In a democracy such as ours, bringing support for one’s position and policies is critical to success.

Seems trump hasn’t tried very hard to do so.

We can blame the msm or the so-called “establishment” all we want.

But, it was entirely predictable.
http://neoneocon.com/2016/08/30/is-there-evidence-for-a-monster-trump-vote/#comment-1616668
http://neoneocon.com/2017/01/20/reflection-on-president-trump-words-and-action/#comment-2166269

What we are seeing now is some of that “chaos” I mentioned long ago that a candidate like trump brings to fruition.

Few wanted to acknowledge that, or tried to talk it down, but it is there.

“I wonder sometimes if my ideological outlook was shaped by reading Heinlein, beginning in grade school; or if I gravitated to his work because of natural proclivities.” AesopFan

For me it was both. I was a big fan growing up. Then as a young adult, like most I gravitated toward liberalism, though I remained an independent. In the late 90’s I began my own journey toward conservatism-classical liberalism and a small ‘l’ libertarianism with a renewed-deepening of my appreciation for Heinlein.

If you think that the RINO GOP is supporting Trump’s agenda, strategy, organization and communications… you are on crack.

They are doing all they can to passively obstruct Trump’s agenda with the sole exception being judiciary appointments.

But, the media don’t hold all the power, do they?

If that were true, we’d surely have hrc as POTUS.
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Oh, and the race against hrc is over, right?

So, do we still need to be making comparisons to her, as if two possible wrongs make a right?

(You do realize that justifying trump’s “declassification” of intelligence is, by implication, saying that trump DID release intelligence to the russians – so now the question is, Was it planned? And, was it wise?

I was looking for more evidence one way or another before concluding that trump did release intelligence, but many on the right are in such knee jerk defense mode that they feel they need to, post hoc, work backwards to justify trump’s actions – which likely never had that kind of consideration, nor effort towards such, applied in advance).
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trump has more opportunity to get his message out than ever.

He practically invented the “how to” on using twitter to reach beyond the msm filters and go direct to the people.
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Not everything is a conspiracy in this world.

Maybe it is simply that trump is incompetent and not the man, the savior, so many hoped he be.

That spells much trouble in getting the things we want done, of which there is plenty yet.

Will trump learn from the lastest, or will he continue on as he has?

Draw your own conclusions as to who is prevailing and then get back to me. – GB

I have, and gave that to you. Get back to you?… hardly.

But, you give a salient point. Why, indeed?

I’ve mentioned here rather numerous times that trump is lacking woefully in the “competency” that he campaigned on so strongly.
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“I base my assessment upon the people at the top with which Trump is surrounding himself. Like the RINO CoS Priebus who has semi-control of access to Trump, SecDef Mattis, NSA McMaster and Deputy NSA Dina Powell.”

That is only one factor, not to say that all those folks are the “establishment” anyway. For instance, haven’t heard many hard core pro-trumpers express concern with SecDef Gen Mattis.

Rather than focusing on a narrow set of things that fit my view, my focus is on the whole of trump’s actions – of which there are plenty of direct quotes and newspaper quotes to give.
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trump hasn’t corralled support from much beyond his core, for a long term sustainable support for change and the maintenance of those changes.

He is the man with the biggest megaphone / the bully pulpit / the official and “Real” POTUS twitter account.

He is the defacto GOP party leader. He gets to set the agenda, the strategy, the organization, the communication, etc, etc, etc..

Bottom Line: trump OWNS the office and all the responsibilities and powers that comes with it.

He OWNS the path to success or to failure. Period.

Blaming others for his woes seems misplaced by several orders of magnitude, especially after trump promised that “only I” could get things done.
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Like I said above, if trump had some consistency, some underlying set of principles we could suss out, then we’d have a baseline to determine who is “prevailing”.

But since he is so mutable and “flexible” there is no way to tell who is “prevailing”.

Perhaps it is the other way around, and trump is “prevailing” over any of the others’ attempts to sway him consistently in one direction?

Maybe he just doesn’t fully listen to any one or anyone, as he is convinced that he is smarter than all of them (after all, he said so, many times on the campaign trail, and has reinforced that lately – of which there is plenty to quote, btw)?

Media: WE WERE NEVER AT WAR WITH PUTIN, PUTIN HAS ALWAYS BEEN OUR GREATEST AND MOST TRUSTWORTHY ALLY

http://amgreatness.com/2017/05/16/russia-story-shows-media-killed-journalism/

“Speaking about media lies earlier this year, I wrote that, “When Trump or his surrogates misspeak, they cause confusion. [The media is] there to correct them. But when the media gets it wrong, people’s lives are ruined.” I should have added, when the media lies, people can die.

