{"id":49385,"date":"2016-03-26T22:27:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T22:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49385"},"modified":"2016-03-26T22:27:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T22:27:15","slug":"doublequoting-trumps-and-cruzes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49385","title":{"rendered":"DoubleQuoting Trumps and Cruzes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; various angles on graphical thinking in two Republican presidential campaigns ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>To start with, here is presidential candidate <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> tweeting a humorous, tasteless and wildly unfair <strong>DoubleQuote in the Wild<\/strong> against his rival for the Republican nomination, <strong>Ted Cruz<\/strong> &#8212; evidence for the pervasiveness and persuasiveness of this mode of thinking &#038; linking, if any such were needed:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Don_Vito_08\">@Don_Vito_08<\/a>: &quot;A picture is worth a thousand words&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LyingTed?src=hash\">#LyingTed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NeverCruz?src=hash\">#NeverCruz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MELANIATRUMP\">@MELANIATRUMP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5bvVEwMVF8\">pic.twitter.com\/5bvVEwMVF8<\/a>&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/712850174838771712\">March 24, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The tweet comes from Trump&#8217;s verified Twitter account, and might as well feature the words, &#8220;I&#8217;m Donald Trump, and I approve this message&#8221;. Ugly, and thus sad.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Once you get me started <strong>DoubleQuoting<\/strong> Trump and Cruz, though, it&#8217;ll be hard to rein me in. <\/p>\n<p>The Trump logo below was, I believe created for a graphic design contest unaffiliated with the Trump Campaign, but has since been tweeted at least once by the verified &#8220;Real Donald Trump&#8221; account, while the cruz logo is undoubtedoy official.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/trump-cruz-logos.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49390\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/trump-cruz-logos.png\" alt=\"trump cruz logos\" width=\"592\" height=\"628\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/trump-cruz-logos.png 592w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/trump-cruz-logos-283x300.png 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both, you&#8217;ll note, feature the American flag and a lone star, though Trump is triumphantly New Yorkan, while Cruz is junior senator for the Lone Star State.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>While some have compared the Cruz logo with such secular analogs as the <em>Al Jazeera<\/em> logo and the <em>Onion<\/em>&#8216;s onion, the <em>Washington Post<\/em> comes closer to the point, trumping them with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2015\/03\/25\/ted-cruzs-logo-a-burning-flag-al-jazeeras-logo-or-a-pentecostal-church-logo\/\">variety of pentacostal-themed logos<\/a> &#8212; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cruz-logos-secular-sacred.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49389\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cruz-logos-secular-sacred.png\" alt=\"cruz logos secular sacred\" width=\"592\" height=\"628\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cruz-logos-secular-sacred.png 592w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cruz-logos-secular-sacred-283x300.png 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; a matter of some significance given Ted Cruz&#8217;s anointing to a kingship role within his father&#8217;s &#8220;Seven Mountains&#8221; pentecostal faith tradition. <\/p>\n<p>And Donald Trump? Here the hair is significant, and Trump himself seems to have a good-humored attitude, as evidenced by the upper panel below. If this seems superficial, however, the lower panel demonstrates beyond question that Trump follows the Golden Mean &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/trump-toupee-golden.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49392\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/trump-toupee-golden.png\" alt=\"trump toupee golden\" width=\"592\" height=\"628\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/trump-toupee-golden.png 592w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/trump-toupee-golden-283x300.png 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; though whether the emphasis is placed on &#8220;golden&#8221; or &#8220;mean&#8221; would seem to be a matter of personal and political preference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; various angles on graphical thinking in two Republican presidential campaigns ] . To start with, here is presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeting a humorous, tasteless and wildly unfair DoubleQuote in the Wild against his rival for the Republican nomination, Ted Cruz &#8212; evidence for the pervasiveness and persuasiveness of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,1107,1314,415,644,473,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-dog-whistle","category-donald-trump","category-elections","category-graphical-thinking","category-propaganda","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49385"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49400,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49385\/revisions\/49400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}