Lost time at the Photo Op for Fat Boys

This summit -or photo op for Fat Boys- is a waste if we are going to simply expect Trump to go in and sit down and ‘charm’ the delegation or to use the old Harold Hill “Think Method” to try and stun them with our brilliance. Trump is a buffoon and a madman with a big stick, thanks to the 38%. The question now is how far will he go and how far will we let him go?

The one thing the GOP is good at is fake outrage. And they would have had plenty of ingredients to stir them up as we keep speculating ‘what if” this was OBAMA doing these things. What if....Obama had trashed our allies!? What if....Obama had dismissed the press as fake news and an ongoing FBI investigation plus Special counsel looking into his campaign and possible obstruction of justice as a ‘witch hunt?’ What if...Obama had – and the list goes on. The answer is he wouldn’t be able to get away with it, and the next question is where is the outrage? Where are the people storming the Bastille? Why don’t the Democrats form a “Truth Squad” and have press conferences DAILY to highlight their outrage. Why does the GOP simply stand by and smile like old-fashioned Southern Debutantes as Trump simply squashes any vestige of an agenda?

The list goes on. The GOP would have been better at this. Lee Atwater and Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and Donald Trump would know how to attack an opponent. They don’t always allow truth to stand in the way of the message. They understood the medium becomes the message. And the message is a simple one. Us against them and make America great. God Bless America and full steam ahead. Globalization is bad and America alone is good. I alone can fix it and no one can stop me. These are not subtle messages and they aren’t even well thought out. But as Bill Clinton once said, “Strong and wrong beat weak and right every time.”

We don’t need to know how Trump is doing it. We don’t have any time left to sit and wax philosophical as to what might have been.We need to counter the argument he is making and the other side-be it Democrat or Republican or Independent or simply American- needs to come up with a rapid response NOW. Trump light or MeToo, we need to be in the mix. And there isn’t a moment to lose. Benjamin Franklin was right: “Lost time is never found again.”

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