Posted on 03/21/2020 7:42:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Our concern about Donald Trump in the campaign of 2016 was not about his personal morals. The ultimate choice to vote for him was made easier by the manifest political criminality of Hillary Clinton. And his emergence as an America First, America-loving president was a welcome relief after the apology tour presidency of Barack Obama.
The concern about Donald Trump was that he had no ideological core. His public political persona was that of a fairly standard liberal Democrat from New York, but one smart enough over his career to shift around and play both sides of the political aisle as necessary to support his business interests and ambitions.
But the problem with a leader with no ideological core surfaces in a time of crisis. He will display who he really is. Which may include a lot of good parts—i.e., he may have the street smarts of a New York real estate developer, and he may have an insightful and creative mind for addressing big challenges. But with no governing philosophy developed over years of deeper thinking, he may not have that ‘true north’ of wisdom that filters and shapes the right steps to take to protect America.
That surely sounds like heresy to the mainstream Trump supporter, especially on the surface of evaluating his performance in handling the CCP Virus crisis. Because on that surface, Trump appears masterful: facing the cameras every day, demonstrating a president in command; offering confidence that America will prevail; and exercising the far-reaching powers of the Presidency to ‘care’ for Americans on a scale that no one would confuse with a philosophy of limited government. His use of unprecedented wartime powers is winning praise from CNN’s Dana Bash, from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and from Squad member Ilhan Omar
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America has never been brought to her knees to the level happening right now, on Trump’s watch. Not in the Civil War. Not in WWI or WWII, and certainly not at any time during the Cold War. Forty million Californians sheltered in place—by order of an American government official? Schools closed from coast to coast; and restaurants closed in every major state…by order of American government officials? And movements toward gun control and limited rights to gather—by order of American government officials? And nationalized healthcare achieved in important practical respects without the inconvenience of having to pass laws?
And all of this to fight a pandemic of still unclear comparative seriousness that originated in anti-American communist China, and is being cheered on, magnified and roiled relentlessly by the anti-American left, including especially the MSM.
If this isn’t a deliberate plot to take down America and every safeguard of American freedom, how would it look different if it was?
Democrats doing what 5th Columns always try to do.
China declared war on us while the China Dems and the China Media were cheering on Impeachment, before that, China was cheering Russia Russia Russia
Our enemy is China 100%
They have been exposed
And yes, we were played, but worse, we were infiltrated by the Chinese and the Dems sold their party to them and well the Media. The enemy is here DNC CNN MSNBC are America’s enemy and are China’s allies
I do agree to some extent.
South Korea has basically beaten this virus with none of the draconian measures of Italy or America.
The Diamond Princess cruise ship... basically a floating petri dish of old people...had about a 20% infection rate and few deaths.
Well regardless of human intentions of our government, at the end of the day God has a role in this too. (And the Devil.) But God ultimately has jurisdiction over the Devil too. And God is using this unusual reality, and allowing for this perceived reality of doom. To accomplish something. And to get Christians out of our complacent stupor.
And perhaps not standing up for our right to gather for church even in the midst of this pandemic is something that is to our shame as Christians. (?)
What HAS happened is that political considerations have forced him to react to a ridiculous, infantile public hysteria that has been fanned by the media. It really is a no-win situation. But he’s been smart keeping the right balance: Take charge and maintain the confidence of the public, but let mayors and governors take all the blame for all the excessive totalitarian sh!t that is ultimately going to outrage the citizenry the most.
(Link is to a six minute video from the "Last Night of the Proms," 2009)
Now we cower before mental midgets.
ML/NJ
(Link is to a six minute video from the "Last Night of the Proms," 2009)
Now we cower before mental midgets.
ML/NJ
I know that followers of a particular letter that I cannot name says otherwise.
EXCELLENT summation !!
ML/NJ
America has never had so little common sense.
Bingo.
We are Not being brought to our knees!!
We are RISING ABOVE THIS CRISIS!!
Nope.
Trump will get all the blame, and none of the credit.
That’s SOP in today’s America.
If this shutdown will help us begin weaning off of China, it may be of some good; however, prolonged continuation could cripple/weaken the US for a long time. I am wondering if we are seeing the biological equivalent of the global warming stupidity. I guess we’ll see if current political leadership will pull us out of this nose dive or let us crash and burn.
Democrats have been rooting for the economy to tank ever since it became clear they were not going to take down Trump by other means. Dems would love to have 10 percent unemployment and a stock market under 10,000 by election day. Democrat governors shutting down whole states will try to blame Trump’s response for the pandemic, but whether or not that charge sticks to Trump, the situation has given them cover to sabotage the economy. That’s the strategy. And if democrats win in November, they will take advantage of an economic crisis to go full socialist.
Even if the virus was engineered and/or deliberately introduced to harm Trump’s re-election chances, it will blow up in the faces of the instigators just as every ploy has so far. One indication of the divine hand’s steering is how the left is destroying itself. Every attempt from day one through impeachment has instead turned 180 degrees around to ridicule or harm the Dems and the left. An enemy destroying itself as the Democrats have demonstrates the nature of spiritual retribution better than anything originating directly from Trump (not to ignore Trump’s refusal to acquiesce and the prayers of tens of millions of Americans past and present).
I still fear that the innocent are harmed along with the bad, but I’m somewhat heartened by the belief that a better good may come from it.
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