Only Trump
This post is repetition, but it needs to be repeated.
I wish that we could have had a president with the demeanor of Mitt Romney, but who, like Trump, put America first and wasn’t a cuck to the America-hating fakestream media.
But Mitt Romney wasn’t running in 2016. Jeb Bush was running, and Jeb Bush would have been a total cuck to the fakestream media and the deep-state establishment. And Jeb Bush would never have become president because he never would have won over the votes of prole whites in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Trump tried to improve relations with Russia, for the benefit of world peace, in the face of the fakestream media going all-out to sabotage his foreign policy. He did what every other American president has done, meet with his Russian counterpart, but where Obama got praise and a Nobel Peace Prize, Trump gets only hatred from the fakestream media.
If there is a Trump doctrine, it is that we have to accept foreign countries the way they are, and not turn them into copies of Western democracies. Russia has never had a democratic government like the United States, but the Trump doctrine is that we can still be friends instead of trying to sabotage their government for not being exactly like America or Germany. And realistically, the Chinese are much worse than Russia when it comes to freedom, and a much bigger threat to the world with a much larger population and a much larger economy.
Sure, an America-first Mitt Romney (who doesn’t exist) would have done a much better press conference.
Lion of the Blogosphere 
Lion! This post was your finest hour. Everything is quotable but these most of all:
“If there is a Trump doctrine, it is that we have to accept foreign countries the way they are, and not turn them into copies of Western democracies.”
A-men.
“Russia has never had a democratic government like the United States, but the Trump doctrine is that we can still be friends instead of trying to sabotage their government for not being exactly like America or Germany. ”
Add to that, Turkey is now a full-on Islamo-fascist-Nazi dictatorship, they kill journalists, they do everything Russia does, and worse, and they hate Israel. But they are a NATO ally, because of some crazy legacy alliance building, which made sense at the time, but now it’s insane. Sometimes I think the US is like the jilted Miss Havisham still wearing her wedding dress.
gothamette
July 18, 2018 at 10:11 AM
Romney is so boring. This is way more fun and thus better.
Andrew E.
July 18, 2018 at 10:31 AM
Trump is definitely more fun, but hypothetical Romney-style Trump would be more popular and effective. At this juncture, that’s more important than “fun.” Only problem is Romney-style Trump doesn’t exist, so Trump’s our next best option.
snorlaxwp
July 18, 2018 at 12:39 PM
Trump is and will end up being a far, far more effective president (and for the correct reasons) than Romney could ever hope or dream of being.
Andrew E.
July 18, 2018 at 1:32 PM
But a Romney-style Trump would be far more effective than Trump.
Lion of the Blogosphere
July 18, 2018 at 1:40 PM
The problem is that Romney with Trump’s policies wouldn’t have appealed to the blue collar scum that we need. Only Trump’s grotesque, prole personality could do that.
Otis the Sweaty
July 18, 2018 at 2:11 PM
“The problem is that Romney with Trump’s policies wouldn’t have appealed to the blue collar scum that we need. Only Trump’s grotesque, prole personality could do that.”
This is possibly true. There was something about Romney that was definitely off-putting to proles, but I blame the fakestream media for that.
Lion of the Blogosphere
July 18, 2018 at 4:36 PM
“There was something about Romney that was definitely off-putting to proles, but I blame the fakestream media for that.”
I distinctly remember some left wing rag criticizing Romney’s demeanor as being too “imperial” for Republican voters. The real issue is that the stooge nominees the Republican establishment trots out every election year lack any sort of defining personality, and democracy is a personality contest, and that goes for both parties. Just look at the lineup in the last election. Everyone except for Trump was singularly unlikeable.
The left criticises Trump as being a clown. He’s more of a jokester / prankster, but regardless, a clown is exactly what democracy deserves because democracy is a clown system of governance.
Anon
July 18, 2018 at 7:01 PM
Yeah, I get it, I would prefer an articulate Presidential acting Romney type….with Trump’s positions, strength, and ability to fight back. But as you mention, he doesn’t exist, and may never exist. We have to go to war with the Trump we have.
