I appreciate your reasoned response.
We have had 70 years of Leftist encroachment. Reagan tried, but he could really undo Leftist encroachment in his day. Bush wasn’t one of us and then Clinton and Obama came along to do vast harm to this nations psyche, military, values, and institutions.
Bush was more or less a widget, place in power to kill time until the next Leftist took over.
Now we have Trump and both parts of Congress in our party. We have no idea how long that will last.
There is no Donald Trump II on the horizon. (this disregards his son, but you know what I mean, politically)
For this reason, we have to maximize our eight years, if we should be so lucky.
I know it’s only nearing September and we have four months to go this year, but knowing how little is done during these four months of general election years, half of Trump’s first term is essentially over.
We have seen what comes of the hunker down mentality/strategy. Bush the elder and Bush his son both used it. Look where that led us. Slap whatever guild you want on this stand down policy of Trump/Sessions, it’s another hunker down mentality.
If Trump, Sessions, and even possibly Rosenstein have something up their sleeve, they may be able to redeem themselves. If not, we are heading toward total catastrophe, as this final last chance passes us by.
After January 20th, 2021, we’re done. We’ll be back to men with less acuity, less ability, and less drive.
The media will swamp them. The deep state will coalesce in force. Every aspect of Trump’s progress will be undone ASAP. Congress isn’t going to stay in our court forever.
We have no idea what shenanigans will take place in November. The Left that has seen no push-back whatsoever legally, is in a position to do anything it likes.
It has judges, the FBI, and for lack of any action, Attorney General Jeff Sessions in it’s back pocket.
Bill Clinton was known in 1991 to be a disgusting drug snorting, man of no character, and rapist. The list of things that took place by him and under him were legendary it was so bad.
Then Bush came along and instituted the exact policy you are advocating now? How did that turn out for us? Obama came along and every decent thing Bush did, not that all he did was decent, but Obama crushed it. His judges alone today are killing us. They delay Trump ever step of the way.
Hillary, Huma, Weiner, Mueller, these are people that an indictment would send a clear message throughout the Leftist ranks around the world. Their connections equally as bad would be next. Any connection to them would be next.
It has to start. We’re talking years of action that needs to take place. 1/4th of Trump’s tenure is nearly over, and we’re not making permanent inroads into the Leftist anti-US swamp.
As I said, if Trump, Sessions, and possible Rosenstein have something going on, then I’ll be happy to recant my anti-Sessions rhetoric.
All I am advocating is what must take place.
To paraphrase John F. Kennedy. If not us who? If not now when?
I’ll answer that. If not us nobody If not now, never.
I am far more optimistic than that. And rest assured, I definitely don’t want Trump to bend over and take it like GWB! I want Trump to fight back with all he’s got and win - that’s what I love about him. He fights. He wins.
I want the swamp drained as badly as you do. I don’t know why you keep suggesting I want to hunker down like a Bush and not fight. I am talking about a rope-a-dope strategy. Ali used it - to WIN.
Here’s what I see as Trump’s (our) path to victory.
Trump has had to navigate some very dangerous reefs, but he has been very deft at fending off the Left’s attempts at character assassination. Time is on his side now because the American people are getting to know him.
They are seeing none of the horrible outcomes predicted by the Left. He’s not a white supremacist. He isn’t starting WW3. He didn’t ruin the Republican Party - he has made it stronger. Some good things are happening. Nothing bad is happening because of Donald Trump.
The Left’s time for character assassination is fast running out because everyone can see for themselves what he is, and what he’s not.
So when Trump carries the Republican Party safely through the midterms (which is typically won by the opposition party) he will have consolidated his political power immeasurably within his own party. They will see that he is not a liability as they feared, but a strong asset.
Trump began draining the swamp the minute he passed 269 electoral college votes. Thousands of corrupt pay-to-play schemes between corporate lobbyists and bought-and-paid-for lawmakers in DC came to a screeching halt the day Trump won. Why? Because all of that corporate money being spent on bribes to pass favorable regulatory legislation is wasted if there’s no Hillary Clinton in the White House to sign it. Trump is owned by nobody - the crony capitalism that makes up half of the DC swamp was dealt a crippling blow over night. Then, upon taking office Trump has unleashed holy hell on the corrupt regulatory machinery that drives the deep state bureaucracy. Deregulation is happening under Trump at a staggering pace. The deep state is still there and still corrupt, but their schemes and rackets have been eviscerated - they are mostly in CYA mode now. Many of them will go away by attrition as they are deprived of the kickbacks they once received from corporate lobbyists and cronies.
A lot of swamp draining is happening despite the lack of prosecutions and jail sentences. You can kill pests with poison but you can also get rid of them by destroying their habitat and food source.
There is part of me that gets furious with the blatant double standard and the two-tiered justice system - I really want to see HRC and other high level Obama co-conspirators lined up and shot - I would even like to pull the trigger sometimes.
But I think there aren’t near enough of us that want firing squads and jail time for ex politicians. Most voters would be satisfied just to fire them or vote them out of office. If you could convict them of something financial like tax evasion, money laundering, embezzlement, etc. then yes, I think you’d have public support. But anything political - most people would just want them gone. If one party punishes the other party - people worry that it’s just political retribution.
So if Trump asked his DOJ to jail Obama officials (mostly Democrats) for political crimes - that could turn the public against Trump if they saw him as a vindictive son of a bitch that throws his weight around and sends his political enemies to jail - there’s a good chance they would turn against him and we’d never get to see what good things he could have accomplished in his 8 years.
By the way, I think Trump will serve 8 years and then Pence has a good shot at another 8. I think Pence is a good solid conservative.
One thing I think a couple things about Trump are different 1) nobody owns him. 2) he speaks the unvarnished truth and 3) the America First doctrine plays VERY well with the American people. Trump is making the Democrats look like jackasses every day.