Quoted from the founder of TheRedPill, Whisper.
Trump didn't get a second term because he's a businessman, not a politician, and so he ran his administration like a business instead of a political office.
When you are a businessman, you make profit by appealing to your customers. It doesn't matter if your vendors like you, it doesn't matter if your suppliers like you, it doesn't matter if your strategic partners like you... if the people who have money to buy want what you are selling, you have what you need.
When you are a politician, you do NOT serve your voters, you serve your key supporters. These are the people with influence who keep you in power, and often they are the people who got you there. In office, you must do favours for them, not the people who voted for you. You couldn't help them even if you wanted to, because if your key supporters don't get what they want, they will remove you from power and replace you with someone who will.
So, Trump ran for office because he thought like a businessman. He said to himself, "Hey, the GOP doesn't understand who their customers are or what they want... I do, so I can steal their customer base right out from under them."
And so he did. The primary election of Donald Trump was not a simple Republican primary. It was a coup. And Donald Trump is not a Republican. Instead, he is an opportunist who has skinned the Republican Party and is wearing it as a hat.
He won because he caught the power brokers, the class that those "key supporters" are drawn from, completely by surprise. They couldn't mobilize in time to stop him.
And so their pet politicians were left in an interesting dilemma. They hated Trump, because he wasn't one of them, and he was interfering with them serving their real interests. But they couldn't openly defy him because their voters loved him. Those who continued to do so (Romney, Ryan, etc) are now exiled and out of the game. So what did they do? They pretended to serve him, sharpened their knives, and waited.
Meanwhile, the press was in full attack mode, because Trump had NO power broker support. Ordinarily, the press is divided because the power brokers are divided. If you are a Democrat president, the Washington Post and CNN support you, and if you are a Republican, Fox News and the New York Post support you.
It's not about political opinions at all, it's about who is part of what power bloc.
Well, Trump wasn't a Republican, and he wasn't a Democrat, and he was bypassing the power brokers by appealing directly to the voters. And that is why ALL the media, with the sole exception of grassroots stuff founded by Trump fans, was universal in telling you that Trump was bad, bad, bad.
Middlemen hate being cut out, you see.
So this time around, they were prepared. They wouldn't stand for four more years of a president they didn't own. It's not that the election was rigged, although of course it was. Ordinarily one side rigs the election and the other side rigs right back. It's just part of the game. Precincts report numbers that everybody pretends have some relationship to votes cast, and everyone gets on with their day, with Republicans and Democrats pretending they are fundamentally different, while really getting on with the business of dividing up that giant Internal Revenue cake into slices for their respective supporters.
Nah, what was special about this election was that the Republican-supporting power brokers sat on their hands while their counterparts on the other side of the aisle neatly edited Trump out of the picture.
And what could he do? He had no deep state, power broker support. He only had regular people, and their opinions don't matter. He could contest election results, but the courts are part of this game, too. He may have put a lot of judges on the bench, but they didn't need him in order to stay there.
So arguing about whether he "really" won the election is missing the point. Nobody "really" wins elections. Elections are theatre. Asking who "really" won an election is like asking who "really" won WrestleMania. The only way Trump could have won is if his supporters took to the streets with flags, signs, and rifles.
And they weren't going to do that, because he wasn't able to do enough for them to justify the personal risk. Sure, he gave them a tax cut, nullified some exploitative trade deals, cracked down on human trafficking, put some judges on the bench. But he wasn't able to fundamentally change the game.
If had been able to cut taxes to 15%, bring back American heavy industry, and balance the budget, they might have fought for him. Hell, they might have made him king in all but name. It's come close to happening before (FDR).
None of this of course, speaks to whether he was a "good" president. But in politics, there is no "good". There is only "good for whom?"
THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR PEDES. IF WE DON'T TAKE TO THE STREETS AND HANG THESE TRAITORS OURSELVES, THERE WILL BE NO SECOND TERM!
QUIT WAITING FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP, WHO IS ALL ALONE UP THERE, WHILE WE SIT ON OUR ASSESS.
