'An inaugural for Red America alone': Former Bush speech writer slams Trump's 'shocking' speech

[highplainsdem]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/an-inaugural-for-red-america-alone-former-bush-speech-writer-slams-trumps-shocking-speech/

Liberal pundits such as Van Jones weren’t the only people who came away shaken by President Trump’s inaugural address — some conservatives were unnerved by it as well.

Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson, who was a speechwriter for former President George W. Bush, took to Twitter on Friday to express his astonishment at just how divisive the new president’s speech really was. In particular, Gerson thought it sounded as though Trump was only speaking too the 46% of voters who supported him this past fall.

“It is truly shocking how disconnected this speech was from inaugural history,” wrote Gerson, who has been a longtime critic of Trump dating back to last year’s Republican primaries. “An inaugural for red American alone.”

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“There was the ‘New Deal,’ the ‘New Frontier’ — we have been treated to the “American Carnage” speech,” he wrote. “Trump has only one style of leadership — amplify resentments to intimidate opponents and force change.”

To sum up the speech, Gerson cribbed a line from Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address and twisted it into a Trump-esque concoction.

“With malice toward many,” he wrote. “And charity is for losers.”

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[LeftInTX]

1. Michael Gerson???

His column is usually too conservative for me to read.

I wonder how Rich Lowry feels.

[Tanuki]

4. Gerson also wrote a column blasting Trump's attack on John Lewis.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-attack-on-john-lewis-is-the-essence-of-narcissism/2017/01/15/7e3d9ab6-db4d-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html?utm_term=.18d1d7b80fc0

Maybe he is starting to see the light, or at the very least is one of those increasingly rare Republicans who still has a shred of decency and humanity.

[NewJeffCT]

6. there have been several prominent Republican pundits

who have been against Trump for a long-time - George Will, Charles Krauthammer and others. Trump just labels them as losers and they get ignored.

[dalton99a]

2. Carnage is another projection. He's the one that brings carnage.

[Cha]

3. blotus is beelzebub and he wants everyone to know it.

[Mike Nelson]

5. I differ somewhat...

...it wasn't a speech for "Red America" - although they are waiting in the wings (Pence and others).

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. "With malice toward many." "And charity is for losers"

New official seal of the Administration.

[global1]

8. The "American Carnage" Speech......

Good name to hang on Trump's speech. That's what I'll forever call it.

Maybe kids will have to memorize it - like I had to memorize the "Gettysburg Address" when I was in Grammar School?