Mike Street Station
July 19, 2018 at 6:05 AM
You can’t fight back against the media without looking like a loose canon. It’s not that such a candidate doesn’t exist (plenty do), it’s that what you are advocating for is physically impossible.
It’s literally a paradox of physics not unlike what you get with quantum uncertainty.
Paul Ryan's Sickly Old Lap Dog
July 20, 2018 at 4:12 PM
Romney is a fraud. Anyone who can believe in the book of Mormon is bona fide nuts. Hate, hate, hate Romney.
Yakov
July 18, 2018 at 1:10 PM
Romney has a large, beautiful, well-adjusted family, including 20+ grandchildren. Still married to his first wife. This would almost certainly not be true if he had rejected the religion of his birth. Some religious girls are crazy, but almost all the best women are religious and want you to be religious.
Does Romney believe that book in his heart of hearts? Who knows. If he has doubts, he was smart enough to set them aside in order to enjoy a better life.
Wency
July 19, 2018 at 8:38 AM
Right, women are more religious because most women are -SF- and hardly any are -NT- (on the MBTI).
Lion of the Blogosphere
July 19, 2018 at 9:08 AM
Funny enough, I just compared with the devout Christian girl I’m dating, and she’s ISFJ to my INTJ.
Your woman is going to have a religion. If it’s not the religion her parents brought her up with, then it’s going to be the religion television brought her up with. Pick your poison.
Wency
July 19, 2018 at 10:16 AM
Yes, Romney has a beautiful family.
Yakov
July 19, 2018 at 12:33 PM
Everyone has their flaws.
Clay
July 18, 2018 at 10:34 AM
Don’t let the perfect become the enemy of the good.
Oswald Spengler
July 18, 2018 at 10:47 AM
And Jeb Bush would never have become president because he never would have won over the votes of prole whites in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
I’m no fan of Jeb Bush, but even if you’re right he still could have won the presidency with other states.
Magnavox
July 18, 2018 at 10:51 AM
Not saying he would have won just that your argument doesn’t make sense because even if it’s true it still doesn’t establish that he had no path to the presidency.
Magnavox
July 18, 2018 at 11:01 AM
Jeb would have to have won Virginia, which never would have happened.
Lion of the Blogosphere
July 18, 2018 at 12:20 PM
People said it was impossible for Trump to win.
Magnavox
July 18, 2018 at 1:20 PM
Right, everyone overestimated Bush and underestimated Trump. And you are still overestimating Bush. He never would have won Virginia.
Lion of the Blogosphere
July 18, 2018 at 1:30 PM
why are we talking about Jeb? The media loved him but he never had a chance, even if Trump was not in the race.
If not Trump, the nominee would probably have been Scott Walker.
Otis the Sweaty
July 18, 2018 at 2:12 PM
“If not Trump, the nominee would probably have been Scott Walker.”
It would not have been Scott Walker. He was the T-Paw of 2016.
Lion of the Blogosphere
July 18, 2018 at 4:36 PM
Trump is a traitor. He puts America last: cozying up to our enemies and weakening our alliances. (Thanks to his trade war he’ll weaken our economy as well.) I don’t think he betrayed his country (just) for the money, but maybe he was blackmailed into it.
Anthony
July 18, 2018 at 11:17 AM
LOL @ this European cuck. Go back to where you belong Eurotrash.
redarmyvodka
July 18, 2018 at 12:24 PM
Russia isn’t our enemy. That’s what Obama himself told Mitt Romney during the debate in 2012!!! The cold war ended 25 yeas ago. The 1980s is calling and they want their foreign policy back!! HELLO!!!!!!!
An “alliance” that includes Turkey, which is really more of our enemy than Russia is, and where none of the members want to spend much money on actual military defense, that’s an alliance that needs the kind of tough love that Trump is good at.
Lion of the Blogosphere
July 18, 2018 at 12:29 PM
The main thing we need to do is quietly remove all our nuclear weapons from Turkey. They were put there to deter the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union no longer exists, and the weapons have very little chance of influencing the behavior of any former Soviet states.
