by Marshall Kamena(D) Maryor of Livermore, CA
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 last 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 in which
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 takeover 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 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, 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 got every single significant story of the last 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 Democrat Party they serve.
It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda, biased)
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 more "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 last 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 really don't care.
I can't spare this man, because he fights for America!
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Monday, January 15, 2018
Trump Is Fighting The Culture War
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