Rush Limbaugh has his own particular methodology in continuously propping up President Trump. When Donald Trump stabs us in the back....which has happened often over the past year....or some other story comes out that should by all rights be front and center on conservative talk radio....Rush does his best to ignore it.....act like nothing has happened......simple as that! To make matters worse he often fills up the time with telling his audience how the media never gives us the truth.....while he won't give us the truth! (do you disagree with me...listen to the show with this in mind) The result is that he very effectively deflects deserved criticism of President Trump to such an extent that at the end of three hours the listener has forgotten what he/she was mad about to begin with. Although President Trump incorporates this method in his pep rallies.....his methodology is much more refined....much more Machiavellian.....and even remarkably similar to Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals:
This one took me by surprise. In my mind former South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint was the most honest man in the United States Senate. The former head of the Heritage Foundation, he heads his own organization today. I knew that while at Heritage he helped Donald Trump considerably in his campaign.....the right thing to do.....but I would have thought that he wasn't too thrilled with the now President Trump.
I received one of DeMint's bulk emails where he offered a book for a small donation to his Conservative Partnership Center opening up later this year. That book is The Art Of The Donald, Lessons from America's Philosopher-In-Chief by Christopher Bedford. I emailed Jim DeMint....or at least attempted to....thanking him for the years of service he had given to our nation.....but took issue with the choice of the book that he was offering. I got on the phone and found a Barnes & Noble about 40 miles away that had it....drove there right away and had the book in my hand a few hours later.
The book is one of those small hardcovers that usually seem to have a theme where I often wonder why the author even bothered to go to the trouble since other than advice there is little of substance in these type books. Well, I was in for another surprise. I've read quite a few of the books on this past general election but this little hardback....stuck in amongst the business books at B&N.... was one of the best if not the best. Now I was not surprised by the description it gave of Donald Trump....as a matter of fact it's worse than I even expected....but it is accurate as far I have observed on who Donald Trump is and how he won the nomination and election.
Surely the author is fully aware of the make-up of the person that he wrote about....He just doesn't see a problem with it....in fact the whole message of the book is if we (Republicans) want to win then we have to emulate Donald Trump.....which I think is the last thing on earth that we should want to do.
To me Donald Trump is an invisible man. He has flesh and blood.....a history on making billions of dollars......a celebrity to rival anyone in Hollywood....and a very discernible philosophy in how to win.....anything......just win....but that's all that there is. A few years ago I researched articles on just what books Donald Trump had read in his life. He didn't read a lot of books but did have favorites. Machiavelli's The Prince was one of them. Donald Trump is now that prince. There is a different Prince that we need to look to!
I hope that Jim DeMint sends out thousands of these books....I highly recommend it....for the bottom line is that unless we the people wake up to who Donald Trump really is then he will not only continue to solidify his support but grow to unmanageable proportions of ego and bom(b)bast. The reader will either agree with the author that Donald Trump is indeed onto something important and powerful.....or the reader will feel deep remorse for their failure to recognize that this agenda is in reality not an attempt to make America great again....but as Donald Trump told conservatives in 2015 as quoted in the book...."I'm the only Republican that is going to say this, We've got to make this country rich again." There's a big difference between these two goals...the latter being the real goal. It's a risk....hoping that people will see through the vanity and the arrogance....but if something like this book doesn't wake us up...then maybe nothing will.
conservativepartnership.org
The deep state coup that is in full swing has to be challenged at every turn and as long as it takes but what we have done is rush headlong into the defense of Donald Trump for one whole year while giving him free reign to run roughshod over us in the process....he thinking that we have no hope but in him.....no where to turn but to him.....and apparently that is the case with most conservatives.
Russia is not a 'paper tiger' as I heard Dr. Gorka blithely state. Statesmanship is not bellicose rantings in a tweet. War is hell as William Tecumseh Sherman informed us and many others have testified of. One had better be sure before throwing down the gauntlet. This takes wisdom. Has anyone seen an inkling of wisdom yet in Donald Trump? I've heard the word 'genius' and 'fearless' and even 'artful'.....but never a hint of the word 'wisdom.'
