He Fights. by Evan Sayet

My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #Never Trumpers) constantly
ask me if I'm not bothered by Donald Trump's lack of decorum.

They ask if I don't think his tweets are "beneath the dignity of the
office." Here's my answer: We Right-thinking people have tried
dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than
George W Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically
motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency.

We tried propriety: has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt
Romney? And the results were always the same.

This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity,
collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years,
engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul
Alinsky and the Chicago mob.

I don't find anything "dignified," "collegial" or "proper" about
Barack Hussein Obama's lying about what went down on the streets of
Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds
serve the Democratic Party.

I don't see anything "dignified" in lying about the deaths of four
Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover
your tracks. I don't see anything "statesman-like" in weaponizing the
IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent.
Yes, Obama was "articulate" and "polished" but in no way was he in the
least bit "dignified," "collegial" or "proper."

The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of
the Children of the '60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where
nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale. It has
been a war they've fought with violence, the threat of violence,
demagoguery and lies from day one and the violent take-over of the
universities till today.

The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only
side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to
anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with
dignity, collegiality and propriety. With Donald Trump, this all has
come to an end. Donald Trump is America 's first wartime president in
the Culture War.

During wartime, things like "dignity" and "collegiality" simply aren't
the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses
Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him
drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming.

Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and
booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves
today.  Lincoln rightly recognized that, "I cannot spare this man. He
fights..."

General George Patton was a vulgar-talking, son-of-a-bitch. In
peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had
Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum then, Hitler
and the Socialists would be five decades into their thousand-year
Reich.

Trump is fighting.  And what's particularly delicious is that, like
Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated
Rommel's, he's shouting, "You magnificent bastard, I read your book!"
That is just the icing on the cake, but it's wonderful to see that not
only is Trump fighting, he's defeating the Left using their own
tactics and that's what they really hate.

That book is Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals a book so essential to
the Liberals' war against America that it is and was the playbook for
the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton's
senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest
of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom
we are most indebted.

Trump's tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is
doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do. First, instead
of going after "the fake media" and they are so fake that they have
literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years
not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet
Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of
Ferguson, Missouri, Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal.

Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky
described as "the most powerful weapon of all" ... Most importantly,
Trump's tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position.
... They need to respond. This leaves them with only two choices. They
can either "go high" (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of
herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth)
and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can
double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice
their usual hysteria and demagoguery. The problem for CNN (et al.)
with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the
news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve.

It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda)
that keeps the Left alive. Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly
and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama's close ties to
foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William
Ayers), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual
mentor, Jeremiah Wright's church. Imagine if they had honestly and
accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration's
weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or
his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the
murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama
administration's cover-up.

So, to my friends on the Left and the #Never Trumpers as well do I
wish we lived in a time when our president could be "collegial" and
"dignified" and "proper"? Of course I do. These aren't those times.
This is war. And it's a war that the Left has been fighting without
opposition for the past 50 years.

So, say anything you want about this president - I get it –
he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times.

I don't care.  I can’t spare this warrior.
He fights for America!
Fight on you magnificent bastard