THE ARMY IS ON HIS SIDE, SO IF BLM AND ANTIFA CAN RIOT, SO CAN WE.
THIS IS NO LONGER THE TIME TO WORRY ABOUT OPTICS. VICTORS WRITE THE HISTORY BOOKS.
Quoted from the founder of TheRedPill, Whisper.
Trump didn't get a second term because he's a businessman, not a politician, and so he ran his administration like a business instead of a political office.
When you are a businessman, you make profit by appealing to your customers. It doesn't matter if your vendors like you, it doesn't matter if your suppliers like you, it doesn't matter if your strategic partners like you... if the people who have money to buy want what you are selling, you have what you need.
When you are a politician, you do NOT serve your voters, you serve your key supporters. These are the people with influence who keep you in power, and often they are the people who got you there. In office, you must do favours for them, not the people who voted for you. You couldn't help them even if you wanted to, because if your key supporters don't get what they want, they will remove you from power and replace you with someone who will.
So, Trump ran for office because he thought like a businessman. He said to himself, "Hey, the GOP doesn't understand who their customers are or what they want... I do, so I can steal their customer base right out from under them."
And so he did. The primary election of Donald Trump was not a simple Republican primary. It was a coup. And Donald Trump is not a Republican. Instead, he is an opportunist who has skinned the Republican Party and is wearing it as a hat.
He won because he caught the power brokers, the class that those "key supporters" are drawn from, completely by surprise. They couldn't mobilize in time to stop him.
And so their pet politicians were left in an interesting dilemma. They hated Trump, because he wasn't one of them, and he was interfering with them serving their real interests. But they couldn't openly defy him because their voters loved him. Those who continued to do so (Romney, Ryan, etc) are now exiled and out of the game. So what did they do? They pretended to serve him, sharpened their knives, and waited.
Meanwhile, the press was in full attack mode, because Trump had NO power broker support. Ordinarily, the press is divided because the power brokers are divided. If you are a Democrat president, the Washington Post and CNN support you, and if you are a Republican, Fox News and the New York Post support you.
It's not about political opinions at all, it's about who is part of what power bloc.
Well, Trump wasn't a Republican, and he wasn't a Democrat, and he was bypassing the power brokers by appealing directly to the voters. And that is why ALL the media, with the sole exception of grassroots stuff founded by Trump fans, was universal in telling you that Trump was bad, bad, bad.
Middlemen hate being cut out, you see.
So this time around, they were prepared. They wouldn't stand for four more years of a president they didn't own. It's not that the election was rigged, although of course it was. Ordinarily one side rigs the election and the other side rigs right back. It's just part of the game. Precincts report numbers that everybody pretends have some relationship to votes cast, and everyone gets on with their day, with Republicans and Democrats pretending they are fundamentally different, while really getting on with the business of dividing up that giant Internal Revenue cake into slices for their respective supporters.
Nah, what was special about this election was that the Republican-supporting power brokers sat on their hands while their counterparts on the other side of the aisle neatly edited Trump out of the picture.
And what could he do? He had no deep state, power broker support. He only had regular people, and their opinions don't matter. He could contest election results, but the courts are part of this game, too. He may have put a lot of judges on the bench, but they didn't need him in order to stay there.
So arguing about whether he "really" won the election is missing the point. Nobody "really" wins elections. Elections are theatre. Asking who "really" won an election is like asking who "really" won WrestleMania. The only way Trump could have won is if his supporters took to the streets with flags, signs, and rifles.
And they weren't going to do that, because he wasn't able to do enough for them to justify the personal risk. Sure, he gave them a tax cut, nullified some exploitative trade deals, cracked down on human trafficking, put some judges on the bench. But he wasn't able to fundamentally change the game.
If had been able to cut taxes to 15%, bring back American heavy industry, and balance the budget, they might have fought for him. Hell, they might have made him king in all but name. It's come close to happening before (FDR).
None of this of course, speaks to whether he was a "good" president. But in politics, there is no "good". There is only "good for whom?"