Trump Fights the Chicago Way

Open letter to Never Trump Diehards

What's at stake here is whether the Constitution means what it says. If the left wins, the Constitution, and the law, mean whatever the progressives want it to mean at the moment. The rule of law will be replaced by a dictatorship of regulatory agencies staffed with progressive "experts." The consent of the governed will not be required because progressives believe the people are too stupid and ignorant to give informed consent. This is what the 2016 election was all about. This is what we're fighting about now.

I understand you didn't believe Trump would be an improvement. I had my doubts too. But now we know he is a big improvement over Obama and whatever policy Hillary Clinton might have decided would benefit her, personally, the most. Trump recently opened the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge for drilling with no opposition! He dropped the Mother of All Bombs in Afghanistan, showing he has no stupid rules of engagement.

This is not the time to become picky on style. The Pravda Press has been calling conservatives things like Nazis, fascists and racists for years with no basis in fact and no fear of retaliation. They lately accused Trump of treason and incest without any credible evidence. I don't blame him for counter attacks on twitter. Enough is enough. Being better than they are brought us to losing to Obama twice.

Obama ran a completely outlaw regime that showed every hole in the Constitution progressives could exploit. They were very close to irreversible damage. We can't afford to be nice guys any more. We're fighting Capone, the Chicago way.

Trump Tracks Popularity on Social Media

Trump's campaign used social media to decide where Trump should schedule appearances during the last months of the campaign.  Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, set up a top secret quantitative analysis unit to help the campaign.  They analyzed tweets and comments by location to see where Trump had the best chance to win states.  Then they calculated the best electoral college payoff for each appearance.  Trump didn't win by accident.  Trump won by analyzing internet traffic.     
I think that Trump's people are still doing it.  I think they know better than the polls how they're doing, because they have a lot more data.  They know exactly how well Trump's tweets are playing in Peoria.  While the obsolete mainstream media use obsolete polling techniques to justify their fake news jihad against Trump, Trump knows how the whole thing is actually playing in the country from analyzing social media.  Trump is making adjustments based on the data.  Trump still has impulse control issues and anger management problems, but he controls himself once he sees how it's playing.   Trump is playing the Pravda Press for fools.  

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Rude Self Defense Tweets Upset Liberal Journalists

When people on TV can call you Hitler with no foundation of at least 100 deaths or 25 calls for genocide, you have a right to self defense. In previous times, it was assumed that Republicans would be polite when responding to childish attacks. I think it's safe to assume that Republicans are tired of being nice. Personally, I accused a liberal of having the intelligence of a 6 year old for saying Jared Kuchner had committed treason based on alleged meetings with Russians, with no admissible evidence that the meetings occurred and of what was discussed. He called me impolite. I told him that when you accuse somebody of treason without evidence, saying "where there's smoke, there's fire," THAT was impolite, so the time for niceties was over.

I think liberals expect a double standard which used to be routine, to continue. However, since they are going to call a man with an Orthodox Jewish son-in-law, a Jewish (converted) daughter, and two Jewish grandchildren, Hitler, polite has left the building. The Marquis of Queensburys Rules no longer apply. Trump is justified, in my opinion, in throwing whatever filth he wants in self defense, using twitter or whatever else he feels like using. We know his methods of retaliation are unacceptable to the polled public. We'll see if it makes any difference in a real, unrigged election in 2018. In my opinion, the blows must be landing because the media talking heads are complaining the tweets are unfair. Well, so was their initial criticism. Surprise! Surprise! Politics ain't bean bag, it's a contact sport.

