Outstanding article.
He goes from fish to Churchill then to Mario Puzo. Trump certainly does not follow the mafia model of leadership.
Mario Puzo was a fiction writer. He showed how the mafia operates. I learned from that and from growing up around mafia princesses and their families in the 70s how the mafia operates. I found the Clinton’s and Obama easy to understand around that model of leadership and behavior.
The idea of keeping one’s enemies close is what Trump does. Anyone can look to my comments back to around 2018 to see I have noticed this is what Trump’s choices resembled. He didn’t study the 1971 fictional Vito Corleone at Wharton or in his growing up in a business family.
This was described in Spirit of Sun Tzu in The Art of War that understanding your enemy is vital for victory. Understanding the enemy is also a Christian tenet
It is used by the us military. It was used by the founders, one can argue
Trump does not operate on revenge. The Wall Street journal was yammering about this yesterday.
When the US DOJ rounds up these criminals they are all going to be Trump haters.
Trump is never going to say, ‘no you’d better not bring this guy in for sharing top secret info he hates me. Vocally. Publicly. In his public actions. The press will accuse me of acting in revenge
He won’t do that because, as stunning as it is to people, still, Trump does not care what the press says. Think about it. Trump didn’t rely on favoritism from the press for any of his success. He doesn’t need the press to like him or to not lie about him
These perp walks and raids might resemble movie scenes, the mafioso, when the mafia thrived in NYC, occasionally acted like heroes, but their philosophy was always based on flimsy morals, ever changing morals, like those of their wives, and revenge, power, greed, intimidation, strut, narcissism.
Trump just is not mafia or mafia-like
but Trump’s decisions will always follow the constitution. The mafia did not. His tenets follow the spirit of the development of the Constitution. It sounds anthemic but watch. It’s true.