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Becoming Small: A Letter to President Trump
Dear President Trump,
First, I hope you will forgive me for being blunt.
It’s time to pivot into your new role.
But before I tell you what that role is, here are my observations.
- You love this country.
- You love the people of this country.
- And you see yourself as the savior, the only one who can turn the ship around.
The first two are beautiful and right.
The third was true for a season. In 2016, you were called by the Almighty to stand as a lightning rod, to take the hits, to hold firm in the face of relentless attacks. You have done that, and done it like no other man could have.
As a result, you punctured the bulwark, exposing those who oppose the foundational values of this country for the misguided people they really are, and for the falsehoods and destructive lies they truly believe. In response, they have come out in full force against you and against this country without shame, willing to compromise their own integrity in the pursuit of power and control regardless of the utter destruction their efforts have wrought. No one is, or ever has been, exempt from their aim. No one.
Despite the horror of what lurks behind the facade, we are wiser for the experience of your disruptive impact on the establishment’s system of corruption. All things have been opened and laid bare for all to see.
Through the battle, you have been demonized, vilified, and systematically accused without one moment’s peace. And you have withstood the pressure. A miracle.
What does all of this amount to? A great deal, President Trump. A great deal.
You have set the stage for more of us to lead and turn the ship around with an undeniable force that promises to endure for the next several decades.
But your job in that role, the role you stepped into in 2016, has been fulfilled.
It is time for you to move into your new role.
President Trump, it is no longer about you.
But you matter now more than ever before.
If you love this country, get behind the strong ones who can take the reins forward into the next few decades. Be their supporter, cheerleader, advisor, and confidante. Do all of those things for them that so many have done for you.
As for the millions of Americans who want you to run in 2024, you must resist the lure of their expressed affections for you. They trust you, your insights, and your artistry in deal-making. If you agree that I could be on to something, and I think I am, I know you can change the conversation within the base. You have done it before.
Dear President Trump, you are an amazing person. And it is now time for the 2016 Donald Trump to become small, make some room for others, and to take on the new role that I believe has been reserved for you, and you alone.
You can make the difference.
Either way. If you love this country and the people of this country, get behind the emerging leaders. You will be amazed at what can happen.
Unify, support, cheer the team on.
You will always be my favorite president for so many reasons.
Sincerely and with love,
God-Loving Woman
[1]24 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
[1] Crossway Bibles. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (with Cross-References) (Kindle Locations 169180-169182). Good News Publishers/Crossway Books. Kindle Edition.
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Trump didn’t do anything about radical leftist ideology in institutions. It flourished in Government agencies under the Trump administration. There were whole “diversity” departments set up and regular meetings to discuss LGBT group think. I know this because my husband worked in such a Government agency during the Trump administration.
This is exactly the UniParty behavior pattern. Then what happened in 2000? Keep it all in the family. Trump put a stop to that in 2016. Most of us had been suffering from some delusions about just how deep the statist organization was/is in Washington and I think Trump was suffering some of this as well. Now we see. But that “deep state” impaired Trump’s performance during his term. Don’t you remember what they did to him, all without grounds?
Duplicate
FIFY.
This has been my issue all along as many complain about Trump’s obvious narcissism – Obama’s narcissism is also insatiable yet so much more nefarious. (Easily replace name with Clinton x 2, Pelosi, McConnell, Ocasio, etc.)
Trump’s narcissism manifests itself in juvenile ways – course language, insensitive jokes, blunt observations, spiteful nicknames. Very little mystery. WYSIWYG. DJT chose not to play their little game. His personality is offensive to civility; yet his policies rehabilitated civil liberties and freedoms in the face of unimaginable interference.
Obama is the smooth-talking, snake salesman whose façade and smile will weaken your knees (see Newsome-(D) Cal.). Yet his duplicity is unrivaled, promising prosperity with a pleasant, sonorous voice and wink of the eye, but his policies crippled/are crippling this nation. He appeals to the superficial senses yet is a chimera intent on destroying the soul of this nation.
Please recall: Benghazi, FISA abuse v. Trump, ACA, Iran deal/cash, IRS conservative targeting (Lois Lerner), Russian uranium sale, BLM origins from blatant lies (Ferguson “hands up don’t shoot”, cop killing in Dallas, Travon Martin), Fast & Furious guns, Solyndra investments, etc. The system (deep state) had no appetite to hold him accountable.
And don’t give me the “Obama isn’t on the ballot” pabulum. Neither is Trump (yet). If you think the Obama-machine isn’t running this current administration, I’ve got some oceanfront property in Arizona to sell you. This is the Obama third term…be thankful we had the Trump interference for 4 years.
Current Democrats, RINOs, GOPe and Never Trumpers are prepared to follow Obama-course-of-action over the cliff, along with our country. They will perish with their self-righteousness intact because, you know, Orangeman Bad. As for me, I will take policies over personality, but would prefer both.
I disagree with most of this. I think he was surprised by how hard the Republican establishment fought him (usually under ‘the covers’) on things that they were supposedly for, like moving the Embassy in Israel or getting out of wars. I think he legitimately felt he was doing good things for people. His recitation of the lowered unemployment rates for various groups seemed to be a real point of pride.
