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To: Sam who wrote (402170)	3/10/2019 12:42:46 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 543657

>> Trump has earned this high level of support because he has delivered on the items of supreme importance to almost every Republican faction. This is very true! What got me banned on the Environmentalist thread was point this very thing out - that Trump is delivering for the other side what Obama never did for his side. The funny thing is that Trump doesn't have to work very hard at delivering on this. He simply appoints people from different factions to head various interests and more or less coordinates among them, always keeping an eye on his popularity with his base. That last point is very important. In my younger and more idealistic days, I believed in ideological action - I considered that being principled - which it is. But I have come to realize that in a complicated multipolar country, it is not possible to succeed as an ideologue and it is often dangerous to (everyone and everything) to be so. The best, and possibly most honorable, thing to do is to satisfy the wants of the greatest number of your voters. This is what Trump does. This is also what AOC and the crop of Dems do. I have no idea what the use of everyone else is.