“What kind of president will Trump be?” headlines an article on fox news live streaming by Chris Stirewalt who makes regular appearances on Fox News Television. He begins his analysis by categorizing Trump’s 44 predecessors into Agents of Change, Captives, Stewards and Figureheads and concludes that it is too early to rate our current POTUS.
Part of the reason is that, in Stirewalt’s opinion, “he hasn’t figured out the basics of administration just yet”. That puts Chris in a unique category among media scribes, most of whom have already assigned President Trump’s place in history with three years and eleven months left in his term, or less than that if they have their way.
It seems that a large number of the media personalities have joined the street gaggle with their expressed opinions of the new administration’s performance. With the Democrat Party, relegated to minority status in the congress and a Republican president, the “loyal opposition” is fouling city traffic across the country carrying gaudy, professionally made signs expressing ‘fake’ outrage. Fake in sense that rumors persist that these ‘protesters’ are hired guns paid for by George Soros.
Daily protesting has become a blood sport. ‘Organizing for Action’ is a new group put together by ex-president Obama with more information on his post-president website. This effort includes a training manual for anti-Trump demonstrators and talks about disrupting back home town halls organized by congressional legislators.
On a web site which advertises freelance job opportunities is the following:
“Multiplatform Political Messaging and Rapid Alert Notification App
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Seeking to create an app that will allow users to rapidly be notified when an elected official is spotted, conducting a town hall meeting, or has a campaign stop. The objective is to create a rapid alert system for getting people to gather to protest against the policies of said elected, or appointed official. The app should allow users to be able to connect using social media, to invite friends, go live, post, send letters, enlist others to send letters, make calls, and alert others to make calls to elected officials when there is a need to drive a point home to the elected official. The app should also serve as a way for users to notify people that they will be attending a protest, so that they can be accounted for, should they be arrested, or worst. It should be hyper-encrypted and allow for encrypted communication between users for organizational purposes.”
First Amendment guaranteed demonstrations from the women’s suffrage movement to civil rights and Vietnam were driven by passion. They had clear goals in mind. These anti-Trump gatherings articulate no goals, only destruction of goals of others. Elite guided governance of the past eight years did not bring peace and prosperity to the American population and their intellectually vapid view of the world cannot explain why.
With influence inflated like a party balloon by an equally vapid media, the cloistered world of elitism views failure of the Trump program as their only path to vindication.
Will Trump succeed with his program? Again, on fox news live stream, the program, “Fox and Friends”, looked at graphical reactions to his weekend remarks and there is no question that the majority solidly supports his view of the world. In answer to Chris Stirewalt’s question, what kind of president will he be? – the answer is a successful one which is the only category that matters.