Timothy Birdnow

Mike Gallagher is a dope.

He is rambling on about how bad it was for Trump to troll the liberals by putting out a meme of him as Pope.

Gallagher was droning about how we need to "take the high road" and asked "do we need to provoke the other side" and said "it doesn't help him to get done what he needs to get done". ???? Hasn't this guy been around for a while? We took the high road for decades it where did it get us?

Trump does this kind of thing to a.rile his enemies so they make mistakes and look foolish and b.he wants to keep himself in the spotlight. Both serve his ends.

Sun Tzu, the great Chinese military philosopher, admonished generals to be unpredictable. He also admonished them to anger or otherwise inflame passions in their opponents. This is what Trump does quite successfully with this tactic. The Left has always understood this. Take Saul Alinsky "ridicule is Man's most potent weapon. It is infuriating and cannot be rationally fought". Trump is essentially ridiculing the Left here, even while he appears to be being irreverent.

As to the latter point, Trump rightly understands that people are not inspired by the whole Ashley Wilkes sort of honorable and noble approach. Who do you root for in Gone with the Wind? The scoundrel Rhett Butler, not Wilkes, who is by all measure a better man but a less honest one than Butler. It's Trump's finger-in-the-eye that has led him to capture the Millenial votes, I would add. Furthermore, Trump understands that he needs to fire up the base, to keep us engaged and excited. Why did the Reagan Revolution peter out? Because the mantle was handed to George H.W. Bush, a RINO and Internationalist who demanded we be softer and more like Ashley Wilkes. Reagan's revolution died because there was nothing to keep the rank-and-file inspired. Trump is inspiring, even when he's being an ass.

Trump understand all this, yet Mike Gallagher, a good conservative but a largely useless one, wants to take us back to the "high road" which winds up at a collapsed bridge. He lived through all this; he should know better by now.

People like Mike Gallagher are the reason why we are always on the defensive. He argues that we need to move forward and accomplish things rather than mess with them. He said WE are acting like we aren't in power. It's quite the opposite; the Democrats did this to us whenever THEY were in power after all. IF we allow the Democrats and the media time to set the narrative, to key in for the attacks, they will win. Trump is forcing them to react, rather than to launch pro-active attacks. I can't imagine how an establishment Republican can still exist in this day and age. They never won anything.

Trump wins because he knows he needs to keep them angry. It's really that simple. He controls the news cycle - they don't.

Sorry Mike but you are a huge part of the problem.

BTW He just expressed his befuddlement at the fact the media and the Left and all who hate Trump find nothing but fault with him. Gallagher apparently isn't aware of Saul Alinski "you are on the side of angels and they are on the side of devils". NOTHING Trump does will be good, so he may as well troll them and watch their heads explode.

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