We’ll Roll The Dice on Trump if He Can Burn Down The House So We Can Start Over;
The First Term Senators Can Watch and Learn
My thinking on Donald Trump has crystallized in the past few weeks.
Part of it was a column by Eric Odom who correctly pointed out that people like me simply want the house burned down so we can start over and Trump is correctly positioned to do exactly that. And we’re also willing to make a calculated roll of the dice on what happens after that.
The other part was the pathetic performance of first term Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz in the CNN Debate last week and Rubio’s performance on CBS the morning after.
Do you know why Rubio and Cruz get themselves elected to the Senate?
The pay is good, people kiss your ring and you clearly don’t have to actually DO anything save for following your Presidential dream.
Have Trump’s positions been consistently conservative over the past 25 years?
No.
Should I care?
Not really.
Let me put this in terms we all understand.
First term Senators and political opportunists of all stripes, have come fairly close to wrecking the America we all love because they’ve built a political infrastructure that is based on screwing the little guy while telling the little guy—you and me—that they’re sticking up for us. In short, peeing on our collective leg while telling us it’s raining outside.
The only way out is to burn down the house.
The best person to burn it down is the guy who helped build it, freely admits it and sees where his efforts have brought us.
What happens after that depends on what we do.
An electorate which can burn down the house can raise it again.
An electorate which is afraid to burn down the house and make a calculated roll of the dice is doomed to let nasty little men like Cruz and Rubio (and their “intellectual” patron saints like George Will) decide its future.
The reason I say that gamble is calculated is that unlike the first term Senators who are running on some sort of fairly flexible ideology combined with opportunism and self-promotion, Trump actually has a track record of achievement. Like Dizzy Dean once said, “It ain’t bragging if you can do it.”
Trump has an entrepreneurial skill set that is totally lacking in our current government which knows only how to take our money with taxes, borrow our money against those taxes and spend it all poorly. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the R’s or the D’s.
He has negotiated large deals and understands the art of the deal so well he wrote a best selling book about it. (I recommend the book highly.)
And he knows how to hire and how to fire—something our government has no clue about.
So it’s probably a better than even money bet that he can translate some or all of that to what we all acknowledge is a very tough job.
And, he would actually have to work at it, if he wanted to do a worse job than has been done in the past seven years. By another first term Senator.
By Fred Weinberg