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Sorry, Mikey, for any misunderstanding.
Rooster commented, within post # 28:
“Trump’s an asshole. But he’s our asshole.”
Rooster’s comment was in a back-and-forth with Mikey.

I then commented to Rooster, in post # 104, and directed as an aside to Mikey:
“Well there you have it, wrapped up in a big red bow.”

Rooster post #109 now wonders what I meant by my comment.

I have no idea. I’m not sure what I think about Mr. Trump. I’m cheering him one day, then cringing for the following week at these time-consuming, trivial, manufactured controversies that overshadow far more important issues.
Rooster’s comment “but he’s OUR asshole” was particularly amusing to me because it recalled an earlier famous quote.
Didn’t someone else (was it LBJ? Nixon?) say the exact same thing about the Shah (?) or some Middle Eastern dictator awhile back?
The fall of the Shah started the problems.
More recently, Saddam, Mubarak, Gadafi, and now Assad, have been “our assholes” who have maintained a certain stability in the region.
Allowing or abetting the overthrow of “our assholes” in the region, has brought us to this point—the brink of WWIII.
What we need in the Oval Office is a Strongman who’ll get our foreign policy back on track and fight for America.
We need a shrewd, give-em-hell Harry, an American Putin. Now more than ever, we need a leader willing to risk being a capital-A Asshole.

Perception becomes reality in the voters’ minds. What do voters perceive
and how will those perceptions play out in the ballot box?

Trump seems like he’s fighting for America for about 5 minutes, then he’s right back to ego-sparring and trading butt-hurts with media pipsqueaks for days.

Tweeting ‘Meeeee! It’s all about meeee!’ is entertaining, but it’s no way to run the free world. (Yeah I know he never said exactly that. But that’s the gist.)

Whoever is the nominee, we are going to own that decision.
So, IOW, I’m saying, yeah, he’s an asshole, and he’s ours.

But is he the right kind of asshole for the times we’re in? That’s the question.

Trump shares the ego because it works. If you’re a Trump supporter, you tend to appreciate it, because it has been ions since Americans have seen bravado from out side.

Maybe since Patton. Two different universes for certain, yes, but the bravado style rallies the like minded and it sends chills down the spine of the opposition, and their donor class handlers.

Who it irritates lines up with being all the right people. We like that fact.

Appreciate your explanation.