Trump: You don’t hand matches to an arsonist, and you don’t give power to an angry left-wing mob

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[littleharbour]

His Kansas speech was his most solid ever. Full of great sound bites that should be run on TV and radio in every district in the country. Clear lines drawn on national security, law enforcement, border security, taxes, trade, jobs, and the Constitution. He’s brilliantly pivoted the left’s slur of “right wing extremists” into an attack on the “angry left-wing mob”. Awesome President. 🇺🇸

[SirLurkedalot]

No kidding.

I’m quite happy to have voted for this man.

[poconopundit]

Great news. I downloaded his Kansas speech as an MP3 and will be listening to it on my commute to work. Thanks for the head's up.

Looks like the Democrat's October surprise is backfiring on them.

You may enjoy reading what H. L. Mencken wrote about how the enlightened Majority can wield power over the mob.

H. L. Mencken Predicted Donald Trump, the Enlightened Rabble-Rouser

[Jane Long]

LOL!! Perfect!

[connyankee]

I almost fell off the sofa when he said that at the rally last night another brilliant tagline for our wonderful president

[connyankee]

As I continuously say “he is a guy from Queens”. At the end of the day he is a loyal friend, a true patriot and a hell of a guy...the guy you’d want in the Foxhole

[loveliberty2]

Thank you!

The beauty and wonder of the wisdom of America's Founders is in their ability to perceive "tyranny" in the words and actions of others, as is illustrated by the words of Edmund Burke (as used in another of my posts yesterday):

"In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." - Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation

[loveliberty2]

Thank you!

The beauty and wonder of the wisdom of America's Founders is in their ability to perceive "tyranny" in the words and actions of others, as is illustrated by the words of Edmund Burke (as used in another of my posts yesterday):

"In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." - Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation

[poconopundit]

Thanks for sending along this great Edmund Burke passage which I found in full on the Wikiquote.org site.  If the King has listened to Burke's wise counsel, the Revolutionary War may have been avoided.

Now heeding Emerson's lesson "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds", I revised Burke's words somewhat to make them (hopefully) more powerful to modern ears:

"In other countries, the people are simpler and of a less mercurial cast, and thus the harm in bad government decisions is only seen after the damage is felt.

But Americans anticipate the evil of bad government by recognizing the malignant principle behind the stupid decision.

Thus they portend government corruption and snuff out the flames in the kindling before they turn into a wildfire.  Their noses sniff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze."

Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

Or as Trump says, "You don't hand matches to an arsonist." :- )

[rlmorel]

Great quote...

[littleharbour]

Thanks! That was well worth the read. When I read anything from Mencken, Chesterton, CS Lewis, Sir Edmund Burke, George Washington, it makes me realize how crass and poorly educated today’s rulers are in comparison. It seems the more formal education expands, the more the quality of education declines.

[poconopundit]

Great, glad you liked reading that great one by Mencken.

BTW, I listened to the Kansas rally today, and you’re right: it was stupendous. Trump was in high form — so funny and dead on with his attacks of the left.

Deplorables have a hard time keeping up with our great leader. Glad to hear he also praised Lindsey Graham, O’Connell, and Grassley.

He skewered “Da Nang Dick” big time. Spent 3 or 4 minutes attacking Blumenthal. It was hilarious and the crowd was with him the whole time.

[poconopundit]

Love your cry of Liberty a few days ago, Nateman: "Long may he roar!" It has an 18th century ring to it...