has exceeded expectations in some areas of the job, but beyond his genius for trolling, he's almost uniformly failed at communication.
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A good political communicator doesn't have to be highbrow, but you have to be clear and not make the other side's job easy. You see a white nationalist rally, you lead with that being bad & don't try to parse out who wasn't there to sign on with the organizers.
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Trying to do otherwise isn't just muddying a moral message the nation needed to hear, it's also handing your adversaries a political cudgel. There's a reason Trump's approval ratings have never been lower than after Charlottesville.
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As I said at the time, you could assemble a perfectly good response to Charlottesville from stuff Trump actually said. But it was scattered haphazardly across several attempts over several days, with unforced errors thrown in. That's why it was a failure.
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Trump isn't going to change how he communicates. He is who he is. Some of the things he does are effective, but even supporters of his presidency can all learn from his mistakes rather than try to pretend they either don't matter or don't exist.
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Everyone on the one side of the rally we as either a neo-nazi, or someone willing to March arm to arm with neo-nazis. You cannot distinguish them out into separate groups.
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It was a white supremacist rally - everyone there was a person who wanted to be at a white supremacist rally. Please explain which were "very fine people".
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This is a thing Trump does he praises white supremacists in one breath and then the opposite.
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