In summary
I found this in a comment from a reluctant Trump-defender at an Atlantic article in which Peter Beinart had been dissing Trump’s Warsaw speech:
Trump is not an intellectual, he is not the great diplomat like Regan [sic], he is crude, arrogant and someone should cut off his tweeting fingers but by far his most annoying quality is how often he is right.
Touché!
It is driving the MSM and the left crazy—although they wouldn’t define it as being “right.” They would define it as being lucky, or as Trump provoking something rather than predicting or evaluating it properly.
For example, the MSM is acting every bit as badly as he’s been saying they do. IMHO that’s because they’ve been doing this for ages, and he has described what’s already been happening (although yes, he does seem to motivate them to display greater depths of it). But the MSM seems to think that it’s all a reaction to the horror of Trump, and an understandable and justifiable and noble one at that.
That Beinart column is one of the craziest, most hysterical things I’ve ever seen. Some of the things he attributes to ‘white nationalists’ have been and pretty much are common beliefs that a vast majority of Americans of all ethnicities have always believed.
That guy has really gone around the bend on this one.
As my father, may his memory be a blessing, used to say, “It’s better to be lucky than smart.”
Richard…I believe you & I might be long lost twin brothers…my dad used to say the same blessed thing!
😉
Now listen to me closely I’ll endeavor to explain
What separates a charlatan from a Charlemagne
A rule confessed by generals illustrious and various
Though pompous as a Pompey or daring as a Darius
A simple rule that every good man knows by heart
It’s smarter to be lucky than it’s lucky to be smart.
–Pippin “War is a Science”
I doubt that Reagan ever delivered a more eloquent statement of Western values, and American solidarity with those who share them, than Trump did in Warsaw.
The fact is that we know very little about the private habits of most Presidents; e.g., the kind of language they used, or if they lashed back against those who displeased them. They were shielded from candid view by layers of protection; and it was not beyond those who protected them to lie, if it served their purposes. Now, in the era of Twitter, 24 hour news, and a completely hostile press it is all out there.
Many of us wish that he would show more restraint in responding to petty attacks. But, he obviously does not think they are petty matters. It may be that he rationally believes that it is important to keep them off balance. If so, he is spectacularly successful. I do know that some who criticize Trump, did the same to Bush 43 because of his passivity in the face of vicious attacks.
I judge him solely on where he takes the country.
Oldflyer Says:
July 7th, 2017 at 8:59 pm
I doubt that Reagan ever delivered a more eloquent statement of Western values, and American solidarity with those who share them, than Trump did in Warsaw.
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Hear, hear.
American’s Heartland has more in common with Poland than with its own coastal (and other urban) elites.