Posted on 07/14/2019 4:09:30 AM PDT by cotton1706
It’s been barely two weeks since Donald Trump became the first American president to step onto North Korean soil, with all attendant theorizing about what the move meant, or didn’t. Was it the “biggest moment of the Trump presidency so far” and “already a political win,” as some media figures claimed? Was it, on the contrary, another sign of Trump’s “dictator envy” and “authoritarian buffoonery”? Was it a move toward peace—or war, or both, or neither, or simply more uncertainty? Who was outwitting whom?
Although it was just two weeks in the past, that moment feels like two centuries ago, given the nonstop series of crises and “Breaking News!” emergencies since then. For instance: the census showdown; the Epstein/Acosta disasters; the leaked British Ambassador cables; more rumblings about Iran and China; the horrors of migrant detention-camp conditions, and the long-threatened kickoff this weekend of ICE roundup raids.
Today I got a reminder note from a reader who had written in just after that “historic” encounter on the Korean DMZ. He argues that the uninterrupted torrent of (usually Trump-generated) emergencies since then reinforces the point he originally made.
His point involved a structural failure of analysis in the Trump years. That is: the people most accustomed to “analyzing” political actions and decisions—journalists, historians, political veterans, people who pride themselves on figuring out what is “really” going on—are the ones least able to recognize what the world is experiencing with Donald Trump.
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They are frustrated to no end.
Wait till Trump is reelected in a landslide. They won't understand that either. They'll just chalk that up to an unintelligent, racist, bigoted electorate.
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These politicians and think tank “ strategists, havent built and run a multibillion $ business and mastered the art of the deal, and thus will never understand Trump or control him. That’s why he threatens them.
The MSM will blame it on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for election fraud.
Their days are over! They are in denial about that and how they are being seen for the pompous frauds that they are!
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“No understanding” Trump?
There’s 63 million of us who understand that The Donald is the greatest patriot since Reagan — and on a trajectory to be greater still.
It is darkly comical how our ever-so-sophisticated elites can’t understand a simple idea like putting American interests first. And by that I mean the well-being of average working Americans, not the bicoastal elites.
These people are dumb as rocks...
Read.....Art of the Deal.....it not what it sounds like...it is how to work with people or against people to be able to start a project
Get Tough American...Trump is doing everything in this book
TheReal Deal not by Trump...a guy that worked with him for a long time
How Trump ran the company....
Yeah, it’s so much better to have someone like Obama in there. One who has an obvious plan that we all (all Democrats, that is) like, such as the destruction of the United States of America. Or like the current Democrats who want to increase illegal immigration to increase their voter base, ultimately resulting in: the destruction of the United States of America.
The reader, quoted by author fellows, is absolutely correct but it should be put in the proper context: the president is doing what every successful president has ever done, get to the people unfiltered by the media. Without the support of the people he is ineffectual and a failure.
I wrote this reply on July 5:
The other day I was watching the video of Trump crossing into North Korea and it suddenly occurred to me, by God, the man is stealing the election 18 months before they count the votes!
So I wrote this reply comparing Trump's image today with Lyndon Johnson's image in 1964. Nota bene: the key word is "image" not media reports.
Consider what Trump is doing to the Democrats: he opens his campaign with a rally in Florida that draws tens of thousands; he appears in Japan in one video opportunity after another with heads of state and conducts interviews and pressers; he conducts high-stakes meetings with Deng Xiaoping, the images of which the establishment media cannot ignore; he generates terrific tension about whether he will be met in North Korea where he presents an image of a president literally stepping out to make peace; he returns home and delivers a speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial to cheering thousands with waving flags and flyovers.
We see one image after another of a president being president. A president in charge. Against that we see Democrat talking heads whingeing and demanding that the viewer believe them rather than the visual evidence of their own eyes.
The president simply stealing the narrative by stealing the image. If the mainstream media has its way, that is if the election is decided on their narrative, the president will have a tough time considering the shrinking electoral college possibilities. If the election is run the way Lyndon Johnson ran in 1964, the people will undoubtedly vote for a man they see as a real president.
What these fools don’t understand is that President Trump is the greatest politician in U.S. history ... he continuously trolls the dying lying leftist fake stream enemedia and their Dem Party affiliate, deliberately feeding their hatred, and thereby driving them to self-destructive reaction, in particular provoking them to take ever more extremist leftist positions so far out of the mainstream that they’re going to be utterly crushed in the 2020 elections.
In particular, the Dems have reacted to President’s Trump’s desire to defend our country from invasion by hordes of uneducated, non-English speaking peasants by completely forgetting about the well-being of U.S. citizens, and focusing almost exclusively on foreign citizens; in other words, the Dems have reacted to President Trump’s “America First” philosophy with a “America Last” philosophy, whether they realize that’s actually what they’ve embraced or not. President Trump has provoked the Dems into themselves exposing their demagoguery and hatred of America.
In the mean time, the Dem Party is now flying apart at the seams as they attack each other like a pack of rabid dogs, hurling identity politics epithets at each other that heretofore have been reserved exclusively for attacking their enemies. In other words, President Trump as provoked the Dems into being their own enemies.
They can’t understand because their stuck on stupid
This is a typical make shit up about someone else piece of garbage.
I agree with your take on this. The liberals are constantly off balance because Trump is not a typical politician that plays their games.
DJT may be overestimating his powers, but he believes getting to know world leaders will pay off. I believe him.
Poor Jame Fallows. He is one of those failed analysts who can find his own ass.
now add what i just said to what you just said:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3763866/posts#12
They just have never been the same since Jack Thornton died.
They are over thinking everything
Trump went to North Korea
His message was to others...... If I went, you can too
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