Most everyone entrenched on both sides of
this cold civil war feels it coming. The thunder and lightning have been
getting closer. For the better part of a year, we’ve been listening
to the noise getting louder, and the flashes, good Lord, sometimes they get
brighter by the minute. Many think the storm started on Nov. 9,
2016. Whichever, we all feel it.
This past weekend was a perfect example. Brian Ross starts a
series of false reports, so bad that the stock market dives, the leftist media
breathlessly reports that President Trump is finished, and do their version of
a happy dance. Except, the report was not true, the networks once again
proved to be unworthy sources of news, just repeating a false narrative.
Then the tax plan surprisingly passed the Senate. The
left, as usual, had a collective hissy fit, droning on about how lost we are as
a country. Oh, the horror! Tax cuts!! We’re doomed!!!
Doomed they say!!!! For the first time in decades the Democratic Party is
pretending to be concerned about our debt.
Yes, the storm is close. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has
a new scalp; General Michael Flynn pleads guilty of lying to the
FBI. The story has been reported quite poorly, very few understand
what Flynn actually cut a deal for. There are various theories, but let
me say this: All is not as it seems. We won’t likely know
until next year at earliest what is actually going on. Andrew McCarthy’s
article in National Review last week explained things as well as possible, but
truth be known, very little is anything but fog right now. The fog of
war.
Storms. Good metaphors for this time we are immersed
in. And for one long year, and the year before that, we have been
overwhelmed by the left’s attempts to call down the storm on our
heads. They have collectively decided they are the weather
experts, the forecasters, and the originators of storms. They think they
can say anything they want, say any particular detail is what they want it to
be, and unbelievably think they control the news of storms, along with the
storms themselves. They have thought they could generate a storm intense
enough, long enough, and do so with unlimited power to continue like this as
long as they want. And yes, “they,” is the leftist-controlled
Democrat/media complex/Deep State. Their sense of entitlement, their
arrogance, their terrible lack of character, and their firm belief in their
self-righteous right to “resist” has served them, and most of us, poorly, for
years.
From what I see, with all of this whipped up frenzied fear from
our storm front leftists (oh, they’re not going to like that phrase), there is
not much of a dent in their target. No, Donald Trump has not been
touched. As a matter of fact, it’s pretty clear he’s winning. So
much is going well. I want to explain something the left does not
understand. Trump knows the storm. Trump welcomes the
storm. Trump uses the storm.
Let me digress before coming back to that. If you had told
me the list of what he’s accomplished in his first year, two years ago, I would
have said you were delusional. If you had told me the left
would have become totally unhinged, to the point where they make fools of
themselves daily, spinning furiously about how Vladimir Putin controls Trump, I
would have said you were daft. If you had told me the left would
never accept their loss, I would have laughed.
If you had told me we would already be experiencing 3%+ growth,
close to 25% increase in the stock market, that we’d be out of the Paris
Climate Accords, becoming energy independent, had a great replacement for
former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia while remaking the judiciary,
getting tax cuts, voting out the Obamacare mandate, remaking the Middle East,
that China would help us with Rocket Man, that illegal immigration would be cut
by 75% to the lowest level in some 42 years (and that without the wall),
that Trump would have driven the media to commit institutional suicide
daily, all the while the left pulls its hair out on an hourly basis, I would
have said you’re a little torched. Trust me, this is almost miraculous.
Because this has all been accomplished in the midst of the biggest
political maelstrom most of us have witnessed. Nothing is
comparable.
My question to everyone is, how in the hell is Trump doing
this? How has he made so much happen, how has he accomplished all this
(and more) while being simultaneously resisted by the left, some in his own
party, and the entrenched bureaucracy and power we call the Deep State?
This is not a digression, so please follow if you would.
The art of building is an underestimated skill. It
requires a combination of deep intelligence, blue collar toughness, a mind
capable of great focus and flexibility. Walking onto a construction
site is like walking into a washing machine. Everything is moving;
machines, people, tools, and lots of noise. Lots of noise. All
being driven to a finish line of time, money, and hopefully the integrity of a
job that will endure. It’s the Wild West of being in business, and you’d
better be prepared to live your life in a storm that doesn’t stop until each
project is complete. After which you are fired. Well, not really,
but you are terminated with your final payment, and if you’re good, you get to
start another job all over again because you won a bid against other companies
that want the same job. The storm never ends.
Perhaps you think I’m exaggerating here, that every business is
hard. Before saying that, visit a construction site, any site, while it’s
at work, and you’ll experience what I’m saying. People barking
instructions, moving materials, mini assembly lines, watching multiple groups
working in different cycles toward a finished project. You may have heard
the saying “tornado in a junk yard”. Well, that’s an apt description of
most successful building projects, from the small, to the very large.
It’s teeming with life, that pushes on towards the goal of fulfilling its
contract on time and on budget. If it doesn’t, very few can stay in
business for one more day.
It’s a storm that invigorates you to succeed, or drives you to
fail. You push, you press to figure out the process and master
it. Or go home. Donald Trump loved this process early
on. It was his early training, it was what molded his outlook, it was what
tested him. His life was a storm. He used the storm of New York
building to vault his company to the top of the heap. He used the storm
while building nationwide, and worldwide to propel it even further.
This is a man whose whole life has been lived within storms.
He thrives on them, welcomes them, and uses them to achieve his goals.
It’s clear Trump’s political career is following the same
course. Whoever tries to engulf him within a storm loses. The left
has been calling on storm after storm, and they are still losing. They
don’t get it yet. Return to that list of accomplishments cited
earlier. He is implementing his promises one at a time, the whole time the
left conjures multiple deluges, dark ones, like the witches in Shakespeare’s
Macbeth.
It’s amazing to watch.
A lot of negativity from the right is spilling over about what is
happening with the Mueller Investigation right now. Hannity, Rush,
Tucker, even a #nevertrumper or two, literally everyone on the right is
outraged, and with a lot of good reason.
Sean Hannity et al, let me give you a hint: “Let not your
heart not be troubled.”
All the really bad stuff that is happening is happening to those
who are conjuring the storm onto Trump, and not so much the other
way. This guy Strzok? He has destroyed himself, his
credibility, and his career. Along with his FBI honeypot. It
appears that Andrew Weissman has done the same thing. Look at James
Comey. He’s losing. Andrew McCabe is as well. The FBI will be
purged. The Clintons have lost their power. They are no more than a
corrupt, ugly footnote to history. No power, with little future.
Trump has some scrapes, he doesn’t mind.
If Mueller is actually doing his worst deed ever, trying to
process crime Donald Trump to death over the dumbest political narrative ever,
a.k.a. Russia, Russia, Russia, he will be destroyed. I am not convinced
that’s what he’s actually doing, In spite of all the thunder and
lightning. But if he does, he will destroy himself as the others have
done. It will simply not fly.
Now, I don’t want to make Trump into a figure of worship. I
don’t. This is a wild ride, and not everything is pretty, and not
everything is wonderful. But it is amazing how far we’ve come in less
than a year. For all the caterwauling, it’s been incredible. Not to
mention, Trump is very funny, and he has an unusual gift of genius that goes
well beyond his life as a builder. I don’t know where this will end, but I’m
proud to have joined the Trump train early, and proud to fight with him.
Every. Day.
So far, he is the master of the storm. I anticipate nothing
less in the next years.
#Winning.
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