Delingpole: Donald Trump Trolls Londonistan Like a Boss...
Yesterday I wrote to the Prime Minister asking her to ban Donald Trump from entering the United Kingdom on account of his support for far-right groups in this country. pic.twitter.com/K8iC5yAJTR â Chris Bryant (@RhonddaBryant) November 30  2017
Donald Trump  as many of us here know  is a much underrated figure in certain quarters.
What they misunderstand about  Trump  is the scale of  his  ambitions and the true nature of  his  mission.
As I argue in this weekâs Spectator   he  represents the same revolt of the masses against the liberal elite we saw with Brexit.  His  mission is vital:
That mission  domestically  is to Make America Great Again. But  his  ambitions  I believe  are even greater than that. As  he  outlined in  his  brilliant Warsaw speech   he  sees  himself  as the defender of not just the free world  but of western civilisation itself. âWe write symphonies. We pursue innovation. We celebrate our ancient heroes  embrace our timeless traditions and customs  and always seek to explore and discover brand-new frontiers. We reward brilliance. We strive for excellence  and cherish inspiring works of art that honour God. We treasure the rule of law and protect the right to free speech and free expression. We empower women as pillars of our society and of our success. We put faith and family  not government and bureaucracy  at the centre of our lives. And we debate everything. We challenge everything.â
It might seem a stretch to argue that  Trump âs recent trio of trolling retweets of Muslims-behaving-badly videos have much to do with this noble mission.
But cometh the man  cometh the hour.  President Trump  is no ordinary leader and  he  most certainly does not play by the conventional rules.
A key facet of  his  modus operandi is the way  he  manages to bypass a generally hostile media and speak directly to  his  constituency â essentially ordinary people whoâve had just about enough of politically correct nonsense â using social media.
So  cut to the chase  what was  Trump  doing with these tweets?
First  letâs just establish what  he  was NOT doing:
Winning the hearts and minds of radical Muslims; making liberals love and respect  him  more; getting nice coverage in the Guardian and the New York Times; persuading Never Trumpers that they might have misjudged  him ; winning over Theresa May and the rest of the faux-Conservative political class.
No.  Trump  doesnât give a damn for any of these people. (And who can blame  him ?)
Instead  he  was sending a message to the people  he  cares about: all those ordinary people out there  not just in the U.S. but in Europe and beyond  who are shocked  appalled  scared by the way their countries are slowly (or quite quickly in the case of some countries  Sweden  for example) surrendering to Islam; who feel betrayed by the pusillanimity of their political leaders and let down by the failure of most of their media to report on the rapes and the sexual grooming and the violence being committed disproportionately by Muslims  both immigrants and home-grown radicals; who feel unable to speak â except in embarrassed whispers â about their fears about being stabbed or machine-gunned or blown up or mown down by yet another jihadist simply for the crime of going about their daily  Western life; who bitterly resent being tarred as Islamophobic or xenophobic or uncaring when all they want is to be allowed to live their life in peace in a country whose traditions  laws and cultural values remain the ones they grew up with and which make their homeland worth living in.
a) âI heard some people on the BBC tell me that Britain First are far right and far right is  like  the worst thing ever. So by retweeting them Donald Trump was literally endorsing fascism!â
The U.S. was nearly as bad  of course  till  Trump  came along and said: âEnough is enough.â Which  of course  is one of the main reasons he is now president. He understood  as so many of our chatterati still do not  that there is a yawning gulf between where our political class are on the subject of immigration and Islam  and where the man and woman in the street are.
Yesterday I wrote to the Prime Minister asking her to ban  [TGT]  from entering the United Kingdom on account of his support for far-right groups in this country. pic.twitter.com/K8iC5yAJTR â Chris Bryant (@RhonddaBryant) November 30  2017
 [TGT] as many of us here know  is a much underrated figure in certain quarters.
What they misunderstand about   [TGT] is the scale of   [TGT]   ambitions and the true nature of   [TGT]   mission.
As I argue in this weekâs Spectator   he  represents the same revolt of the masses against the liberal elite we saw with Brexit.  His  mission is vital:
That mission  domestically  is to Make America Great Again. But  his  ambitions  I believe  are even greater than that. As  he  outlined in  his  brilliant Warsaw speech   he  sees  himself  as the defender of not just the free world  but of western civilisation itself. âWe write symphonies. We pursue innovation. We celebrate our ancient heroes  embrace our timeless traditions and customs  and always seek to explore and discover brand-new frontiers. We reward brilliance. We strive for excellence  and cherish inspiring works of art that honour God. We treasure the rule of law and protect the right to free speech and free expression. We empower women as pillars of our society and of our success. We put faith and family  not government and bureaucracy  at the centre of our lives. And we debate everything. We challenge everything.â
It might seem a stretch to argue that  Trump âs recent trio of trolling retweets of Muslims-behaving-badly videos have much to do with this noble mission.
But cometh the man  cometh the hour.  President Trump  is no ordinary leader and  he  most certainly does not play by the conventional rules.
A key facet of  his  modus operandi is the way  he  manages to bypass a generally hostile media and speak directly to  his  constituency â essentially ordinary people whoâve had just about enough of politically correct nonsense â using social media.
So  cut to the chase  what was  Trump  doing with these tweets?
First  letâs just establish what  he  was NOT doing:
Winning the hearts and minds of radical Muslims; making liberals love and respect  him  more; getting nice coverage in the Guardian and the New York Times; persuading Never Trumpers that they might have misjudged  him ; winning over Theresa May and the rest of the faux-Conservative political class.
No.  Trump  doesnât give a damn for any of these people. (And who can blame  him ?)
Instead  he  was sending a message to the people  he  cares about: all those ordinary people out there  not just in the U.S. but in Europe and beyond  who are shocked  appalled  scared by the way their countries are slowly (or quite quickly in the case of some countries  Sweden  for example) surrendering to Islam; who feel betrayed by the pusillanimity of their political leaders and let down by the failure of most of their media to report on the rapes and the sexual grooming and the violence being committed disproportionately by Muslims  both immigrants and home-grown radicals; who feel unable to speak â except in embarrassed whispers â about their fears about being stabbed or machine-gunned or blown up or mown down by yet another jihadist simply for the crime of going about their daily  Western life; who bitterly resent being tarred as Islamophobic or xenophobic or uncaring when all they want is to be allowed to live their life in peace in a country whose traditions  laws and cultural values remain the ones they grew up with and which make their homeland worth living in.
a) âI heard some people on the BBC tell me that Britain First are far right and far right is  like  the worst thing ever. So by retweeting them  [TGT]  was literally endorsing fascism!â
The U.S. was nearly as bad  of course  till   [TGT] came along and said:  [TGT]  is enough.â Which  of course  is one of the main reasons  [TGT]  is now president.  [TGT]  understood  as so many of our chatterati still do not  that there is a yawning gulf between where our political class are on the subject of immigration and Islam  and where the man and woman in the street are.