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I know we live in a time where we are used to instant information and instant action but the reaction of some conservatives over the last few days are making me doubt the sanity of some.
It’s sort of like when a Baseball team wins twenty in a row. It’s a great time and it’s a lot of fun but if after winning 20 in a row you get upset because you don’t repeated win twenty in a row.
Trump has been winning big for a long time in this first 100 days. No president has ever done so much in so little time.
But persuading people who have been ripping you off for decades to make a deal, and to GET a deal in writing that doesn’t happen instantly.
Trump announced his tariffs a few days ago, stocks reacted poorly and people panicked and let the same media who had buffaloed them for years drive them like fools. When Trump stuck to his guns they panicked more BUT not as much as those countries who rapidly figured out that Trump wasn’t bluffing.
The calls poured in dozens of countries anxious to make a deal, with the primary exception of China who immediately retaliated and the EU who claimed retaliation to happen in a week.
Now I don’t have the business experience that Donald Trump has but even I know that it takes more than a day to finalize a deal between two nations and commit it to paper. How many days do you think it takes to do so with 75 or 80 nations. Say 90 days?
The left and the media starting spinning this as Trump caving. When it was obvious that he hadn’t and even worse the stock market soared beyond all it had lost and then some suddenly it was insider trading.
I expect this from the left media and if you don’t expect from the people who lied to you about Biden’s condition for four years you’re a fool.
But if you’re a member of the GOP who has seen the last two and a half months of almost continual success did you really have any business freaking out during this weekend or beyond?
The reaction of conservatives reminds me of the twelve tribe of Israel during the Exodus from Egypt.
Over and over again after they had been delivered from danger they would start their cry: “We’re there no graves in Egypt that you led us out to get slain or starved, or die of thirst etc etc etc.”
When I hear conservatives whine about Trump not being dignified enough, or not winning fast enough, or not continuing an uninterrupted winning streak they sound like those who had seen miracles over and over again and now act if they are entitled to them.
Now there are many who make their living Hitting Trump and getting clicks from it and those folks are going to play the panic for all it’s worth.
But if you’re not one of them, please don’t become one of those “We’re there no graves in Egypt” Republicans?
Keep your head and let the people who spend their lives doing and building things do what they do best.
Remember it’s like the Tom Brady years here in New England. Just because Brady made it look easy to get to the Superbowl year after year didn’t mean it was. He’s just good.
Just because Trump has made it look easy doesn’t mean it is.
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