Melania Trump and Plagiarism - Gross Incompetence or Something More Suspect?

Apparently Melania Trump's GOP Convention speech plagiarized Michelle Obama's.  You might consider this simply another example of the campaign's gross incompetence, and draw a line between this and the inevitable incompetency of a Trump presidency.   But I think The HRC campaign would  be smart to shrug and move on.   Two reasons why Democrats and the liberal leaning media should not take the bait:

 One, we've seen this movie before.  Sympathetic non-politicians flubbing their lines and bumpkin-relatives trapped in a time warp, better to look the other way than grant them the sympathy vote.  Remember Clint Eastwood "empty chair" at the 2012 GOP Convention.  He seemed senile, and was undeniably old, the Dems were smart to keep the snickering to a minimum, lest they turn the GOP's lemon into lemon-aid.  Deny Trump, courtesy Melania, the sympathy vote. 

Two, besides granting Melania the sympathy vote Dems run the risk of reprising their role as the PC police.  I can see a surrogate  now: "Plagiarism? Which part?  Did Michelle Obama also become a citizen on June  28, 2006??  (Then sideways wink). Do we really want to get started on the citizenship of her husband??  Anyways, this is another phony issue brought to you by the PC Police.  Mr. Trump will never be distracted by trivial issues like this when America is burning.  While ISIS is beheading babies.  While thugs, yes thugs, are gunning down cops."  Let it go.

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I also think there's an extenuating reason why a Trump speehwriter could write or approve such obvious plagiarism: they don't give damn. You could call it a species of white supremacy. Dismissively, their underlying sentiment is: We're taking back EVERYTHING.  This is all our stuff, even the words you claim as your own. 

Perhaps I'm overreacting, but the dismissiveness here reminds me of the very first case we covered in Property class when I was in law school, Johnson v. M'Intosh. It establishes the legal justification for  expropriation of Native American land.  Yep, manifest destiny. When it came to establishing who possessed this land we call America first, John Marshall, that paragon of what, judicial craftiness, was pretty direct, uncrafty, unabashed.   Just like Melania Trump's plagiarism.