When you filter through the noise, Trump is winning

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The headlines have been dominated in recent days - understandably - by what is unfolding with the investigation of the special counsel, Robert Mueller, into whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

We have seen former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn pleading guilty to lying to the FBI but more interesting is the fact that Flynn is now cooperating with the Mueller investigation.

And we have seen some rather odd tweets from the president's account, which now we're being told weren't written by him.

Every day - sometimes it seems every hour - there is a new development that will dominate the news cycle. Stories that you think will last a week because of their seeming enormity come and go like passing spring showers, as we await the next downpour.

President retweets videos from a far-right British group and gets into spat with Theresa May - been and gone.

He says FBI reputation is in tatters - a passing squall.

Supporting Roy Moore for the vacant Alabama Senate seat, even though he's an alleged paedophile (which he denies)? Whatever.

Rows with basketball players for not being grateful enough barely make a puddle.

And it's my suspicion that in millions of homes across America (particularly those that voted for Donald Trump just over a year ago) this is all filtered out as so much noise and static.

Of more interest will be the Senate passing a tax reform bill. And yes, while it will help billionaires more than it will low-paid America (I suspect not that many will benefit from the tax relief on private jets), it will nevertheless benefit them a bit.

And there are signs that wages are picking up for blue-collar workers. Unemployment is very low, which means in some sectors there are labour shortages, which in turn means that pay is having to rise to attract workers.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is seeing big growth in demand for production and transportation jobs.

Meanwhile big business America is promising that the slashing of the corporation tax rate that Congress is promising will filter through to greater investment, which in turn will lead to more jobs and higher wages. There is a buoyancy out there.

And if you are someone whose pension is tied up in the stock market, you will be looking at the performance of Wall Street and thinking that every day is Christmas, as this president will repeatedly remind you.
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This tracks with my own thinking on what is happening.  I would probably use another analogy.  On a battlefield, there is a lot of noise from weapons and explosives and people yelling, but battles are won by troops who can filter out the noise and do their jobs.  In politics that means creating your own distractions from enemy attacks and attacking enemies in the media is part of that process.

The media likes to claim that these attacks are an attack on the first amendment, but they are the opposite.  They are a President using his own first amendment rights to attack the reports that are attacking him.  A real attack on the first amendment would not be something the President says.  It would involve the US Marshalls or the military to seize the presses and broadcast studios of the media.  That has not happened and will not.

What is happening is that Trump is giving them some of their own treatment.  He is not going to stoically ignore their attempts to drive him from office.  He is going to give them some of their own medicine and so far they have mostly whined at his not accepting their spiel.

Meanwhile, his policies are working.  As the story notes the economy is picking up and real wages are going up especially for blue collar workers.  The illegal border crossings are at a 46 year low.  The tax cuts will lead to increased prosperity and jobs as well as growth in the stock market.

The media and the Democrats are discrediting themselves.  They may think he is crazy, but it looks more likely that he is making them crazy because their old tactics are not working.

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