The weapons do however have a real chance of being ‘nationalized’ by an Islamist government, and then being used against the United States or U.S. allies. Modern nuclear weapons use a sphere of radioactive material surrounded by an explosive lens made up of shaped charges which must be simultaneously detonated. The method for detonating those charges is to run a large amount of electric current through all of them at once – exactly the same method used to detonate roadside bombs in Iraq.
So if you mechanically remove all the safeguards from a warhead, you could use the triggering device from a typical IED (Improvised Explosive Device) to set off the ‘physics package’ of the warhead. You don’t need super smart scientists to do this. I doubt that the safeguards on the best warhead are so good that a group of a competent engineers and terrorist IED makers couldn’t remove the old trigger, and put a new one in.
You should write about that.
MoreSigmasThanYou
July 18, 2018 at 1:47 PM
“An “alliance” that includes Turkey, which is really more of our enemy than Russia is”
Who said that first?
gothamette
July 18, 2018 at 1:55 PM
You did?
Lion of the Blogosphere
July 18, 2018 at 4:34 PM
Yes!
gothamette
July 18, 2018 at 6:45 PM
@Gothamette Yes, Erdogan, the leader of Turkey is becoming a megalomaniac. He’s had an enormous palace built for him.
He has people dressing up in old Ottoman costumes and stuff like that. That’s on top of being an Islamic fundamentalist, including the part about spreading Islam all over the world.
One thing strikes me about the anti-Semites. They’re so fixated on hating J, that they take the (mostly) Muslim Palestinian side. They support Hamas, who are essentially terrorists. They don’t see this other enemy staring them in the face.
Frau Katze
July 19, 2018 at 10:33 PM
The United States only has one external enemy: Mexico. Trump is the first president to defend against the Mexican enemy while also counter attacking our much more dangerous internal enemies.
Otis the Sweaty
July 18, 2018 at 2:14 PM
Yes I agree. The line is pretty blurry between (1) acting in a socially appropriate manner; and (2) being a cuck. In fact, the one of the Left’s main strategies is to use social norms to silence people who would otherwise express dissenting views; to use social norms to shame people into giving up their freedom.
fortaleza84
July 18, 2018 at 11:30 AM
Yes, I’d like to see Trump appoint John Rocker to something, like sportswriting czar.
Marty
July 18, 2018 at 1:21 PM
Funny you should say that – a player is now being Rockered for having quoted rap lyrics in his tweets when he was a 17 year old.
gothamette
July 18, 2018 at 6:46 PM
Bush 43 stupidly said he looked into Putin’s eyes and could see his soul. WTF? But Bush got only minor blowback, because he’s a member of the insiders’ club.
Other politicians and presidents have done much worse than Trump. Ted Kennedy actually sent a letter to Yuri Andropov asking for help to defeat Reagan in 1984, offering to escort Andropov on a PR tour of the USA. I am sure the CIA knew about this at the time, but they didn’t out Kennedy, because he was, well, Ted Kennedy. It took the public disclosure of the Venona files after the breakup of the USSR for this to come out. And even then, it got almost no notice in the media.
FDR’s administration was riddled with communists, but hey, no problem. Obama was caught on a hot mic openly colluding with Medvedev. Again, no problem. But Trump stumbles clumsily through a press conference, and he’s a traitor.
The media and the DC establishment think they’ve got him this time, this will be what finally drives him out of office. We’ll see. My guess is that we’ll begin hearing the left wing commentariat talking about some truly nutty stuff, like banana republic style removal of Trump from office without due process, or who knows what.
Sgt. Joe Friday
July 18, 2018 at 11:35 AM
The Trump Putin meeting was Trump’s finest hour. I think you guys get way too distracted by what the media says. They shriek irrelevantly under every president but especially during Republican ones. It never changed policy or prevented Republicans from winning in the past because money talks and the DC/Manhattan chattering classes don’t represent the majority.
redarmyvodka
July 18, 2018 at 12:29 PM
John Brennan, Obama’s CIA Director, voted for Gus Hall, the Communist candidate for president, in 1976.
