Rabbi Dov Fischer does. His article titled "Everyone is Smart... Except Trump" spells out why the Media (D) is treating him the way they are and are throwing everything they can behind the liberal/socialists to make him as ineffective as they possibly can.
Although long, this piece provides the reader with insight that we who understand this man have already figured out, but the "talking heads" are too dense to figure out.
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It
really is quite simple. Everyone is smart except Donald J. Trump.
That’s why they all are billionaires and all got elected President.
Only Trump does not know what he is doing. Only Trump does not know how
to negotiate with Vladimir Putin. Anderson Cooper knows how to stand
up to Putin. The whole crowd at MSNBC does. All the journalists do.
They
could not stand up to Matt Lauer at NBC. They could not stand up to
Charlie Rose at CBS. They could not stand up to Mark Halperin at NBC.
Nor up to Leon Wieseltier at the New Republic, nor Jann Wenner at
Rolling Stone, nor Michael Oreskes at NPR, at the New York Times, or at
the Associated Press. But — oh, wow! — can they ever stand up to
Putin! Only Trump is incapable of negotiating with the Russian tyrant.
Remember
the four years when Anderson Cooper was President of the United
States? And before that — when the entire Washington Post editorial
staff jointly were elected to be President? Remember? Neither do I!
The
Seedier Media never have negotiated life and death, not corporate life
and death, and not human life and death. They think they know how to
negotiate, but they do not know how. They go to a college, are told by
peers that they are smart, get some good grades, proceed to a graduate
degree in journalism, and get hired as analysts. Now they are experts,
ready to take on Putin and the Iranian Ayatollahs at age 30.
That
is not the road to expertise in tough dealing. The alternate road is
that, along the way, maybe you get forced into some street fights.
Sometimes the other guy wins, and sometimes you beat the intestines out
of him. Then you deal with grown-ups as you mature, and you learn that
people can be nasty, often after they smile and speak softly. You get
cheated a few times, played. And you learn. Maybe you become an
attorney litigating multi-million-dollar case matters. Say what you
will about attorneys, but those years — not the years in law school, not
the years drafting legal memoranda, but the years of meeting
face-to-face and confronting opposing counsel — those years can teach a
great deal. They can teach how to transition from sweet, gentle,
diplomatic negotiating to tough negotiating. At some point, with enough
tough-nosed experience, you figure out Trump’s “The Art of the Deal”
yourself.
Trump’s
voters get him because not only is he we, but we are he. We were not
snowflaked-for-life by effete professors who themselves never had
negotiated tough life-or-death serious deals. Instead we live in the
real world, and we know how that works. Not based on social science
theories, not based on “conceptual negotiating models”, but based on
the people we have met over life and always will hate. That worst boss
we ever had. The coworker who tried to sabotage us. We know the sons
of bums whom we survived, the dastardly types who are out there, and we
learned from those experiences how to deal with them. We won’t have
John Kerry soothe us by having James Taylor sing “You’ve Got a Friend”
carols.
The
Bushes got us into all kinds of messes. The first one killed the
economic miracle that Reagan had fashioned. The second one screwed up
the Middle East, where Iraq and Iran beautifully were engaged in killing
each other for years, and he got us mired into the middle of the
muddle. Clinton was too busy with Monica Lewinsky to protect us from
Osama bin Laden when we had him in our sights. Hillary gave us Benghazi
and more And Obama and Kerry gave us the Iran Deal, ISIS run amok,
America in retreat. All to the daily praise of a media who now attack
Trump every minute of every day.
So let us understand a few things:
Negotiating with NATO
NATO
is our friend. They also rip off America. They have been ripping us
off forever. We saved their butts — before there even was a NATO — in
World War I. They messed up, and 116,456 Americans had to die to save
their butts.
Then
they messed up again for the next two decades because West Europeans
are effete and so obsessed with their class manners, and their rules of
savoir faire, and their socialist welfare states, and their early
retirements that they did not have the character to stand up to Hitler
in the 1930s [over]. Peace in our time. So they messed up, and we had to save
their butts again. And another 405,399 Americans died for them during
World War II. And then we had to rebuild them! And we had to station
our boys in Germany and all over their blood-stained continent. So,
hey, we love those guys. We love NATO.
