juicesqueezer Loc: Okeechobee, Florida

“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, 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 60 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!"

author unknown, but right on!

WNC Ralf Loc: Candler NC, in the mountains!

Isn't "right thinking" an oxymoron?

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

Well you have certainly trotted out all the conservative tropes and tired assertions. Trump is no John McCain, George Patton,or even a George Bush or a Richard Nixon. PT Barnum is the model for this cheap con man. Trump is the most emotionally and intellectually unfit person ever in the top job. Don't tell me ... "That's why we voted for him!!" Trump weasels around for Trump.

juicesqueezer Loc: Okeechobee, Florida

Before you go spouting about Donald Trump, maybe you need to take care of the problems in your own country! Just saying..................
I will take a fighter anytime over politicians who get pushed around by lobbyists, paid off and claim they really are for America! Give me a break! I will take a Patton any day over the wimps we have had in the past!

juicesqueezer Loc: Okeechobee, Florida

Maybe you need to read the Bible!

WNC Ralf Loc: Candler NC, in the mountains!

Maybe you should learn to think for yourself using facts and logic!

bluescreek Loc: N.C. Sandhills

So true, and how about Hillary Clinton's hero, Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist who wanted Blacks eliminated.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Very well written article.
--Bob

Iwantitall Loc: Chicago (south side)

[quote=juicesqueezer]Before you go spouting about Donald Trump, maybe you need to take care of the problems in your own country! Just saying..................
I will take a fighter anytime over politicians who get pushed around.
👍👍👍

Leica User Loc: Western North Carolina

It is the left, people like you, that cannot handle facts or logic. Facts drive you libs crazy. A simple reason, the lib agenda can almost never stand up to facts much less any logic. In fact, you do not even know the meaning of the word. Exhibit one is just looking at the voters across most of America, they have told you in no uncertain terms that they DO NOT care for your logic much less your agenda or "version" of the facts.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Very well put.
This freaks out the leftists and they will obfuscate, dodge and attack with straw man attacks this well written piece. They will say smart ass things that are completely irrelevant etc. You know that they have no logical or intelligent come back to this as it is the truth and the libs cannot handle the truth. That is why they love CNN et al. The only error is it should have said 7 decades of the Third Reich.

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

I'm a native son and I'm damned concerned about this charlatan, as is much of the world beyond Mayberry.

Leica User Loc: Western North Carolina

You are a coward and a traitor. You ran away. You lost your right and privilege to call yourself a "native son" some time ago. If you do not know that then you are in severe denial. But, it seems to fit you.

GeorgeH Loc: Jonesboro, GA

Please, don't demean Mayberry!

GeorgeH Loc: Jonesboro, GA

Why don't you fold your wretched opinions and put them where the sun never shines.