Oswald Spengler
July 18, 2018 at 12:38 PM
Two important things occurring in Washington, DC this year: next year’s budget and the 2018 mid-term elections. The Democrats need Trump to be politically hated to win the election, and the Republican establishment needs the Russian military threat to get the bloated budget they want. The fakestream media and the Muller probe are the tools to accomplish the disparate objectives. Long term immigration is another disparate example where the Republican establishment wants cheap workers and the Democrats wants voters. The future looks dismal.
cesqy
July 18, 2018 at 11:37 AM
Trump crushed the left, right, center, and mainstream media in 2015/2016. The reforms have only just begun and we have a long way to go. America has been saved but the patient is still on life support and in critical care. The congressional elections will be the most important in history. We must get more MAGA types elected but this is a permanent struggle. Trump’s victory/presidency was a major turning point and victory but that’s all.
redarmyvodka
July 18, 2018 at 12:34 PM
I think Trump has the individual character to take the “swamp waterboarding”, but his family and business can’t.
cesqy
July 18, 2018 at 1:50 PM
The Democrats want cheap workers too, to serve them. Do you think they’re poor like their constituents? Why is filthy rich Pelosi still drawing a salary as a “public servant” with yearly increases not justified by inflation? She and other wealthy “servants” should follow the example of Trump.
me
July 18, 2018 at 1:07 PM
Poor politicians are rarer than hen’s teeth.
cesqy
July 18, 2018 at 2:09 PM
This us why a military dictatorship with summary execution of traitors is the only solution for this poor country.
Yakov
July 18, 2018 at 1:15 PM
There are a surprising number of wealthy elitists and political radicals engaged in treasonous activity. Summary executions by the military would stop that. It would also pose no risk the overwhelming majority of Americans. Because most Americans don’t do anything even remotely disloyal. Strongly support summary executions when done by military tribunal.
destructure
July 18, 2018 at 2:54 PM
I didn’t think Trump Derangement Syndrome could get worse, but the MSM have gone completely batshit crazy this time. They are saying it is worse than Pearl Harbor, Bay of Pigs, and 9/11.
playalongmusic
July 18, 2018 at 1:10 PM
MEH 0910
July 18, 2018 at 2:51 PM
The weaponized media started out calling him worse than hitler. But the more they cry wolf the less people believe it and the more immune he becomes to their criticism. It’s one of the reasons he won and his approval rating is so high in spite of overwhelmingly negative coverage. So the voters are kind of yawning at this point. I suspect many in the left are starting to get burned out on it as well.
destructure
July 18, 2018 at 3:01 PM
One of these days they’re gonna say something that really hurts our feelings.
gothamette
July 18, 2018 at 6:49 PM
Not a bad analysis, but Trump hatred isn’t about foreign policy. Trump hatred is about Whitey potentially rolling back the black corruption gravy train. Your phrase “tough love” perfectly captures what lefties fear about a Trump era, except it’s all about tough love on the domestic scene, i.e. towards blacks and trannys.
Vipltd
July 18, 2018 at 1:17 PM
Where is Otis to inform us how ResetEra is losing its collective mind??!
DdR
July 18, 2018 at 1:29 PM
ResetEra isn’t really melting down. They just think that Trump is getting desperate because Mueller is closing in.
Otis the Sweaty
July 18, 2018 at 2:19 PM
Russia is vastly hated because they refuse to conduct a foreign policy in line with globalists, along with a domestic policy in line with the modern West. Putin has been in power since 1999, but slowly asserted himself, likely because he was trying to get the domestic situation in Russia in order, given the chaos they were enduring. Remember, he was fighting the war in Chechnya as soon as he came to power so as to restore national pride (started by a possible false flag bombing of apartment blocks in Moscow).
