It will go down in history as the “Bah! Humbug!” address.
But this was not an address by a self-confident man dishing out Christmas presents to the nation. It smacked of desperation from one who can feel the December windchill of opinion polls – a Reuters/ Ipsos poll on Tuesday showed just 33% of US adults approve of how Trump has handled the economy – dissent in his own Republican ranks and the Jeffrey Epstein files looming on Friday.
The speech also revealed Trump’s need for a reliable foil. Over the years Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been useful nemeses for a man and movement defined less by what they are for than what they are against.
Most people aren’t watching.
The only people who even tune into these speeches or watch them in their entirety are people who have direct stake in the political “tone” in our country, IE: grifters and pundits and twitter clip-farmers. And of course, a small segment of people who actually care about our future and understand how important politics are.
But if you want to see just how bad it is, make a political comment in a large gaming subreddit or forum.
This is all by design too, it’s a ploy from the KGB handbook from 50 years ago, that you can destabilize a nation by making both sides of every issue so contentious, stupid and pointless that average people stop caring. This is where we’re at.