Posted on 07/14/2017 4:52:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.” Here’s my answer:
We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency. We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain? We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney? And the results were always the same.
This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.
I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party. I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent. Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”
The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today.
The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety.
With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America’s first wartime president in the Culture War.
During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming. Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”
General George Patton was a vulgar-talking, son-of-a-bitch. In peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum, then Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their thousand-year Reich.
Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!” That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics.
That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.
Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do.
First, instead of going after “the fake media” – and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri – Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal. Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.”
Everyone gets that it’s not just CNN – in fact, in a world where Al Sharpton and Rachel Maddow, Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof are people of influence and whose “reporting” is in no way significantly different than CNN’s – CNN is just a piker.
Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. With Trump’s ability to go around them, they cannot simply stand pat. They need to respond. This leaves them with only two choices.
They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery.
The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve. It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive.
Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s, church.
Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up.
This makes “going high” a non-starter for CNN. This leaves them no other option but to ratchet up the fake news, conjuring up the next “nothing burger” and devoting 24 hours a day to hysterical rants about how it’s “worse than Nixon.”
This, obviously, is what CNN has chosen to do. The problem is that, as they become more and more hysterical, they become more and more obvious. Each new effort at even faker news than before and faker “outrage” only makes that much more clear to any objective observer that Trump is and always has been right about the fake news media.
And, by causing their hysteria, Trump has forced them into numerous, highly embarrassing and discrediting mistakes. Thus, in their desperation, they have lowered their standards even further and run with articles so clearly fake that, even with the liberal (lower case “l”) libel laws protecting the media, they’ve had to wholly retract and erase their stories repeatedly.
Their flailing at Trump has even seen them cross the line into criminality, with CNN using their vast corporate fortune to hunt down a private citizen for having made fun of them in an Internet meme. This threat to “dox” – release of personal information to encourage co-ideologists to visit violence upon him and his family -- a political satirist was chilling in that it clearly wasn’t meant just for him. If it were, there would have been no reason for CNN to have made their “deal” with him public.
Instead, CNN – playing by “Chicago Rules” – was sending a message to any and all: dissent will not be tolerated.
This heavy-handed and hysterical response to a joke on the Internet has backfired on CNN, giving rise to only more righteous ridicule.
So, to my friends on the Left – and the #NeverTrumpers as well -- do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years.
So, say anything you want about this president – I get it, he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights.
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Very well put and echoes what I have been thinking but unable to put into words. My sole objection is that, even with the included caveats, the author focuses so strongly upon CNN when it also applies to the rest of the MSM (Main Stream Media). It would be more powerful, albeit a longer article, to include examples by other media sources.
As Teddy Roosevelt put it, the Presidency is a ‘Bully Pulpit’ for expressing Presidential Policy. In years prior to the 1960s, there was a rough parity in the Media and Popular Culture where that message could come through no matter which Party was in power.
By the 1960s, the LEFT was assuming dominance in those areas as well as in others like Academia and Legal. By the 1980s, Ronald Reagan had to resort to forcing the MSM to carry his statements at publicity and Oval Office events in order to keep his words from being distorted and interpreted out of all meaning by the MSM.
Now, with the enormous expansion of information sources, and the very active antagonism of the LEFT that has overwhelming predominance of control over so many areas, the ‘Bully Pulpit’ has become a whisper in almost all the traditional venues. That is why President Trump, an experienced master of publicity, has taken to the new methods of Twitter that can be done, like Ronald Reagan, without message massaging.
Yes, this particular paragraph made me gag because of the globalist UNIPARTY swamp characters described in it, but it also helps drive the point that conservative voters, via the feckless and duplicitous republican party, have been playing political bean bag for decades against a radical left who live and act by a code of lies, theft and even violence if required to gain/maintain power and achieve their goals by any means necessary.
Trump threw a giant grenade into the left's plans and put them in a political rout. Now, like the Germans of 1944, they are in retreat, throwing up obstacles, engaged in any form of warfare to stop him and reverse the tide.
Yes, Trump fights. That's EXACTLY why we chose him over a crowded republican field of cordial status quo losers and elected him.
True that may may be, but that's not saying much. And your comment neither adresses my point nor the author's.
Mitt Romney would have been a better president than Obama as much as McCain would have been.
And I'm sure I don't have to tell you that if a President McCain or President Romney had been in the White House, Freepers would have been tearing their hair out in frustration at the RINO presidency.
None of which changes the fact that what I said about Romney is absolutely 100% true.
Excellent.
I’m printing this off and laying multiple copies around the beach rental house scheduled for July.
Most of the vacationing in-laws attending this annual event...are democrats/libs.
Should be fun.
I really like Evan Sayet. I wish he produced more stuff.
I first saw his Youtube speech early in the Fredo Dogeater administraion and it’s great. He says absolutely everything the left believes and espouses is bad, detrimental and ugly. Everything. It’s worth a watch.
Usually when someone READS it on television....
Should I be more clear???
Usually when someone sits in front of a TV camera on a TV show or news broadcast and reads the article out loud for the viewers...
How’s that???
Aw Jeez, I was just trying to be funny
If you believe in international corporate free trade and the are ok with the de - industrialization of the USA then you are not a patriot, you are a globalist.
The US Revolution was fought to reverse the destructive policy of British mercantilism which outlawed almost all industry from starting in the colonies. We are being colonized by the globalists again.
That’s a bingo.
I don’t know how to do it, but would someone who knows, please post a #HeFights twitter with a link to the article? I noticed that there is already a #HeFights topic from a long time ago. Let’s bring it up to date with this article!
This is a line for the ages! Well said, sir!
I've had the pleasure of meeting Evan Sayet quite briefly at a couple of conservative gatherings. Such a nice man, and his writings are so on point.
Don’t forget Al Gore cheated with that massage therapist and got dumped by his wife. Only place it was reported was the National Inquirer.
he fights hard!
Did you ever experience that? I sure never have.
Did you ever experience that? I sure never have.
>>The war is between the globalists vs. nationalists. Simple as that.
It is that simple, but globalism is a subset of Progressivism. This is why the GOP is infested with people who vote with the Progs because they don’t believe that the people deserve the right to be part of a country. They believe in World, Inc and that voting stock in the corporation should only go to the right people.
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