Recently, the left called Trump's twitter attacks on journalists, unpresidential.  Calls for civility from the left usually indicate blows from the right are causing pain. To reverse Clauswitz, politics is war by other means. The "liberal" goal is to overthrow a duly elected president of the United States by unconstitutional means. I think stopping that effort doesn't require restrained fair play or good manners. It involves fighting mud with mud, no holds barred. I don't care that liberals think my argument has no validity. I think the left's objective is closer to treason than business meetings with random Russians. I took an oath to defend the Constitution when I joined the US Air Force in 1972. Regardless of whether anyone loves or hates Trump, he was elected in 2016. Crude efforts to nullify the election deserve equally crude answers. "Liberals" no longer get to fix the rules so they win no matter what. They should get used to losing, unless they have the votes to win elections.

I believe the Pravda Press thinks themselves above the fray, even though they are the press outlet of the left. They think that they can make any allegations with no basis in fact and suffer no consequences. Under libel laws, they're correct. But as news commentators, they too are public figures. Trump can tweet any outlandish baseless allegations about them with no fear of legal consequences also. Trump's ungentlemanly idea is tit for tat retaliation. It doesn't have to be proportional response. The left wants to remove Trump from office by whatever means necessary. That means the return verbal fire will be equally unrestrained. Why is that hard to understand?  The left never plays fair, so why should their opponents play fair?

Liberals should remember that everything they do creates a precedent for conservatives. If liberals remove a duly elected president for being rude, any flimsy excuse can be used to remove a duly elected liberal president in the future. You can only break the Constitution once. Once it's broken, all the Smartest Horses and all the Smartest (your choice of 23 pronouns here) ain't going to be able to use crazy glue to put it back together.

Trump's Tweets Don't Top Obama's Arrogant Speeches

Progressives say Trump is a puffed up know it all.  But Trump doesn't sound anything like President Obama. Surely you remember when Obama said this:
“I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.”
http://www.politico.com/.../stories/1012/81895_Page2.html... 

As if that wasn't enough, President Obama sounds like Moses in his one:
"...generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth."
http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/.../this-was-moment-when...

Trump is a businessman. He is used to hiring advisors who have the guts to tell him what they really think. Rince Priebus and Steve Bannon were not hired to agree with Trump, and they certainly don't agree with each other. He is impetuous, but he adapts to conditions and learns from his mistakes. If he did not, Trump wouldn't have recovered from his first bankruptcy. You can succeed in politics as a one man band surrounded by yes men and women. You can't do that in business. You drown in red ink as your competition steals your market.

I voted for Trump because I thought he was my only chance to restore Constitutional government. Trump's appointment of Judge Gorsuch is a strong indicator that Trump wants to do exactly that. I think a lot of the progressive fear of Trump is the realization that he has all of the pen and phone powers usurped by President Obama. The last 8 years have seen Congress reduced to complete impotence while executive orders, regulatory overreach and rogue courts made the necessary changes to laws like Obamacare to keep the poorly drafted law afloat. The fact that much of Obamacare and Dodd-Frank can be undone the same way scares the fecal fertilizer out of progressives.

At this point it's also quite clear that progressives think the Constitution is a hindrance and they want it subverted and overturned. For example, there's an article in Foreign Policy Magazine that discusses ways to get rid of Trump. The final way mentioned is a military coup that overthrows Trump. The author, Rosa Brooks, is a professor of law at Georgetown University. This kind of dream, combined with the last 8 years of shredding the Constitution to serve the fierce urgency of now is what the fight is really all about. 
http://foreignpolicy.com/.../3-ways-to-get-rid-of.../

Trump's style is abrasive and abusive. In normal times, he would not have come close to winning. However, these aren't normal times. Our system of government as a Constitutional Republic is seriously threatened by unchecked power in the executive branch and its regulatory agencies aided and abetted by judges who decide what they would like the law to be, rather than what the law is. Voting for Trump was a Hail Mary pass. So far, the media have been doing the job of watching Trump 24x7 and complaining about every little detail.   There is very little risk that Trump can get out of control.  The alternative, Hillary Clinton, proved during the campaign that there was nothing she could do that was beyond the pale for her supporters and the Pravda press. The choice was between a slim chance and no chance.