Trump ain't no slouch

In the fall of 2000 I was driving alot at night so I listened to the Bush-Gore debates on radio.  Even over that limited medium Al Gore's frantic, childish impatience when Bush spoke(which momentarily denied Al his pulpit), suffused with disdain for anyone with the temerity to question his august prescience, was most obvious.  It is ever a defining characteristic of the left and is exemplified by Charles Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. Like all of their kind they see their recent defeat as an insolently and insufferably placed roadblock to their unquestionably just crusade to "fundamentally" transform an essentially unjust America.

I daresay a player like our President has dealt with many of this snooty ilk in his business career and is practiced in, well, playing them.  Of necessity he is a realist and knows he's going to win some and lose some but over his working life he's been a winner.  He knows Schumer and Pelosi for what they are; contemptuous bigots who would,  should they muster the power, destroy him.  But he senses that he must countenance some constructive intercourse with them. That works for me; I trust President Trump to be always faithful to the ideals he has expressed; he's already demonstrated such constancy, I hold.

I spent 20 years working in state prisons and though their guile is usually purposed by negative intentions, inmates did display an often fascinating array of techniques for "getting over". Skill at  con games is much exhalted and studied in that setting.  An essential and ubiquitous con game involves, of course, gaining unwarranted trust and gratitude. I would not put this beyond Chuck and Nancy but they cannot measure up to Donald's understanding of  the tactic.  He'll see it coming and will, I'm sure, be blithe to throw it right back in their disingenuous faces when the right time comes.  And if he gives them a taste of their own duplicity, then more power to him - hoist them on their own petards I say.

I know some martial arts involve allowing  opponents to make their most powerful moves and then turning their strengths upon them.  Consummate wheeler dealers like our President are no doubt accomplished practioners of this heady tactic in other settings.


I sympathize with all of his supporters  who fear that the President is conceding to the dark side in schmoozing with the left.  Of course there is risk but I do not think our gutsy President betrays us by taking it.  We need to stick with this guy and give him the support he needs in standing up for us.  I would urge those in the common sense majority in the real America who are considering abandoning him to reconsider.  His ascension was a miracle which saved our country from perhaps guaranteed eventual totalitarianism.  Lets stay the course with him despite the assured difficulties and dangers.  Jack