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The Patriot Post Digest 8-29-2018
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With McCain’s passing, Trump did the bare minimum32 to recognize the event. That’s because McCain, the epitome of the Washington establishment, loathed Trump, and the feeling was mutual.
Trump received enormous criticism for his initial response33 to the senator’s passing. Instead of an official statement, he merely tweeted, “My deepest sympathies and respect go out to the family of Senator John McCain. Our hearts and prayers are with you!” Respectful, not effusive, but with the history of feuding between the two, everyone read between the lines. Trump reportedly told advisers he did not want to lavish praise on McCain because everyone would recognize it was not genuine.
After all, it was McCain who infamously and spitefully to Trump cast the deciding (and promise-breaking) vote against34 the Republican effort to repeal ObamaCare — an effort McCain himself campaigned on. It was also McCain who said of a 2016 Trump rally in Phoenix that Trump had “fired up the crazies.” It was in response to that jab that Trump commented about liking people who “weren’t captured.”
The fires were stoked when the White House returned its flag to full staff after only a day and a half at half-mast (as per official protocol35). Enormous pressure to re-lower the flag came from Republicans, veterans groups, and even Democrats like Rep. John Lewis (who now says McCain was a “warrior for peace,” a stark reversal of his 2008 comments36 about then-Republican presidential nominee McCain, who Lewis claimed was fostering an “atmosphere of hate” and “hostility” like the one that led to a 1963 black church bombing by white supremacists). Soon, Trump issued a proclamation33 re-lowering the flag to half-staff, stating, “Despite our differences on policy and politics, I respect Senator John McCain’s service to our country and, in his honor, have signed a proclamation to fly the flag of the United States at half-staff until the day of his interment.”
This is the essence of Trump: He heaps superlatives on his friends (or those he is trying to win over), while firing rhetorically brutal and often just plain nasty rebukes to his opponents.
This shunning of cultural norms and presidential courtesies has made him an easy target for his critics37. Trump often creates public relations problems38 for himself with his relentless attacks when a kind word or an ignored slight would win points.
But Trump revels in the role of outcast and pariah. His supporters see every attack on him by the elites as evidence that he is their champion. And if they have to choose between a nice guy who gets steamrolled by the Left and a bare-knuckles brawler who conquers the deep state, well, that’s not even a close call.
After all, the media and Democrats have, since the nomination of Trump, lamented the “good old days” when Republicans nominated nice, respectable men like Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney (who couldn’t be more bland and inoffensive if he was a vanilla bean). Yet when these men ran for president, Democrats still accused them of being racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, rich (and for the rich) white guys.
At 72 years old, it is highly unlikely Trump will change. His relentless, bombastic, hard-charging personality made him one of the world’s richest and most famous men. It helped him dispatch 16 highly qualified candidates in the 2016 Republican presidential field. And it helped him achieve one of the most shocking upsets in American political history when he destroyed the Clinton political machine and won an election that, even on Election Day, many pundits and pollsters gave him less than a 10% chance of winning.
In the end, despite his abrasive style and often uncouth rhetoric, Trump has had a remarkable record of success39 in his first year and a half as president. So we can be appalled at his demeanor or we can accept him for what he is — a street fighter doing whatever it takes to restore American greatness.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57925-trump-will-change-for-no-one
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
Ohr Appears to Confirm That FBI Abused FISA40 — His testimony further clarifies what the DOJ knew about the Steele dossier and when they knew it.
Army: Chaplain Didn’t Discriminate Against Homosexuals41 — He faced “dereliction of duty” charges over his refusal to facilitate a homosexual marriage retreat.
Video: These Students Know More Than Politicians42 — Politicians condemn price gougers, but students explain why “gouging” is good.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Walter Williams: “Aside from diseases, there is the greater threat of welcoming to our shores people who have utter contempt for Western values and want to import anti-Western values to our country, such as genital mutilation, honor killings and the oppression of women. Many libertarian types make the argument that we would benefit from open borders when it comes to both people and goods. That vision ignores the important fact that when we import, say, tomatoes from Mexico, as opposed to people, to the U.S., they are not going to demand that we supply them with welfare benefits. The bottom line is that we Americans have a right to decide who enters our country and under what conditions. If we forgo that right, we cease to be a sovereign nation. But that may not be important to some Americans.”
SHORT CUTS
Insight: “A democracy needs informed citizens if it is to thrive, or ultimately even survive.” —Thomas Sowell
Upright: “The ballot box is one of the mightiest platforms we have. Use it or lose it.” —Michelle Malkin
Lamentations of a squish: “Not a chance today. … This is the president’s party much to my consternation.” —Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) asked if he could win reelection
Non Compos Mentis: “Let’s be clear also about what’s going on here. The theme here is ‘I’m Donald Trump and I’ll protect you from the scary black people.’ Antifa is widely perceived as an African-American organization and this is just part of the same story of LeBron James and Don Lemon and Maxine Waters and the NFL players and the UCLA basketball players.” —CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin, who apparently thinks that because antifa members dress in black that they are black
Alpha Jackass: “The pope has a bigger agenda. He’s got to get on with other things, of talking about the environment and protecting migrants and carrying on the work of the church. We’re not going to go down a rabbit hole on [sexual abuse].” —Cardinal Blaise Cupich
Wrong: “At the very least, just common sense would tell you we ought a have a law that is a comprehensive universal background check in the acquisition or purchase of a gun. That would have caught [the Pulse Nightclub assailant]. A comprehensive background check may have caught some of the mental health problems of the killer in the high school in Parkland because he had not been adjudicated mentally incompetent.” —Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) (Both perpetrators passed background checks43.)
And last… “Lanny Davis says he was a source in an unsourced CNN story which lied by saying Lanny refused to comment for the story, but which Lanny later apologized for lying about on TV, but trust us with all the facts with Dan Rather up next on CNN’s ‘Reliable Sources.’” —Twitter satirist @hale_razor
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57928-wednesday-short-cuts
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