Bob Woodward's book Fear should go on sale in about two hours, I didn't put in a reserve at our local Barnes & Noble because they have 120 copies coming in. There is no open conversation on conservative talk radio anymore. The narrative is scripted....the guests all carefully hand-picked....and the microphone cordoned off. Woodward will be lionized in the media....and 'lyinized' on conservative talk radio. The best thing to do is read the book and make up your own mind.
NOTE: I did purchase the book and I'm 77 pages pages into the 357 pages. Donald Trump's term as President has just begun. Although I'm sure that the meat of Bob Woodward's thesis is still ahead, it has been fair so far. It brings back to my mind how I felt in early 2017. I wanted this man to succeed....to see that this that he had gotten himself into was not the same as building a personal empire....that it was a time for humility. I was in the drive-thru at McDonalds on the August morning in 2016 when Steve Bannon did not appear as host of Breitbart's morning show.....for he had been tabbed to take charge of the stalled if not floundering Trump campaign. I knew that it was going to be a horse race from then on in. I think that Woodward's book's shows very clearly that Bannon's entry turned the campaign around. The following post is from this past May:
There are a number of Donald Trump biographies that have come out in the past few years....and an equal number of 'how Trump won' books that are largely biographical. Some of these books are mostly salacious.....Fire And Fury would be such a book.....some are very legitimate biography.....Emily Jane Fox's recently released Born Trump would be one such book. And some are just pure pro-Trump which would be the opposite of Michael Wolff's Fire And Fury. I've tried to read only the books that appear to be legitimate biography....with the exception of Wolff's book. I had done the same thing over the years with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.....and as far back as Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter.....and I may have read more on the Kennedys over the past forty-five years than all the others combined.....and I should add this that my reading of biography over my life on all genres surely is more than all the political books combined.
Returning to Donald Trump....this is an unlikable man if you understand who he is....a man cloistered over his life in one castle after another....who has princes and princesses running around and who would at times pick a new queen. He's a man of appearances more than substance who is in love with his own image....and whose religion is positive thinking.
In Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes two weavers tell the emperor that they have made clothes so fine that only those who are really competent can see how wonderful the clothes are. In the case of Donald Trump....Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are the weavers.....the clothes that they have made every day for the past year are supposedly so beautiful that only those who are really smart can see them. Conservatives don't want to appear stupid so they tell each other how beautiful the clothes are....but there are many of us out here who do not just want to be part of the crowd....we didn't oppose both the Marxists and Republican establishment over eight years by being mindless followers and we're not going to start now. We don't see any fine clothes....only Trump brand underwear and sock garters.
We are not the 'never Trump' movement. We are the never again Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton movement.....the never again Republican establishment movement. Conservative radio talk show hosts are in denial that we exist. They are on a party cruise right now heading right into a tempest....with a captain who thinks that his ship is unsinkable. We had hoped from the beginning to see in a President Trump some evidence of humility that might lead to wisdom. He's going to be tested....and right now we are of no help to him as we only feed his ego and admire the clothes that, in the main, do not exist.
NOTE: I did purchase the book and I'm 77 pages pages into the 357 pages. Donald Trump's term as President has just begun. Although I'm sure that the meat of Bob Woodward's thesis is still ahead, it has been fair so far. It brings back to my mind how I felt in early 2017. I wanted this man to succeed....to see that this that he had gotten himself into was not the same as building a personal empire....that it was a time for humility. I was in the drive-thru at McDonalds on the August morning in 2016 when Steve Bannon did not appear as host of Breitbart's morning show.....for he had been tabbed to take charge of the stalled if not floundering Trump campaign. I knew that it was going to be a horse race from then on in. I think that Woodward's book's shows very clearly that Bannon's entry turned the campaign around. The following post is from this past May:
There are a number of Donald Trump biographies that have come out in the past few years....and an equal number of 'how Trump won' books that are largely biographical. Some of these books are mostly salacious.....Fire And Fury would be such a book.....some are very legitimate biography.....Emily Jane Fox's recently released Born Trump would be one such book. And some are just pure pro-Trump which would be the opposite of Michael Wolff's Fire And Fury. I've tried to read only the books that appear to be legitimate biography....with the exception of Wolff's book. I had done the same thing over the years with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.....and as far back as Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter.....and I may have read more on the Kennedys over the past forty-five years than all the others combined.....and I should add this that my reading of biography over my life on all genres surely is more than all the political books combined.
Returning to Donald Trump....this is an unlikable man if you understand who he is....a man cloistered over his life in one castle after another....who has princes and princesses running around and who would at times pick a new queen. He's a man of appearances more than substance who is in love with his own image....and whose religion is positive thinking.
In Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes two weavers tell the emperor that they have made clothes so fine that only those who are really competent can see how wonderful the clothes are. In the case of Donald Trump....Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are the weavers.....the clothes that they have made every day for the past year are supposedly so beautiful that only those who are really smart can see them. Conservatives don't want to appear stupid so they tell each other how beautiful the clothes are....but there are many of us out here who do not just want to be part of the crowd....we didn't oppose both the Marxists and Republican establishment over eight years by being mindless followers and we're not going to start now. We don't see any fine clothes....only Trump brand underwear and sock garters.
We are not the 'never Trump' movement. We are the never again Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton movement.....the never again Republican establishment movement. Conservative radio talk show hosts are in denial that we exist. They are on a party cruise right now heading right into a tempest....with a captain who thinks that his ship is unsinkable. We had hoped from the beginning to see in a President Trump some evidence of humility that might lead to wisdom. He's going to be tested....and right now we are of no help to him as we only feed his ego and admire the clothes that, in the main, do not exist.
