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The Animal Cunning and Instinct of Donald Trump
The National Review ^ | December 20, 2016 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 12/20/2016 1:58:46 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Edited on 12/20/2016 9:06:39 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The American middle classes, the Chinese, and Vladimir Putin have never been convinced that Ivy League degrees, vast Washington experience, and cultural sophistication necessarily translate into national wisdom.

Two out of three ain't bad: Ivy League (Wharton School at UPenn) plus cultural sophistication, including being able to relate successfully to parts of our amazing, multi-faceted culture that many "sophisticated" people believe will give them cooties. Trump is a truly sophisticated man, in all the right ways.

41 posted on 12/20/2016 7:41:09 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
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To: randita; zeebee
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This is from a 2013 official Obama team communication, urging people to spend their holiday talking about health insurance.. This young man was pretty much universally derided as "pajama boy"

42 posted on 12/20/2016 7:42:51 AM PST by jeannineinsd
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To: 9YearLurker
the issues with the kids are what pulled her back into that world.

She didn't do herself any favors with her streetwalker clothing selections (after the campaign wardrobe was returned) and terrible vocal tics. The great Margaret Thatcher humbled herself, before running for PM, to clothing and hair restyling and vocal coaching to refine her image and be more palatable to a skeptical public and more authoritative over male subordinates. Even the legendary Queen Elizabeth the First recognized that controlling her personal appearance, making herself look bigger, would help her rule a kingdom. Sarah stubbornly maintained her folksy personal choices.


43 posted on 12/20/2016 8:11:11 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

Which I take as all nods of loyalty to her husband and children’s working class culture.


44 posted on 12/20/2016 8:20:12 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: ladyjane

Oh, there was a certain amount of snark. My read is that VDH aimed it at Trump’s critics.


45 posted on 12/20/2016 10:10:40 AM PST by gogeo (But he's not a conserrrrrvative!)
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To: randita
Maybe.

But most of the stuff he said is stuff people already know if they were paying attention.

That is why the media went nuts over it, they don't pay attention and why normal people nodded their heads in agreement, they do pay attention.

The media/academia/political class lives in gated communities, the only immigrants they see are the doctor and scientist that live down the road and the only illegal aliens they see are the ones who work for them.

So when someone tells them that immigrants on HB-1 visas are taking jobs away from natives and illegal aliens are criminals they have no frame of reference. And they scream that there is no evidence of those charges.

The guy who had to train his imported replacement and watched the house across the street where a gang of illegals lives finds those statement self evident.

46 posted on 12/20/2016 10:56:30 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
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To: randita

Buckhead’s wife reports that he was actually in his boxers at the computer and not in his pajamas when he debunked the Texas Air National Guard forgeries which led to Rather’s downfall.

You are correct that VDH refers to a different pajama boy, that being one the one in the Obamacare ad, with a cup of cocoa, oozing metrosexualism and totally devoid of the manly virtues.


47 posted on 12/21/2016 4:57:10 AM PST by Bruce Buckley
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Buckhead’s wife reports that he was actually in his boxers at the computer and not in his pajamas when he debunked the Texas Air National Guard forgeries which led to Rather’s downfall.

LOL. The image of that is too much. Now if you told me that he was at an Apple IIC or old Commodore, that would complete the picture.

48 posted on 12/21/2016 5:05:06 AM PST by randita (PLEASE STOP ALL THE WORTHLESS VANITIES!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Finally, Trump sensed that the proverbial base was itching for a bare-knuckles fighter. They wanted any kind of brawler who would not play by the Marquess of Queensberry rules of 2008 and 2012 that had doomed Romney and McCain, who, fairly or not, seemed to wish to lose nobly rather than win in black-and-blue fashion, and who were sometimes more embarrassed than proud of their base.
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Key is his emperor-has-no-clothes instinct that what is normal and customary in Washington was long ago neither sane nor necessary.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443188/donald-trumps-cunning-animal-instinct


These are two key insights by VDH. These are going to be 4 great years of popping liberals myths and PC.
49 posted on 12/21/2016 9:48:07 AM PST by DeweyCA
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I also enjoyed this observation: “Then members of the Clinton campaign and powerful Democrats joined an effort to pressure electors of the Electoral College to defy their state-mandated duty to reflect the vote totals of their states and instead refrain from voting for Donald Trump. That was all but a neo-Confederate, insurrectionary act that sought to nullify the spirit of the Constitution and the legal statues of many states — part and parcel of new surreal progressive embrace of states’-rights nullification that we have not seen since the days of George Wallace.”


50 posted on 12/21/2016 12:39:21 PM PST by Chaguito
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