And
yet they still rip us off. We pay 4% of our gigantic gross domestic
product to protect them, and they will not pay a lousy 2% of their GDP
towards their own defense! Is there a culture more
penny-pinching-cheap-and-stingy than the fine constituents of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization? These cheap base bornprigs will not pay
their fare. They are too cheap. They expect America to send boys to die
for them in one world war, then another — hundreds of thousands — and
then to pay for their NATO defense even a century later. And then they
have the temerity to cheat us further in trade!
Long
before Trump, they set up tariffs against us for so many things. If the
average American knew how badly Europe has been ripping us off for
decades with their tariffs, no one in this country would buy anything
European again. We would say, as a matter of self-respect and personal
pride, “I no longer will buy anything but American, no matter what it
costs.”
Every
American President has complained about the cheating and imbalance —
the NATO penny-pinching-cheapness, the tariff and trade imbalances. In
more recent years, the various Bushes complained about it. Even Obama
complained about it. But they all did it so gently, so diplomatically.
They would deliver the sermon, just as the pastor predictably tells the
church-goers on Sunday morning that he is against sin, and the
Europeans would sit quietly and nod their heads — nodding from sleeping,
not from agreeing — and then they would go back out and sin some more.
Another four years of America being suckered and snookered. All they
had to do was give Obama a Nobel Peace Prize his ninth month in office
and let Kerry ride his bike around Paris.
So
Trump did what any effective negotiator would do: he took note of past
approaches to NATO and their failures, and correctly determined that the
only way to get these penny-pinching-cheap baseborn prigs to pay their
freight would be to bulldoze right into their faces, stare them right in
their glazed eyes with cameras rolling, and tell them point-blank the
equivalent of: “You are the cheapest penny-pinching, miserly, stingy,
tightwadded skinflints ever. And it is going to stop on my watch.
Whatever it takes from my end, you selfish, curmudgeonly cheap prigs,
you are going to pay your fair share. I am not being diplomatic. I am
being All-Business: either you start to pay or, wow, are you in for some
surprises! And you know what you read in the Fake News: I am crazy! I
am out of control! So, lemme see. I know: We will go to trade war!
How do you like that? Maybe we even will pull all our troops out of
Europe. Hmmm. Yeah, maybe. Why not? Sounds good. Well, let’s see.”
So
Trump stuffed it into their quiche-and-schnitzel ingesting faces. And
he convinced them — thanks to America’s Seedier Media who are the real
secret to the “Legend That is Trump” — that he just might be crazy
enough to go to trade war and to pull American boys home. They knew
that Clinton and Bush x 2 and Kerry and Hillary and Nobel Laureate Obama
never would do it. But they also know that Trump just might. And if
they think they are going to find comfort and moderating in his new
advisers, John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, alongside him…. Nuh-uh.
So
CNN and the Washington Post and all the Seedier Media attacked Trump
for days: "He is destroying the alliance! He attacks our friends!"
Baloney.
Obama was the one whom the Left Echo Chamber… Chamber… Chamber never
called out for attacking our friends — Israel, Britain, so many others —
while cozying up to Hugo Chavez, bowing to dictators, and dancing the
tango for Raul Castro. Trump is just the opposite: He knows who the
friends are, and he wants to maintain and strengthen those friendships.
It is no different from a parent telling a 35-year-old son: “I have
been supporting you for thirty-five years. I put you through college by
signing four years and $100,000 PLUS in Loans. You graduated college
fifteen years ago. For fifteen years I have been asking you nicely to
look for a job and to start contributing. Instead, you sit home all day
playing video games, texting your friends on a smartphone I pay for,
and picking little fuzz balls out of your navel. So, look, I love you.
You are my flesh and blood. But if you are not employed and earning a
paycheck — and contributing to the cost of this household — in six
months, we are throwing you out of the house.” That boy is NATO. Trump
is Dad. And all of us have been signing for the PLUS Loans. [Emphasis mine.]
Negotiating with Putin
Putin
is a bad guy. A really bad guy. He is better than Lenin. Better than
Stalin, Khrushchev, Kosygin, Brezhnev, Pol Pot, Mao. But he is a really
bad guy.
Here’s
the thing: Putin is a dictator. He answers to no one. He does
whatever he wants. If there arises an opponent, that guy dies. Maybe
the opponent gets poked with a poisoned umbrella. Maybe he gets shot
on the street. Maybe the opponent is forced to watch Susan Rice
interviews telling the world that Benghazi happened because of a YouTube
video, seen by nine derelicts in Berkeley, and that Bowe Berghdal served
with honor and distinction. But, one way or another, the opponent dies.
