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 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.”
Everyone gets that it’s not just CNN –
in fact, in a world where Al Sharpton and Rachel Maddow, Paul Krugman and
Nicholas Kristof are people of influence and whose “reporting” is in no way
significantly different than CNN’s – CNN is just a piker.
Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN
in an untenable and unwinnable position. With Trump’s ability to go
around them, they cannot simply stand pat. 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.
This makes “going high” a non-starter for CNN.
This leaves them no other option but to ratchet up the fake news,
conjuring up the next “nothing burger” and devoting 24 hours a day to
hysterical rants about how it’s “worse than Nixon.”
This, obviously, is what CNN has chosen
to do. The problem is that, as they become more and more hysterical, they
become more and more obvious. Each new effort at even faker news
than before and faker “outrage” only makes that much more clear to any
objective observer that Trump is and always has been right about the fake news
media.
And, by causing their hysteria, Trump has
forced them into numerous, highly embarrassing and discrediting mistakes.
Thus, in their desperation, they have lowered their standards even
further and run with articles so clearly fake that, even with the liberal
(lower case “l”) libel laws protecting the media, they’ve had to wholly retract
and erase their stories repeatedly.
Their flailing at Trump has even seen them
cross the line into criminality, with CNN using their vast corporate
fortune to hunt down a private citizen for having made fun of them in an
Internet meme. This threat to “dox” – release of personal information to
encourage co-ideologists to visit violence upon him and his family -- a
political satirist was chilling in that it clearly wasn’t meant just for him.
If it were, there would have been no reason for CNN to have made
their “deal” with him public.
Instead, CNN – playing by “Chicago
Rules” – was sending a message to any and all: dissent will not be
tolerated.
This heavy-handed and hysterical response to a
joke on the Internet has backfired on CNN, giving rise to only more
righteous ridicule.
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.
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