Posted on 06/23/2020 3:25:54 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The word ‘genius’ is not often appended to Donald Trump, except perhaps by himself, but he has demonstrated since early 2016 that he does indeed have a rare political genius. A man not given to modesty, President Trump can rightfully claim he embodies the American ideal of an assured sense of purpose that comes from totally believing in one’s own greatness. His campaign slogan of 2016 -- “Make America Great Again” -- was as much about hi[m as Ameica].
It is precisely this quality of character that has enabled Trump to be what he has become: the current symbol of the greatness that America once was and is already becoming again. But what is most impressive about Trump the man is something that would be a weakness in any other. He delights in fighting -- with unflagging energy -- the messy tactical engagements his political enemies force upon him, which would overwhelm a weaker man. But through all this Trump, the president has been implementing his political strategy as if the constant skirmishes with those trying to unseat him are a mere inconvenience. It is his opponents who are exhausting themselves, whilst seemingly making no dents in his armor, as he continues towards his goal.
So preoccupied with destroying Trump has the Democratic Party been since 2016 that their only success is their own survival. But the party is even more disunited than in 2016 and is having to downplay the extremism of a younger generation of neo-Marxist activists pushing policies ever leftwards in a way that is alien to most Americans.
Paradoxically, their latest presidential candidate looks as if he has just wandered out of a retirement home with an idea of what he’d like for lunch but no idea of how to get to the dining room.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
My concern is future elections, finding worthwhile candidates beyond 2020. The Democrats are proving they don’t have anyone.
The Democrat party is dead. The name means nothing. They are a bunch of communists, enemies of all that was once good and just in the United States.
Tom Perez seems to be in hiding.
Are there any recent statements from DNC about current turmoil?
I remember a (purported?) communist manifesto for America from some years back and one of its major points (in addition to taking over the media, academia, entertainment, et al) was the co-opting of one of the two major political parties.
Mission accomplished.
...I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it...
George Washington, from his Farewell Address
If (when?) the GOP establishment reasserts control, the commies could have both parties. The GOP leaders will talk to their consultants who will inform them that communism polls well.
Anyone that thinks Trump doesn’t posses something that most of us don’t have, should just ask themselves, how many billions have they made in their life?
Sure, he inherited about a million from his dad, but most people who inherit that kind of money end up blowing most of it, not turning it into billions. So yeah, I’d say he’s pretty damn smart.
Pompeo and Mulvaney 2024
I think part of his legacy is getting things done BEFORE they are destroyed. The Old Post Office in DC is one example.
It’s good way to explain it. The communists — in the broadest sense of the word — Chinese, Soros, Qatar, Wall Street theives, Clintons, Obamas, Pelosis, Big Bad Cities Mayors, Jesse Jacksons — have all co-opted the party to “mutate” it into something different.
Russians not so much.
It's not just that they don't have anyone. It's that their whole platform is a crap sandwich.
I believe his first monies were a loan from his father. The inheritance was much later.
Yes, this is a very real danger. The Uniparty is wounded, but it still lives.
Pompeo and Mulvaney 2024
That sure wouldn’t piss me off.
His dad didn’t die until 1999. So it wasn’t the inheritance that gave him the means of being very, very wealthy. He worked for his money.
So why is anyone voting for them? If the platform is such a crap sandwich...why aren’t the young people walking away from them in droves?
And Trump became rich across many spheres. Real estate, skyscrapers, hotels, golf courses, and the management/branding of hotels for other companies etc.
And he biggest sphere of all is publicity and making a brand of himself. 15 years he produced and acted in a hit television show. He’s proven he is a master of political media like no other person in history.
The media has convinced a lot of people that President Trump is a racist. Accepting the crap sandwich that is the Democrat platform is certainly better than supporting a racist!
The Democrats are evolving into a Euro-leftist, semi-Bolshevik fighting party - and their fighting components, BLM and Antifa, are protected by the State and Federal governments. You don’t need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows.
Will there be a response? Certainly not from the Republican Party, scared of its own shadow.
We live in interesting times.
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