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> he, by all accounts so far, has acted precipitously and without a safety net on the very eve of his impeachment <

Trump has acted precipitously and without a safety net pretty much from day one. In one way, that’s good. Because you can’t drain the swamp by acting like just another good old boy.

But in a very significant way it’s also bad. Trump has made enemies where he need not have made enemies. In that respect, I wish he would have channeled Ronald Reagan more, and Andy Jackson less.

I have mentioned this to friends of mine, and the usual response is “Trump gotta be Trump”. Some truth there, I suppose.

Without a safety net, I’ll grant you.

When it comes to the lives, fortunes, and sacred honor thing, Trump walks the walk.

But precipitously?

ROTF!!!

I think Trump has Russian ties, all right, in that I doubt the man takes a dump without a plan.

Note to POTUS: Pardon the unladylike scatalogical humor, sir!

I have thought for some time about this "Trump gotta be Trump” rationalization and I react several levels.

First on the intellectual level, I think it is ridiculous to believe that Trump needs to be needlessly coarse in order to be effective, indeed, they say he could not have achieved the presidency without the boorishness. I reject that.

On an emotional level, I get angry when his borderline language is distorted to attack him even as I intellectually know that he is setting himself up for just such an attack.

His imprecision of language, for example in the Charlottesville matter, left him vulnerable to just such scurrilous libels. He has to take some responsibility to his supporters for making their job harder by his looseness of language to come to his defense. His policies should win him 40 states but his imprecision of language whether witting, just a bad old habit, or a function of mild Tourette's will cost him a few. He will survive impeachment, but again, our job has been made harder.

In that respect, I wish he would have channeled Ronald Reagan more, and Andy Jackson less.

Yeah, because Ronald Reagan was really successful at draining the swamp. Good thing he made that great immigration deal that stemmed the flow of illegals, right?

I wonder if it was like this for the patriots during the revolution? So many people afraid to stand for what is right because those with a vested interest in the status quo are a powerful, frightening force. It takes a lot of courage to push back. I think Pres Trump has the courage but the rest of us not so much. I’m afraid we may not be ready for the sacrifice.

You bring up a point of view I’ve not considered yet. This whole enemies and friends thing. Maybe this whole thing is about what’s right and wrong. Our leadership in Washington DC, it seems, can’t find their butt with both hands when it comes to doing what’s right and what’s wrong. How is it even concievable that so many people in this country are on one side or the other when it comes down to every single decision that has to be made? Is President Trump considered to be wrong about everything he does that angers the democrats? Is he doing too good of a job and putting them out of business with pending elections? Is that why they’re his enemies? It seems that whenver his deep state “RINO friends” are on their monthly cycles, they demand that he kiss their ass, or they won’t be his friends anymore?

I have considered that President Trump made his decision as a concerned American, perhaps he decided that the entire middle east situation is not worth one single solitary drop of precious urine from any of our best and brightest.

DemonRATS are going to hate, it’s what they do. But with friends like the RINO’s, who needs enemas?!?

I support the President; his heart and soul are in the right place... shed no American blood in Syria.