Posted on 10/17/2017 10:14:05 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The Democratic Party, as it did after Hubert Humphrey’s close loss in 1968, seems still to be misdiagnosing its 2016 defeat.
Democrats see too little identity politics rather than too much as their trouble, and thus are redoubling on what has been slowly shrinking the party into coastal enclaves.
Promoting Black Lives Matter and open borders, promising free tuition and tax hikes, opposing fracking and pipeline construction, pushing single-payer health care and an ever-expanding transgender agenda as well as abortion—these are not majority positions. Neither will embracing Hollywood, the media, or the NFL protests win over voters. Thinking (or hoping) that President Trump will implode, quit, be jailed, sicken, die, or be impeached is not an agenda.
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Unprecedented Subordinate Power Trump’s forte is his invective and brawling. He is not a Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton wonk, who micromanages even the smallest details. The result is that his cabinet secretaries, generals, and high appointees enjoy more latitude than during any administration in memory.
Trump on the parapets not only means that others to the rear are freer to make and administer rules without much presidential oversight, but also that Trump, not themselves, is the controversy. That exemption means that a cabinet official has wide parameters, with less worry that he must fight the media and his political opponents.
One of the reasons why the luminaries of Trump’s team do not resign after his supposedly embarrassing outbursts is that they realize Trump’s outrageousness allows them to play the good-cop, adult in the room role, usually with media sympathy. And when a president is doing downfield blocking, others are relieved of the interference. A Trump secretary of defense or national security advisor exercises power and influence in ways unimaginable in comparison to most earlier counterparts.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
Exactly right. Rush was making that point yesterday. Trump gave that jerks in Congress nine months to do something and they failed time and again. I LOVE what he is doing now — the constant barrage. They are just getting their response formulated for yesterday’s action and he hits them today.
People (including VDH) point out that using Twitter is “unpresidential” but you have to use the current tools. TR had his “bully pulpit.” FDR used radio “fireside chats.” Reagan was able to commandeer TV and talk straight to the people. In the 2010s, it’s the web and Twitter and he is making very effective use of that.
The Dims just don’t know what to do with a Republican who actually goes on offense against them. They’ve never experienced that (at least since Reagan).
I judge it a Triple.
“Trump takes the bullets and the results are surprisingly good in many cases.”
Unlike many rinos before him Trump knows that the globalist press will never support him or praise him. Trump also knows that the press and their allied Leftist institutions do not have credibility and broad support anymore.
This essentially gives Trump license to do what he wants because the press will predictably react negatively to him no matter what. Moreover, as the coverage gets more negative, it also appears to become less credible and more biased to a substantial segment of the population.
The upshot is that Trump supporters have essentially tuned out the globalist press. A positive feedback loop against the globalist press is now solidly in place.
...I am a part of Trump’s base whose support
will be practically unaffected by any other failures
If ALL Trump does is stabilize the Supreme Court,
and prevent Hillary from taking over,
I can forgive much else.
Oh yes, avoid stupid wars
One of his best. Thanks for posting.
Can't argue with that. If Trump was serious about the swamp draining thing, he has to have Sessions on fire, or replace him. They look all sorts of swampy themselves, doing absolutely nothing.
and he’s often the brightest guy in the room.
I have disappointed by VDH for his never-Trump attitude for a while now. But he seems to be coming around at long last.
That pesky word "been" escaped again. If you see it, grab ahold and send it back to this paragraph.
I didn’t know he was a Never Trumper. He’s been on Tucker a few times and never went after Trump. I’ll have to be more careful in praising him!!
I don’t know if I would classify him as a NeverTrumper, but he was not on the Trump bandwagon for a long time.
ping
Victor Davis Hanson might be the best analyst out there... he sees the big picture.
Another 'benefit' to Trump's attack is it can elevate a person if it doesn't destroy him.
Look at Jeff Sessions - in one week he not only kept his job, he became a rock star with the press, a hero to the reluctant DOJ AND became more powerful in pushing Trump's agenda... Stopping illegal immigration, taking on the gangs, enforcing laws that matter to Trump. It wasn't an accident...
bttt
The money quote from the article:
"Trump in contrast, in gesture, accent, vocabulary, and rashness, sounds like a cigar-chomping blue-collar machinist out of our past who is said to be outrageous in his crudity only because he is condemned by those who are far more outrageous in their mannered sobriety. In some sense, Trump welcomes wounds in order to inflict greater ones on the proverbial establishment."
Go Trump! Fight On!
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