Meaning… unlike his opponents in the media and the opposing party, he generally tells the truth?

It is his opponents who are declaring a majority of American citizens Non-Essential (That’s the new “N-word”) citzens who must be interned, just like FDR did to Fred Koramatsu by executive order, only with the added bonus of being forced to do so at thier own expense, as a health care expedient,’for thier own safety or that of the community,’ to paraphrase Justice Robert’s dissent in Korematus. By all means he can’t blame the Democratic governors in Michigan, NY or municipal governments for denying people thier rights. To think he can only get that message attention at an in person rally is rather silly. I will also point out that neither Pelosi, Schumer, nor Biden are Barclay de Tolly, Blucher or Wellington.

Similarly, people trying to write about business issues and drawing from Mushashi’s Five Rings, or the teachings of Sun Tzu, Jomini, or Clausewitz.

There isn’t a lot of real contiguity between any of these arenas–FedEx ain’t sending out trucks to ambush UPS, and the scope of what is possible in war, where there is an essential absence of rules or restrain bears little or no relation to what goes on in politics or business. Or, love… Or, really, much of anything besides war and conflict themselves, which as I point out yet again, are essentially identifiable by the lack of rules and restraint. What works in judo does not necessarily work well in jujitsu, and the guy who trains exclusively in some remote-from-reality martial art is very unlikely to do well when going up against a cage-fighting MMA type who has no rules or conventions to follow.

No idea how Trump is going to do in the election, don’t really care, TBH. He’s a symptom, not a cause. I think that the most he’s capable of is slowing the long decline we’re in thanks to the incompetence of our leadership cadres, but the inevitable is going to happen despite him. He’s not the first of the “Five Good Emperors” who held back the fall of Rome; if anything, I suspect he’s more akin to one of the essentially decent ones who wasn’t able to establish enough traction to really fix things, and who got ran out of office far too soon.

The syndromes and problems that beset us are way too big for just one man to fix; they’re rooted in a Gramscian corruption of the national soul, and the collapse of real merit and accountability in the elites. Watch what happens to all the malefactors behind the prosecution of General Flynn, and the Mueller investigation. If any of them do real jail time or are disbarred, I’m going to be very surprised. What they tried was a slow-motion legalistic coup; the next time around, it won’t be done the same way. Expect bullets and blood, lots of it.

He put up a large sign. It said:

“The battery of men without fear.”

Understanding of human motivation was as important in this victory as understanding of the physical terrain.

I smell exaggeration. Now I’m not American, but I am fairly sure that none of the candidates boosted by President Trump actually won. The reverse also did not happen.

If the neocons get their war with Russia, or China, or Iran, or even Venezuela, then all bets are off.