I’m still not counting out a Trump/Sessions rope-a-dope and taking the DNC down for the count.
“I’m still not counting out a Trump/Sessions rope-a-dope and taking the DNC down for the count.”
Me either. I don’t even think it’s a super clever 3D chess plan or anything - just common sense; Trump knows it’s far better politically if he can get his enemies to self-destruct.
A full-on prosecutorial attack by his AG and DOJ, and a string of firings to purge the deep state from his administration, would have been too easy for the Left to counter. That would have played right into the narrative they have been constructing from the beginning.
The Obama FBI and DOJ, the DNC and its propaganda ministry, the MSM, have conspired from the beginning to use fake intelligence, illegal spying and frame ups, blackmail and bribery, and leaks to its allies in the press, to launch a massive misinformation campaign to frame Donald Trump, first as an unfit candidate, then as an illegitimate POTUS.
The frame-up has centered around two narratives that the DNC believed would be damaging to Trump’s public image: 1) that he conspired with Russians to “steal” the election by hacking into the DNC, and 2) that he is a ruthless Nixon-like authoritarian, bent on obstructing any investigation into his wrongdoings by any means necessary, including mass firings and prosecutotial purges of his political enemies.
It seems clear enough after a year and a half of incredible restraint on Trump’s part, that he is determined NOT to give them anything that would feed those narratives, but instead to present himself to the public as the most transparent, open book POTUS ever to occupy the White House.
Since firing Comey, Trump has remained painstakingly at arms length - this is obviously a strategic decision, and one that is working beautifully.
Trump is increasingly seen by the public as the innocent victim of a relentless political witch hunt. The Mueller investigation is widely regarded as a complete and utter failure - if anything, it has absolved him of any wrongdoing and inoculated him from further frame ups.
While the Left has remained fixated on their campaign to impeach Trump for (?), he has steadily advanced his administration’s policy agenda, virtually unapposed. The Left has been completely missing in action when it comes to debating the merits of Trump’s trade policy, his deregulation policy, his energy policy, his fiscal policy. They have failed to counter his devastatingly successful judicial appointments. Even his immigration policy is moving forward, countered only by ineffective emotional outbursts and charges that he is a racist.
The Democrats are showing the American people their ugly side and it is largely Trump’s doing. They now are on the verge of losing a midterm election that by all accounts was historically theirs for the taking.
He plays them like a fiddle.