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Why then have many of our Republican luminaries and their masters begun to undermine the Trump campaign?

The Enemy of My Enemy



“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” -- ancient Sanskrit proverb, 450 BC. Republicans believe they face an unprecedented choice: To Trump or not To Trump. This is ludicrous. There is no choice. Did Roosevelt have a choice about whether to ally with Stalin in WWII? “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” sums up about all there is to know about “a choice.” Conservatives do not face a choice in this election. They are not permitted a choice. The idea of a choice, at this point, is irresponsible. If Trump does not win, Hillary, or some Democrat, will win. But it is not that these individuals will win or lose. What matters is whether their entourages of tens of thousands of advisers and appointees, win or lose. So which should a Conservative rather have, one million new Hillary minions or one million new Trump minions? Easy answer.
It must be admitted: Trump is a narcissistic blowhard. He is intemperate, immodest, impertinent, a side-show barker in a backstreet circus. He is incautious, injudicious, impolitic and at times he is also capricious and cruel – as displayed during his tweet week with Khizr Khan. It is impossible NOT to know these things, even if you love Trump. Nevertheless, the virtue-signaling anti-Trump Republicans seem not to understand the well-worn proverb about one’s enemy’s enemy, though it’s been around for 25 centuries and shows up in at least half of all action movies. They seem not to understand that a Presidential race is never about the President. A Presidential race is about the thousands of powerful bureaucrats (Ex. Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Ash Carter, Louis Lerner, etc.) he or she appoints, including Federal judges, and the hundreds of thousands of powerful administrators these appointees hire – all of whom are protected by the Civil Service System (impossible to fire).

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How can it be so hard to understand the true nature of a Presidential race – that it is about having the opportunity to choose the brand of Administrative State we’ll be ruled by, or not ruled by, and not “who” will be President? Even “down-ticket” bureaucrats matter – far more than any President. It is these bureaucrats – and their bosses – and their bosses’ bosses – who rule over us. They are the ones who decide whether or not they will investigate us (NLRB, EEOC, EPA, etc.), and whether they will selectively prosecute us more aggressively than everybody else in history (Dinesh D’Souza). It is these bureaucrats, these Federal bureaucrats, we cannot escape, even if we already have a sugar daddy in Congress who’s willing to fight for us. And ceaselessly these bureaucrats grow in power and in arrogance. But it is not only their power that grows. Their caprice grows. And it is this that is the most frightening. How can the individual citizen contend with a government able to destroy him on a whim, but unpredictably, so the citizen can never know whether he or she is “safe?” How is a citizen supposed to know whom, if anyone, can be bribed merely to get “protection” and nothing more? Following Hillary’s Great Escape(s), we suspect our governing system is likely beyond recovery, is an ugly dung heap painted over by pretty words. And, we sense the danger of the growing anti-USA and anti-Conservative bureaucracy. But in suspecting and sensing these things, what are we to make of the fools who support Trump only blandly, or who declare themselves overtly hostile to him. Can they not see? Can they not hear? Can they not think?

Yes, Trump is an uncouth blowhard and narcissist, and certainly is not a Conservative. So what? Trump’s appointees are unlikely to be like Trump (Ex. Mike Pence). But they are even more unlikely to be like Hillary, Kerry, Holder, Lynch, Lerner, etc., etc. If this is not convincing, ask yourself: If you truly wanted to help the Conservative Cause, which would you rather control – the Congress – or the Presidency/Administrative State? If you picked the former, STOP and DO NOT PASS GO. It is the President who controls the Administrative State. Increasing numbers of Republicans are now jumping ship, abandoning Trump, for the new rationale, “to maintain Republican control of Congress.” Given the enormous power of the Administrative State, and its Leader, the President, how can this make sense? How can it make sense for these fair-weather Republicans to abandon the Cause at the exact moment their support is needed most? Who cares if we retain Congress? We’ve had it for a while now and yet it’s been worse than useless. Our Republican Congress has done nothing to thwart the will of our first anti-American American President, even in a time when EVERYTHING has been at stake. Why then have many of our Republican luminaries and their masters begun to undermine the Trump campaign? “It’s always about the money” is one possible answer. The more likely answer, however, is these people are misinterpreting Harry Truman’s famous dictum, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” President Truman was certainly not recommending abandoning one’s post at the first sign of danger.


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Dr. Brad Lyles is an independent writer for the Tea Party.


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