Posted on 10/29/2018 11:25:07 AM PDT by Rustybucket
Edited on 10/29/2018 11:45:02 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
This commentary is IMO honest and frank and leads to many interesting side discussions. My comment is that the red tide is indeed happening, people are just not talking about it. Some are afraid to put up signs, because of the property damage that seems to go along with posting a sign, but they show up at the ballot box. They won't wear a Maga hat because of the violence that seems to encourage, but they have one in their home. This is really sad. The reason it will be a red tide, is because many on both sides of the isle are sick and tired of just what this article articulately describes...See if you don't agree...
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
The mayor of Livermore California explains Trump’s popularity and success.
This is perhaps the best explanation for Trump's popularity ....
Marshall Kamena is a registered Democrat and was elected mayor of Livermore, CA. He ran on the democratic ticket as he knew a Bay Area city would never vote for a Republican. He is as conservative as they come. He wrote the following:
Trump’s 'lack of decorum, dignity, and statesmanship' By Marshall Kamena, Mayor of Livermore, CA.
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 take-over 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.. 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 & Bernardine Dohrn), 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!
“First Wartime President in the Culture War”.
A very apt description.
Link?
“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!”
We have Freepers still upset about Trump addressing the realities described in this oped, because he is not a gentleman, who allows the left wing mobs to say and do anything.
“Donald Trump is America ’s first wartime president in the Culture War.”
Very true!
The right man in the right place at the right time, IMHO!
MAGA! :)
Wow. Nice letter!
This is exactly what has them so incensed: Trump has turned some of their own tactics against them, and he’s BETTER at them!
Amen - there has to be some finality for the Mobs to cease ...
This was originally by Evan Sayet.
Original article by Evan Sayet:
https://townhall.com/columnists/evansayet/2017/07/13/he-fights-n2354580
Awesome article but the anonymous emailer has mis-attributed the source/origin: it is a published article by Evan Sayet:
https://townhall.com/columnists/evansayet/2017/07/13/he-fights-n2354580
WOW
Thanks for posting this!
Ping
Can’t believe there’s an honest Democrat still in CA.
This is good.
Thanks for posting.
Pinging reaganaut1, this may give you a clue.
That makes more sense than a Democrat from CA writing this.
He is brilliant at communications and messaging and he is executing a very sophisticated and carefully targeted media campaign to counter a pervasive , coordinated propaganda disinformation campaign by his political opponents and the media ( but I repeat myself) that would have made the Soviet era KGB green with envy
And the President is winning and gaining support even with strong critics and Never Trumpers that initially opposed him, which is driving his opponents crazy
Yep. But it’s like the old Lincoln quote, though he was really quoting Terence, “You can’t believe everything you read on the internet.”
And I stopped wearing my red Ferrari cap for the same reason. (No, I don't own a Ferrari; the cap was a gift).
Grant was not a drunk, although he may have gotten drunk from time to time. He did what he had to do. Fight to win. He was a two-term president surrounded by crooks and never- Granters. Pres. Grant and Pres. Trump would be best friends.
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