Not a problem unique to Trump, but combination of his vague, rambling style & vitriolic opponents makes him oft-misquoted. In this particular example, the most charitable thing you could say is that he communicated with terrible sloppiness in a deeply sensitive situation.https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1108798381516902401 …
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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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You should be able to say "
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It’s a cognitive dissonance. Crank knows Trump meant to praise the white power crowd but if he acknowledges it then he has to admit the Republican Party, the conservative movement that loves Trump, does too.
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If you can't understand what he says, I can't help you. I often hear myself repeating to the NBC/ABC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC screen...."That's not what he said". Then I hear my wife say, "They can't hear you".
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Yeah, he's not the smooth, lying, use-big-words & precious, thoughtful pauses, like his predecessor.
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He appeals to white supremacists. They like him. From Trump’s standpoint its success. The problem of being a nominally anti-racist pro-Republican but anti-Trump is that you have twist yourself into a pretzel to pretend Trump isn’t a bigot.
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