The hatred began in 2008 when Russia invaded Georgia as retaliation for Georgia trying to reclaim provinces that are pro-Russia. Georgia probably thought America would step in and help them. John McCain as always was already advocating war with Russia despite the fact that Georgia was the aggressor. Things ramped up with the Crimean invasion (done as retaliation for our coup in overthrowing a pro-Russian PM in Ukraine) followed by the civil war in Ukraine.
The real reason though why I think Russia is hated is because their men are unapologetic in their masculinity and the women in their femininity. They have also refused to drink the PC Kool-Aid which is infecting the West. Plus, they see gay rights as undermining society so have banned displays of homosexuality. Russia traditionally has seen themselves as apart from the West and the fact that the West is in irreversible decline due to political correctness validates that position in their eyes. Russia is an intensely patriotic nation and will do anything to preserve their sense of national pride.
Red pill aspie
July 18, 2018 at 1:50 PM
Western democracy is the cause of all of the west’s problems though. Its values are what lead to mass immigration, feminism, SJWism, etc.
Authoritarian cultures are the cure and should be supported everywhere as a counterweight. This thing where the alt-right loves white authoritarian countries while denouncing non-white authoritarian countries as evil is incredibly stupid and will lead to ideological defeat on a global scale. As a general rule nationalist societies should support one another, even if you don’t like each other.
Jason Liu
July 18, 2018 at 2:28 PM
Steve Sailer frequently extols Lee Kwan Yu-style authoritarianism.
Marty
July 18, 2018 at 5:05 PM
It has some aspects that make good sense. Singapore was diverse before it was cool. This lines up with my theory that diversity leads to authoritarian leaders.
Let’s hope our countries will leaders as effective as Lee Kwan Yew. I don’t see any at the moment.
Frau Katze
July 18, 2018 at 10:57 PM
Singapore trashed its fertility with pointlessly extended education so it would leave room for Chinese immigrants to replace the natives and bring their wealth with them. This isn’t a national model.
Anonymous Fake
July 19, 2018 at 11:47 PM
Decline in the West is caused by SCALE, instituting authoritarian government to preserve scale is folly. It’s the last ditch effort of a failing empire.
Asia is succeeding because of debt fueled domestic building booms (unsustainable ghost cities) and export market growth (which we are beginning to address/crush). They also benefit massively from the global finance boom which has about ten years left because interest rates have reached floor value.
Paul Ryan's Sickly Old Lap Dog
July 20, 2018 at 4:28 PM
Fertility is a function of how well a nation is performing, not the a priori goal. Nations that aren’t monstrously scaled and anonymized with cohesive national cultures tend to have good fertility, but there aren’t any nations left like that today to compare to.
Paul Ryan's Sickly Old Lap Dog
July 20, 2018 at 4:31 PM
Pretty clueless post. Trump is successful specifically to the degree that he is un-Romney-like. Romney appears erudite but is a charisma vacuum and has a skull full of hot air, much like Ted Cruz and Obama.
Anon
July 18, 2018 at 3:34 PM
A Trump type candidate with Romney’s demeanor is a misnomer, it’d be like a vegan restaurant serving veal.
Roli
July 18, 2018 at 4:10 PM
Candidate Romney folded like a chair when contradicted by Candy Crawley in the 3rd debate with Obama. We need candidates who will stand up to the press.
jz
July 18, 2018 at 4:32 PM
“If there is a Trump doctrine, it is that we have to accept foreign countries the way they are, and not turn them into copies of Western democracies.”
Yes. There doesn’t seem to be much in the of leadership out there, for either Republicans or Dems. Or Canadians, currently suffering under the incredibly stupid Justin Trudeau.
Even the UK is stuck with a Tory leader (Teresa May) who is supposed to be carrying out Brexit, but she doesn’t approve of it and is watering it down as much as possible. Labour? They’ve gone full crazy left. (Plus Corbyn is anti-Semetic so much that even his Jewish fans are complaining.)
Sad situation. The elites suffer Trump Derangement Syndrome but who do they propose as an alternative?
Frau Katze
July 18, 2018 at 10:53 PM
MEH 0910
July 19, 2018 at 1:00 PM