{"id":5530,"date":"2015-09-18T21:26:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T21:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatdevilhistory.com\/?p=5530"},"modified":"2016-01-20T16:07:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T16:07:47","slug":"so-many-victories-the-anatomy-of-a-trump-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatdevilhistory.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/18\/so-many-victories-the-anatomy-of-a-trump-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"So Many Victories! The Anatomy of a Trump Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5531\" style=\"width: 841px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thatdevilhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trump-dallas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5531\" class=\" wp-image-5531\" src=\"http:\/\/thatdevilhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trump-dallas.jpg\" alt=\"Trump in Dallas, Texas. This speech was freakin' yoooooooooge.\" width=\"831\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thatdevilhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trump-dallas.jpg 584w, https:\/\/thatdevilhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trump-dallas-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 831px) 100vw, 831px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trump in Dallas, Texas. This speech was freakin&#8217; yoooooooooge.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sigh. Donald Trump. The erstwhile joke campaign of America&#8217;s favorite, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/bobby-jindal-trump-looks-like-hes-got-a-squirrel-on-his-head\/\" target=\"_blank\">squirrel-bouffanted<\/a>, braggadocious billionaire has heretofore beat the Washington punditocracy&#8217;s expectations and not only survived the first presidential primary summer, but also thrived.<\/p>\n<p>Need proof? <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/poll-numbers-show-donald-trump-real\/story?id=33776703\" target=\"_blank\">The Donald&#8217;s poll numbers are through the roof<\/a>. He&#8217;s racked up approvals from two-thirds of Republican primary voters, and he&#8217;s crushing more traditional GOP\u00a0nutballs like Ted Cruz and Jeb &#8220;Son of Poppy, Brother of Dubya&#8221; Bush. Former neurosurgeon &#8212; and current bedlamite &#8212; Dr. Ben Carson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/politics\/ben-carson-closes-in-on-donald-trump-new-nyt-cbs-129150079241.html\" target=\"_blank\">has enjoyed some movement in the polls<\/a>, but his numbers haven&#8217;t been YOOOOOGE like Trump&#8217;s.\u00a0But if you want some REAL data on why Trump has more and more Republican voters basking in the glow of his combed-over\u00a0Collossalness, just take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/15\/us\/politics\/cheers-puns-and-protest-welcome-donald-trump-in-dallas.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">September 14 speech<\/a> he yawped out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V8y2T6eH3dw\" target=\"_blank\">in Dallas, Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a characteristically impressive spectacle of random rhetorical bloviation peppered with nonchalant narcissism, Trump managed to\u00a0tongue-bath a major American shibboleth even as he remained safely within the confines of softball generalities and ventured nary a step into the thorny briar patch of actual policy recommendation. This ain&#8217;t coincidental. Americans like their politics the way they like their fast food: cheap, totally lacking in substance, but still filling enough to snap a double-x girdle.<\/p>\n<p>The bacon and double-cheese of Trump&#8217;s Dallas speech &#8212; heck, of <em>every<\/em> one of his speeches &#8212; is that America used to be the biggest, baddest, ballsiest, bawdiest country to ever exist &#8212; untill pantywaists\u00a0like Barack Obama and a host of other invertebrate political milksops decided to slice off America&#8217;s collective gonads and\u00a0apologize for their country&#8217;s former yoooge-ness. &#8220;We wanna win!&#8221; Trump bellowed, as ten-thousand Corticosteroid-pumped bald eagles collectively shed\u00a0red, white, and blue tears. &#8220;We&#8217;re tired of being pushed around by incompetent people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than anything else, the gold-studded heart of the Trump phenomenon\u00a0boils down to a single concept: VICTORY. &#8220;We&#8217;re gonna&#8217; have so many victories, that, at some point, they&#8217;re just gonna&#8217; be coming out of your ears!&#8221; Trump proclaimed. Central to his emphasis on victory is, of course, the idea that the U-S-of-A ain&#8217;t all that great at WINNING anymore. It&#8217;s a theme he hammered on all summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our country is in serious trouble. We don\u2019t have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don\u2019t have them,&#8221; Trump stated in his June 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3923128\/donald-trump-announcement-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">Presidential Announcement Speech<\/a>. With his obsessive emphasis on winning, Sir Donald is offering &#8212; through his patented boardroom bombast &#8212; an ode to the age-old American myth of destined greatness cut short by a tragically unspecified fall from grace. Referencing foreign labor competition from places like Mexico and China, for example, Trump warned that, &#8220;We lose on everything. We lose on jobs, we lose on money, we lose on everything!&#8221; It&#8217;s no secret why Trump famously roasts his critics as &#8220;losers:&#8221; his brand is all about winning, and he knows that&#8217;s the (perceived) American brand as well. In Trump&#8217;s world, the only thing worse than being a loser is being a former winner who doesn&#8217;t win anymore &#8212; and a whole lot of people agree with him.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5598\" style=\"width: 409px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thatdevilhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/silent-majority.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5598\" class=\" wp-image-5598\" src=\"http:\/\/thatdevilhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/silent-majority.jpg\" alt=\"A member of Trump's &quot;Silent Majority.&quot; Somewhere down in Hell, Tricky Dick is smiling.\" width=\"399\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thatdevilhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/silent-majority.jpg 476w, https:\/\/thatdevilhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/silent-majority-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Silent Majority.