Posted on 01/22/2017 10:03:48 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin
I was more moved than I expected. Then more startled.
The old forms and traditions, the bands and bunting, endured. I thought, as I watched the inauguration: It continues. There were pomp and splendor, happy, cheering crowds; and for all the confounding nature of the past 18 months, and all the trauma, it came as a reassurance to see us do what we do the way we do it. A friend in the Southwest, a longtime Trump supporter, emailed just before the swearing in: “I have been crying all morning.” From joy.
The inaugural address was utterly and uncompromisingly Trumpian. The man who ran is the man who’ll reign. It was plain, unfancy and blunt to the point of blistering. A little humility would have gone a long way, but that’s not the path he took. Nor did he attempt to reassure. It was pow, right in the face. Most important, he did not in any way align himself with the proud Democrats and Republicans arrayed around him. He looked out at the crowd and said he was allied with them.
From the article:
He presented himself not as a Republican or a conservative but as a populist independent. The essential message: Remember those things I said in the campaign? I meant them. I meant it all.
Poor Peggy has her knickers in a twist.
Unexpected? Nah!
I love President Trump! Great cabinet, great team! Go team go! Don’t look back work hard & fast! Cultural marxist left will not be able to keep up! They are inherently lazy.
Not beholden to big money donors. His best attribute.
He is free to speak his mind.
Interesting
It us and Trump against the world, the GOP better get on board or be run over.
From the Article :
The speech will electrify President Trump’s followers. They will feel satisfaction that they understood him and knew what they were backing. And it will deepen the Washington establishment’s unease. Republican leaders had been hoping the address would ameliorate their anxieties about the continued primacy of their traditional policy preferences. Forget that. This was a declaration that the president is going his own way and they’d best follow.
Trump defeated the establishment GOPe globalists, He defeated the Bush Dynasty, he defeated the cultural marxist democrat supporting media, he defeated the Clinton Crime Syndicate and became President!
He is our President!
The establishment has two choices....either get on board the Trump train, or they will get a violent revolution from the right and we will destroy them. We are done with their way of doing things and it's our turn now....you can be amenable, or you can get forced...the choice is theirs.
The deplorables will have his back as long as he fights for us, and that will be enough.
I was kind of disappointed in Trump’s inauguration speech. I guess it sounded great to anyone who wasn’t involved in his campaign, but to me it was like hearing one of his campaign rally speeches from late October for the second or third time. LOL.
The most interesting comment about Trump’s inauguration speech came from Dana Perino. She said if Trump’s speech had come from the lips of Bernie Sanders, the press would have loved it.
“Poor Peggy has her knickers in a twist.”
I disagree. I think this was a fair assessment of the lay of the land - from Noonan no less.
It seems that she is coming to realize - even accept, what we who are Trump supporters instinctively grasped from the beginning of his campaign: do not take everything that Donald Trump says LITERALLY - but you must take him SERIOUSLY.
She alludes to this (newfound?) understanding in this line:
“Throughout the speech, and much of the day, Mr. Trump looked stern. At first I thought it was the face he puts on when he’s nervous. I don’t think so now.”
Those who underestimate Trump, do so at their peril.
Our dear Ms. Noonan seems to be getting a slight whiff of distant reality and she’s concerned.
It was a resounding refutation of all the chatterers expecting a “pivot.” It was his way of saying: “I. Meant. Every. Single. Word.”
Poor Peggy mustn't have understood the part about giving the power back to the People - sounds humble to me. He also uses the words "we" and "us" like Obama used "I" and "me" - totally incomprehensible to the Left.
When I compare this nonsense to the things Peggy Noonan wrote about Barack Obama after his election, I can only conclude that she has destroyed whatever credibility she ever had.
I loved that he smacked them right in the face and told it like it is. They have been looking out for themselves and screwing us for decades while our country was overrun with illegal aliens.
Love him or hate him, anyone capable of that is honestly not to be underestimated. Let’s hope they continue to do so.
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