Be Thankful for What Trump Is Not

PJ Media ^ | 4 Jun, 2017 | ANDREW KLAVAN

[MtnClimber]

I sometimes wonder: How many people are really stupid enough to believe in the insane religion of the left? Outside of our idiot intellectual elite, I mean. Outside of the knuckleheads on the New York Times op-ed page, or the buffoons who give literary awards to Ta-Nehisi Coates, or the jackasses who serve as administrators of universities. I can't believe that any substantial number of regular people are as moronic as these folks, that any substantial number really believe that, say, gender is a social construct or Islam is a religion of peace or socialism improves lives or man-made climate change threatens the existence of humanity.

This week, I entertained myself for an idle hour with some leftist reactions to President Trump's withdrawal from the environmentally useless and economically harmful Paris climate accord. "A traitorous act of war against the American people," thoughtfully opined leftist billionaire Tom Steyer. "Your kids are gonna die from climate change," was the sober judgement of Vice News editor Chelsey Coombs. "The United States resigned as leader of the Free World," was the sage assessment of CNN's Fareed Zakaria..........

Which is why this au revoir to Paris is so encouraging. By withdrawing from the accord, Trump proves he is not susceptible to the influence of the usual knuckleheads. He seems deaf to the echo chamber, indifferent to media acceptance, immune to the atmosphere. In fact, some of the very things that make Trump unappealing to gentle folk like me — his belligerence, his recklessness, his bullish and even bullying insistence on his own vision — are also what sometimes lift him above the Leftist Crazy that so addles the intelligentsia.

[MtnClimber]

Now if we could only clean up congress.

[JimBianchi11]

NOT Hillary!

[MtnClimber]

Not a crypto muslim marxist.

[Migraine]

Trump owes nobody anything. That is why he is the only person who could have done what he is trying to do.

For a couple of decades, it has been about all ideology, all the time. The left and their lackeys on the milquetoast side of the GOP-e have had it all their way. Now, suddenly, they are losing, their control mechanisms are not working; this frustrates them, and they are freaking out.

They have NOTHING to offer, so they just lie and throw fits. They don’t know what else to do. Those who are saying the lefties and the establishment types are making the case for Trump 2020 are spot-on.

[impactplayer]

I have neighbors who have CNN on 24/7. That’s all they know about the world. I have learned not even to discuss anything different - their minds have been made up for them, and I value them as neighbors.

[McGavin999]

I love that he’s a bull in a China shop. He loves this country and he loves the people. All of them. So what if his edges are rough, so what if he sometimes says the wrong things. That is why he is so endearing and we just shake our heads, grin and chuckle.

[AFreeBird]

The swamp is broad and deep. And yea, swamps aren’t usually all that deep. But this one is.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I have neighbors who have CNN on 24/7.

Where's their house? In an airport terminal?

[FrdmLvr]

I think of him as a big-hearted, well-intentioned, hard-working, sometimes goofy dad who always ends up being right,

[impactplayer]

No - but they do change to Wheel of Fortune when it comes on. Other than that, it’s all CNN. She sleeps in a recliner and leaves the TV on all night.

No help in sight.

But that was good about the airport!

[McGavin999]

That’s a perfect description.

[dr_lew]

— his belligerence, his recklessness, his bullish and even bullying insistence on his own vision —

This is exactly what galvanized me to vote for him, ... in so many words ! ...

I saw it as a brash, fearless, clarity of vision.

[plain talk]

On the “bull in a China shop” part I would quibble a bit with you there. Certainly trump’s image is a bull in a China shop and he can certainly be that way. However I would offer that trump has tempered himself since getting to be President and has laid back a bit. I think he has exercised restraint for someone used to being CEO. It takes patience to drain a swamp.

[dr_lew]

I think he has exercised restraint for someone used to being CEO.

Well, the POTUS is the CEO of the nation, and I think it is precisely his experience in the halls of executive power that have trained him for this position at the highest level.

[DoodleBob]

I posted this pro forma assessment a little while ago (thanks to HarleyLady27 for the Trump actuals), and I've updated it. It's worth repeating:

– Under President Clinton, The Nation Has lost 317,000 Nonfarm Jobs, and the unemployment rate has risen from 4.8% to 5.4% (Bureau Of Labor Statistics , Accessed 4/12/17)

– Hillary has expanded the U.S. debt burden by $101 billion dollars since taking office (ED NOTE: total debt is actually down $101bn since Trump took office, and was up $289bn during the same period in 2016).

– The Philly Fed Index, a survey of how well manufacturers are doing and the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index are at their lowest levels in decades. Meanwhile the stock market keeps treading water.

– The Carrier plant in Indiana shut down, and Hasbro is to start making play-doh in Turkey.

– President Hillary Clinton signed an executive order expanding Obama’s onerous regulations on the coal industry while giving away billions to solar firms.

– Hillary worked with Democrats and scared Republicans into approving the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal.

– Illegal immigration from Mexico is up 40 per cent in Hillary's first month, as the concept of a Wall lives on only in Pink Floyd's discography.

– Madame President issued an executive order to bolster “sanctuary cities” by accelerating federal funds to cities that harbor criminal illegal aliens.

– Obamacare is cemented into Leviathan like the IRS.

– Merrick Garland wrote the 5-4 opinion gutting the Second Amendment.

- Hillary killed the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Keystone Pipeline.

– Hillary increased funding for international abortions.

– Hillary ordered the DOJ to move with “flank speed" on a motion filed by former President Barack Obama seeking to allow transgender students in public schools to use the restroom with which they identify.

-Hillary appointed Comey as a Special Prosecutor to investigate Trump and Russia.

-Comey's replacement is First Daughter, Chelsea Clinton.

-Hillary doubled America's $1bn contribution to the Paris Climate fund, and ignored Congress' calls to end involvement in the Treaty, saying "Elections have consequences...you lost."

-Bill Clinton addressed the crowd at the Arianna Grande benefit concert in Manchester, telling them "You never know what causes someone to murder another person, even if some alleged religious organizations claims responsibility (unless they're Catholic, then we know they're guilty)." The former president then tripped and fell into the photographer's pit, yelling "All I need is....LOVIN'!"

-A bandaged Bill Clinton joined London's Mayor in a press conference after the knife attacks on London Bridge, agreeing with the Mayor that this was yet another workplace violence situation best handled by Scotland Yard.

You get the idea. If not, maybe this will remind you of how close we came to the edge:

[dr_lew]

I agree. Democracy in action!

"In the night, a shovel of stars overhead for keeps, the people march ..."

Sandburg had no clue!

[plain talk]

Yep. Trump has learned on the job extremely fast — much faster than any other President in my lifetime. I expected fireworks and instead what I have seen is a savvy seasoned and patient President.

[Cobra64]

I do not associate with people like your neighbors. Who needs them? The country sure as hell does not need them. They are destructive to our country.

[Cobra64]

Sleeps in a recliner, huh?

Sounds like a scene out of Animal House.