1. Trump White House Serenity
Contrary to what NY Times would have you believe, by the scale of past White House melodramas, Trump White House is the picture of serenity. Victor Davis Hanson explains how.
Contrary to what NY Times would have you believe, by the scale of past White House melodramas, Trump White House is the picture of serenity. Victor Davis Hanson explains how.
2. It is not as if an off-the radar, rogue band in the White House was caught selling arms to Iran and using the profits to fund resistance to Daniel Ortega’s Marxist regime in Nicaragua. [cf. Reagan]
3. The gossip about Trump’s mental processes are no more dramatic than the rumors were about a doddering Reagan in his second term, which later were trafficked by his own son, Ron Jr. (“Father had Alzheimer’s in office”).
4. Trump is not, in Woodrow Wilson fashion, near comatose and locked up in a White House bedroom, while Melania takes over the country.
5. Trump's aides are not covering up the fact that Trump’s blood pressure is peaking at 250 over 150, or that some mornings he cannot get out of bed—as was true of FDR as he campaigned for a fourth term in 1944.
6. We are not witnessing a sitcom in which the president has serial, and often perverse sex with a White House intern in the Oval Office bathroom. [cf. Clinton]
7. Nor we are being treated to an interview by a senior Ben Rhodes-like official who brags how the Trump Administration deliberately fed a cadre of rookie idiot reporters all sorts of “echo chamber” narratives necessary to pass a dangerous deal with Iran. [cf. Obama]
8. NY Times' anonymous op-ed writer's chief complaint is that Trump “is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision.” That simply implies something along the lines that Trump ignores advice from New York Times op-ed writers.
9. Trump's One Principle
Trump has mostly one principle: he pursues a conservative populist agenda without too much worry what the Washington establishment said or did. Period.
Trump has mostly one principle: he pursues a conservative populist agenda without too much worry what the Washington establishment said or did. Period.
10. In that sense, Trump is far more principled in carrying out his promises than many past presidents whose stump speeches on taxes, illegal immigration, trade, educational reform and a host of other issues were either never reified or flat out broken.
11. So far, for all the crudity and Twitter antics, we have not had a “read my lips” or “you can keep your doctor” moment in the sense of a deliberate effort to break a campaign promise.
12. As for as Trump’s loud anti-media tweets, worry not about what he now says, but when he orders his attorney general to start monitoring on the sly the communications of NYT reporters or the private emails of a CNN correspondent, or when his DoJ & FBI deludes a FISA court.
13. As far as Russian-appeasing Trump, he has not yet claimed that Putin was trustworthy based on a soul-gazing stare into his eyes. Nor has he been caught on a hot mic promising to give up U.S. missile defense programs, if Putin would give him “space” during his reelection bid.
14. Trump has said silly things about Putin, but so far his actual record is certainly not of the reset sort that greenlighted Russian entrance into the Middle East, Ukraine, and Crimea.
15. Contrary to popular opinion, there was nothing “newsworthy” about the recent NYT anonymous op-ed by an unnamed “senior official.”
To the extent the op-ed was significant, it confirmed what heretofore had been written off as a “right-wing” conspiracy theory of a “deep state.”
To the extent the op-ed was significant, it confirmed what heretofore had been written off as a “right-wing” conspiracy theory of a “deep state.”
16. Meanwhile, Barack Obama decided that ex-presidents should attack current presidents, and thereby reminded the country why Trump was elected. The author of the Russian “reset”and the hot-mic collusionary offer criticized Trump for being soft on Putin.
17. Obama who never achieved annualized 3 percent GDP growth (the only president since 1933 to claim this “distinction”) also claimed Trump’s roaring economy was due to Obama's policies (e.g., raising taxes, Obamacare, more regulations, and “you didn’t build that” commentaries).
18. And fresh from trashing his successor in a funeral speech, the ever audacious Obama called for more decorum. Such is the plight of the Democratic Party and mainstream media that tells us that Trump White House is in chaos. Consummate fakery is their stock-in-trade.
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