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Trump's lack of decorum, dignity, and statesmanship

My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #Never Trumpers) 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.” ... 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), 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!

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa

Thank you slatten49

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Thank you, L.D., but I amended my post. The link I provided has the story, also.

rumitoid

No, it does not.

rumitoid

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

I beg to differ, my friend. I believe it does.

America Only Loc: From the right hand of God

Sober up and you may find it...booze hound.

PeterS

Oh I don't know, I would say that Carter was probably the most dignified president in our modern history--Bush was a duffus who lied us into an unnecessary war (if you don't believe me ask Trump), pushed through an unnecessary tax cut, and presided over the weakest jobs growth of any two term president. As for undermining his presidency, that's a bunch of hogwash as the democrats worked with him throughout his presidency--if we had been undermining him there would have been no war in Iraq and no tax cut targeting the wealthy for starters. If you want to see a group that caused a president to suffer outrageous lies, extreme politically motivated hatred, and a group that was dedicated to undermining a president every turn he took, fast forward to Obama and how conservatives treated him for 8 years.

ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa

peterdick: One would think you would get tired of you handlers pumping you full of shit! Your post is This is among the most hypocritical, full-of-shit Leftist rants I can recall seeing here in a long time and that's saying something given the Leftist drivel we are subjected to...
What I find particularly repulsive about you bleeding heart Leftists is that, at the behest of your Collectivist leaders, you blindly, stupidly, like cattle, push for juvenile emotional satisfaction forcing your limp 'can't we all just get along' ideology down our throats without any understanding of consequences and certainly with no planning. And when it blows up in your faces you run to those who wanted to be cautious in the first place, who have the guns and the courage to protect your quivering, cowering asses...all the while blaming them for the mess you created.
And you dare to follow up with an image of the symbol of America that the son of a bitch you put in control is working 24/7 to destroy?
You thoughtless, selfish morons turn the stomaches of truly empathetic, thoughtful Americans.

Radiance3

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I did support him. But now, I think this new tax plan will punish the middle income payers. I want him to revise the tax proposal. Ladies and gentlemen, if your tax will go up due to this new tax plan, write the president your concerns.
Most of the voters belong to the Middle Class.

BobDew

This article is probably one of the best I have read about circumstances that face us today. It is great to see that a non-political President has surrounded himself with more savvy assistants than any current regime. We have been led to believe, by a corrupt media, that the Democratic Party was for the USA, when, in fact, they have done absolutely nothing to further anyone's feeling of security within our borders. Shame on the media and all those that precipitated this situation.