I remember during the campaign between McCain and Obama the
country guffawed at McCain for being technically inept and was all aflutter
when Obama tweeted. Now that we have a republican that tweets it has
become taboo. But, speaking of decorum,
John Roberts
Trump's lack of decorum, dignity, and statesmanship:
Written by a contributor
to the Chicago Tribune.
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 Ronald Reagan?
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!
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