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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.”
Everyone gets that it’s not just CNN
– in fact, in a world where Al Sharpton and Rachel Maddow, Paul Krugman
and Nicholas Kristof are people of influence and whose “reporting” is
in no way significantly different than CNN’s – CNN is just a piker.
Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in
an untenable and unwinnable position. With Trump’s ability to go
around them, they cannot simply stand pat. 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.
This makes “going high” a non-starter for CNN.
This leaves them no other option but to ratchet up the fake news,
conjuring up the next “nothing burger” and devoting 24 hours a day to
hysterical rants about how it’s “worse than Nixon.”
This, obviously, is what CNN has chosen to do. The problem is that, as they become more and more hysterical, they become more and more obvious.
Each new effort at even faker news than before and faker “outrage” only
makes that much more clear to any objective observer that Trump is and
always has been right about the fake news media.
And,
by causing their hysteria, Trump has forced them into numerous, highly
embarrassing and discrediting mistakes. Thus, in their desperation, they have lowered their standards even further
and run with articles so clearly fake that, even with the liberal
(lower case “l”) libel laws protecting the media, they’ve had to wholly
retract and erase their stories repeatedly.
Their flailing at Trump has even seen them cross the line into criminality, with CNN
using their vast corporate fortune to hunt down a private citizen for
having made fun of them in an Internet meme. This threat to “dox” –
release of personal information to encourage co-ideologists to visit
violence upon him and his family -- a political satirist was chilling in
that it clearly wasn’t meant just for him. If it were, there would
have been no reason for CNN to have made their “deal” with him public.
Instead, CNN – playing by “Chicago Rules” – was sending a message to any and all: dissent will not be tolerated.
This heavy-handed and hysterical response to a joke on the Internet has backfired on CNN, giving rise to only more righteous ridicule.
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.
From Townhall.com
