For the benefit of the young 'uns, you should know that it's not just Trump. Republican Presidents have always been represented as idiots. Yes, President Eisenhower was thought to be a bumbler that couldn't speak a coherent sentence. Of course some presidents were exempt: they were evil, like Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon.
(Then it turned out, years later, that Eisenhower deliberately fumbled and bumbled at his press conferences, to put the newsmen off the scent.)
So back in the days of St. Ronnie, before the glorious economic boom, before the end of the Cold War, before the official canonization, we Reaganites always had in the back of our minds the fear that Reagan might indeed be the mad bomber and the amiable dunce of liberal imagination.
It's the same thing with President Trump. Is he really up to the job or is the liberal caricature, of a bumbling pussy-grabbing reality show actor, true?
Well, we just had an interesting retrospective on Trump and regulations from Reagan appointee Donald Devine. Devine writes that Trump seems to have done the impossible.
The point is that Donald Trump can't do all the regulation cutting all on his lonesome. But somehow, sometime, somewhere, somebody put together the plan for this regulation harvesting, and the purchase of the requisite combine harvester, and the deployment of the elite regulation-cutting special forces. And someone also thought of the Oval Office ceremony complete with photo of a frowning Trump showing the signed Executive Order in a leather binder for the benefit of the Fake News devotees. And at the very least, Trump signed off on it.
Now, we don't know if Trump is a genius or an idiot, and we won't know until after he is gone. But if you are a guy like me, that imagines he understands something about strategy, you say to yourself: Hmm. Wheels within wheels. Something is going on here, and it is highly significant that we know nothing about the whys, the wherefores, and the whatevers.
It's like the whole business of Trump's tweets. I was talking with a protest liberal over the weekend, a guy that thinks "protest" whenever any issue comes up. And he, like the Lady Marjorie, is disturbed about the Trump tweeting and the insults.
Well, yes. But maybe there's a method in the madness. It could be that Trump's tweets are an essential way to keep up the morale of his supporters, not to mention a tripwire for the Very Fake News guys that are always running the president and the country down when there is a Republican president.
Remember the Bush administration? The liberal cars here in Seattle were driving around for years with ReDefeat Bush bumperstickers. The media had him as an idiot, when he wasn't a Christian fundamentalist. If you ask me someone, somehow, somewhere decided that Trump needed a way to fight back. And of course all the nice people are a bit nonplussed by this, because Republicans never do this, and when they do it always boomerangs. Until now.
Hey, maybe there is genius in the tweet policy. Maybe a political leader needs to throw his weight around a bit. He is, after all, the guy whose job is to protect us from the existential dangers of a cold, heartless world. Maybe a lot of people in America are looking for a guy that you don't want to mess with.
Think of the Clintons. It is certainly true that, if you were a Democrat, that any time in the last 30 years you didn't want to mess with the Clintons. Oh, until yesterday afternoon when the Washington Post allowed as how it was the Clinton campaign and the DNC that paid for Fusion GPS to gin up the Trump Dossier. Golly Geewillikins! How could that be!
More important, what took them so long?
But look what is now in prospect. There is the whole Uranium One issue, that was going on when Robert Mueller was FBI chief. Then there is the question of the intelligence community treating the very fake Fusion GPS dossier as intelligence and maybe using that as an excuse to unmask Republican phone calls during the presidential campaign of 2016.
So why is Robert Mueller heading up an investigation into possible Trump collusion with Russia? Shouldn't he be recusing himself, like right now, 3:00pm EDT, on October 25, 2017, from the investigation because he was involved in the whole procedure back in 2009?
And why did the Trumpists allow Mueller to head up the investigation? Was it because they knew (remember, everyone knows, except us rubes) that Mueller was mixed up in it, and that would wreck the whole Trump collusion narrative?
Rule One in politics is: Don't believe a word of what the liberals are shoveling. Rule Two is: Keep your powder dry.
And we won't know if Trump is a genius or a bumpkin until the last dog is hung.
(Then it turned out, years later, that Eisenhower deliberately fumbled and bumbled at his press conferences, to put the newsmen off the scent.)
