A Laywer in my home town wrote the following:
Why Do People Support President Trump?
My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me
if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the
office.”
Here’s my answer:
We Right thinking people have tried dignity.
There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity
than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that
undermined his presidency.
We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized
“collegiality” as John McCain?
We tried propriety, has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney?
And the results were always the same. This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity,
collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the
only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.
I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went
down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the
Democratic Party.
I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in
Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks.
I don’t see anything “statesman like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent.
Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”
The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it
has been an all out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale. It has been
a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one
the violent takeover of the universities till today.
The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war.
While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way,
the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety.
With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America ’s first wartime president in the Culture War.
During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one
looks for in their warriors.
Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen
him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming. Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime
rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln
rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”
General George Patton was a vulgar talking, son of a bitch. In peacetime, this might have seen him
stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum then, Hitler and the
Socialists would barely be five decades into their thousand year Reich.
Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s,
he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!”
That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating
the Left using their own tactics. That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals a book so essential to the
Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and
the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us
would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky
dedicated his book to Lucifer.
Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what
Alinsky suggested his followers do. First, instead of going after “the fake media”
and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but
diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the
streets of Ferguson, Missouri
Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal.
Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as “the most powerful
weapon of all.” ...
Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable
position. ... They need to respond. This leaves them with only two choices. They can either “go high” (as
Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the
truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double
down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery.
The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the
end of the Democratic Party they serve.
It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive.
Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then candidate
Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers), the mafia (Tony Rezko)
or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s church. Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama
administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or
the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover up.
So, to my friends on the Left and the #NeverTrumpers as well do I wish we lived in a time when our
president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do. These aren’t those times.
This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years. So,
say anything you want about this president I get it he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be
undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights for America!
