Stop tweeting and start acting Mr. President. Get rid of your son-in-law Jared Kushner who has disastrous political instincts. Focus on restarting the economy and quelling the riots. Succeed in these two areas and you will win in November. Fail and you won’t.
This raises the question of whether Trump is really the tough guy he presents himself as and his ardent supporters think he is or just all talk and no walk. Some of his high profile supporters need to stop being sycophants and start telling him the truth.
Agree 100%, of course. “Focus on restarting the economy and quelling the riots. Succeed in these two areas and you will win in November. Fail and you won’t.”
Is this likely to happen? No, save for a miracle, which given the inertness of most Americans, we don’t deserve.
Trump for all the good things he has done seems shell shocked, unable to muster the courage and wisdom to confront the present challenge.
Maybe a season in hell is what God wants for us now to show that without Him we are doomed.
This raises the question of whether Trump is really the tough guy he presents himself as and his ardent supporters think he is or just all talk and no walk.
We will find out. I have noticed over his career that Trump has usually been at his best when his back is against the wall. We will see.
In fairness to Trump, the entire GOP and conservative movement seems to have set its courage in the recycle bin. It’s as if everyone could talk a big talk – until the other side crossed the border and began the invasion. Now it’s fussing an whining and nothing. I’ve tried locally to get conservatives out and GOP pols out to make a stand and – crickets. A couple have said ‘you just wait Dave, we’ll take a stand!’ When? I’m not seeing it. It’s almost as if they believed it when it was easy to believe; or at least said they believed it. Now that’s it’s getting tougher, we’re starting to see the wheat separated from the chaff, with way too many making up the chaff.
Trump’s back is against the wall alright. Kushner having his exposes one of the President’s more weaknesses, his penchant for nepotism.
Let me rewrite part of that. Kushner having Trump’s ear exposes one of his more devastating weaknesses, the President’s penchant for nepotism.
This November it’s Trump vs. China and its allies: crazies who want to make America into Baltimore, Chicago, Minneapolis, Venezuela. If you liked the lock-ups, looting, and riots, you’ll love the green new deal.
Years ago, a Jamaican-American black rocker (?) Shaggy had a song out, “It Wasn’t Me.” Maybe allowing the Democrats’ insanity and mayhem to prolong and expand is a strategy. There is an opposite reaction to every action, e.g., statue toppling and racial noose hoax. It’s simmering. Get in line at the local gun store.
He essentially has no one covering his six.
About 90% of the establishment GOP and so-called conservatives are cowering in some cellar in fear of some criminal, crazy, or imbecile calling them ‘racist!’ and hoping to welcome China Joe Biden to the White House in January 2021.
Speaking of shaggy Jamaicans, we could see a President Harris if Biden gets elected,
I’m still agnostic on this, but let me bring up one aspect I’ve heard about on boards.
Trump IS quelling riots and getting economies going… in the places voting for him. In the blue zones, Trump is waiting for the leaders to beg for his help.
It seems to be becoming a game of chicken. The dem leadership want Trump to come in and override them. That way they can get all the benefits of law & order, while blaming anything that goes wrong on Trump. It’s also just in their nature that when they screw things up bad enough, to demand higher government to come in and clean up their mess. Trump’s aim is to reverse that game – if they want help, he needs to get the credit for it and they need to shoulder their responsibility.
“Example is the school of mankind and he will learn at no other.” said Edmund Burke. I have been wondering for awhile how we can survive so many repeatedly “skipping class” and avoiding the consequences of their actions. Maybe Trump is now playing the truant officer, telling them there is no out this time, you’re attending class.
Given also that no matter what he does, the media will spin it in the worst way possible, I don’t blame Trump for trying to thread the needle here. If a college girl breaks a nail with a military member nearby, we’ll be bombarded about how it’s Kent State all over again.
If that is Trump’s game plan it is a stupid one. (I doubt if he has a game plan. Trump tends to go with his gut and is all about tactics and almost never strategy.) First, he is the President of the entire country, not just the red states. He has a duty to the people in Blue states and cities. Second, disorder in the large urban areas gets lots of coverage and enhances a sense of chaos across the nation. Trump was caught flat footed by all this, and, as usual, he is having difficulty getting the Federal bureaucracy to obey him. The best appointment he has made is Barr, who finally gave him some control over the DOJs. He needs a hundred Barrs to make the Executive Branch agencies actually obey him. I think General Flynn would be a great help and he should be immediately made Chief Domestic Security Advisor.
