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Now there's a slightly larger picture. And you also saw that the Reuters poll had shown a crossover where the generic Republican now beats the generic Democrat in a poll, which I believe is probably deeply related to the Kanye and Candace effect, more Candace I think. I would give her more credit for being the intellectual spark that caused all this. There does seem to be a big movement, if it pr…
← Previous segment →But here's what I think is the big big picture maybe and maybe a turning point. I'm probably getting over my skis a little bit here because I tend to skew optimistic. So I'm gonna give you a piece of optimism that you know is not quite as certain. But it seems to me that when we had this situation where the president called MS-13 animals and the entire world watched as that was first taken out of context to paint him as a racist and then slowly because it just became obvious that's not what he was talking about, that he was talking about a gang, I believe that's the first time that his critics, wait for it, saw behind the curtain.
Right, because when the Charlottesville hoax happened his critics bought into it completely. They actually, the critics of President Trump, literally believed he was talking about the actual white supremacists as good people.
Now anybody who's listened to anything I've said or who was not predisposed to think that knows that he was talking about both sides of the statue question. Yes there are good people who want the statues taken away. He doesn't agree with them. And there are good people who want to keep the statues just for historical reasons, not because they're racist. That's what the president said.
But who could hear that? Well only the people who already believed that's who he was. Such as me.
When he was asked later can you explain these comments are you saying white supremacists are good people he said clearly and unambiguously no I'm disavowing that group that's not what I was talking about.
So Charlottesville and many of the other things such as calling Judge Curiel Mexican and talking about rapists coming across the border, when his supporters hear those things they say things like well he's not talking about every Mexican and he's just saying there's too much crime coming. That could not be more obvious.
But his haters can't hear that. You know they just hear I think you must think Mexicans are very rapey. And when they hear him call Judge Curiel Mexican his supporters hear Mexican heritage obviously and that is a legitimate question about bias in a legal context which is what it was because you always ask those questions in the legal context.
But when we got to this animals thing this one once it was put back in context it was a lot more obvious that the media had tried to screw him. And I think that was the first time that even his critics could see it. All those other things were sort of invisible in their confirmation bias and you know they just read them the way they read them.
But when it got to the animals part that's the first time they could see both movies at the same time. They could see why people said he wasn't saying animals and they could see the people who thought that he was talking about them and they could see why they saw it clearly for the first time.
So we could be on the edge of something big in terms of the way people are thinking about it.
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Now the reason I jumped on this Periscope is I was watching Jake Tapper's show on CNN just a moment ago and they were talking about this so-called Gang of Eight meeting in which the Democrats and the Republicans, mostly Republicans in this case, were going to be put in a room and they were going to look at some top-secret information and they were going to get to the next level about what's happen…
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