RUTHFULLY YOURS

Donald Trump is going to win on November 8^th and the moment when this election turned from seeming defeat to certain victory will be the least expected and one of the most derisively attacked moments of his campaign.  During the third debate when Trump said on being asked if he would accept the election results, “I will look at it at the time” the election was his.  The uproar on both sides of the political spectrum has been an avalanche of criticism; this was Trump at his worst, the dooming moment of a quixotic and egomaniacal campaign.  Or was it?

Decisiveness and boldness don’t always result in a victory on the field of battle but indecisiveness and hesitation, in the moment of crisis, most assuredly will result in inglorious defeat.  Trump has been called a lot of things, probably the most flattering among, even his allies, is that he is a good “entertainer.”  For political acumen, he might be given a 2, and that would be the score given by his friends.  But too many have all missed something that Trump as seen since the beginning.

Trump is reading something different, a mood and frustration in this country that is not just confined to some 32%.  The country is heading in the wrong direction, we on the right know that, but in fact, almost 70% of Americans overall sense that.  And that is not just an indictment of the Obama years; it is an indictment of the entire bipartisan political class.

This election is not being run for the pundits, the media, the conservative gadflies and hangers on, the consultants and wise thinkers who tut-tut continually on television about how Trump, “just can’t do it this way,” he must pivot and be “presidential” and discuss nothing but the issues.

One radio pundit said that Trump obscured his otherwise solid speech on Obamacare by mentioning the “rigged” election.  She went on to say that the national media only cover the segment on the rigged election and not the “substantive” part of the speech on Obamacare.  For being smart pundits, they sure have one hell of a huge blindside.  First of all, the main stream media would never exclusively cover a part of a speech that rips into Obamacare, it would never happen.  The speech would be completely ignored, so therefore Trump gets zero coverage.  His base gets a policy speech; the rest of the country gets darkness.  Instead, CNN and the rest report on the rigged part and give Trump prime coverage.  They think this makes Trump look and sounds like a fool and loon.  But they aren’t the audience and Trump is not looking for approval from the D.C. to New York elites.

The middle of the country, already restive and suspicions of anything and everything that has to do with Washington D.C., hears Trump railing against the corrupt system and how we need to “clean house.”  What is so arrogantly dismissed by the chattering elite class as bar room “unsophisticated” rhetoric, is hitting the voters across the country like a breath of fresh air and a lot of “you’re damn right, Trump!” exhortations.

There is another audience here as well; Trump is not a Republican in any sense of what we are used to.  He is really nonpolitical, so his audience, again, is not the Paul Ryan-Mitt Romney class, but the dissatisfied, concerned, pissed off, and anyone else who feels the country is going in the wrong direction.  And remember, that number is upwards of 70%, which obviously includes a lot of independents and Democrats.  And, not to be forgotten, it includes the millions of Bernie Sanders supporters.  When he says the system is rigged, he is reaching across to those millions who felt that Bernie was their savior.  While Bernie went weak in the knees in one of the greatest capitulations in political history, his supporters naively thought that he and their movement stood for something.  Maybe Bernie wasn’t up to the fight, but his millions were, and still are.  And let’s face it, outside of very few bought and sold Clintonites, the Democratic Party Primary was completely rigged against Bernie.  Everyone knows it, the folks who felt the Bern, most of all.  Trump knows this as well and he is using it to reach this audience.  Will they vote for Trump?  Probably only a few, but what it has done, in conjunction with the leaked DNC emails, has stoked an already visceral hatred of Hillary among the Bernie movement.  They may stay home, they may vote for Jill Stein or they may vote for Trump, but very, very few will turn out for the corrupt Hillary.

Trump is not playing by the usual rules, he refuses to buckle and play as the good Republican Marquess of Queensberry candidate just so he can end up as road kill under a rancid, corrupt Democratic attack machine.  It is funny that so many who stood by him and rooted for him have also gone weak in the last days, just as the battle is engaged.  History is full of examples of the flinch, the pause and hesitation, the worry that the risk of total catastrophe is so great that one must wait and pull back.  But the reward in this case is the saving of our country.

Trump, for all the bluster and bluff knows this and can see the path to restoring our Republic.  Yes, he has the, dare I say, political vision.  But even more critically, he has the boldness to strike when least expected, against all odds in the quest for victory, even if the Lieutenants around him are feeling the jiggle in their spine.