[DoodleBob]

We need to be honest. Trump was a great President, helped make America great again, stopped Hillary, and lots of other magnificent things.

But seriously, Trump's Achilles is his personnel instincts. They're a virtual dumpster fire. Sessions, the Mooch, Bolton, Tillersn, Mattis, Giuliani, McCabe, Nikki Haley, Sally Yates, Flynn, Hope Hicks, Reince Priebus, Rod Rosenstein. Oh, and Pence...and endorsing McCarthy. And PA and this nonsense.

And this is not an inconsequential Achilles. Indeed, picking Rudy to lead the stolen election charge was a disaster. He may have been America's Mayor but he was out of his league when arguing cases. In fact he was by many accounts hung over and that's why his hair dye was trickling down his face. Maybe that deck was stacked against him, but our "ace" pitcher had no heat and the skipper kept him on the mound out of loyalty.

Ignoring a problem won't make it go away, and this is a big problem. Re-electing Trump is tough enough, but I don't want to spend four years crossing my fingers on him selecting competent pit bulls to administer MAGA.

[Erik Latranyi]

We need to be honest. Trump was a great President, helped make America great again, stopped Hillary, and lots of other magnificent things. But seriously, Trump's Achilles is his personnel instincts. They're a virtual dumpster fire.

I could not agree more.

Trump seems to only care about his "endorsement score" in 2022 instead of only backing those who backed him and backing the opponents of those who opposed him.

I have very little faith that Trump will drain the swamp given his first term and now his endorsements in 2022.

[poconopundit]

When your goal is to destroy the Uniparty and Deep State cartel, personnel choices are an exercise is stretching your political power as far as you are can at any particular moment.

Personnel decisions are mere stepping stones to gaining more power.  Better to look at the actual RESULTS Trump achieved with his great reforms, tax cuts, tariffs, and foreign affairs breakthroughs.

Pence, the traitor, was probably the best RINO concession Trump could make to drive forward his agenda.

Emerson said something about this philosophy of driving your ambition forward:

Commerce is a game of skill, which every man cannot play, which few men can play well.  The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity to facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen.  He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic.

There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune, and so, in making money.  Men talk as if there were some magic about this, and believe in magic, in all parts of life.  He knows, that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent, -- for every effect a perfect cause, -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

He insures himself in every transaction, and likes small and sure gains. Probity and closeness to the facts are the basis, but the masters of the art add a certain long arithmetic.  The problem is, to combine many and remote operations, with the accuracy and adherence to the facts, which is easy in near and small transactions; so to arrive at gigantic results, without any compromise of safety.

Wealth from The Conduct of Life (1860, rev. 1876)

BTW, the Deep State knows how to put certain people (like JFK) in danger who cause a "compromise of safety" to the tyrannical powers that run our federal government.