This is really well done. It was written almost a year ago by Evan Sayet, but it’s worth a repeat. FYI, I was a NeverTrumper, and while I am still not on the Trump Train, I support most of his efforts and I think that on the whole, he’s doing a great job so far.
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\nMy Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I\u2019m not bothered by Donald Trump\u2019s lack of decorum. They ask if I don\u2019t think his tweets are \u201cbeneath the dignity of the office.\u201d
\nHere\u2019s my answer:
\nWe 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.
\nCould there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized \u201ccollegiality\u201d as John McCain? We tried propriety \u2013 has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney?
\nAnd 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.
\nI don\u2019t find anything \u201cdignified,\u201d \u201ccollegial\u201d or \u201cproper\u201d about Barack Obama\u2019s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party.
\nI don\u2019t see anything \u201cdignified\u201d in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks.
\nI don\u2019t see anything \u201cstatesman-like\u201d in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent.
\nYes, Obama was \u201carticulate\u201d and \u201cpolished\u201d but in no way was he in the least bit \u201cdignified,\u201d \u201ccollegial\u201d or \u201cproper.\u201d
\nThe Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the \u201860s. 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\u2019ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one \u2013 the violent take-over of the universities \u2013 till today.
\nThe 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.
\nWith Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America \u2019s first wartime president in the Culture War.
\nDuring wartime, things like \u201cdignity\u201d and \u201ccollegiality\u201d simply aren\u2019t 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.
\nHad Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today.
\nLincoln rightly recognized that, \u201cI cannot spare this man. He fights.\u201d
\nGeneral 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.
\nTrump is fighting. And what\u2019s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel\u2019s, he\u2019s shouting, \u201cYou magnificent bastards, I read your book!\u201d
\nThat is just the icing on the cake, but it\u2019s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he\u2019s defeating the Left using their own tactics. That book is Saul Alinsky\u2019s Rules for Radicals \u2013 a book so essential to the Liberals\u2019 war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton\u2019s senior thesis.
\nIt 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.
\nTrump\u2019s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do. First, instead of going after \u201cthe fake media\u201d \u2014 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 \u2014 Trump isolated CNN.. He made it personal.
\nThen, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as \u201cthe most powerful weapon of all.\u201d… Most importantly, Trump\u2019s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. … They need to respond.
\nThis leaves them with only two choices. They can either \u201cgo high\u201d (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.
\nImagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama\u2019s 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\u2019s church.
\nImagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration\u2019s 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\u2019s cover-up.
\nSo, to my friends on the Left \u2014 and the #NeverTrumpers as well \u2014 do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be \u201ccollegial\u201d and \u201cdignified\u201d and \u201cproper\u201d? Of course I do. These aren\u2019t those times. This is war. And it\u2019s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years.
\nSo, 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\u2019t care. I can\u2019t spare this man. He fights for America!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is really well done. It was written almost a year ago by Evan Sayet, but it’s worth a repeat. FYI, I was a NeverTrumper, and while I am still not on the Trump Train, I support most of his efforts and I think that on the whole, he’s doing a great job so far. … Continue reading Worth a read, even though it’s a bit long.<\/span>