Trump Grins as The Trump Tower of Political Madness Burns

Originally Poster 3/4/2017

By: Nick Huftel

The left wing media, George Seurat, and the Chinese general Wang Jingze. What do all of these have to do with the news of the day? Try this on for size.

For decades the leftists inhabiting the news media have angered conservatives by selectively ignoring stories that make anyone they are sympathetic to look bad and focusing on any story that makes someone they oppose look bad. The right has always responded with muted criticism and overt attempts to make the media like them. This strategy has only resulted in failure.

In a dramatic departure from this Trump has outright attacked and demeaned the left wing media. A strategy that coalesced the support of those fed up with the leftist media and driven the media and those that have benefited from their biased reporting completely insane. The media has sought to destroy Trump in a campaign of circular logic hate smearing. The media underpants gnome strategy goes something like this.

Step 1: Define your opponent as a hateful racist, sexist, homophobic bigot.

Step 2: Construe everything your opponent does or says as being hateful because obviously he has been defined as hateful

Step 3: profit

Rinse and repeat until your enemy is completely politically neutered. They even went so far as to state openly that anyone who votes for Trump is a racist, hateful bigot. Its like they think that anyone who supports Trump at all gets together with their friends and family during the holidays and listens to the Alt-Right Christmas album featuring Richard Spencer and David Duke singing I’m Dreaming of a White Ethno-State. Fact check: false. There is a very strick “Three Reiches and You’re Out” rule. The right doesn’t want America to be an ethno-state.

Trump has since the moment he started his campaign made numerous moves, statements, and tweets that, when considered individually seem completely insane. Each of these moves have been very easy for the left wing media to construe as hateful making it very easy for them to continue executing their preferred strategy. What they haven’t realized is that these moves are pointilist like a George Seurat painting. Seurat used a multitude of little dots that only reveal an image when viewed from further away. Taking the bait, the media has held a magnifying glass to each dot, criticized each and every one, and failed to see the bigger picture.

Why has Trump done this? In The Book of Qi the 36 strategems of Wang Jingze are described. Among these strategies are The Empty Fort Strategy, Feign Madness but Keep Your Balance, and Remove the Ladder When the Enemy Has Ascended To the Roof.

For better than 18 months Trump has delivered the building blocks to the media with which they have constructed a house of madness. In this case it is a Trump Tower of Political Madness. Making bizarre tweet after inflammatory statement Trump has referred to the media as the Fake News Media, called them an enemy of the people, conspicuously not invited outlets who have reported falsehoods about the supposed Russia connection, and then refused to set the record straight when the truth has been learned, to a “gaggle”, and even called for preventing the media from using unnamed sources. He let them build this house of insanity and seemed to inhabit it. That’s the empty fort strategy.

If that weren’t enough he went on and on about his inauguration crowd size, insisted that millions of fraudulent ballots were cast against him, stated that he had the biggest electoral victory since Reagan, I could go on but you get it. In doing so Trump has feigned madness but kept his balance and scheduled an address to a joint session of Congress for earlier this week.

In a frenzy the left wing media and their allies in the Democrat party breathlessly assembled atop the Trump Tower of Political Madness to witness the final nail in the coffin of the Trump presidency and the conservative movement. This was to be the focal point of the insanity of Trump and the Waterloo of their enemies. Shockingly to everyone Trump gave what even Anderson Cooper had to admit was one of the greatest presidential speeches of modern times. With that Trump pulled the latter out from under his enemies and trapped them, alone, on top of what is their Tower of Madness.

Now we have enough dots to back away and see the big picture. It looks like this. The Democrats and the left wing media are trapped atop the tower, Kellyanne Conway dousing the base of the tower in gasoline, and Trump casually tossing a match.

With Trump’s enemies thoroughly defeated the Republicans in congress can now get to the business of reforming the tax code, repealing and replacing Obamacare, and Trump can get the regulatory climate under control. Is this going to be smooth sailing from here? Of course not. Trump executed a good plan but he is still Trump. He isn’t going to stop taking unpresidential shots at his enemies and his economic plan has many flaws that should make any Conservative take pause but at least now we know that Trump is nobody’s fool.