Columnist David Marcus finds a method to President Trump's madness - and writes that it is all about common sense.
In his recent successful presidential campaign and in his first month in office, President Donald Trump has used a remarkably effective rhetorical device that may best be described as 'incendiary common sense.' The clearest example from the race, and where it became most clear, was the infamous allegation Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating cats and dogs. There was a three-step process in play.
Finally, Step 3 came when the American people asked themselves, 'Well, why did we think dumping 20,000 Haitian migrants in a town of 50,000 was a good idea?' Obviously, it was a horrible idea, as I learned from the residents there who never asked for it. By the time the fires of outrage were extinguished, and the smoke cleared, Trump was sitting on the high ground of common sense. Suddenly, Democrats had to try to defend something indefensible.
Paine applied rules to the common sense of freedom and liberty with such incendiary rhetoric and such a forceful call to action, that even those wary of revolt had no choice but to take note of it. And here we are again.
My grandfather fought in World War II. He never got to go to college, but he put three kids through, and when I was in prep school he told me, 'God made you smart. You didn’t earn that. Never use it against people who don’t have it.' Donald Trump, Thomas Paine, and my grandfather were all really saying the same thing. Use common sense, and be loud about it when you have to. And always use it for those in need. We haven’t had common sense in some time.
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