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Was Trump Our Captain Queeg?
American Greatness ^ | 27 Nov, 2022 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 11/28/2022 5:40:58 AM PST by MtnClimber

And will the NeverTrumpers finally be exposed to have been as contemptible as the NeverQueegers were in The Caine Mutiny?

The Left, the NeverTrump Right, and many independents are tiring of Donald Trump’s recitations of prior, however justified, grievances at the hands of the media, the Democratic Party, the administrative state, and hard-core Left.

The conventional wisdom runs that Trump’s whines and victimization recitations reveal deep paranoias, and increasingly to an obsessive degree. We are told that his near neurotic obsessions with the unfairness of his critics are alienating the independent voter, who finds Trump’s strolls down 2020-21 memory lane the same-old, same-old ad nauseam.

True, Trump’s occasional recklessness contributed to many of his misadventures. At least at some point, friendly critics suggest, he might have realized that his nationalist/populist agenda, his orphaned outsider status, his lack of prior political experience, and his estrangement from the Republican political hierarchy, bipartisan Washington, D.C. media and government fixtures gave him no margin of error—despite what prior presidents and our current commander-in-chief have been accorded.

The haters would have hated Trump regardless, But his tweets and ad hominem retorts served to disguise their peremptory venom while instead highlighting his own retaliatory crudity.

“Fact-checkers” doted on every Trump statement, nitpicking them to find some exaggeration, or untruth. Fine. But then these same hypercritics simply went comatose during the Biden Administration, with little care that Biden spins fantasies daily, from a son lost in the Iraq War to insulting claims that he passed his student loan amnesty in the Congress by a close vote, and on and on. With Trump, voters got real achievement with coarseness, with Biden utter failure with near senility.

The media lied about supposed felonious behavior of the two Trump sons during the Russian collusion mania.

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


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1 posted on 11/28/2022 5:40:58 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Trump has been the only president to fight the deep state.


2 posted on 11/28/2022 5:41:09 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 11/28/2022 5:41:35 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

There is no other option than Trump. Nobody else gets us to the promised land. He is our Hail Mary.


4 posted on 11/28/2022 5:47:41 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: MtnClimber

Sydney Carton.

📖


5 posted on 11/28/2022 5:48:20 AM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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To: MtnClimber

Nixon had his first presidential election stolen but he did the ‘honorable’ thing and meekly conceded, thereby setting the template for future victims of voter fraud.
Trump just doesn’t fit that template.


6 posted on 11/28/2022 5:48:41 AM PST by ArtDodger
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To: MtnClimber

Trump accomplished many things. He was the first President in my memory that not only got a lot of conservative stuff done but also tried to fulfill his promises.


7 posted on 11/28/2022 5:49:50 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Varsity Flight

Sydney Carton

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8 posted on 11/28/2022 5:50:51 AM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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To: MtnClimber

Don’t know but I do know that Jo Jo Bidenskyyyy is our P.T. Barnum. He is running one hell of a freak show up there in D.C.


9 posted on 11/28/2022 5:50:59 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out. Remember that Snowflakes!)
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To: MtnClimber

> Was Trump Our Captain Queeg? <

No. That’s nonsense. Trump was our Gen. Patton, bold and brash. And like with Patton, prone to unforced errors.


10 posted on 11/28/2022 5:57:34 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Gaslighting everywhere. Trump supported every bloated budget funding the deep state. Mere rhetoric. The classic example was the numerous druggies and celebrities he pardoned and left out Assange, perhaps one of the biggest people exposing the deep state out there.


11 posted on 11/28/2022 5:57:37 AM PST by Theoria
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To: MtnClimber

Maybe cause none of the commie freaks will talk about it. It’s like it never even happened. I know of noone who likes having anything stolen from them.


12 posted on 11/28/2022 5:59:51 AM PST by A Voice (As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the end times.)
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To: Leaning Right

Patton took responsibility for his errors.


13 posted on 11/28/2022 6:00:08 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: MtnClimber

Everything written about President Trump shows him to be a warm friendly individual who gives the guest the benefit of doubt, but when he determines that ulterior motives are being applied, he comes down hard, which he should. Kanye and Fuentes are both psychos and tried to take advantage of President Trump.


14 posted on 11/28/2022 6:01:11 AM PST by chopperk
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To: MtnClimber
Trump has been the only president to fight the deep state.

With the possible exception of JFK, and look what it got him.

15 posted on 11/28/2022 6:05:44 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Fake news, fake pandemic, fake vaccine, fake election, fake president.)
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To: Theoria

> Trump supported every bloated budget funding the deep state. <

That’s very true, and it’s something that shouldn’t be ignored or simply explained away. After all, he held a veto pen for four years. Trump never worried much about deficits, and that bothers me.

But except for Rand Paul, no one in DC worries about deficits. So Trump was certainly not unique in that regard.


16 posted on 11/28/2022 6:06:45 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Leaning Right

I think it was because Trump is a debt guy. When you can borrow at near 0%, you do. Not saying it’s right, but it’s the way guys like Trump think.


17 posted on 11/28/2022 6:14:57 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: MtnClimber
Was Trump Our Captain Queeg?

In the sense that he didn’t step up and take control when conditions became tenuous — allowing underlings to assume command —

yes…

18 posted on 11/28/2022 6:16:13 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: Altura Ct.

Trump accomplished many things. He was the first President in my memory that not only got a lot of conservative stuff done but also tried to fulfill his promises.


Just imagine what President Trump would have accomplished if members of his own party had not resisted and defeated his every initiative. Yes, McConnell reluctantly approved the USSC Justices, who also turned on Trump. Our country is in its death throes thanks to our “elected” officials...from both parties...disgusting.


19 posted on 11/28/2022 6:18:23 AM PST by AFret. (.)
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To: Leaning Right; All

Banker acquaintance, “When I was in high school my uncle was ranting and raving about Reagan not curbing spending and how the deficits would cause a depression, now over 30 years later deficits have been a standard and only for a few years under Clinton was there a technically balanced budget. The deficit peril has become the laughing stock of bankers and finance.”

Comments?


20 posted on 11/28/2022 6:19:01 AM PST by robowombat
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