Trump May Be the Man of Our Time

The following article titled "Trump May Be the Man of Our Time", by Carol Person, published in The American by Richard Simms, does an excellent job of telling it like it is today when it comes to the politics which have been exercised on our nation over the past 30 years.

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 statesmanship.  Could there be another

human being on this earth who so desperately prized

“collegiality” as John McCain? 

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 unbecoming

conduct.  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 be seven 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!