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'Never Trump' and the Trump Trauma

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Via:  sixpick  •  8 years ago  •  12 comments

'Never Trump' and the Trump Trauma

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U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hold a joint news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House June 7, 2018 in Washington, DC. Trump and Abe discussed the upcoming U.S.-North Korea summit.


Trump is turning out to be a pretty good president.

There, I said it, and by doing so I'm sure the people who most need what I'm about to write are going to discount it instantly. And I instantly feel the need to footnote it by saying I don't agree with Trump on every issue, which is pretty much what you'd have to expect since I'm a national-defense libertarian and Trump is an FDR Democrat in an elephant suit. But I agree with him way more than I expected to, and I'm very impressed at what he's done in particular in foreign affairs: both bringing North Korea to something that looks like real negotiations, and getting Saudi Arabia and a bunch of other Sunni nations into an alliance against Iran, and at least grudging tolerance of Israel.

So now, after 18 months or so, we're in a situation where the conservative wing of the coastal clerisy -- people like Bill Kristol, my erstwhile PJ Media colleague Jennifer Rubin, and Ron Radosh — are all pushing the notion that to "punish Trump," to "get Trump's attention," and to "save the Republican Party," conservatives need to campaign for and vote for Democrat candidates in the midterms. What is even harder to understand is that they claim to be doing it based on their "principles."

To which I say, "Are you mental?"

I can understand it, honestly. Trump won, and did so by delivering a flat-out country whoopin' to both  the Republican clerisy and Mad Granny — who was, by the way, an atrocious candidate who couldn't stagger over the goal line with the DNC blocking Bernie Sanders and the combined efforts of political appointees in the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the Intelligence Community doing their best to facemask him before — and late-hit him out of the game after — the election.

The fact is Trump's election was a massive shock, and Trump is an embarrassment to them. Worse, he continues to embarrass them every day by being a vainglorious loudmouthed Queens real estate developer instead of a proper politician.

And there's the problem. When you say you want to vote for Democrats to "send a message to Trump" in the name of "your principles," what you are saying is you're willing to vote for a party that has expressly promised to reverse the tax cuts, reimpose the regulations Trump's administration is canceling, further nationalize healthcare and legalize open borders now and forever. Not to mention at least tacitly endorsing the use of the IRS to suppress political speech, the use of the Intelligence Community to spy on political opponents, and the use of the Justice Department to criminalize the opposition. Whats more, it's the party that has promised to impeach Trump, leading to a political crisis the outcome of which no one can predict.



All to "send a message" about "your principles".

Here's some news: the message you're sending is "I don't care if the country goes to hell in a handbasket as long as we punish that vainglorious bastard," and the principles you're defending are "how dare you people fail to do what the clerisy tells you to do?"

Those motives are pernicious and the potential outcome horrendous, and I for one am not going along.

I saw this the other day: "I can't believe we have a president who sleeps with porn stars and wants a space army and I still hate him."  I don't hate him, but I was never a fan, and I completely identify with this sentiment.

But if my choices are a vainglorious bastard who is a better president than we've had in a long time, or what the Democrats are offering, I'm going for the bastard.



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sixpick
Professor Quiet
1  seeder  sixpick    8 years ago

Right now the Ninth Circuit has seven of its 29 seats vacant and another vacancy is due to open this summer.  Thank you Harry Reid.

 
 
 
sixpick
Professor Quiet
2  seeder  sixpick    8 years ago

President Donald J. Trump's Accomplishments List:

Government

Kim Jongun and Moon Jaein pledge denuclearisation and end to decades of hostility after summit ...[Read More]

Department of Justice

Veterans Administration

Economy

State Department

Homeland Security

Department of Defense

Trade Deals

I will agree with some here that not all of these are accomplishments, but if all you do is watch the MSM or Liberal news sources, you would never be aware of any of them except the ones considered to be failures.

 
 
 
1stwarrior
Professor Participates
3  1stwarrior    8 years ago

Six - after all of the years you've been on NT, I would have thought that you figured out that YOU DON'T EVER POINT OUT FACTS.  Facts are never accepted especially if they are in "favor" of what our present administration is doing/has done.

 
 
 
Ozzwald
Professor Quiet
3.1  Ozzwald  replied to  1stwarrior @3    8 years ago
I would have thought that you figured out that YOU DON'T EVER POINT OUT FACTS.

Never thought I'd be agreeing with you but boy you can say that again!!  (Skirting the CoC removed) Telo

 
 
 
sixpick
Professor Quiet
3.1.1  seeder  sixpick  replied to  Ozzwald @3.1    8 years ago

https://www.usnews.com/dims4/USNEWS/309d2be/2147483647/resize/1200x%3E/quality/85/?url=%2Fcmsmedia%2Fc1%2F08%2Fe0ec347e4aa4bf70c2c1ede22419%2Fthumb-5.jpg

 
 
 
1stwarrior
Professor Participates
3.1.2  1stwarrior  replied to  Ozzwald @3.1    8 years ago

You need to work on your reading comprehension when you got to any of Six's threads/seeds/articles.  Helluva lot more articulate and thorough than most of the "stuff" that is posted.

 
 
 
Spikegary
Junior Quiet
3.1.3  Spikegary  replied to  Ozzwald @3.1    8 years ago

Deleted, skirting,  {SP}

If someone is violating the CoC, members should make no comment but rather use the flagging system to report it to the moderators

 
 
 
sixpick
Professor Quiet
3.1.4  seeder  sixpick  replied to  1stwarrior @3.1.2    8 years ago

Thanks 1st, but you know I have several personalities.  Some are pretty bad.

 
 
 
sixpick
Professor Quiet
3.1.5  seeder  sixpick  replied to  Spikegary @3.1.3    8 years ago
Removed for context

If you will tolerate me for a moment as I say little subtle things seem to remind once again of an article I put up "The Meaning of Mediocracy" which received little attention. 

removed for context

Excerpt from "The Meaning of Mediocracy".

The main distinguishing feature of the mediocratic ethic is dishonesty. Mediocracy stresses the importance of one thing while engendering its opposite. Some of the time this dishonesty is concealed. But, as in Orwell’s 1984, mediocracy’s ability to brandish contradictions is also part of its power

 
 
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