At this point, I think he feels betrayed by his own party. Well, so do I – he just did a better job than I could to improve things.
I do wish that he would work with both the party – at least the MAGA part – and DeSantis, but it is asking a lot of a human being to not want vindication for himself.
Oh Obama stinks too. Doesn’t make Trump any better.
Trump fought the Republican Party. Not the other way around. It wasn’t over policy either. It was always about who wouldn’t get completely aboard the Trump Train and who was perceived as “disloyal”. Trump didn’t improve things. Look where we are now. If Trump had accepted that he lost and moved to winning back the WH in 2024, things would be very different. But he can’t accept losing.
You can’t honestly and pragmatically look at the last 12 years, especially the last 2, and believe this? What purity test is necessary for an appropriate GOP candidate?
Electing “The Donald” in 2016 was as much a referendum of long-term, failed GOP leadership as it was a repudiation of Obama and Leftist policies. The clearest message that DJT was a ‘necessary evil’? Recall both the Democrats and Corporate media assured to impeach him before he was even inaugurated. Think about that – before he was even inaugurated! The silence of the Republican party to such an outrageous statement was deafening.
The American voters spoke in 2016 and elected the boisterous, uncouth, brash, pugilistic Trump…as a Republican. The GOPe absolutely did not work with him, even deciding to join in with the frivolous “Phone-call-gate” impeachment. So no – you can’t have it both ways. The Republican party turned on us first, then on Trump.
I hope that you’re right that his need for attention is not more intense than his assisting the long term interests of the party. Suggesting that he retire from politics was not in mind when writing the post.
“Keep it all in the family.” Good point. A new post on this would be good.
They feared him then, and they fear him more now. Why spend so much time, effort, and money to destroy Trump? He’s ONE man, and isn’t perfect, but he was perfect for 2016. It’s been said there were backroom deals to ensure he was the Republican nominee, because the PTB was just SURE old Pantsuit could handily beat him. Were they SHOCKED when their strategy backfired, and he WON! The long knives and short skivs showed up then, and derailed most of his Presidency. He took bad advice from bad advisors (Mark Milley, Bill Barr, anyone?). But, even then, he accomplished a lot—enough to make us hope for more. I guess David Chappelle has a monologue on Sat.Nite Dead that pointed out 1 reason people liked Trump—he admitted he gamed the system, just like the Democrats. No one had come out and said anything like that before—that EVERYONE did what they could to reduce the taxes they had to pay, within the system. It does puzzle me about his comments against Desantis, and things he’s said about how well the mid-terms turned out. Who knows?
Excellent comment
Agreed. It is very difficult to move beyond a sense of betrayal and the desire for vindication.
@carcat74 has suggested that in 2016 part of the plan, and the reason the media gave Trump so much coverage, was with the hope he would get the Republican nomination, and present an easy opponent for Hillary Clinton. No one figured how effective he would be and how bad Clinton would be. I even think that through Trump’s interaction with the PTB’s in the New York community, he might have had some insight into the long range plan that did not contemplate a role for Joe Biden at all. How about two terms for Hillary as first female POTUS, followed by Michelle Obama as first black female POTUS. Republicans could be depended on to keep the peace. I don’t know what the plan was and I don’t know if Trump got wind of it but that kind of scenario fits the events that Trump has disrupted. Not only that but look how he has revealed all this sinister behavior by both political parties. And he is “Orangeman Bad?”. He is a man of the people.
It is truly amazing how he is feared and hated when one considers his age and that he has no close associate as a confidante and obvious successor.
This is a worrisome trait from Trump that concerns me. It seems his decision making suffers from astigmatism. When he’s zeroed in on the right things, he’s an effective leader (Abraham Accords, SCOTUS Judges, Energy Independence, Curtailing Regulation, Low Unemployment, etc.). But when his focus is consumed by pettiness (COVID & Fauci, 2020 “Stolen” Election, DeSantis insults) he becomes infuriatingly inept due to his own missteps.
My continued defense of Trump is tiresome, to say the least, but seems necessary. From day one, the criticisms and attacks from the PTB (Dems, Corporate Media, RINOs, NTers) were rarely, if ever, balanced by pointing out the accomplishments. In essence, continually expressing they will do anything to stop Trump, in actuality are generating the impossible: sympathy for a man who has neither earned nor deserves such sympathy.
Any support for Trump should in no way be a testament that he be ‘given’ anything…even the 2024 Republican nomination. He must earn it. Here is where I defend so much of what GFW penned in the OP. 2024 isn’t 2016 or 2020 – the environment has changed. A great leader would recognize this and adjust accordingly. Trump of 2016 is probably unelectable in 2024. If he and MAGA voters (which I am proudly one) can’t see this and evolve, any Democrat (Biden, Harris, Newsome) they run will maintain the WH. Fetterman proved this to me.
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Unfortunately, he is primarily on HIS side. And sometimes it happens to be our side, too. But being on our side is never his first consideration.