Trump knows this about Putin. And here is what that means:
If
you insult Putin in public, like by telling the news media just before
or after meeting with him that he is the Butcher of Crimea, and he
messed with our elections, and is an overall jerk — then you will get
nothing behind closed doors from Putin. Putin will decide “To heck with
you, and to heck with the relationship we just forged.” Putin will get
even, will take intense personal revenge, even if it is bad for Russia —
even if it is bad for Putin. Because there are no institutional reins
on him.
But
if you go in public and tell everyone that Putin is a nice guy (y’know,
just like Kim Jong Un) and that Putin intensely maintains that he did
not mess with elections — not sweet little Putey Wutey (even though he
obviously did) — then you next can maintain the momentum established
beforehand in the private room. You can proceed to remind Putin what
you told him privately: that
this garbage has to stop —or else. That if he messes in Syria, we will
do “X.” If he messes with our Iran boycott, we will do “Y.” We will
generate so much oil from hydraulic fracturing and from ANWR and from
all our sources that we will glut the market — if not tomorrow, then a
year from now. We will send even more lethal offensive military weapons
to Ukraine. We can restore the promised shield to Eastern Europe that
Obama withdrew. And even if we cannot mess with Russian elections
(because they have no elections), they do have computers — and, so help
us, we will mess with their technology in a way they cannot imagine.
Trump knows from his advisers what we can do. If he sweet-talks Putin
in public — just Putin on the Ritz<— then everything that Trump has
told Putin privately can be reinforced with action, and he even can
wedge concessions because, against that background, Putin knows that no
one will believe that he made any concessions. Everyone is set to
believe that Putin is getting whatever he wants, that Trump understands
nothing. So, in that setting, Putin can make concessions and still save
face.
That
is why Trump talks about him that way. And that is the only possible
way to do it when negotiating with a tyrant who has no checks and
balances on him. If you embarrass the tyrant publicly, then the tyrant
never will make concessions because he will fear that people will say he
was intimidated and backed down. And that he never will do.
Meanwhile, Trump has expelled 60 Russians from America, reversed Obama
policy and sent lethal weapons to Ukraine, and is pressing Germany
severely on its pipeline project with Russia.
The Bottom Line
At
the end of the day, Donald Trump is over seventy years old. He has
made many mistakes in his life. He still makes some He is human. But
Trump likewise has spent three score and a dozen years learning. He has
seen some of his businesses go bankrupt, and he has learned from those
experiences to be a billionaire and not let it happen again. No doubt
that he has been fooled, outsmarted in years past. And he has learned
from life.
He
is a tough and smart negotiator. He sizes up his opponent, and he knows
that the approach that works best for one is not the same as for
another. It does not matter what he says publicly about his negotiating
opponent. What matters is what results months later.
In
his first eighteen months in Washington, this man has turned around the
American economy, brought us near full employment, reduced the welfare
and food stamp lines, wiped out ISIS in Raqqa, moved America’s Israel
embassy to Jerusalem, successfully has launched massive deregulation of
the economy, has opened oil exploration in ANWR, is rebuilding the
military massively, has walked out of the useless Paris Climate Accords
that were negotiated by America’s amateurs who always get snookered,
canned the disastrous Iran Deal, exited the bogus United Nations Human
Rights Council. He has Canada and Mexico convinced he will walk out of
NAFTA if they do not pony up, and he has the Europeans convinced he will
walk out of NATO if they don’t stop being the cheap and lazy parasitic
penny-pinchers they are. He has slashed income taxes, expanded legal
protections for college students falsely accused of crimes, has taken
real steps to protect religious freedoms and liberties promised in the
First Amendment, boldly has taken on the lyme-disease-quality of a
legislative mess that he inherited from Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama
on immigration, and has appointed a steady line of remarkably brilliant
conservative federal judges to sit on the district courts, the circuit
appellate courts, and the Supreme Court.
What
has Anderson Cooper achieved during that period? [His mother's reputation?] Jim Acosta or the
editorial staffs of the New York Times and Washington Post? They have
not even found the courage and strength to stand up to the coworkers and
celebrities within their orbits who abuse sexually or psychologically
or emotionally. They have no accomplishments to compare to his. Just
their effete opinions, all echoing each other, all echoing, echoing,
echoing. They gave us eight years of Nobel Peace Laureate Obama
negotiating with the ISIS JV team, calming the rise of the oceans, and
healing the planet.
We will take Trump negotiating with Putin any day.
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