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Trump and the Art of Political Warfare
American Thinker ^ | 26 Feb, 2025 | Steve McCann

Posted on 02/26/2025 4:09:05 AM PST by MtnClimber

Over the past thirty-five years the conventional wisdom has been that the Marxist-inspired American Left are superior tacticians in the arena of political warfare and were thereby the entrenched power-brokers in Washington D.C. This hypothesis took hold as the spineless Republican Party Establishment and the self-serving Washington-based conservative intelligentsia willingly allied themselves with their fellow-travelers in the Ruling Class -- the American Left, the Democrat Party, the bureaucracy, and the legacy media. Secure in the knowledge that both major political parties were imbedded within the Ruling Class, this cabal was certain that they would enrich themselves and control the levers of power in perpetuity.

They were also aware that the only viable means of permanently defeating the entrenched Ruling Class would be the formation and success of a third major political party that would ultimately relegate either the current Democrat or Republican Party to the ash bin of history. Considering the size of the nation and the constitutionally-mandated structure of the federal government, they were convinced that in the modern era a viable third party would be impossible to create.

However, an overlooked but extraordinarily foundational accomplishment of Donald Trump is the successful creation of a de facto third major political party (MAGA) from the rotting corpses of the Democrat Party and the Republican Party establishment. Adding insult to injury, Trump, beginning in 2016, has done so by hijacking the Republican Party’s national infrastructure and banner.

Trump’s insider knowledge of the Ruling Class and a well-formulated and executed strategy triggered their psychotic overreaction to his election in 2016. The subsequent failed attempts to intimidate, impeach, and imprison him, as well as the fraud-filled election of a senescent and incompetent Joe Biden, ultimately enabled Donald Trump to achieve this once unthinkable goal. The Ruling Class’s obsession with Trump and ineptitude

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


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

1 posted on 02/26/2025 4:09:05 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I hope President Trump has a good Secret Service detail.


2 posted on 02/26/2025 4:09:16 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

I think of it more as, the Marxist Left has nothing to do but politics - 24/7 even if they have a day-job like teaching school. So, they do manage to accomplish a lot.

Trump is an example of what ONE man, who has made it, his whole life in the private sector, can do politically, if he is so inclined.

The author is completely correct about the GOPe, like the Turtle. They have aligned with the Marxists to make it easier, because they could never really make it in the private sector, though they have pretensions that they could.


3 posted on 02/26/2025 4:21:24 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: MtnClimber

I wasted my youth on support for the Libertarian party. Trump had the winning formula: take over the Republican party and get rid of the problem politicians.


4 posted on 02/26/2025 4:28:00 AM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty
"the Marxist Left has nothing to do but politics - 24/7 even if they have a day-job like teaching school."

Instead of calling them Marxists, how about a new name like "Marxine". One size fits all.
5 posted on 02/26/2025 4:32:52 AM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


6 posted on 02/26/2025 4:41:07 AM PST by nopardons
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To: equaviator

Don’t bother calling them Marxists, it’s just a traditional good versus evil battle. Marxist is too kind.


7 posted on 02/26/2025 4:42:36 AM PST by yldstrk (Nothing like the truth)
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To: yldstrk
‘Sadistic, power-mad, unprincipled goons’ is what I call them
8 posted on 02/26/2025 4:51:03 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: yldstrk

I think the people who moved in across the street are Marxines. He shops wearing cargo shorts, hoodie and flip-flops in the sub-zero dead of winter while she texts and drives like a blue-haired maniac in heat. The incorrigible 3 year-old boy they sometimes drag along is next, but for what I have no idea.


9 posted on 02/26/2025 4:54:49 AM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: equaviator

Not all Marxists are public school teachers. Not all public school teachers are Marxists.

Does that help?


10 posted on 02/26/2025 5:34:38 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

I was referring to the “Marxist left” as a whole. Thanks anyway.


11 posted on 02/26/2025 5:46:10 AM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: MtnClimber

To misquote Von Clausewitz, “Politics is an extension of War”.

He has accomplished an incredible Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield and asymmetrical warfare.


12 posted on 02/26/2025 7:24:10 AM PST by Redleg Duke (“Time to Play Cowboys and Snowflakes!”)
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13 posted on 02/26/2025 11:06:19 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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