I wish I could say with certainty that either McMaster was right or the media was right. But the media has destroyed its credibility with constant misrepresentations and overtly partisan attacks too many times. The media has moved away from speaking truth to power. We are now in a bizarre position where we must either choose to accept the words of those in power or to accept the claims of those who wish they were in power.

The media has destroyed journalism and replaced it with Leftist partisan hackery. We are all now paying the price for this fact, by losing basic trust in once respected institutions.”
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The media never spoke truth to power.
They speak the truth only if it furthers their own agenda, regardless of who was in power.

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/theres-major-fuckery-afoot-with-the-washington-post-and-i-think-i-know-why-fc32e574d49f

Some days it’s slow news, some days Chelsea Manning gets released from prison while the CIA-funded Washington Post fans the flames of more Russia nonsense, the New York Times pushes more Syrian war propaganda insisting that Assad is literally Hitler, and evidence finally surfaces of Seth Rich’s connection to WikiLeaks. Julian Assange recently forecast a Niagara-like deluge of leaks following FBI director James Comey’s sacking by the Trump administration, and if today’s revelations are a taster of the meal that’s coming, you’d better not fill up on bread.
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The Washington Post, if you need a refresher, was purchased in 2013 by Jeff Bezos, who as the fifth wealthiest person on planet Earth has billions upon billions of reasons to want to maintain the status quo that has made his extreme financial dominance possible. That same year, Bezos was awarded a $600 million contract (more than twice what the Post cost him) with the Central Intelligence Agency, a conflict of interest which Bezos’ paper to this day never discloses per universal journalistic protocol when reporting on US intelligence. Prior to the purchase, Bezos had proved his loyalty to America’s unelected power establishment by booting WikiLeaks from Amazon’s computer servers in 2010. Since the purchase, WaPo has become the single most virulently pro-establishment outlet in the top-tier corporate media, as well as a preferred outlet for leaks from the CIA, and has been shamelessly lying about Russia ever since the 2016 elections.
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So I think it’s understandable if people want to take it with a teensy weensy grain of salt when this glorified CIA trade rag tells us that anonymous sources say Donald Trump is colluding with those darn Russians again. In fact, I think it’s understandable if, knowing what we know about the CIA’s massive surveillance systems, we all found the timing of this release to be highly suspicious. After all, the fact that it’s getting harder and harder to dispute that the DNC emails WikiLeaks published were indeed a leak and not a hack does put a major damper on the “Russia hacked the election” narrative that corporate propaganda outlets like WaPo have been hammering the American consciousness with day in and day out since July of last year. Seth Rich being the leaker effectively kills the entire Russian hacking narrative, and thus the entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative that was built upon it, and thus all the manipulations which were built upon the collusion narrative. Could the CIA have known in advance that this propaganda-killing narrative was about to hit the airwaves? Of course. Would they have wanted to distract America in order to ensure the continued manufactured consent for escalations with Putin and regime change in Syria? Yes. Did they? Come on.
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You guys want to know something really creepy? While I was cheerfully bashing WaPo as I normally do, a reader pointed out that The Nation had just removed one of its articles from 2013, in which it reported on the controversy surrounding Bezos, WaPo, and the CIA. That article has been a great resource for people like me who like to spread the word about this stuff, because it was the only semi-mainstream outlet that had reported on it. That article has been enjoying a resurgence in popularity ever since CIA leaks to the Washington Post got the ball really rolling on the anti-Russia hysteria late last year, but it was gone. When readers tried to access the article, this was the message that they got:
(That Page Can’t Be Found)
<b.It seemed very suspicious for such an important article about the intelligence community’s ties to the Washington Post to go missing at the same time WaPo decides to stir up Russia collusion nonsense using anonymous sources again; reader James Foster of Indiana University reported that he’d just used that very article for a college paper last week. So I kicked up a bit of a social media fuss:
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A bunch of readers joined in, but The Nation never responded to all the noise we were making. Not that it would have made a difference if they had, because what they did end up doing made the whole thing so much creepier: they put the article back, but with today’s date, time stamped just a few minutes prior to when the first reader discovered it had been restored.…This article is from 2013. Click this hyperlink here to see an archive of the page that someone made in December of last year, still with the 2013 date. They went all that time without messing with the article, then on the day the CIA-tied Washington Post runs what is almost certainly a deep state psy-op, they start dicking around with it.”

Nothing like a little conspiracy theory to while away the time.