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My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of
decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.”
Here’s my answer:
We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as
he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency.
We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney?
And
the results were always the same. This is because, while we were
playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety,
the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight
where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.
I
don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack
Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets
of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds
serve the Democratic Party. I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying
about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an
innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t see
anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy
your political opponents and any dissent. Yes, Obama was “articulate”
and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,”
“collegial” or “proper.”
The
Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the
Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out
war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the
pale. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of
violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of
the universities – till today. The problem is that,
through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war.
While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their
way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and
propriety. With Donald Trump, this all has come
to an end. Donald Trump is America ’s first wartime president in the
Culture War.
During
wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the
most essential qualities one looks for in their
warriors. Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might
well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming. Had
Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted
Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding
their slaves today. Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare
this man. He fights.”
General
George Patton was a vulgar-talking, son-of-a-bitch. In peacetime, this
might have seen him stripped of rank. But,
had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum then, Hitler
and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their
thousand-year Reich.
Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated
Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!”
That
is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only
is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using
their own tactics. That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a
book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and
was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of
Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book
of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book
to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky
dedicated his book to Lucifer.
Trump’s
tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing
exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do.
First, instead of going after “the fake media” — and they are so fake
that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the
past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth,
from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really
happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri — Trump isolated CNN. He
made it personal.
Then,
just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described
as “the most powerful weapon of all.” ... Most
importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable
position. ... They need to respond. This leaves them with only two
choices. They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously
declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously
report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the
news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat
Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery. The problem for
CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they
were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the
Democratic Party they serve.
It
is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that
keeps the Left alive. Imagine, for example, if CNN
had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s
close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists
(William Ayers), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his
spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s church. Imagine if
they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama
administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their
political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the
truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens
and the Obama administration’s cover-up. So, to my friends on the Left
— and the #NeverTrumpers as well — do I wish we lived in a time when
our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of
course I do. These aren’t those times. This is
war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition
for the past 50 years. So, say anything you want about this president - I
get it - he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at
times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man.
He fights for America!
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