Posted on 06/20/2016 10:59:03 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell
Let me be clear ... it is essential for the recovery of the free American republic that Donald Trump should be the next president. This realization alone should be the foundation of the campaign this summer and autumn.
To some extent, the election turns on the issue of whether or not Hillary Clinton is even minimally qualified to be president. The current office holder was not and has not become qualified, but protected by an elitist class of apologists, he has clung to that bare minimum of public support required to avoid stronger scrutiny that would surely lead to impeachment.
This has been an eight-year crisis for the survival of the United States of America in a recognizable form. Of course, the nation will not disappear just because it is poorly governed. But it could be so reduced as an economic, military and political force that it would become "de facto" a sort of colony of the globalist elite which is partly located within its boundaries and partly in the rest of the world.
This is what some other western nations want for themselves and they can have it. For example, in my home country of Canada, the people have essentially surrendered self-government to an unelected globalist elite who run just about everything by secret committee, the parliament is used simply to rubber-stamp their decisions. And most people know this, and refuse to lift a finger to change anything, because they have been brainwashed to accept that elitist policy is right for them, that their own political class is irrelevant and should just take orders.
This is also essentially how Barack Obama governs. However, there is an overtone of excessive denial of the radical Islamist agenda. Globalism may or may not choose in the future to oppose the Islamist agenda. At the moment they tend to get along because both are working to weaken the national sovereignty of free nations.
This is the world that Donald Trump enters, and proposes to change. The problem so far has been an insufficient articulation of what that problem is, and how he would change things. People who already support Trump get most of this (or all of it) and instinctively recognize that Trump would be their only viable option, not so much because of what he has declared as the sure probability that he could not be anywhere near as big a risk as Hillary Clinton.
Make no mistake, Hillary Clinton will accelerate the reversal of independence that underscores the sellout of the national sovereignty of America (and any other free country) to the globalist elite. She will dress it up as a progressive agenda to "modernize" the country, which is just code for completion of the colonialization -- it is no longer the case that the United Nations has an office in America, but that the United States is run from the United Nations, in effect.
Trump, therefore, needs to stand very firm on this central principle -- America is a free and sovereign nation, a republic with division of powers, but all of these resting with the will of the people. Not a globalist elite or their business front on Wall Street, but the American people from coast to coast. This may take more than just an election, but it must start with that election of an alternative kind of president, one who is aware of the meaning of the constitution, who is ready to defend the constitution, and who is able to unite the American people against their prospective overlords.
The situation has been described as revolutionary, but any sensible analysis will show that it is actually counter-revolutionary. There is an ongoing revolution against the established constitutional order. That is what Democratic politics since about 1964 has been all about, and the trend accelerates with every change of leadership.
Republican politics have been too much concerned with accommodation, with moderating the pace of change, rather than confronting the trends and reversing them.
Special interest groups, including tiny but very influential sexual-deviance groups, demand that all levels of government bow down to their demands, sometimes within days of them being first enunciated.
A false scientific principle, overinflated and hyped up well beyond its limits of uncertainty, is used to push the economy off track so that taxation can be increased to fuel an ever-growing public sector. This is really the only actual justification for the climate change myth.
The national government blindly seeks to pull in hundreds of thousands of unsuitable migrants from war zones in Asia and Africa who have shown no large potential to integrate into American life. When anyone complains about this, they are labelled racist, but at some point it becomes a matter of national survival rather than political choices. The same can be said for the rapidly dissolving border between the U.S.A. and Mexico. No great nation can survive the wound of an undeclared and undefended border especially when, on the other side of that border, one can easily see that there are millions (more) prospective migrants with no loyalty whatsoever to the constitution or values of this country
Trump needs to be very clear on these points. I think he has been on some, and certainly is in a good position to launch a full scale campaign on them.
Some things are not negotiable. Bringing in thousands of unsuitable, potentially violent migrants is national suicide. Allowing millions of economic migrants, most of them illegal, will further undermine the economy and social services. It all needs to stop, and in this next presidential term. And we need to stand up to the climate zealots and explain, patiently but forcefully, that their bluff has been called and that we can live with the climate we already have, thank you very much. The alternative is to pave over most of the country with unproductive wind farms and largely useless mega-projects for solar energy. Wind energy is a harmful and destructive concept that has done far more harm than good. Solar energy might work one day on a large scale and experimentation should be encouraged, but there is no panic on this, oil reserves are still quite large, natural gas is in abundant supply.
Basically, the foundation of Trump's path to victory is pretty obvious -- restore adult supervision, respect the constitution, make rational decisions -- the three Rs.
With Clinton (or Sanders) it would be the three S's ... socialism, sexual dysfunction, and stupidity.
And as somebody who started out the political season supporting Ted Cruz (and I still admire the man's core political principles), I am calling for a total coming together of all forces within the conservative movement.
