Marshall Kamena
is a registered democrat and was the mayor of Livermore, CA from
2001 to 2011. He ran on the Democrat ticket
as he knew a Bay Area city would never vote for a republican. He is as conservative
as they come. He recently wrote the following.
Subject: Trump’s lack of decorum, dignity, and
statesmanship
My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers)
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 statesmanship. Could there be another human being
on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain?
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 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 – 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 barely 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 bastards, 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. 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, Alinsky
dedicated his book to Lucifer.
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 #NeverTrumpers 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 man. He fights for America!
AMEN, AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!