We have a greater hope than princes and missiles and tariffs and deals and threats....and we don't have to beg for morsels from our Prince's table. We know that He is faithful......and it is us that was not faithful. We know that He extends mercy to anyone who comes to Him....even to princes who see that if they were to have any power at all it would have to come from Him....even to whole nations who though blessed by Him had forgotten and then rejected Him.....and that...."He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding".....and...."Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie."
This one took me by surprise. In my mind former South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint was the most honest man in the United States Senate. The former head of the Heritage Foundation, he heads his own organization today. I knew that while at Heritage he helped Donald Trump considerably in his campaign.....the right thing to do.....but I would have thought that he wasn't too thrilled with the now President Trump.
I received one of DeMint's bulk emails where he offered a book for a small donation to his Conservative Partnership Center opening up later this year. That book is The Art Of The Donald, Lessons from America's Philosopher-In-Chief by Christopher Bedford. I emailed Jim DeMint....or at least attempted to....thanking him for the years of service he had given to our nation.....but took issue with the choice of the book that he was offering. I got on the phone and found a Barnes & Noble about 40 miles away that had it....drove there right away and had the book in my hand a few hours later.
The book is one of those small hardcovers that usually seem to have a theme where I often wonder why the author even bothered to go to the trouble since other than advice there is little of substance in these type books. Well, I was in for another surprise. I've read quite a few of the books on this past general election but this little hardback....stuck in amongst the business books at B&N.... was one of the best if not the best. Now I was not surprised by the description it gave of Donald Trump....as a matter of fact it's worse than I even expected....but it is accurate as far I have observed on who Donald Trump is and how he won the nomination and election.
Surely the author is fully aware of the make-up of the person that he wrote about....He just doesn't see a problem with it....in fact the whole message of the book is if we (Republicans) want to win then we have to emulate Donald Trump.....which I think is the last thing on earth that we should want to do.
To me Donald Trump is an invisible man. He has flesh and blood.....a history on making billions of dollars......a celebrity to rival anyone in Hollywood....and a very discernible philosophy in how to win.....anything......just win....but that's all that there is. A few years ago I researched articles on just what books Donald Trump had read in his life. He didn't read a lot of books but did have favorites. Machiavelli's The Prince was one of them. Donald Trump is now that prince. There is a different Prince that we need to look to!
I hope that Jim DeMint sends out thousands of these books....I highly recommend it....for the bottom line is that unless we the people wake up to who Donald Trump really is then he will not only continue to solidify his support but grow to unmanageable proportions of ego and bom(b)bast. The reader will either agree with the author that Donald Trump is indeed onto something important and powerful.....or the reader will feel deep remorse for their failure to recognize that this agenda is in reality not an attempt to make America great again....but as Donald Trump told conservatives in 2015 as quoted in the book...."I'm the only Republican that is going to say this, We've got to make this country rich again." There's a big difference between these two goals...the latter being the real goal. It's a risk....hoping that people will see through the vanity and the arrogance....but if something like this book doesn't wake us up...then maybe nothing will.
conservativepartnership.org
The deep state coup that is in full swing has to be challenged at every turn and as long as it takes but what we have done is rush headlong into the defense of Donald Trump for one whole year while giving him free reign to run roughshod over us in the process....he thinking that we have no hope but in him.....no where to turn but to him.....and apparently that is the case with most conservatives.
Russia is not a 'paper tiger' as I heard Dr. Gorka blithely state. Statesmanship is not bellicose rantings in a tweet. War is hell as William Tecumseh Sherman informed us and many others have testified of. One had better be sure before throwing down the gauntlet. This takes wisdom. Has anyone seen an inkling of wisdom yet in Donald Trump? I've heard the word 'genius' and 'fearless' and even 'artful'.....but never a hint of the word 'wisdom.'
We have a greater hope than princes and missiles and tariffs and deals and threats....and we don't have to beg for morsels from our Prince's table. We know that He is faithful......and it is us that was not faithful. We know that He extends mercy to anyone who comes to Him....even to princes who see that if they were to have any power at all it would have to come from Him....even to whole nations who though blessed by Him had forgotten and then rejected Him.....and that...."He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding".....and...."Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie."
