Of the tens of readers this blog has, this post will likely cost me a few. Some might applaud, many will unfollow me, others will leave vile comments under pseudonyms and you know what???
I don’t give a damn.
One of my sisters recently sent me an opinion piece written by Conservative pundit, Evan Sayet for Townhall.com in 2017. It struck a nerve with me, mainly because I have several very good Liberal friends (I mean, my God, I slaved away in broadcasting for more than 30 years). We keep our friendships in tact by talking about everything but politics. As for most of those with whom I share DNA, the majority of are Trump Republicans. Now, to be honest, I’m not exactly sure what a Trump Republican is, but I think I know what it isn’t. And Sayet’s article about Trump’s lack of decorum, dignity, and statesmanship helped me discern this.
It’s about Right learners who’ve finally gotten get fed up, are mad as hell and can now dish it right back out.
Let’s start with Trump’s tweets.
Yes, at times, I think they could have been authored by an eighth grade gender fluid student (is that PC enough, for ya????), and yes, in then beginning I found a few cringeworthy, but not anymore. I now find myself reading his barrage of almost hourly tweets and finding myself on the same Trump cheer team as Lindsay Graham. He will not be silenced and why have Press Secretary when you can Twitter your ass off and actually prefer to deal with the press yourself?
Here’s what Sayet wrote about how “lacking” President Trump is and the GOP has been:
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. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain? 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 lying, as Obama did, about what went down on the streets of Ferguson, Mo., or lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t see anything “statesmanlike” in weaponizing the Internal Revenue Service to destroy your political opponents and stifle any dissent.
But while the left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in its way, the right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety.
Until Trump. He brought automatic weapons to a gunfight and thank God for that.
Nixon might have tried to play ball, but his dirty tricks were dubious. And illegal. Trump is just pissed off, but not as pissed as his political opponents. But what his enemies don’t get is that he thrives on their hatred and they hate him for so many reasons. He’s a 360 degree threat to the Democratic establishment. His successes, despite their unyielding attempts to derail him at every turn, infuriate them. He’s wealthy and can’t be bought. And what irks them the most, is that he plays by their rules and they can’t stand it.
As a kid growing up in the turbulent 60’s, I had a thing for Walter Cronkite, I’d watch his nightly newscasts. I was inundated with assassinations and attempted assassinations, horrific stories of serial killers, mass shooters atop university clock towers. I knew the daily number of B-52s downed by the Vietcong. I saw black body bags lined up on the tarmac of some anonymous looking U.S. Air Force base in South Vietnam. And I watched Hippies protest by burning down ROTC buildings on college campuses and hold sit-ins after taking over the Administrative Offices. I remember hearing about bombings at the hands of the Weather Underground, the marches by the Black Panthers, and all kinds of anti-war histrionics at the hands of Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Ruben, among others. In the 60’s, civil unrest was king. It was a war fought domestically, idealistically, with an unfortunate body count at times….but a war nonetheless. And as Sayet tells us, the Left has been fighting this war unopposed for years. Republicans have been too civil. Hell, maybe even too stupid or scared or both to fight back.
The Right until recently, is only learning how to fight like their political counterparts. They still used dignity instead of lies, collegiality instead of violence and propriety assuming this could be a form battlefield negotiation. Imagine an American GI, some barely 18-year-old kid who’s never been off his family’s farm Iowa, trying to debate a Nazi on democracy vs. fascism in the throes of a gun battle on some field in France. Doesn’t work. Trump realized this and took it with him to the ballot box in 2016. And this, according to Sayet means Donald Trump is America ’s first wartime president in the Culture War….one that makes the 60’s look tame.
Warriors fight. They “know thy enemy’ and they’d learn their strengths and weaknesses and ultimately play by their rules. They’re fighters. Trump is a fighter and he’s seemingly learned how to put up his political dukes from Sun Tsu’s “”Art of War” and a book alluded to at the beginning of this post, Saul Alinsky’s, “Rules for 
Radicals” – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that Sayet says it was and is THEE Liberal playbook, used throughout both the Clinton and Obama administrations. It was also the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis, though for full disclosure’s sake, she didn’t agree with all of Alinsky’s tactics.
Trump, his Tweets, his finger pointing, name-calling, use of expletives, his self aggrandizing may seem rash and completely beneath the dignity of the Office, But Sayet says he’s doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do. He went after the Fake Media the very second Nadler and company decided to impeach him, which was being discussed even before he took the oath of office.
Trump targeted CNN and CNN targeted Trump with Tweets or some half truth or outright lies from Don Lemmon or Cuomo or that fat,little, bespectacled bald man.. . and then Trump would retaliate with a Tweet even more scurrilous, forcing the network to respond until it was literally running out of negatives.
Then, as Alinsky suggests, Trump used his trump card. Described by Alinsky, “the most powerful weapon of all”—-Trump employed ridicule. Relentless, merciless ridicule.
This left CNN in something of a cable cornichon with only two viable choices. They could either honestly and accurately report the news or they could continue to obey their Liberal overloads and defeat Trump (in our president’s words) with “their usual propaganda bullshit”.
To do anything else, to start reporting Trump/Republican news honestly and accurately would sorely disappoint, if not completely implode the Democrat Party.
Sayet goes on to say:
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 Benghazi, the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up.
In closing, after three years, I’ve grown very, very tired of the Dem’s double standard, the hypocrisy, watching Nadler bloat with every hyperbolic anti-Trumpism, of Schiff looking pale, frightened and rectally fragged and I’m tired of Pelosi stuttering and stammering with that blank stare indicating to me anyway, that she’s knowingly killing her party by willingly losing control of her party.
So, keep it up, Mr. Trump. Be the first Republican to do the unthinkable: fight back. Be brave, belittle, bemoan, begrudge, be very, very bad and not only win the presidency for four more years, but beat the Democrats at their own game.
Why the hell not? Politics has been forever changed and despite my support for Trump and his tactics and my disdain for the once honorable Democratic Party, I don’t say that with any immense amount of joy.
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