The
more I think about it, the more convinced I become that only a president with
this little regard for manners could have done what Donald Trump is doing – and
needs to be doing.
He’s
right about the swamp. He’s right about the Deep State. He’s right about the
political class. It’s a largely bipartisan cabal of self-serving poseurs who
have stuck the nation with $21 trillion in debt and more than $100 trillion in
unfunded entitlement obligations, all while making sure to protect their own
status at all costs.
Into this morass comes Donald
Trump
You’ve
come to recognize their language. Whether it’s the elected officials, the
bureaucracy or their media friends, they all use it. Distrust what they tell
you? You’re a “conspiracy theorist.” Aren’t convinced by their global warming
claims? You’re a “denier,” just like those lunatics who deny the Holocaust took
place. No difference.
Don’t
want people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton having the power of the
presidency? Racist! Sexist!
Believe
the Bible? Hater!
And
understand, if you challenge their position, they have ways of dealing with
you. The IRS can audit you. The Department of Justice can investigate you for .
. . whatever. A campaign-funded dossier full of over-the-top allegations will
serve as all the pretext they need. The SEC, the FCC or the EPA can take a very
close look into how you do things. They may have questions. They may demand
documents. You might want to hire a lawyer. This could take awhile.
Into
this morass comes Donald Trump, a man no one would mistake for a moral prude
and who doesn’t seem too concerned about it. A man who will never be mistaken
for the slick Bill Clinton, the genteel George W. Bush or the smooth Barack
Obama as presidential comportment goes. A man who has no intention of showing
you his tax returns because it’s none of your damn business, and he’s guessing
you don’t care as long as he takes on this racket.
I’m not so sure the nation would
be seeing this so clearly if Scott Walker or Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio had become
president.
That
he is doing. It has not been pretty. It has not been smooth. The swamp has
fought back, hard. The nation is unnerved and doesn’t like what’s going on, and
yet not all of the public’s discomfort is with Trump. Not even most of it. The
public sees what’s going on. It sees an out-of-control special counsel
investigation whose leaders defy lawful congressional subpoenas. It sees
government officials routinely leaking classified information and not caring at
all. It sees a Supreme Court confirmation process turned into a complete
circus.
Trump gets few points for style. He publicly fights with his own attorney general. He rants – sometimes incoherently – on social media. He upsets just about everyone. And yet the absurdity he’s inspired in response is from the people we were supposed to believe we the responsible, mature adults. They’re proving themselves to be underhanded, untrustworthy and devious – more concerned with their own personal agendas than with the good of the nation.
Trump gets few points for style. He publicly fights with his own attorney general. He rants – sometimes incoherently – on social media. He upsets just about everyone. And yet the absurdity he’s inspired in response is from the people we were supposed to believe we the responsible, mature adults. They’re proving themselves to be underhanded, untrustworthy and devious – more concerned with their own personal agendas than with the good of the nation.
I’m
not so sure the nation would be seeing this so clearly if Scott Walker or Ted
Cruz or Marco Rubio had become president. Any of the above would have
considered it a priority for the president to maintain his proper comportment
while trying – and probably failing – to disrupt the status quo. Donald Trump
is an expert at disrupting things, and one of the things that makes him an
expert is the realization that when you disrupt things, people will get upset,
and if that bothers you then someone else needs to be the disrupter.
Trump
does not care. He seems to rather enjoy it.
But it is
the most necessary thing that’s happened in this country in a long time. That’s
why we sent in that bull
As
some of us expected, since taking office, Trump has been like a bull in a china
shop, shattering precious things left and right. It has been at times
cringeworthy to witness. But the china shop is the problem. The precious things
need to be shattered. And the bull is the only one willing or able to do it.
This
is not going to get any prettier. I actually think it will get uglier before
it’s done. We aren’t going to like some of what’s yet to be revealed, and we’ll
be horrified that it was happening under our noses for so long. None of this
will be enjoyable.
But
it is the most necessary thing that’s happened in this country in a long time.
That’s why we sent in that bull.
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