George Will wants the soaring rhetoric of a JFK or an Obama. He doesn’t understand two things:

First, such rhetoric is rare in the business world. Business people don’t often think in soaring rhetorical terms, an when they do it’s oftentimes held suspect as a cover for lack of accomplishment;

Second, the first stage in problem solving is to identify the problem. “An education system flush with cash and failing its students,” “rusting factories standing like tombstones” (my favorite) and “Islamic terrorism” are succinct identifications of those problems.

George Will is condescending conservative; John Podesta, Jonathan Gruber, et al. are condescending Progressives; same men, different ties.

Anti-Trump violence in many other cities. Today, huge women’s rights demonstrations in many cities with around 250,000 showing up in Washington D.C.

This is obviously well orchestrated and funded.

The TEA Party protests did not begin until the Porkulus Bill was passed in late February, 2009. The TEA Party protests were never violent, never interfered with anyone else’s civil rights, and never destroyed property. These anti-Trump rallies are marked by rampant interference with other people’s civil rights, foolish violence, and random property destruction.

The authorities had better crack down hard with stiff penalties on the law breakers or we could see billions in property losses and far too much spent on law enforcement. The gauntlet has been thrown down by the progressives. A repeat of the late 60s and early 70s in the works? It doesn’t look good.

The crucial exception is Obamacare. Apparently we cannot just wipe it off the books and go back to pre-2010 healthcare. So there will have to be some good solid, even creative thinking to do and then the even harder part of making the deals to make it happen — especially since the Democrats have blood in their eyes to trip Trump up however they can.

I’m not convinced Trump and his associates are up to the task.

I knew enough to instinctually ignore some (at least) of what he says (he reminds me of the doers I grew up around), but hadn’t quite grasped why I knew I’d need to separate the wheat from the chaff rather differently than usual. You successfully cleared that mystery up lol.

…by the by, at this point, I’m suspecting that he may be a better choice, after all, than my first choice was, for what I was hoping for in a candidate.

Indeed, I suspect here I am in my dotage, sliding into a hopeful Jacksonianism …when I thought my neo-conservative arteries had long since hardened into concrete.

I must have been hearing a different speech yesterday than the one George Will heard, for sure.

There is a whole lot of mean and envy built up in Donald Trump and it will not serve him well going forward.

That can happen to Trump and Republicans.

Yes, be happy that the shrew queen wasn’t blessed with her deepest desire.

But, trump is a man to watch very carefully, imho, as he is largely still an “unknown”.

He get’s his first 100 days to make himself much better known, but not in silence.

Both have used the royal “we” abundantly, so counting the number of occasions “I” occurred does not tell the whole story.

In Trump’s speech yesterday, he used the royal “we” frequently at the outset, but later he used “we” to refer to the American people. It is not sufficient to count the number of times “I” appears in the speech each gave; one must also count “we” and differentiate how many references are to the self and how many to the nation.

Regarding who influenced him to become more presidential:

Yesterday’s wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown was instructive. He was clearly watching (out of the side of his eye) what Pence was doing, and taking his cue from that. I have noted other occasions where Pence is giving him subtle cues. I am not troubled by the fact that Pence influences him in this manner. In fact I am pleased Trump is willing to take these cues from Pence, and pleased that Pence has learned how to influence him without appearing to be in charge. It is a good relationship.