The system grants an incoming, newly elected (or freshly reelected) Executive Team a mere 1,461 days to execute the agenda promised (or carefully hidden) during the campaign. The intelligent and prideful ones know that the results and corresponding impacts on American society and life over the coming years will properly mark their place in history and set out to execute thoroughly, efficiently, and transparently during that limited amount of time. The best ones – featuring full tanks of confidence and self-respect – put little thought into their place in history and just charge ahead to execute thoroughly, efficiently, and transparently during that limited amount of time…there will be time to review the game film after the hard work is done. The pretenders – or “Democrats” in the modern vernacular – lack pride in this sense…they do not execute their hidden (destructive) agendas transparently and are willing to sacrifice efficiency and thoroughness to hide as much as possible from the first pass at documenting the history of their works.
(A study of the history of the history of the Clinton, Obama, and Biden Administrations just might shed some interesting light on what I am trying to say here. How are those histories changing with the perspective of time and the slow emergence of that which was not seen…or allowed to be seen…in that first pass of history. But that is for another time.)
I make this third attempt to expand or clarify what I mean by the “Prideless Executive” theme after coming across the following from Ann Althouse reviewing a particular part of the recent debate:
From Tuesday night’s debate, that’s Donald Trump, accepting the consequences of firing people. They write books and get back at you. In that structure of cause and effect, not firing people is a subtle form of censorship, and we the voters ought to notice the silence and think about what we are not hearing.
[Emphasis added]
I believe it is clear that a large and growing percentage of We the People have learned over the last 8 years of “fake news” to be very skeptical of the immediate pass at history (news cycle narrative dictation) and have learned to wait 48 to 72 hours (sometimes more) before hitting the panic button on anything “Trump”. (I seem to remember watching – for entertainment value only I assure you – short bursts of MSNBC the day after Mr. Trump was sworn in…they were all openly giddy at the “very real” prospect that he would be forced to resign from office by Friday.) More recent events (i.e., this week’s debate and the aftermath) give me at least some confidence that a now measurable percentage of We the People have been calibrated to see past those overnight narratives reliably printed by the intellectually incurious major media to not only notice but consider and think through the implications of “what we are not hearing.” I post occasionally about the work-hardening that has resulted in a sort of Trump antifragility…it is this conditioning of portions of We the People that is creating that feature.
There are also a few wonderful signs that three and a half years of Prideless Leadership does not go unnoticed by a population that has the pride inherent in American Liberty pumping through its veins:
Complete and utter indifference…a natural and oh-s0-fitting response to the pathetic figure that is FJB and his number two. Nobody likes cares for a loser. To paraphrase another fighter turned President:
The most favorable posthumous history the [Prideless Executive] can hope for is—-oblivion. – The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Page 43
On this front, the one unfortunate result of a Trump victory (if it should happen) is that this larger than life, proud character will again (just like with Obama) suck all of the oxygen out of the room for four years thus delaying the proper writing of the intentionally destructive history of the modern Progressive presidents. Alas, that is a price worth paying…but that history still must be written.
Fifty-three days until we enter the next phase of the managed decline of the American Republic. I suspect that nothing about the end of this phase or the beginning of the next is going to be pleasant. The Progressive Machine – in its usual lack-of-good-faith manner – will make sure of that. Hold on tight.
Deeper into the abyss we go…
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Earlier posts in this series:
Bad Faith Governance and the (Intentional) Absence of the Proud Executive (August 20,2024)
The Prideless Candidate Model of the American Left (September 2, 2024)
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