Amazing article. VDH started as a #neverTrumper.
Trump has exposed the press as propagandists of the first order.
Speaking of the Chinese... I’d like to see a lot fewer Chinese coming to the US to study. Why are we educating our enemies?
Oy vey.
The guy writes about it but he still does not get it.
Trump relies on knowledge. He is not right by chance or instinct, unless you want to call years of sifting though information and learning how to quickly tell what is signal and what is noise, "instinct".
It is a talent and one that is honed very quickly in the school of hard knocks. You develop a nose like a bloodhound for BS and feel for what is true even if you can not put your finger on why you know that.
You just do. And if you sat down and thought back you would probably be able to come up with the half a dozen bits of information that has come to your attention over your life time that lead to you "just knowing" that but you probably won't do it. That is what secretaries and research guys are for. That and bringing you more data.
And I am not sure that I would call him cunning either. He is more the guy who breaks the bottle on the bar and yells, "You want a piece of me? Come and get it!"
Cunning is the wise guy who convinced the thick witted dolt that the guy with the bottle was an easy mark.
Like always with anti-trump National Review Online, an article full of condescension, imploring anti-trumpers not to be full of condescesion against Trump, oh the irony!
I wish the babbling heads at NRO eat crow everyday.
Using the term “our” is actually a Britishism. They will call their daughter “our Sheila.” Perhaps Trump picked this up from his Scottish mother.
More and more #nevertrump crew are finding religion.
I was born in Brooklyn, both parents from from Queens.
Trump is an outer boroughs guy who scored big in the city. I totally get him.
You guys who don’t, or who didn’t - enjoy the show.
Just cutting off their welfare will save more than that, and deporting them.
Then we save the cost of incarceration and crime.
Report: 820,000 criminal illegals, 84% with felonies, serious misdemeanors
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/report-820000-criminal-illegals-84-with-felonies-serious-misdemeanors/article/2609915
BTTT
Makes some good points with actual nuggets of truth to back it up. Hits closer to the mark than most of the “still don’t get it” blather that makes it to press. Bookmarking this one.
Translated from the #NeverTrump speak, VHD recognizes now that Trump was a lot smarter throughout than his opponents and media.
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The brilliant and usually reliable Victor Davis Hanson simply cannot believe what perceives about Donald Trump: that he really is as brilliant and heroic as he appears to be.
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Over all a good article until this line.
I am convinced that Trump is NOT impulsive. Every statement he makes is carefully thought out to provoke a reaction from his opponents in the negotiations. He can get them off balance by making an extreme demand or taking an extreme position and then moderate back to a point that they fall all over themselves to meet. A point, by the way, that is far more in his favor then they would have ever even considered coming to at first.
The guy is scary smart and has been playing them for fools for months (and doing it like a master!!)
I will never get tired of watching him work because I will never get tried of winning.
He writes about “pajama boy”.
Isn’t that something that originated here on FR?
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Excellent article. VDH recognizes that those who underestimate Trump do so at their own peril.