I attended the Trump rally last night and did not get in. Here is what I wrote on Facebook at the time:
The below is the Facebook posting of Bill Hobbs, conservative political activist and former blogger. He gives a good report. I agree with him; the Trump phenomena is a movement. Also, the anti-Trump anguish and hysteria is unprecedented and is a phenomena.
Bill Hobbs
I
used to silently laugh at the notion that Trump was leading a
"movement." Winning a campaign? Sure. He did that. But leading a
movement? That's a whole different political animal.
I'm not
laughing anymore. In a blue city, a city where Democrats always win
every election that matters, Trump drew a massive crowd to Nashville's
old Municipal Auditorium. The line to see him was a mile long. That's
not hyperbole. It really was a mile long, snaking around the state
capitol and through downtown streets.
Thousands of people stood
in line for hours to see the president and were turned away because the
arena was full. The arena holds more than 10,000 people for an event
like a political rally in which the floor is covered with temporary
seating. Even without floor seating, Municipal Auditorium has more than
9,600 fixed seats. With floor seating that number is above 10,000.
The Secret Service stopped letting people in when the arena was full.
How many were turned away?
There's no official count, but from my observation the number of Trump
supporters who couldn't get into the venue because it was full was at
least double and probably triple the number of anti-Trump protesters
gathered outside the venue.
Hundreds, probably thousands, more
gave up and went home after standing in the cold for a few hours and
realizing they were unlikely to get in to the arena.
I stand by
my estimate that if the Trump rally had been held at Bridgestone Arena,
it, too, would have had every seat full, at more than 19,000 seats.
The local daily birdcage liner estimates the number of protesters at
2,500. I'd say that's a generous number, probably inflated by the
standard inflation that the liberal media tends to give liberal crowds.
(There's also a standard deflation the liberal media applies to
conservative crowds. A good rule of thumb is if 75 liberals show up it's
100 in the newspaper, and if 125 conservatives show up it also is 100
in the newspaper.)
But the newspaper can't apply the standard
conservative discount to the pro-Trump crowd inside the arena as it was a
ticketed event at a venue with a known number of seats. The exact
attendance number is a number that can be known with a fair degree of
accuracy and certainty.
Which makes it rather curious that the newspaper has a number for the protestors but not for the Trump supporters.
The newspaper's main story about the Trump rally doesn't give a number
for attendance at the event. It only describes it as "thousands in
attendance."
The word "thousands" is the same word it uses later
in the story for the number of protesters, as in "thousands of
protesters." A separate story is headlined "More than 2,500 protest
Trump rally."
Somehow they are certain about the number of
protesters though there's no way to get an accurate count, but they
don't know how many people were in the arena even though an accurate
count is possible.
The paper uses the same phrase - "thousands of
..." because it wants to mislead readers into thinking the protesters
and supporters were there in comparable numbers.
It isn't true.
The arena, with seating for more than 10,000, was full. And somewhere
around 5,000 people were turned away, judging from how much of the
formerly mile-long lines of people were left standing outside the venue
when the arena was full. An unknown number didn't stand in line that
long or didn't come because they heard on the news about the mile-long
line and realized they had no change to get into the venue.
Even
if you accept the inflated number of 2,500 that the newspaper claims for
the crowd of protesters, that is still only a quarter the size of the
pro-Trump crowd in the arena - and only a sixth, or less, of the total
crowd that came out and stood in line for Trump. (And that doesn't even
include the thousands of Trump supporters who lined the motorcade route
from the airport to the Hermitage.)
Let's be clear: This was a
huge crowd that came out to support President Trump. Nashville saw
nothing like it on the various occasions when President Obama came to
town - and this is a Democrat-majority city. Supporters of President
Trump vastly outnumbered the protesters. In a Democrat city.
Yes, there is a Trump-lead movement. A bigly one.
As the author of A Disgruntled Republican I often post items which I think may be of interest to the conservative, Republican, libertarian or the greater community. Posting of a press release or an announcement of an event does not necessarily indicate an endorsement. Rod
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