{"id":133814,"date":"2017-07-07T13:13:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T19:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/07\/east-is-east-and-west-is-west-and-ever-the-trump-shall-tweet.html"},"modified":"2017-07-07T13:13:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T19:13:37","slug":"east-is-east-and-west-is-west-and-ever-the-trump-shall-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/07\/east-is-east-and-west-is-west-and-ever-the-trump-shall-tweet.html","title":{"rendered":"East is East and West is West, and Ever the Trump Shall Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, that was sort of a labored headline, but work with me &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The core of Donald Trump&#39;s speech in Warsaw was summed upon this tweet on his account:<\/p>\n<p>&#10077; <i>THE WEST WILL NEVER BE BROKEN. Our values will PREVAIL. Our people will THRIVE and our civilization will TRIUMPH!<\/i> &#10078;<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the podium-pounding ALL CAPS, it&#39;s a remarkable phrase, and the theme was repeated multiple times in his speech &#8212; a paean to Western Civilization, to Christendom, to an existential defense of Our Tribe against the hordes of the &quot;south&quot; and &quot;east.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s actually, as you dig, a disturbing bit of rhetoric in its implications, when moved from relatively homogeneous Poland to the melting pot of the US. If it&#39;s all about West vs Everyone Else, if West is synonymous with European and Christian, what does that mean for every American who doesn&#39;t fit into those neat heritage baskets? Are thy considered part of Us? Or Them? And if the latter, what will Trump&#39;s &quot;triumph&quot; actually look like?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2017\/07\/trump-speech-poland\/532866\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/EbYQQ2vJlWBg7jAa73l221lfcoSX0yBNw1M-Fil36R5NrKmpMHAFPEQRPYad4Be5glX9C3y-modjillXZQjbMLO1FXY3MSMO0DCWyCeQqVw0J2f-P_5m6KBA_X7NZ18o5W5Ab5rb3V0Tzw=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2017\/07\/trump-speech-poland\/532866\/'>The Racial and Religious Paranoia of Trump&#8217;s Warsaw Speech<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWhen the president says being Western is the essence of America&rsquo;s identity, he&rsquo;s in part defining America in opposition to some of its own people.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/JEPefrPbK6j'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, that was sort of a labored headline, but work with me &#8230; The core of Donald Trump&#39;s speech in Warsaw was summed upon this tweet on his account: &#10077; THE WEST WILL NEVER BE BROKEN. Our values will PREVAIL. Our people will THRIVE and our civilization will TRIUMPH! &#10078; Aside from the podium-pounding ALL &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/07\/east-is-east-and-west-is-west-and-ever-the-trump-shall-tweet.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;East is East and West is West, and Ever the Trump Shall Tweet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133811,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/07\/tweetizen-trump-2017-07-07-poland.html","url_meta":{"origin":133814,"position":0},"title":"Tweetizen Trump &#8211; 2017-07-07: &quot;Poland!&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 7-Jul-17 9:06am","format":false,"excerpt":"Things were kind of light yesterday -- I know, travel, what a pain, right, Donald? -- but the total number of tweets since last check-in seems to have gone up enough to be worth a gander. 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