It is too important to the survival of the free American republic to take any other position.
“Let me be clear ... it is essential for the recovery of the free American republic that Donald Trump should be the next president. This realization alone should be the foundation of the campaign this summer and autumn.”
Wow, no one ever said that here before. What an original insight.
What is your point and you failed to actually say how Trump wins.
Trump, therefore, needs to stand very firm on this central principle -- America is a free and sovereign nation, a republic with division of powers, but all of these resting with the will of the people.
C'mon now, I realize Hitlery supporters have a hard time reading, but geeze, it's right there!
I know people here get this, my primary motivation is to create the possibility of a quotable opinion piece that can go out beyond the reservation, so to speak.
Trump wins by hammering these points in all possible ways, on the campaign trail, in advertising, and in debates.
And he should avoid side-track issues, for example, what Bill Clinton did in his term, or Elizabeth Warren’s claimed native blood. These can only serve to whip up support in an already firm base of support. But what is actually needed is a broadening of the base of support. Trump has no problem with the loyalty of those who want him elected. He has a problem (according to polls) with the numbers of possible voters who get any of these fundamental points. The only way to grow that base is to speak forcefully and consistently for the rest of the election season with a very narrow focus on the biggest issues. But I will concede that most of this will be obvious around here.
Trump is losing badly to Hillary right at the moment.
Wish I was wrong, but I don’t think so.
Can’t be a Trump Supporter, we are ‘low information’ voters, didn’t ‘graduate from first grade’, have ‘low paying jobs’....I guess that’s why Hillary voters get this, right? /s
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan
Everybody who is not politically neutral or a complete moron roughly falls in the following 5 categories regarding Trump:
Supporters think Trump: 1) will save the nation, 2) will destroy the status-quo
Opponents think Trump: 3) will destroy the party, 4) is not a conservative, 5) is too unstable to lead
Camps #1 and #2 are already in his bag. Also, camp #5 is never going to vote for him. So, he has to work with two camps, #3 and #4, to minimize their impact.
Those who fear that Trump will destroy the party (#3) need to be made aware that the party is either going to be fine with Trump — even made “better”. Those who think #4 that Trump is not conservative need to be made aware that he is far more conservative than progressive Hellary.
Hillary is not going to win the Independent vote and her numbers will come back to about 42% of the vote.
She is not to get many of the Sander voters, who will stay home or vote Trump.
The only way “Trump wins” is by getting more electoral college votes than any other candidate. Why anyone would believe this bulletin from Captain Obvious requires yet another concatenated vanity post is beyond me.
This is an excellent analysis, one of the best I’ve read. Well done.
Actually, I think you may have hit on something here, maybe Captain Obvious would be a great campaign theme for Donald Trump. Even better, Captain Obvious and Mr Clean as a gay couple?
Mr. Trump could remove his hair-thing and run in the persona of either one.
Trump is kicking her @ss. She OWNS the polls, you have to look at the supposed gap between them and remember Trump isn't supposed to be anywhere close. IMHO, in the REAL polls, he's already 20% ahead. And Bernie voters are never going to for for her - they are not "Democrats." They are a whole new breed of college-created socialist purists, and to them Hillary is just another capitalist warmongering pig. They'll vote for Trump before they vote for her, and most of them will refuse to vote at all out of sheer rage that the bitch stole the nomination from their hero.
Take a pill, jeez. You're the one in the rat hole - climb out, don't project it.
“Trump, therefore, needs to stand very firm on this central principle — America is a free and sovereign nation, a republic with division of powers, but all of these resting with the will of the people.”
I take it back. You did eventually get to the part about how Trump wins.
Why not start with that?
One reason Trump has won and will win is he gets right to the point.
“The only way to grow that base is to speak forcefully and consistently for the rest of the election season with a very narrow focus on the biggest issues.”
I agree with this too.
Clinton the male version had one brilliant idea when he ran: he was transfixed on “its the economy, stupid”. Trump needs to focus on; 1) the economy; 2) the dangers of unlimited immigration; and 3) illegal government takeover of many private business functions via regulation. This stuff about some judge in a private lawsuit ad the name calling of opponents is distracting, it gets the headlines from a gleeful media and it makes Trump look un-serious about leading this country. Whoever takes over from Lewandowski as campaign chief needs to understand and apply this.
Not a bad post. I would argue you’re four years too late though. We live in a country that elected the most liberal member of a senate that includes Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders to the highest office in the land.
You can argue that McCain was a flawed candidate. You can argue that Romney was a flawed candidate. But the fact is this country elected Barack Hussein Obama twice.
Elections are now about producers vs. freeloaders and the freeloaders are multiplying, immigrating, and educating our young.
“The only way “Trump wins” is by getting more electoral college votes than any other candidate. “
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