Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32
This was written by the mayor of
Livermore, California explains Trump’s popularity and success. This is perhaps
the best explanation for Trump's popularity...
Marshall Kamena is a registered Democrat and was
elected mayor of Livermore, CA.. He ran on the Democratic ticket because he
knew a Bay Area city would never vote for a Republican. He is as Conservative
as they come. He wrote the following:
Trump’s 'lack of decorum, dignity, and
statesmanship' By Marshall Kamena, Mayor 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 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. 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.”... 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 &
Bernardine Dohrn), 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!
