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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 21 Mar 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Mollie

      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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      MollieVerified account @MZHemingway
      I have personally witnessed how difficult it is for smart, thoughtful people to accept what Trump actually said, instead of what they "remember" him saying, but it's really important that we speak accurately here and criticize for real things, not fake. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/21/trump_didnt_call_neo-nazis_fine_people_heres_proof_139815.html …
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 21 Mar 2019

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      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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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 21 Mar 2019

      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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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 21 Mar 2019

          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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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 21 Mar 2019

          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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        4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 21 Mar 2019

          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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        5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 21 Mar 2019

          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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        2. Eric Rothschild‏ @rothschild_eric 21 Mar 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          You should be able to say "@MZHemingway argument is freakin' ridiculous and she should be ashamed" in one tweet, not three--see how easily I just did it. I could say it twice.

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        3. Michael Snow Tires On My S2000 Cohen‏ @mdcohen 21 Mar 2019
          Replying to @rothschild_eric @baseballcrank @MZHemingway

          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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        1. Roux‏ @rouxdsla 21 Mar 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          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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        1. Cyclops‏ @ScottTBrower1 21 Mar 2019
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          Yeah, he's not the smooth, lying, use-big-words & precious, thoughtful pauses, like his predecessor.

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        1. Michael Snow Tires On My S2000 Cohen‏ @mdcohen 21 Mar 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          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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