Tag: Visual perception

It is only Wednesday, but the exhausting pace of Donald Trump’s Washington makes time fly. The big stories from last week weren’t just about messaging. There was everything from the bewildering signal sent by first lady Melania Trump’s jacket and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders being denied service at a Virginia restaurant to the inciting language from Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and the rise of the radical left with 28-year-old democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeating Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) with (among other positions) a pledge to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). And beyond the surface of everything that is happening, there are the real effects of President Trump’s policy decisions. Wasn’t Republican rule supposed to produce the opposite of all this? Republicans may have been willing to tolerate Trump’s behavior when it produced good policy and economic growth, but dark clouds are forming. That’s the deal Trump and Republicans had with voters. The president’s press secretary was asked to leave a restaurant just because the owner and staff disagreed with the president’s politics. Tell them they’re not welcome any more, anywhere!” Republicans think of Waters as a marginal gadfly character, but if the Democrats win the House in November, she will be in line to assume chairmanship of the House Financial Services Committee. Nothing is going to the change our course if the president doesn’t take the lead.