Thank you for your post at #7. It provides an excellent summary for a drive-by Freeper.
But let me take polite issue with your conclusion above.
One of the benefits of having a bottom line operator in the Oval Office rather than a career politician is that he will most likely intuitively realize the players can provide too little, or nothing at all in the form of [B] enormous political concessions.
This for three reasons: either they cannot provide anything of size at all, or can provide only something with a limited shelf life, or will be able to provide only that which he himself can obtain in the normal course of his presidency.
It is true, of course, that he will certainly dangle benefits to entice the fringe players to be of assistance.
But I think he will choose to “behead” those in the top ranks with [A] above as being the more effective. (AKA, the "heads on pikes" gambit.)
Taking down the left means breaking them up into pieces allowing each piece to go its own way. That entails names, sources, assets, methods.
Example: Human trafficking unraveling, foreign funding, shady pay for play trade deals, NY Fed/Wall St. Capture
It also means standing down as the President passes his agenda.
Reagan defeated the USSR by allying with JP II, Margaret Thatcher to cause overwhelming internal dissension in the streets of Moscow, Leningrad, etc., by starving them of oil revenue, by arming their peripheral enemies.
Internal dissent, defunding, arming enemies, these things may also lead to the breakup of the leftist socialism of the democratic party. What will be left are the soul searchers.
Trump’s biggest weakness or biggest challenge will be in developing an effective succession plan. He will be an enormously hard act to follow. To prepare for this deficiency, an outside restructuring effort will be needed so that the country is better able to handle the dark or misguided ambitions and inadequate talents of lesser persons.
Here is a prescription for that:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3523449/posts?page=15#15
On the other hand, the nation could be fortunate to have two back-to-back great leaders. But the above prescription is good insurance regardless.
Now the Obamacare repeal and replace news just hit the headlines so this topic will slip for a time.