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The Method to Trump’s ‘Madness’ (Wow. VDH hits a homerun)
amgreatness.com ^ | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 10/17/2017 10:14:05 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

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To: LS
Kimberly Strassel distilled this down to two sentences - from her column last Friday in the WSJ:

Mr. Trump will keep baiting the media with shiny objects. In the background, government is being redone.

21 posted on 10/17/2017 10:46:29 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: RoosterRedux

Thanks for posting. You’re right. GREAT article by VDH. HOORAY President Donald J. Trump. Thanks to the people in the administration.

MAGA!


22 posted on 10/17/2017 10:49:37 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: RoosterRedux
PING
23 posted on 10/17/2017 10:54:21 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: RoosterRedux

It is good, but VDH is a master and a national treasure.

Any article by VDH that is not *good* is rare.

I find this one excellent, which is about average for VDH.


24 posted on 10/17/2017 10:56:55 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: RepRivFarm
Until some criminals are put behind bars, I’m not buying it.

We shall all have to wait and see.

A number of people are of the opinion that much is going on behind the scenes at DOJ and that Mueller's investigation is going to come back to bite the Democrats. A lot seems to have been uncovered, and none of it makes Trump look bad, but a lot of it makes Hillary, Lynch, Comey, etc. look bad.

It's a slow process but (we hope) that a mountain of incontrovertible evidence is being assembled and that indictments will follow and an iron-clad case will be unveiled. That takes time.

One can hope.

25 posted on 10/17/2017 10:57:06 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: RoosterRedux
We assume that “he started it” is an immature defense. And it is, of course. But people do still distinguish a defender from an attacker.

I love Donald Trump. Absolutely love him. I have long wanted a president that made the liberal half of the world just reel in horror and shock, and I am enjoying every damn minute of it. The only thing that would make me happier is to see the Pelosi-Soros contingent jumping off of bridges or dropping dead of heart attacks. I hate them utterly.

26 posted on 10/17/2017 10:57:33 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
He does get that. The last couple paragraphs spell it out. He’s creating the smoke screen at the front to distract enemies and draw their fire

Better yet:

Always on offense. Trump is just a constant barrage raining down on the swamp!

Cloward-Piven baby .....Cloward-Piven

It must really chap the dims hides to realize Trump is using their favorite tools against them....

..Trump is smart enough to identify and use for his benefit some of the tools of the left

Alyinsky.,...ridicule and personalization

Trump is also using the Cloward-Piven strategy

Before the left have feedback from their focus groups...Delphi sessions...assessments....polling ...doner & special interest input ..etc etc ...

Trump hits them with another ...overloading the dims ability to respond.

27 posted on 10/17/2017 11:03:24 AM PDT by spokeshave (The Fake Media tried to stop us from going to the White House, I am President and they are not. DJT)
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To: RoosterRedux

bttt


28 posted on 10/17/2017 11:04:32 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: RoosterRedux

>>> Pollsters, pundits, and the media have vastly underestimated how many in America loathe multimillionaire celebrities, pampered athletes, and triangulating politicians—the usual targets of Trump’s invective. <<<

How could/would they?

Surrounded by their own circles, all they see and hear are like-minded people. Even if there are other ‘normal’ Americans sounding differently, this is dismissed as their voice are not as important as that from other more ‘worthy’ people.


29 posted on 10/17/2017 11:17:33 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: riri

bookmark


30 posted on 10/17/2017 11:18:45 AM PDT by riri
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To: RoosterRedux

“Republican senators who recently got reelected by blasting the Iran Deal, open borders, and Obamacare—apparently on the premise that their posturing votes would never really matter, given the likelihood of a liberal vetoing president? “

The GOP congress never wanted Trump to win. They’d have been ok with Walker (if you nice football fellas might just not kneel we’d sure appreciate it), Bush, or anyone else, who could have beaten Hilary NEVER. These guys never wanted the House in 2010, nor subsequently the Senate. Now they’ve got both plus the WH and soon the judiciary and majority public support leaving Hollywood and the Media in the dust, with Hillary running behind pretending it’s not all happening

They don’t know what do do. I suggest they put down the drink and get out of denial. McConnell did that yesterday. Never heard his voice so energetic.


31 posted on 10/17/2017 11:20:49 AM PDT by stanne
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To: LS

“Close, except VDH still doesn’t get that these “brawls” and fights, especially with people inside the administration (Sessions, Tillerson), are pure WWF entertainment/sideshows/distractions.”

Hmm. I thought that was exactly what he was saying


32 posted on 10/17/2017 11:21:58 AM PDT by stanne
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To: ClearCase_guy

Let the Dems tie their own noose from their own hand woven twine.


33 posted on 10/17/2017 11:22:51 AM PDT by PSUGOP
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To: LS
This comment by Scott Adams cracked me up a couple of days ago ....

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Scott Adams‏Verified account @ScottAdamsSays Oct 10

Any President who can't handle multiple disasters and still mock his enemies while tweeting on the toilet is no president of mine.

34 posted on 10/17/2017 11:24:57 AM PDT by Qiviut (Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMP)
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To: RoosterRedux
What I didn't see in the article was any mention of Gorsuch.

Two more SCOTUS appointments and the nation will benefit for a generation or more. I am a part of Trump's base whose support will be practically unaffected by any other failures, most of which can be laid at the feet of RINOs like McCain.

35 posted on 10/17/2017 11:37:58 AM PDT by William Tell
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To: RoosterRedux

VDH coming around at last. It’s been a hard road for him and he’s still a ways to go.
Like his ideality/practicality struggle.


36 posted on 10/17/2017 11:39:38 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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>>>> VDH coming around at last.

Indeed.

Despite his numerous word jabs at DJT (you can't fake like or dislike), we still love VDH.

37 posted on 10/17/2017 11:50:04 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: LS

VDH totally “gets” that the dust-ups are distractions and sideshows. At least that’s my take-away from the whole article, basically. Maybe I’m wrong...


38 posted on 10/17/2017 11:51:23 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (A person's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Ditto: VDH's observation that Trump is effectively blocking the opposition so his appointees can get on doing what he wants them to do is brilliant.

Pruitt is dismantling the EPA, something that would be the subject of weeks of groaning in the MSM if it weren't for their constantly being distracted by Trump.

39 posted on 10/17/2017 11:55:21 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: LS

No James Watt Fiasco’s. In the past the people that we like they were getting the job done in the Regulatory Agencies were getting isolated and then cut off. Under Trump he is taking all the arrows and we have people running the agencies that are getting the job done like Pruitt. If Trump were respectable than true it would have gotten isolated and kicked out. This article really points this out in a way that makes me appreciate him even more


40 posted on 10/17/2017 11:56:23 AM PDT by BRL
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