My Leftist friends (as well as many
ardent #Never Trumpers) 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 inno 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 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
bastard, 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.
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)
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