Vincent J. Curtis
8 Jan 2018
RE: Joe Scarborough calls for Trump’s removal
"Joe Scarborough writes: "I asked Trump a blunt question: Can you read?"
The article by Joe Scarborough appears to be another in a
series of journalistic efforts to reverse the outcome of the 2016 U.S.
presidential election. Perhaps Hillary won’t be put into the Oval Office,
but at least the detested Donald Trump won’t be in it laughing at this critics,
seems to be the motivation.
Articles in the series, written both from the left and the
right, all list a set of criteria by which it is concluded that “Trump is unfit
for office.” In Scarborough’s case, he lists willful ignorance,
intellectual incoherence, not capable of fulfilling his duties as
commander-in-chief, treasonous off-spring, tempermentally unfit, that he is “an
idiot surrounded by clowns,” that Trump is effectively illiterate, that he is
bored easily, that he is referred to as an idiot, dumb, a dope, and a moron by
close aides (presumably those “clowns” referred to previously); and
unstable. And all of this is written at the end of 2017.
After victories at Fort Donaldson and Shilo, the superiors
of General U.S. Grant wanted him sacked, and told President Lincoln that Grant
should be on the grounds that “he drank.” “Find out what the man drinks,
and send a case of it to all my other generals.” Lincoln replied. “The
man fights.”
We are supposed to take these criticisms of Trump against
the evidence of our lying eyes. Somehow, an illiterate moron accumulated
a multi-billion dollar fortune in the New York City real estate market.
He made himself bullet-proof famous by his TV reality show “The Apprentice,”
which a lot of serious people watched to gain business insight. With
nothing but his own money, he defeated sixteen other very serious,
professional, and experienced politicians to gain the Republican nomination –
and after Iowa the contest wasn’t even close. Then he took on the Clinton
machine that had the full support of the media and the illicit support (as we
are now finding out) of the Obama Administration, two billion dollars in
donations, and the best political consultancy money can buy – and beat them all
with just his platform, his plane, and his personality.
Since Trump was elected, the stock market has gained over 30
percent in value; many of the business-killing excesses of the Obama
Administration have been removed; Trump is returning the judiciary to
textualist constitutionalism, and his promised tax reform, tax cutting, and
repeal of the Obamacare mandate came at the end of the year. On the
foreign policy front, Trump has gone from one win to another – in marked
contrast to the disastrous Obama Administration, for whom Benghazi, Russian
reset, ISIS, and Iran nuclear deal need all be said.
What depresses Trump’s critics the most is that he is also
constantly fighting the culture war – and winning. Progressivism is going
down in flames despite rear-guard actions by Antifa, BLM, and the MSM.
The #metoo movement would never have come about and all we’ve discovered about
Harvey Weinstein and many others would never have come to light had Hillary and
Bill Clinton been in the White House. We would not be having this
economic boom if Hillary’s planned barrage of new regulations had been on the
agenda destroying the animal spirits. The court system of the United States would ruin the Republic had
Hillary’s choices of politically active progressives been put on the
bench. She who presided over Benghazi would never have declared Jerusalem
to be the capital of Israel. We would never have discovered the
conspiracy of the leadership of the FBI to protect Hillary and to destroy
candidate Trump. Hillary would be scott-free of the email mess she
created, one that undermines the rule of law.
Donald Trump is not without his flaws. However, this
push in the media from both the left and the right to have Trump deemed unfit
for office at the beginning of 2018 has to make you wonder at the grip on
reality that these commentators themselves have. Aristotle said that
‘science both measures reality and is measured by it.’ The conclusion
that Trump is unfit to be commander-in-chief after his successes in business,
his political and legislative wins, his success in foreign affairs, and most
importantly his success in reviving the economy has to make you doubt the
validity of the standards of measurement since they reach conclusions so
contrary to the actual results.
If Trump’s opponents fail to get over his win in 2016, their
nostalgia for a Hillary presidency is going to leave them even more diminished
after the elections of 2018.
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