DAVID MARCUS: President Trump, master of incendiary common sense

In his recent successful presidential campaign and in his first month in power, President Donald Trump He used an extremely effective rhetorical device that can best be described as a “flammable common sense”.

The clearest example from the race and where it became the clearest, they were the infamous allegation that Haitian migrants in Springfield in Ohi were Eat cats and dogs. There was a three -step procedure in the game.

First, the liberals were absolutely crazy, calling Trump racist, even suggesting that this could happen. After I went to Springfield, the truth of the request remains unconvincing to me, but that didn’t matter, because Step 2 really reported on what was just going on in Springfield.

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Finally, Step 3 came when the American people wondered, “Well, why did we think that the rejection of 20,000 haitian migrants in the city of 50,000 was a good idea?”

Obviously it was a terrible idea, as I learned from the residents there, who never asked for it.

When the fires of anger extinguished and the smoke was cleaned, Trump was sitting on the high soil of common sense. Suddenly Democrats had to try to defend something irrefutable.

Now we see how something similar is going with Doge. Initially, Trump’s White House leaned against the idea that Elon Musk and his cheerful boy of the boy Genius Coderes would guide rough because of state spending. This led directly to the scream and howling about how Musk is an unimiled autocrat or a true president.

But once again, by the time the screaming fades, Americans are left wondering why they finance trans theatrical companies in Ireland or organizations that actively censorship American citizens through agencies like USAIDs.

Once again, Trump lands on the side of common sense.

For another example, take Trump’s referral to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “Governor of Canada”. Snark attracted everyone’s attention, and when he was worn out, we stayed with very real and common sense why our trade relationship with a neighbor in the north is so unbalanced.

What Trump manages to do, from time to time, is to frame the issue of common sense in a way that is so offensive to democrats or seem so exaggerated or ridiculous, that they cannot resist the attack on it because of it.

Common sense is a very ancient concept. Aristotle refers to this in their deeds on rhetoric, insisting that public speakers have a responsibility for resolving wide views. “Usually” does not mean usual here, it means sharing.

Later, philosophers would claim that common sense is a mechanism by which our five discrete senses creates our reality. Others think of it like what we all just know without thinking too much about it.

But of all things that are common sense or not, one thing that has a tendency is a bit boring. How interesting is it to say something that 80% of people already take for granted?

Here, the flammable common sense becomes important. What Trump manages to do, from time to time, is to frame the issue of common sense in a way that is so offensive to democrats or seem so exaggerated or ridiculous, that they cannot resist the attack on it because of it.

Trump is not the first important American to use tactics of flammable common sense; That honor would go to Thomas Paine, whose pamphlet entitled with these two words helped set up the flames of the American Revolution.

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Paine applied the rules to a common sense of freedom and freedom with such a flammable rhetoric and such a strong call to action, that even those cautious rebellions had no choice but to take it.

And here we are again.

Paine wrote:

Perhaps the feelings contained on the following pages are not yet enough to get them in general; The long habit of not thinking that something is wrong, gives her a superficial look to be right and raises an incredible annoyance in defense of customs. But Tumult is going soon. Time makes more converts than reason.

Indeed, time turned Paine’s grateful offspring and welcome for the strict accounting Trump is ready to give our government.

But let’s not be too sharp in this accounting. We only keep our concerns for the poor and bitter. Conservatives, including me, have long sought this power and to conquer it well.

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My grandfather fought in World War II. He never had to go to college, but he went through three children, and when I was in a preparatory school, he told me, “God has done you smart. You have not earned it. Never use it against people who don’t have one.”

Donald Trump, Thomas Paine and my grandfather, everyone really said the same thing. Use common sense and be loud about when you have to. And always use it for those who need it.

We haven’t had common sense for some time. If Trump has to set some fires to bring it back, all for it.

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