&#8221; Somewhere down in Hell, Tricky Dick is smiling.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By framing America as an heretofore winner that has inexcusably taken a third-class Greyhound to Loserville, Trump is strategically invoking a declension narrative of American history. Historian Will Macintosh <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willmackintosh.org\/history-2\/a-declension-narrative-of-paperwork\/\" target=\"_blank\">defines a declension narrative<\/a> as &#8220;any story we tell about something getting progressively worse (not just different) over time, in a non-cyclical way.&#8221; In other words, the United States started out great &#8212; it started out YOOOGE &#8212; but, over time, it has steadily declined in influence and power. A declension narrative of U.S. history first requires an ascension; a peak that America was destined to reach and from which it has regrettably fallen. The single biggest driving force behind the Trump candidacy is the idea that The Donald &#8212; a billionaire and thus, the ultimate embodiment of American-style &#8220;winning&#8221; &#8212; is the only Chosen One who can restore America to greatness; the only Jesus-in-an-Armani who can reverse the decline.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the obvious question remains: from what point does Trump identify the start of America&#8217;s decline? He never really says, but in Dallas he invoked an era that ruffles the greying feathers of legions of pasty-white conservative culture warriors: the 1960s. &#8220;They [referring to the ever-squawking punditocracy] mentioned a little while ago&#8230;about the silent majority,&#8221; Trump bellowed.\u00a0&#8220;It&#8217;s back, and it&#8217;s not silent,&#8221; he continued, &#8220;I think we should call it, maybe we should call it the noisy, the aggressive, the wanting to win, wanting to win majority. That&#8217;s what it is.&#8221; To anyone familiar with recent U.S. history, the term &#8220;Silent Majority&#8221; ought to ring a bell. <a href=\"http:\/\/thatdevilhistory.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/30\/hillary-bernie-and-the-democrats-conservative-shadow\/\" target=\"_blank\">As I noted in a previous piece<\/a>, the Silent Majority refers to the culturally conservative coalition of disaffected white voters who rallied behind the 1972 &#8220;Law and Order&#8221; campaign of Richard Nixon in an attempt to purge the festering plagues of liberalism, cultural decline, and rampant lawlessness from the American body politic. Even long after Nixon&#8217;s own fall from grace, the Silent Majority remained, and it&#8217;s been a reliable, pasty-white-and-bulgy-neck-veined conservative voting block ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s Silent Majority supporters tacitly locate the beginning of American decline in the 1960s and its attendant debauched horrors: the beginning of the end of the post-war boom, the counter-culture, the horrifying heresy of Great Society Liberalism (itself a continuation of FDR&#8217;s dreaded New Deal socialist Hellscape), and, perhaps most symbolic from a &#8220;victory&#8221; standpoint, Vietnam. The mythological American ideal that Trump&#8217;s followers embrace is an ideal in which America never lost the Vietnam War. Heck, it&#8217;s an ideal in which America never lost, PERIOD.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5601\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thatdevilhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/landscape-1439831481-trump-signal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5601\" class=\" wp-image-5601\" src=\"http:\/\/thatdevilhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/landscape-1439831481-trump-signal.jpg\" alt=\"To the true believers, Trump is the only Caped Crusader who can stave off American decline.\" width=\"740\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thatdevilhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/landscape-1439831481-trump-signal.jpg 980w, https:\/\/thatdevilhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/landscape-1439831481-trump-signal-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">To the true believers, Trump is the only Caped Crusader who can stave off American decline.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In this respect, Trump isn&#8217;t re-fighting the wars of the sixties, he&#8217;s pretending like the sixties <em>never happened<\/em>. And the 20,000-plus people who attended his Dallas pomposity pageant are all-too-willing to play the role of bubbly cheerleaders on the sidelines of The Donald&#8217;s ahistorical American political Super Bowl. American voters aren&#8217;t interested in\u00a0wussy concepts like nuance, historical context, and the realities of 21st century globalization. It&#8217;s much easier to imagine that some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/news\/a37221\/donald-trump-batman\/\" target=\"_blank\">brash Bruce Wayne clone<\/a> can just swoop into the presidency, beat the living hell out of the declensionist Joker, and once again proudly display the American Bat Signal for the world to admire.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with declension narratives, however, is that they attempt to straighten out history&#8217;s endless twists, turns, dead-ends, double-backs, and outright free-falls into a single, linear timeline marked only by good and evil, strength and weakness, winning and losing.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, history ain&#8217;t like that. Trump may or may not know this, but I doubt he&#8217;d care either way.\u00a0\u201cYou\u2019re going to say to your children, and you\u2019re going to say to anybody else, that we were part of a movement to take back our country,\u201d Trump told his Dallas audience, &#8220;and we will make America great again.\u201d The Donald has\u00a0built an unlikely campaign juggernaut on a potent combination of historical mythology and unabashed assholery, and it&#8217;s hard to look away. After all, Trump embodies the American path to victory &#8212; at least in the minds of non-losers everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh. Donald Trump. The erstwhile joke campaign of America&#8217;s favorite, squirrel-bouffanted, braggadocious billionaire has heretofore beat the Washington punditocracy&#8217;s expectations and not only survived the first presidential primary summer, but also thrived. Need proof? 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