I hope the rest of the Republicans wake up and start following Trump lead. You can’t play “nice” with these people.
I love that Trump fights back. Bush was so disappointing in that respect, the media kept piling on and his admin was silent. I heard more from Dick Cheney after the Bush Admin than during!
The author sounds as weak and hesitant as the romney of 47% fame that he criticizes in his article.
He wants to boldy say that Trump’s unaplogetic and counterpunching nature is exactly what the world needs, but he tempers it by saying Trump is a loose cannon.
Thus, instead of being a Trump-like lion, he is nothing more than a squeamish romney-style loser.
Why do so many Trump supporters feel it’s necessary to condemn him before admiring him? It’s the same old, same old: “Sure, he’s vulgar, disgusting, awful, hateful and I stay awake nights embarrassed by the things he has said, but by-jingo! I then get up and realize he may actually be right.” To use a Jim Robinson expression: Knock it off!
For the longest time I have been telling anyone who will listen that we needed a candidate who could talk past or completely bypass the media, and with the leftists’ little Twitter and FBook Donald has done that. Has to drive them nuts!
Ever since the McGovernites took over the party 44 years ago, they have been fighting a war with us, and we have been holding political debates with them, so we won the ideological debate and they got everything they wanted.
In a war, you win by executing superior force as defined by the enemy’s terms, and in the present war of domestic politics the terms of engagement are personal, hand-to-hand conflict. Trump won, and continues to win, because he fights the MSM, Dems, and the Two Families (Chicago and Chappequa) the way they have been fighting us, with the main difference being that most of his salvos have been truthful attacks, while most of the left’s are lies, and that’s why his is superior force. Reagan did the same thing but with a smile and an “aw gee shucks” feel, but Trump is Grant/Halsey/Patton/LeMay-esque in his open determination to overcome the foe. Cruz would have debated the left to death (and I was a Cruzer all the way to Indiana), but Trump just goes for the carotid and lets fly.
It is only partly Trump.
The main reason the media no longer controls the debate is the new media, like Twitter, is an alternate way to get information out.
Trump was able to take advantage of the new media to break the stranglehold on information flow that the establishment media had for decades. It has been building for years.
It has not happened sooner, because conventional politicians could not figure out how to use the new media to full advantage. The closest was Ted Cruz. He used new media to get elected to the Senate.
I think this analysis is spot on. Trump reframed the debate when he announced his intention to run. The Republican primary and the general were debated on Trump’s terms.
The Left and the MSM still don’t get it. Hopefully the GOPe has finally been hit on the head with the Trump sledge hammer often and hard enough.
Attempting to work with the left is like Israel trying to work with Palestinians.
Trump, as we all know, doesn’t back down. This is why the far-left machine has become so insane in recent weeks.
It's been beautiful watching this, and it is happening everywhere! Trump and his people are punching back and the left doesn't know what to do. They're simply not used to being stood up to.
My response was always, "You mean presidential, like all the past failed presidents were presidential?"
I didn't want the same cookie-cutter, bland politician who promised the same old crap that they never followed through on and basically joined with the opposition to screw the American people some more.
Apparently, a bunch more people out here in TrumpLand figured it the same way, because he is now our President-Elect.
Give 'em hell Donald. Be yourself and do what needs to be done.
Fell for it, did you, Anthony? He is messing with you at the trivial level, because that is where your mind is. He is trying to get something done and you, you little puppy nipping at his heals, are being fed spiked dog treats to make you feel sick so you go away and learn not to nip at his heals. You know how small minded Trump is. He has a long history of getting wrapped up in petty insults, he completely forgets that his intent was to build, oh, say Trump Tower.
No, we had that debate and the left lost. Now go away. Your kind don't want to debate the real issues, not like with facts and logic. You just want to slander, smear and put out a false narrative. So Trump responds to your fake puffer by throwing out insults. You take the bait and you debate about his right on the mark insults and leave off the big issues.
The left has not been about debating big issues since the recovery from the Great Depression.
re: (My) job is not to worry about those people....Romney.
Trump worries about these people and how they are enslaved to dependency on government. Trump in substance is different from Romney.