Methinks, perhaps like someone else we know, we ought to pay more attention to what Trump does than to what he says. Why do I say this because, just like that someone else we know, he often speaks off the cuff without, as many politicians do not, thinking through every word as if folks didn't know him. If he was such a hater, why was it 40+ years in active business and the public spotlight before our oh so holier than thou political and media class saw his "evil?" Could it be that he was always a bit egotistical and bombastic and prone to speaking his mind, but the folks interested in gaining his approval and monetary support, didn't pay any attention? Well they didn't pay any attention until they realized that he wasn't going to dance to the "elite" tune and was instead going to champion the country people outside of the "Capital District." In a 21st Century America that represents far too closely the world of Hunger Games, Trump is to America as the Gracchi Brothers were to Ancient Rome, the elites turned on the Gracchis, who were also part of the elite of Rome, the Patrician Class, when they as Tribunes began to openly champion the Plebian Class. Hopefully if there is a second Trump administration, he now understands the levers of power more fully and can effectively undermine the rule of the elites in elected office, government administrative bureaus, and the elite media (to include the celebrity world) and end the regime of bad bread and evil circuses that has dominated American life for the past 50 years. Because if he is unable to do so, I fear that my allusion to the Hunger Games will become more than mere literary device. I don't much like DJTs style, but I despise our present elites, not for their style but for their substance. I don't think DJT had the right people around him the first time to actually work out his substance and I'll take his substance, especially when woven with the distributism of a JD Vance and Josh Hawley, the anti-Big Food and Pharma of RFKjr and Nicole Shanahan, the non-interventionism of Tulsi, and the vision of people like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. I don't have to be all in for DJT to be all in for #MAGA #MAHA and America and Americans First.
This indeed is what his opponents are missing. Voters hire and fire the leaders. Given that the Bush GOP did not give its voters what they clearly wanted, they have thrown away the old restraints. The neocon GOP got fired. Fine, the Democrats should say. Biden Democrats got hired in 2020. They then should articulate why they should keep power. The guy who got fired in 2020 wants his job back and is actively hustling to get it. What will the Democrats offer to give those voters what they want? The Democrats have to win as the establishment. If you do not trust the establishment you vote Trump. If the Democrats want to change that, they have to win back the trust. If they will not do that, then they lose. If Trump starts acting like the establishment he will lose his supporters. In either case the voters are voting for what they think they want/need. People forget that in an election you have the get the voter to want you to win. American politicos have gotten too used to the "lesser of two evils" strategy. Ultimately that's an unpredictable strategy.
Methinks, perhaps like someone else we know, we ought to pay more attention to what Trump does than to what he says. Why do I say this because, just like that someone else we know, he often speaks off the cuff without, as many politicians do not, thinking through every word as if folks didn't know him. If he was such a hater, why was it 40+ years in active business and the public spotlight before our oh so holier than thou political and media class saw his "evil?" Could it be that he was always a bit egotistical and bombastic and prone to speaking his mind, but the folks interested in gaining his approval and monetary support, didn't pay any attention? Well they didn't pay any attention until they realized that he wasn't going to dance to the "elite" tune and was instead going to champion the country people outside of the "Capital District." In a 21st Century America that represents far too closely the world of Hunger Games, Trump is to America as the Gracchi Brothers were to Ancient Rome, the elites turned on the Gracchis, who were also part of the elite of Rome, the Patrician Class, when they as Tribunes began to openly champion the Plebian Class. Hopefully if there is a second Trump administration, he now understands the levers of power more fully and can effectively undermine the rule of the elites in elected office, government administrative bureaus, and the elite media (to include the celebrity world) and end the regime of bad bread and evil circuses that has dominated American life for the past 50 years. Because if he is unable to do so, I fear that my allusion to the Hunger Games will become more than mere literary device. I don't much like DJTs style, but I despise our present elites, not for their style but for their substance. I don't think DJT had the right people around him the first time to actually work out his substance and I'll take his substance, especially when woven with the distributism of a JD Vance and Josh Hawley, the anti-Big Food and Pharma of RFKjr and Nicole Shanahan, the non-interventionism of Tulsi, and the vision of people like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. I don't have to be all in for DJT to be all in for #MAGA #MAHA and America and Americans First.
This indeed is what his opponents are missing. Voters hire and fire the leaders. Given that the Bush GOP did not give its voters what they clearly wanted, they have thrown away the old restraints. The neocon GOP got fired. Fine, the Democrats should say. Biden Democrats got hired in 2020. They then should articulate why they should keep power. The guy who got fired in 2020 wants his job back and is actively hustling to get it. What will the Democrats offer to give those voters what they want? The Democrats have to win as the establishment. If you do not trust the establishment you vote Trump. If the Democrats want to change that, they have to win back the trust. If they will not do that, then they lose. If Trump starts acting like the establishment he will lose his supporters. In either case the voters are voting for what they think they want/need. People forget that in an election you have the get the voter to want you to win. American politicos have gotten too used to the "lesser of two evils" strategy. Ultimately that's an unpredictable strategy.