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 as 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!
Please pass this on..over and over, and again and again...
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!
Please pass this on..over and over, and again and again...
