Posted on 12/23/2018 8:44:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump was a political neophyte in June 2015. Those of us who backed him that summer – and who remain his core base to this day – did so due to his genuine love for America, his bare-knuckles style, and his insistence on uttering politically-incorrect truths. We believed in him, loved his independent mind, and adored his total disdain for political pieties and the supercilious elite.
Nothing has changed. We still love him, but watching him hire so many people who reject his core beliefs has been enormously frustrating. Surrounding oneself with ideological clones is not always wise. Hiring a few individuals, therefore, to offer a contrasting viewpoint on various issues would be understandable – even welcome. But Trump has gone way beyond that. He hasn’t just hired a few outliers. Aside from an exceptional few, virtually everyone in his inner circle disagrees with him.
To refresh readers’ memories, here’s a list of unorthodox ideas Trump proposed during the campaign, which electrified his base and horrified the establishment. All potential appointees to Trump’s administration in the future should be forced to read this list. If they don’t agree with at least 80 percent of the items, they shouldn’t be hired:
1) Stop wasting billions of dollars fighting useless wars overseas.
2) Keep the oil.
3) Impose a temporary ban on all Muslims entering this country.
4) Torture terrorists.
5) Consider killing members of terrorists’ families.
6) Build a very tall wall between the United States and Mexico.
7) Force Mexico to pay for it.
8) Stop giving citizenship to anchor babies.
9) Deport many of the illegal immigrants currently in the United States.
10) Draw closer to Russia.
11) Consider leaving NATO.
12) Make South Korea pay for the cost of American troops stationed there.
We didn’t vote for Trump because he was a regular Republican. We voted for him because he was a decidedly unorthodox one. We voted for him because his heroes were the brilliant and ruthless Generals Douglas MacArthur and George Patton. We voted for him because he repeated with relish the tale of General “Black Jack” Pershing killing 49 terrorists with bullets dipped in pigs’ blood.
How many people working for Trump today cheered when he told that story? How many applauded when he announced his Muslim ban? How many enjoyed watching his rallies? How many reflexively took Trump’s side – not the media’s – during all the contrived scandals of the 2016 campaign?
Not everyone working for Trump has to agree with him. But most do. And if he cannot find anyone among the elite who agrees with him – thanks to a half-century of liberal control of public schools, universities, the media, and Hollywood – let him look elsewhere. Perhaps take a page from William Buckley’s book and hire the first 2,000 people in Boston’s telephone book. Let him hire truck drivers if he has to. But he must stop swimming in the swamp he promised to drain.
President Trump, your core voters still adore you and bless Almighty God that you’re president. Every day, you battle liberals who detest you and will do anything to destroy you. We love how you fight back. Many of us would literally take a bullet for you. But we voted – not just for your style – but for your ideas too. And as talented as you are, you cannot properly implement your vision for America if most people around you think you’re crazy.
Trump, stop listening to your liberal children and their liberal spouses. They are sinking you.
His daughter and her spouse just won him tons of votes.
Completely agree with this article.
An appeal to heaven - show us the best.
How many Senate seats can we steal in 2020? NH possibly if it’s with a full court press. If immigration and the wall ate THE issue we can win one. Health care is different. His plan will have to cover EVERYBODY(emphasis). Millenials will need a different retirement plan. I say time is ripe for the next Contract.
Hire ideological allies? What a novel idea!
Hire the best, period. Review and replace if necessary. Meritocracy.
Ivanka and Jared are proving to be solid assets, and anyone who can’t trust Trump is just an undeclared NeverTrumper.
Alabama and Va. Need top tier candidates-unlikely.
I could be wrong, and please correct me, but I don't think Trump said "ban all Muslims"
Nor did he say we must "draw closer to Russia".
I KNOW he said ban people who *happen* to be Muslims who come from terrorist supporting countries.
If Lutherans were trying to sneak into the US and had terrorist ties, he'd ban them.
And what's wrong with that?
The fastest car and the best driver are worthless if they refuse to take you where you want to go. They are worse than worthless if they will lie to you about where they intend to go. No one was prepared to deal with this unprecedented level of opposition from the GOPe, who claim to be on the same damn side.
Thank God for Trump for exposing all of this. He’s got a 100 balls in the air and is still getting things done
The current state of our government is so corrupt that the good people of this country are going to have to get involved. We need mass protests, nation wide strikes, and generally gumming up the works on a massive scale. I thought Trump could do it but now its getting clear that he doesn’t have a friend in the room. There is a massive conspiracy involving all centers of power in this country to destroy Trump. The problem is much deeper than a personnel problem.
The truth is, anyone not willing to be photographed in a MAGA hat cannot be trusted to support Trump
Nope, all he said was that we're tired of paying full weight for the vast majority of NATO funding.
The rest of NATO has been paying a relative pittance, while WE take on the freight of our soldiers getting killed to protect their worthless butts.
“I do not coexist with cancer; I do not find common ground with gangrene. The Left must be fought and destroyed, or America dies.”
Agree with the basic premise but not with the list of Trump proposals. Some of these had been changed well before the election. For example, any ban on all muslims was dropped long ago. And I’m not sure that “draw closer to Russia” is accurate.
He’s got tremendous power under the upgraded Patriot Act. He’s got to defang/neutralize the MSM, activist judges, politiicans and educators. May God give him wisdom, strength, courage, and empowerment beyond what we can envision to do what truly needs to be done.
>>“I do not coexist with cancer; I do not find common ground with gangrene. The Left must be fought and destroyed, or America dies.”
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Stark, real truth.
He is still the President. If his subordinates don't carry out his directives, he can force the issue. Which is exactly what he just did over Syria. Now the military has to follow through on his directive to get out of Syria whether they like it or not.
How about Trump carefully vetting these people instead of talking them up like they are the best people to ever have lived, right up to the day they betray him. So and so is a great guy! Every turd was at some point “a great guy”. Kinda sickening to throw such accolades around just to stroke egos.
Jeff Sessions was a “great guy” at one point, and yet he really wasn’t.
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