It is so amazing to
me that these celebrities still have not caught on to the fact that
denouncing Trump like this plays right into his hands.
Streep criticizes
Trump. Not one person who supports Trump is convinced to
switch sides. In fact it energizes his supporters more than
progressives. This is because people emotionally respond more to
negative feelings such as outrage. You see this on Twitter all the
time. Progressives feel a small boost when someone like Streep speaks
out against Trump. Trump supporters, by contrast, are outraged
– they rally immediately, they're all over Facebook, Youtube,
everywhere, all ready to respond to a perceived attack.
While Streep is
preaching to a choir in a church that is losing members, Trump gets
to play the embattled underdog. Trump, a billionaire and the most
powerful man on the planet, still plays politics like he's got a chip
on his shoulder – always responding, always angry. It is the same
thing that makes Tom Brady great (and I hate saying that as New
Yorker and a Jets fan). Four Superbowl rings and the guy still plays
angry – still has that hunger to prove everyone wrong about his
late round drafting. Trump is the same way. It is him against the
world. The outsider taking on 'The System'. Moderates and
independents love that narrative. When they see someone getting
dogpiled on, they feel an urge to give the guy a chance. Even some
liberals soften toward him. So Trump gets two benefits from being
attacked by Streep; his base is energized and he wins over more
centrists and undecideds. Meanwhile Streep and the Hollywood left
think they are actually hurting Trump somehow.
Trump just sits back
and laughs. Another out of touch Hollywood liberal wagging their
finger at America. It plays right into his narrative. He could just
watch and enjoy it, but no, he pours gasoline on it. He calls Meryl
Streep overrated. Meryl Streep, Hollywood royalty, a woman with more
awards and nominations than anyone can count, a woman Trump himself
has complimented in the past – he calls her overrated. If
you know anything about trolling you would recognize this as obvious
bait. But
other celebrities like George Clooney fall for it. They all have to
react, on Twitter, in TV interviews, everywhere.
It's awards season.
One tweet from Trump and we are guaranteed months of wealthy celebrities in fancy clothes
lecturing America from some Hollywood podium about how evil Trump is. It should work about as
well as all those celebrity Youtube videos, first telling people to
vote for Hillary Clinton, then telling the electoral college to
disregard the will of their constituents, and finally, demanding
congress resist the president elect. Breitbart and the alt-right
crowd will have tons of material to play the 'out of touch coastal
bubble elitists' card to convert normies who are becoming less and
less scared of openly supporting Trump.
I just don't
understand how they can't see what is going on. All these Hollywood
leftists and journalists with this vision of Trump as a bungling,
thin-skinned clown are completely out of their depth. This idea that
he's just on the toilet rifling off tweets thoughtlessly is absurd. I guarantee you every single tweet he puts out is vetted by advisors like Steve Bannon for maximum strategic effect. It is classic 4D chess. This is how
Trump, the joke candidate, outmaneuvered the richest and most
powerful American political dynasty in history, while simultaneously
battling a heavily biased media and his own party.
And they still
underestimate him.
smh
