{"id":5044,"date":"2016-08-04T08:54:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T14:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=5044"},"modified":"2016-08-04T08:54:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T14:54:20","slug":"dear-mr-trump-they-wont-let-you-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2016\/08\/dear-mr-trump-they-wont-let-you-win.html","title":{"rendered":"Dear Mr. Trump: they won&#8217;t let you win"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Dear Mr. Trump*<\/p>\n<p>After many years of success in the real estate business, you have stepped up to lead the nation out of its current economic woes. \u00a0You\u2019ve recognized that illegal immigrants are a huge problem \u2014 they drain our finances and have committed crimes against American citizens, and the federal government under Barack Obama won\u2019t solve the problem. \u00a0Trade with China is killing American workers. \u00a0And the Obama\/Clinton foreign policy has worsened, rather than reduced, our terrorism risk, and the attacks in San Bernardino and Orlando show that we need to be more cautious about who we let into the country, rather than bringing in refugees in greater numbers and more quickly than before.<\/p>\n<p>You can save us.<\/p>\n<p>But the media won\u2019t let you. \u00a0Every little thing you say, they misconstrue, and talk about endlessly as a sign of, supposedly, your racism, your misogyny, your mistreatment of others, your lack of understanding of the world. \u00a0But what Clinton says, the lies she tells, her corruption and incompetence, and that of the Obama administration, they ignore \u2014 or find ways to pin on you. \u00a0Look at the DNC e-mails revealing that the supposedly-neutral party actively schemed to support Hillary \u2014 instead of reporting on these, they claimed instead that Putin had orchestrated their release to support you because you would betray us to the Russians. \u00a0And when it was revealed that Obama secretly sent $400 million in cash to Iran as hostage ransom, the media was more interested in your off-the-cuff remarks about a baby.<\/p>\n<p>And the Republican establishment won\u2019t let you. \u00a0Sure, they\u2019ve made the endorsements they need to make, but in their heart, they still hate the outcome and don\u2019t really care whether you win the race. \u00a0They still can\u2019t accept that you are the choice of the people, and the only one who cares about the American people. \u00a0All the others just wanted the presidency for their own political gain, and to make millions afterwards like the Clintons did, and can\u2019t accept that you\u2019re doing this for a more noble cause.<\/p>\n<p>But everyone is aligned to stop you. \u00a0The media is determined to do everything in their power to prevent you from reaching the American people with your message, and they are determined to make you and your supporters look bad. \u00a0The Establishment cares more about staying in power than doing right by the American people. \u00a0And you reach so many supporters through Facebook and Twitter, but each of these is controlled by men who are likewise out to get you. \u00a0Twitter deactivated Milo Yiannopoulos\u2019s account. \u00a0They could delete yours and it\u2019d be perfectly legal.<\/p>\n<p>Which means that \u2014 you can read the polls just as well as the rest of us, and probably have your own polling \u2014 you\u2019re headed for a loss, and a loss that\u2019ll be written in the history books as devastating, as proof that Trump was the most incompetent and undeserving nominee we\u2019ve seen since the 19th century.<\/p>\n<p>What can you do? \u00a0In the same way as you\u2019ve used the bankruptcy code strategically, you need to be strategic here, too. \u00a0Engineer a switch, say, by <strong>moving Mike Pence to the top of the ticket<\/strong>. \u00a0Announce this at a rally, and take the media and the Republican Establishment by surprise \u2014 they\u2019d probably prefer Paul Ryan if you simply stepped down, but you can control this if you make the announcement first. \u00a0Use your rallies to support Pence. \u00a0Get out the message that Pence will work to implement your agenda, but you\u2019re doing this because you, Donald Trump, understand that the cause is greater than any one man, and that your goal is to help the American people, not, like Hillary Clinton, singlemindedly to have the title of President. \u00a0You\u2019ll prove to everyone what you\u2019ve said all along, and go down in the history books.<\/p>\n<p>(* Is Trump going to read this? \u00a0What, do you think I\u2019m delusional? \u00a0Would such words, even if spoken by a supporter, change his mind? \u00a0Look, at this point, the situation is dreadful. \u00a0What else is there to do?)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mr. Trump* After many years of success in the real estate business, you have stepped up to lead the nation out of its current economic woes. \u00a0You\u2019ve recognized that illegal immigrants are a huge problem \u2014 they drain our finances and have committed crimes against American citizens, and the federal government under Barack Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":4831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[116,325],"class_list":["post-5044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-2016-election","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin 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