“Calm down. Let Trump’s long term plan be revealed.”
I totally agree. My work for over 30 years was as a litigation strategist. Law firms hired me to look at the bigger picture and propose strategy. I loved doing it.
I admire Trump and respect him as one of the most brilliant strategists I have ever observed in action. I’ve studied him, his childhood, his extended family, and his business deals. The guy is a genius and one of his greatest skills is to be unpredictable while purposely creating an environment where his opposition considers him stupid, thus resulting in them to underestimate him.
There are very few people on earth like Trump. He sees the bigger picture and uses the small irrelevant details as pawns, useful for distracting the opposition’s focus while he is setting up the checkmate.
I hope and pray that his motive is pure. As if it is not, we are in trouble. (We were in worse trouble before he arrived on the scene. I just don’t want to see an iatrogenic cure.)
Gerald Ford’s later comment that “an impeachable offense is
whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers [it] to be at a given moment.”
Craig S. Lerner, Impeachment, Attainder, and a True Constitutional Crisis: Lessons from the Strafford Trial, 69 U. CHI. L. REV. 2057, 2096 (2002) (book review) (alteration in original).
Excellent post. Every once in a while a gem like this gets posted. That’s why so many of us have been on FR for years.
I have no skills as a strategerist but I am pretty good at reading people, I have a background in law and psychology.
IMO, Trump is being straight with us. He can’t not be. He doesn’t have it in him to intentionally deceive the American people for his own gain. He wants nothing from us. Recall that he is not only not taking a salary, he is sacrificing I can’t even imagine how much money by letting go of his business interests in order to serve.
He is indeed shrewd and extremely tough, but he has a knack for keeping his eye on the prize. I have to laugh when everyone yammers about how ‘undisciplined’ Trump is. You don’t build a multi billion dollar company via lack of discipline.
He’s badly misunderstood because he’s got some rough edges and he’s a compulsive truth teller. The good hearted among us understand him intuitively. Bad guys don’t get him, they project their bad intentions onto Trump.
I think his most important quality is his capacity for empathy. It runs deep. Next time some nitwit tries to call him a narcissist, be assured he’s not. Narcissists lack empathy (See Obama, Barack). Trump’s got it in spades.