Amen, Nate. Another Kent State with Trump’s name on it is exactly what they hope will happen. Trump is trying to play the longer game. I pray he succeeds. All the attention to those around him is, in my view, ultimately just background noise, being made mostly by people who despise him and are looking for ways to attack and provoke him. Present company excepted, of course!
“General Flynn would be a great help and he should be immediately made Chief Domestic Security Advisor.“. Good idea. Forward that idea to the President
Terrible leadership across the country and the media is just itching to blame all the failures on the President, so he stays out of it for the most part. Problem is this doesn’t make him the law and order president, but he knows he just has to beat Joe Biden who can’t condemn the riots.
It’s a game of Chicken and blue cities burn because of it. Who’s at fault? I’d say the media. Again.
I dunno, Don. They’ve been saying for 4 years now that he’s “not my president” so maybe it is fair he just gives them what they want.
(don’t disagree on the rest – though you bring up a good point, can Trump even do anything if the rest of the apparatus is fighting against him?)
A President has to try to be better than his people. I will be doing a post next week on the advantages that I see Trump having going into the Fall election. They are substantial and too few people are paying any attention to them currently.
You’re not wrong, Don. But it bears mentioning that sometimes the people can make the “better than” bar extremely low.
What’s that old saying? “Democracy is the theory that the people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
I incline to agree with Kurt Schlichter myself.
No doubt the Democrats are trying to set him up by getting him to go big on cracking down. Those photo ops would be everywhere, and it’s depressingly rigged against him, and America. They’re all in friends, and the media helps. The people are starting to crack, people are defending statues. There are black Americans who have had enough as well. They need to speak up, their voices of opposition particularly important right now. I’m talking rank and file black Americans, not just high profile people.
President Trump needs to act. He has started defending statues and monuments, which is important. The impression is though, these thugs are winning the hearts and minds of America’s people, many of them young and stupid. But even young and stupid can cause a lot of problems. Meanwhile, American patriots are getting angrier and more frustrated, certainly demoralized. Who would I like to confront? Today’s stinking GOP, who have abandoned our country and president when we needed them most. Where is McConnell? Where is McCarthy? Oh right, tweeting about Syria.
Where is the GOP?? Horrible, stinking cowards.
I think most people understand that the federal government doesn’t just jump in unless invited by the state and local governments. And if you’re President Trump and you’ve been falsely accused of being a racist and a tyrant and the probability is high that a person of color would be killed if the federal government were to step in then you-
My guess is Trump will step in, but only if the left decided to stop crapping their own nests and try to crap elsewhere.
In the meantime, he’s content to point out how the left craps all over itself.
This makes him “rude” of course. Because it’s bad manners to point out the splendid Emperor of the Left is fat and wrinkled and ugly –and also parading around buck naked.
there is hope: AG Barr has 500 cases he said that Justice is prosecuting. They have ID’d many of the rioters thanks to cell phone cameras and security footage. Unfortunately it takes time. President Trump has set up an Operations Center with Federal Marshals, National Guard and Special Ops (not much info on the latter in the newspaper article.)
Senator Tom Cotton has sponsored legislation, so has Senator Tim Scott that should improve the situation. The two priests with several Jews won their suit against the state of NY regarding freedom of religion – Package and weed stores open but not churches.
It’s finally come out after so many years that it was NOT the National Guard that fired the first shot but the damage is done.
Gov Northam is encouraging snitches to anonymously turn in violators of mask wearing and social distancing. Churches are also being surveilled to punish violators. A friend saw a man in the back corner taking notes at Mass this morning and a man stood up in the middle of Sunday Mass and took photos..This may turn Virginia red. We can only hope. Word is McAuliffe will run for governor again since the governorship is one term only in Virginia..
After a teen died in CHOP because the EMTs denied access to treat his bullet wounds the allure is off of CHOP. plus many lawsuits against the city by business and property owners in CHOP is becoming known.
The media will always be problematic. People like Shaun King will dominate the news in the drive by media. It may be that Trump can have BLM labelled a terrorist organization.
One of the most positive things to come out of this is that conservative blacks are on the talk shows and telling like it is…The Democratic Party are the real racists and hold blacks back.