So back in the days of St. Ronnie, before the glorious economic boom, before the end of the Cold War, before the official canonization, we Reaganites always had in the back of our minds the fear that Reagan might indeed be the mad bomber and the amiable dunce of liberal imagination.
It's the same thing with President Trump. Is he really up to the job or is the liberal caricature, of a bumbling pussy-grabbing reality show actor, true?
Well, we just had an interesting retrospective on Trump and regulations from Reagan appointee Donald Devine. Devine writes that Trump seems to have done the impossible.
He has withdrawn 469 regulations at this early stage of his term compared to half that for second best regulation-cutter Ronald Reagan at 200 for the same point in his administration (although the measures are a bit different).And he has done it without staffing up his administration with the requisite undersecretaries and pooh-bahs. Back in the Reagan days the idea was that you could not get anything out of the Democrat-dominated bureaucracy without invading it with take-no-prisoners appointees to knock some sense into what we now call the Deep State. So how did Trump do it?
The point is that Donald Trump can't do all the regulation cutting all on his lonesome. But somehow, sometime, somewhere, somebody put together the plan for this regulation harvesting, and the purchase of the requisite combine harvester, and the deployment of the elite regulation-cutting special forces. And someone also thought of the Oval Office ceremony complete with photo of a frowning Trump showing the signed Executive Order in a leather binder for the benefit of the Fake News devotees. And at the very least, Trump signed off on it.
Now, we don't know if Trump is a genius or an idiot, and we won't know until after he is gone. But if you are a guy like me, that imagines he understands something about strategy, you say to yourself: Hmm. Wheels within wheels. Something is going on here, and it is highly significant that we know nothing about the whys, the wherefores, and the whatevers.
It's like the whole business of Trump's tweets. I was talking with a protest liberal over the weekend, a guy that thinks "protest" whenever any issue comes up. And he, like the Lady Marjorie, is disturbed about the Trump tweeting and the insults.
Well, yes. But maybe there's a method in the madness. It could be that Trump's tweets are an essential way to keep up the morale of his supporters, not to mention a tripwire for the Very Fake News guys that are always running the president and the country down when there is a Republican president.
Remember the Bush administration? The liberal cars here in Seattle were driving around for years with ReDefeat Bush bumperstickers. The media had him as an idiot, when he wasn't a Christian fundamentalist. If you ask me someone, somehow, somewhere decided that Trump needed a way to fight back. And of course all the nice people are a bit nonplussed by this, because Republicans never do this, and when they do it always boomerangs. Until now.
Hey, maybe there is genius in the tweet policy. Maybe a political leader needs to throw his weight around a bit. He is, after all, the guy whose job is to protect us from the existential dangers of a cold, heartless world. Maybe a lot of people in America are looking for a guy that you don't want to mess with.
Think of the Clintons. It is certainly true that, if you were a Democrat, that any time in the last 30 years you didn't want to mess with the Clintons. Oh, until yesterday afternoon when the Washington Post allowed as how it was the Clinton campaign and the DNC that paid for Fusion GPS to gin up the Trump Dossier. Golly Geewillikins! How could that be!
More important, what took them so long?
But look what is now in prospect. There is the whole Uranium One issue, that was going on when Robert Mueller was FBI chief. Then there is the question of the intelligence community treating the very fake Fusion GPS dossier as intelligence and maybe using that as an excuse to unmask Republican phone calls during the presidential campaign of 2016.
So why is Robert Mueller heading up an investigation into possible Trump collusion with Russia? Shouldn't he be recusing himself, like right now, 3:00pm EDT, on October 25, 2017, from the investigation because he was involved in the whole procedure back in 2009?
And why did the Trumpists allow Mueller to head up the investigation? Was it because they knew (remember, everyone knows, except us rubes) that Mueller was mixed up in it, and that would wreck the whole Trump collusion narrative?
Rule One in politics is: Don't believe a word of what the liberals are shoveling. Rule Two is: Keep your powder dry.
And we won't know if Trump is a genius or a bumpkin until the last dog is hung.
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