Perhaps because humans are weak and they will fall for temptation. When given a choice between obeying the truth or hedging things a bit in order to help propaganda pull a win for their political leader, weakness makes them choose the latter.

War means that the victor writes the history books. And that’s the context of what “fighting the last war” can mean as, that people are fighting a war, like Vietnam, that the Left already won or lost. Thus the losers don’t get to talk about the truth, because the victory, because Might Makes Right, is the one who determines the truth.

That is sometimes true as well, but often times false too. Because there’s always a choice or vote in war, the enemy can vote too.

That’s because Trump had a deal with Hillary/Clintons.

Trump’s rallying cries are on twitter and social media, produced almost entirely by the Alternative Right, one of his 3 pillars.

It’s not a personal difference between him and Fiorina. If the Alt Right wanted to support Fiorina with the same assets, they would have, and the result would have been the same as for Trump.

Why on earth would you try to comment on this post in order to characterize what the other candidates did or did not do without watching the videos, in particular the video I placed up there saying “get a load of this”? The videos are the illustrations of what I was referring to, and memory can’t suffice because it can play tricks on us.

Your distinctions between knife and bat don’t make sense to me, either, because I was not comparing Trump’s propensity for rallying slogans like “Make America Great” to the propensity of the other candidates to do that or not do that. I was saying that he was not the only one who would have attacked Hillary strongly.

Plus, Carly would have ramped it up as presumptive nominee. Trump hardly focused on Hillary previous to this, compared to Carly’s focus on her.

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”

Verbal baseball bats get walked back, often within days, to be “suggestions”, when they are found to be dubious or worse.

More like wiffle ball bats.

Don’t bring an AirSoft gun to a knife fight and expect to survive.

Donald knows how to push the hot buttons and then walk back or spin what he said or what he meant, and people continue to fall for it.

I confess, I did not watch the videos and they are very impressive. She is a superb knife fighter, she went for the juggler and repeatedly and factually skewered Hillary, even better in my opinion than Cruz.

But she’s not a brawler and didn’t wield a baseball bat. Baseball bats are brutal, direct and ‘brief’. “Build a wall”, “make Mexico pay for it” and “Ban Muslim migration” are verbal baseball bats. Brief, take no prisoners, let the chips fall where they may… statements are verbal baseball bats. They seize the attention of those unwilling to listen and evaluate Carly’s highly intelligent, astute analysis.

Verbal baseball bats are verbal rallying cries, “Remember the Alamo”, “Give me Liberty or Death”, “Deus hoc vult!” (“God wills it!”) They are calls to battle. And the time for battle with the left, rather than ‘civilized’ debate is critical to keeping the nation from falling to the left.

You write, “there’s a difference between repeatedly poking someone with a sharp needle and smashing them in the face with a baseball bat.”

Until now, Trump was barely poking with a sharp needle. He was attacking Hillary less than Fiorina was, and Fiorina was the one with the baseball bat. Did you watch that last video? And that was a long time ago. Her focus on Hillary was relentless, and it was very very aggressive.

Only lately has Trump started swinging his bat with any force at Hillary. It’s about time, and I think it’s a good idea. Carly was doing it long ago. Don’t you think that, had she won the nomination, she would have hit even more relentlessly and harder than before? I think she made it crystal clear that it is exactly what she would have done.

It’s about truth vs. propaganda. I am sick and tired of revisionist history.