Trump steps on his own big law and order speech

Well, there are people who decide what is and what isn't the big story of the day.

So I suppose they actually stepped on it.

The speech - actually, a very good speech, and I am totally on his side on the law and order issue - should have been the big news, today.

Democrats didn't care for it and mocked him for delivering an appeal for black votes in a 95% white suburb, but had he gone to 40% black Milwaukee the rioters would have gone wild and these same Democrats would have blamed Trump for it.

I haven't seen it, but I'm sure someone out there has written it was a racist appeal for white votes cynically - and thinly, in view of where he actually gave the speech - disguised as an appeal for black votes.

But it was a very responsible and very mainstream conservative speech, with his usual paleocon/Buchananite defections from the dominant, Wall Street variety of conservatism, delivered in a responsible and professional manner if this transcript is actually what he said, and all of what he said.

Not a hint of the bluster of Il Duce, in other words, though of course he gives Hillary and the Democrats a bum rap whenever he mentions them.

Well, nearly whenever he mentions them.

There was a lot of fairly standard, boiler-plate Republicanism in the speech, as well as his Buchananism on immigration and trade.

And much outsider, rigged system talk that often sounded a lot like Bernie damning the corrupt Democrats, their servitude to corporate America, and corrupt Hillary.

Well, with maybe a whiff of The Duce, in those parts, too, where he ran vigorously against the system, the entire establishment, the establishment media, Washington, the donor class, the corporate and political elites, and pretty much everyone and everything that runs America.

Except the Republic and the Constitution, themselves - crucial exceptions that mark an equally crucial difference - one among many, and the others also crucial - between the US populist demagogue and the actual Italian Fascist.

[Aside: 

Odd echoes. 

Trump, speaking of pretty much everyone of power and influence: "I wear their opposition as a badge of honor." 

FDR, speaking in 1936 of "the old enemies of peace: business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering": "They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred." 

Update. 

Some opponents at the time thought of FDR and his New Deal as fascist in inspiration and tendency.

Just a thought that popped into my head, for some reason. 

/Aside.]

It was a brilliant and powerful, well-crafted speech with nothing in it of Trump the clown, the bomb-thrower, the provocateur, or the ignoramus.

(Who wrote it, I wonder? Couldn't possibly have been Trump.)

And had it been the headline story this morning it could have done him a lot of good.

But it's not.

The shakeup is.

P.S.

The old Hillary, the Hillary the left excoriates for "mass incarceration," could have given the parts of Trump's speech about crime, policing, and rioting with little or no change.

The post-Bernie Hillary cannot win without mass black turnout and therefore must have solid support from Barack Obama.

But the president is as convinced, or nearly so, as any black American, including almost to a man the black political and cultural leadership, that every failure, slight, and bad thing that happens to black people in America, especially if at the hands of the police, is manifest, egregious, and vicious racism.

Even black police, commonly viewed as race traitors by black America, a fact Hollywood seems to see.

Consider what happened in Milwaukee, where the black man shot was a criminal who fled into a dead end and then pulled an illegal gun on the young, black cop who had pursued him.

That black policeman is now the object of the fury of the black mob and is in danger of being killed.

His situation is much worse than the one faced by black detective inspector Terry English, played by Taye Diggs, in very similar events covered in episodes 2 and 3 of this season of Murder in the First.

So Hillary cannot kick #BLM and the supporters of the riot ideology in the chops, as she might very well like to do.

P.P.S.

The sworn and instinctive enemy of PC nevertheless totally refuses to put the blame where it belongs for phenomena typical of crime ridden and ruined inner city black neighborhoods, displacing it with conventional mendacity onto the schools.

Even Trump does not dare defy some conventions.

I doubt he actually believes what he is saying, a good deal of the time.

Much like any other politician, then.

Anyway, the solutions he offers to school failure are standard conservative stuff.

Charter schools, union busting, and the like.

P.P.P.S.

"Doesn't have the temperament."

They said that about John McCain, whom they depicted as a real life Clint Eastwood shouting "Get off my lawn."

And they mocked him for crashing three times.

"Can't trust him with the codes."

Goldwater.

And Reagan, too, I think.

Maybe others.

They've been screaming racism since Nixon and the "Southern Strategy" in 1968 (Nixon was an early supporter of the civil rights movement), and maybe even since Goldwater.