– a large part of the Democratic Party favors open borders and unlimited immigration

– the media is controlled by a clutch of billionaire globalists; journalists are just minions who repeat the corporate line

– most politicians and journalists are just actors who read a script

– lying is considered totally acceptable in pursuit of progressive ideals

– politicians operate in a Panopticon operated by intelligence agencies

– the American Empire is driven by profit and career considerations, while the American people have become fed up with being the world’s policeman

– the FBI and most of the intelligence agencies are corrupt, careerist, and incompetent

– globalist trade pacts written by multinational corporations have enriched the few at the expense of most working Americans

– none of the “negotiators” of these pacts had the interests of most Americans in mind

– the GOP establishment is cynical and corrupt and is quite happy to play the Washington Generals to the Democrats’ Harlem Globetrotters

And lots more. The readers here could surely add many more of these points — things that have become crystal clear in the Age of Trump.

BTW, I was born during the Eisenhower Presidency. I agree with the poster above who said that Eisenhower, Reagan and Trump are the outstanding presidents of our time.

I suppose I am assuming some rationality on their part, and they have some supporters who would be pleased with an unending stream of impeachment attempts, but somewhere out among the vast middle there have got to be more people who get tired of all this.

Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee, of Thy great goodness, to protect our President from the dark and corrupt forces attempting to remove him from office. Grant us the strength to confront those that oppose liberty and shine your omniscient light upon their treacherous attempts to undermine the will of the people. Graciously hearken to us as citizens who call upon Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may expose the evil working in the shadows to undermine our President and establish Thy justice for our country.

” … much of Trump’s strength rests on the broad support of voters who have figured out the Democrats and the Swamp. They are quite angry. It will take Democrats more than stylistic changes to pour oil on those troubled waters.”

I think, I am sure, that they concluded years ago [back in the earliest ‘dead white man’ days] that there is nothing they can do to seduce all of middle America into collectivism; as an irreducible number of people in this country seem to have an innate attachment to liberty which is stronger than any attraction they might feel toward the collectivist promise of security and ease and “pleasure”.

Therefore their plan is to magisterially cull that population from the polity through calculated economic squeezes and imposed limits, to socially de-legitimate expressions of the liberty preference, and to then swamp whatever relict population of “Neanderthals” (as they frame it) remains, under a wave of more tractable – so they imagine – people.

For them its an evolutionary holy war, and your “selfish” and ‘depraved’ indifference to their psychological need to be treated as godlets whose quirks exist to be worshiped, is a crime that can only be rectified through your extinction.

Your existence is a reproach and an insult to them.

The fact is, that there is just no civil living possible with people who demand from you, what you neither need nor want from them.

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.

–Mikhail Tal

Top grandmasters eventually found ways to counter Tal’s mad attacks and Botvinnik retook the championship. However, when Tal first appeared, no one quite believe what Tal was doing.

Politicians will find ways to counter Trump’s style, but it’s going to take more than a few years.

Plus much of Trump’s strength rests on the broad support of voters who have figured out the Democrats and the Swamp. They are quite angry. It will take Democrats more than stylistic changes to pour oil on those troubled waters.

–Stephen Schwartz, “Pippin – I Guess I’ll Miss the Man”

1A Unconscious Probability Manipulation (LUCK)
1B Precognition
1C Telepathy

That’s a superpower rock-paper-scissors right there.

Ever heard of a guy named Iron Mike Tyson? Trump has.

Trump was associated with some of Kid Dynamite’s most fabled bouts… including his devastating win over Michael Spinks.

In that fight, Tyson displayed his most awesome attribute: the Aura of Invincibility.

The Aura of Invincibility has been possessed by a very select handful of fighters. It makes opponents hesitate… just a millisecond… before throwing a punch because they’re so worried about what’s coming back at them.

But at the world class level, a millisecond is often all that separates the Undisputed Undefeated Heavyweight Champion of the World from the pretenders.

When you have the Aura of Invincibility, your opponents won’t attack you like they should, even when you’re clearly vulnerable.

Trump has developed a similar attribute… an Aura of Fallibility… where opponents see weakness where there is none and attack when they shouldn’t. Then they get bounced around the ring like Trevor Berbick.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

For all things must have their price; it’s in the nature of the universe. One of the things that makes the typical comic-book superhero implausible is that his powers exact no price from him. So: What’s the price of President Trump’s evident power to make his enemies froth at the mouth and tip over backwards?

I can’t think of one. Indeed, using his drive-’em-nuts power seems to confer not one but two benefits on him. First, he “drives ’em nuts.” Second, he positively enjoys the process. But what’s the price? Anyone?

Maybe this isn’t a superpower. Maybe it’s a deficit in today’s ever more shriekingly hysterical Left that any decent man could exploit. I rather enjoy it myself!