Trump’s Kiplingesque Coronavirus Leadership
American Spectator,
by
Donald Devine
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
3/28/2020 4:35:59 AM
Both Plato and Aristotle feared mass democracy because its smooth-talking agitators could easily whip up popular passions and lead an unsophisticated mob into fury and blind obedience to the tyrant they were promoting to save them.
For the past three years, progressive intellectuals and media have depicted President Donald Trump as that tyrant even with little evidence after multiple investigations by his opponents and by the government itself. Yet, when the coronavirus struck, these same critics derided him for the opposite — for not exercising absolute control over the country’s private institutions and local governments. They demanded a single national solution to regulate everyone.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 3/28/2020 5:03:16 AM (No. 360518)
Must Read.
What is glaringly evident in the daily pressers is PDJT’s confidence in himself as someone who chooses his staff wisely and is not afraid of smart people.
The other nuanced policy is his recognition of STATES’ RIGHTS. He wants the states to rely on their own policies to decide best for their citizens and use the Feds as a backup. From a Constitutional perspective, his decisioning is spot on. From a managerial perspective, he is without peer.
12 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Trigger2 3/28/2020 5:37:13 AM (No. 360523)
The drive-by propaganda media's job is to instill mass fear, tank the economy, and get rid of PT so they can install another loser in the hopes of remaking this country into a fetid 3rd world despot nation. Period.
14 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
StormCnter 3/28/2020 5:57:15 AM (No. 360529)
We watch those virus updates and pressers day after day and I am continually impressed with the President's ability to give names, sources, quantities, locations, progress numbers, percentages, history, quickly and accurately with no notes. And then I try to visualize Joe Biden trying to pull out all that information from his own brain.
16 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
LadyHen 3/28/2020 9:30:40 AM (No. 360690)
The referenced poem has gone through my head at least 20 times of late, related to President Trump especially. Here is the whole excellent poem for those that might not know it.
If by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
7 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 3/28/2020 9:43:03 AM (No. 360708)
Trump's response that Fauci is but one voice among conflicting concerns that the President must weigh was perfect.
Yes, if we all go back to work there will be an increased number of cases. The reality is that most of those people will have mild to moderate cases and recover within a couple weeks. Unfortunately, some cases will result in death. As in EVERY flu season, the deaths are balanced against the 150 million workers, i.e. PEOPLE, who will have their lives economically disrupted or destroyed by any significant actions taken to combat the flu. Such actions, by necessity to be effective, demand high levels of participation, i.e balance 10s of thousands of death versus 100 million+ economic disruptions. We have decided as a society that the deaths are acceptable. For people to now start a death count and worry every addition death is grossly disingenuous.
3 people like this.
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "Pluperfect"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)