Despite Fake News of the Nation’s Fascistic Left Press, President Trump Remains a Five Star President

President Trump’s Unorthodox Campaign Strategy Is Paying Off

by Michael Glassner   at realclearpolitics:

About the time that he was drafting his first inaugural address, President-elect Donald Trump, as he characteristically does, made a series of decisions at odds with all conventional political logic. 

Twenty-seven months later, as we review the most recent Federal Election Commission reports filed by the reelection campaign, I can report that it all paid off — big league.

Having served Trump for President since July 2015, this is my sixth presidential campaign, going back to Bob Dole’s 1988 bid. Conventional wisdom says that the day after you win a presidential election, you fire everybody except the lawyers and the accountants, put the campaign apparatus in hibernation, pay down your debts slowly, and start to rebuild the machine from scratch after the midterm elections.

Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump had absolutely no interest in the conventional approach followed by all establishment politicians, as this president has always been his own best strategist.

So, as he’s done countless times since coming down the Trump Tower escalator on June 16, 2015, Donald Trump turned the presidential campaign playbook on its head. Rather than draw down his campaign efforts, he kept the most important elements that helped deliver his 2016 victory — such as digital marketing, media productions, and, of course, the team that fills arenas for his signature rallies around the country — churning at full speed.

Conventional wisdom also dictates keeping the national party committees and the presidential campaign itself largely separate, especially at the state level where local party organizations and state campaign offices traditionally operate in tandem.

By contrast, and again at Donald Trump’s own initiative, we’ve effectively integrated our national and state campaigns with the RNC and the state parties. This allows us to eliminate redundancies and unify messaging in a way we could only dream of in 2016 and, crucially, to launch an unprecedented joint fundraising effort ahead of what is likely to be the most expensive presidential campaign in American history.

Any doubts about the merit of these strategies seem to have melted away with the first quarter 2019 FEC reporting. Donald J. Trump for President Inc. and the Republican National Committee raised a combined $76.1 million in the first three months of this year. The two entities now have over $80 million in combined cash on hand, 21 times the amount Barack Obama and the DNC had mustered up by the same time in 2011.

This massive war chest gives the president a significant advantage over the crowded field of Democratic challengers, who can’t rely on their own party’s fundraising apparatus in nearly the same way. Worse yet for this field of candidates, the DNC is still more than $6 million in debt, with a mere $9.3 million cash on hand.

Equally important is the distribution of the donations the Trump campaign has received so far, 98.79 percent of which have come from donors contributing $200 or less. That is a direct reflection of the historic grassroots support for President Trump.

The president’s success at cultivating a broad base of small donors is advantageous for more than just the sake of appearances. Campaigns that rely on a small set of prolific major donors are notoriously vulnerable, because once they give the maximum amount allowed in a given election cycle, those large donors cannot donate any further. They can’t sustain a campaign in the later stages, and they are difficult or impossible to replace with new deep-pocketed supporters.

A broad base of small donors, on the other hand, can continue to make small contributions of $50 or $100 throughout the campaign, and most of those donors never hit FEC limits.

The enthusiasm of the president’s base isn’t letting up, either, especially not in the wake of the Mueller Report’s release. The president’s total exoneration from the three-year “Russia collusion” hoax spurred over $1 million in donations to the Trump campaign in just the first two days after the report’s release.

President Trump took a calculated gamble with his unorthodox reelection strategy, and the bet is paying off — huge! 

Michael Glassner is chief operating officer of Donald J. Trump for President Inc.

 

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/25/_president_trumps_unorthodox_campaign_strategy_is_paying_off_140160.html

Has Bernie Sanders Ever Overcome His Long Time Devotion to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?

Watching Bernie at the Fox News Town Hall: Memories of the Soviet Union

BY ROGER L. SIMON APRIL 15, 2019

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Bernard Sanders, mayor of Burlington, Vt., told students at the University of Connecticut’s West Hartford campus that his tenure as a Socialist mayor is evidence people are willing to accept radical change, April 12, 1983. (AP Photo/Bob Child)

Strange as it may seem, watching Bernie Sanders on the Fox News town hall Monday night brought back memories of the Soviet Union for me. I went there for the first time in 1987, one year before Sanders went to the communist country. I was on a cultural exchange arranged for crime writers; Bernie was there to get married.

Although I was more or less still on the left, I found what I saw horrifying. Bernie took off his shirt and sang ”This Land Is Your Land.”

In other words, although we were in the USSR at basically the same point, we apparently visited different countries. I can remember spending much of my time talking to Soviet writers, listening to their tales of oppression, and their desperate desire to leave the country for freedom in America. In several cases, they asked my help to get out, which I had no way of giving them. As they made their pleas, my schoolboy Marxism drained out of me.

I also noticed the sparse prison-like conditions as we moved across the country from Leningrad to the Crimea, how we were followed everywhere, how the stores were empty, how everyone seemed depressed or drunk or both. Well, almost everyone. Some high party officials seemed to be living well. Paradoxically, if you were looking for income inequality, nothing beat the USSR.

In all, the Soviet Union was a vast jail and only an extreme true believer of the most blinded sort could have seen it otherwise. (Remember, this was the late eighties—long after Stalin, the Gulag, the show trials, the refuseniks, everything—not 1919 when Lincoln Steffens and others went starry-eyed to see the “future.”)

So I was thinking about that when I watched Bernie in that clumsily-handled Fox News town hall Monday. Here was a man who went to the Soviet Union in 1988 and thought it was a great place. Wow. I also felt the same way when I watched Sanders speak live in Des Moines during the previous election cycle.

The tragedy of all this is that he is such a true believer he seduces our youth with his babble, inculcating them with socialism that has been an economic disaster everywhere—when it wasn’t a mass murder machine. But what do the kids know of Venezuela, Cambodia, Cuba, etc., given what they are taught in school? (Bernie, of course, loved Chavez and excused Castro. Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum didn’t ask him about that and a fair number of other obvious things. Why? Maybe because they wanted to make him feel welcome on Fox. There’s no business like cable news business.)

Because he is such a true believer in the classic Eric Hoffer sense, Sanders can be an effective campaigner. He never shows, probably never even experiences, doubt, even when the facts are radically against him. The ends justify the means, don’t you know? It’s mean to say this, but by repeating this long-discredited socialist cant until he is blue in the face, Bernie Sanders is a kind of child abuser, injecting his meretricious swill into our all-too-gullible youth who have nowhere near the education to analyze it. We saw that in action on Monday night.

If he becomes the Democratic nominee, which, even at this early date, doesn’t seem unlikely, Trump will have his hands full contradicting Bernie’s fervor. Like a good neo-Stalinist, he will stop at nothing for his “ideals.” The Fox town hall should be a good training ground for Trump. He should pay close attention to it, keep it close by as a training video.

Roger L. Simon—co-founder and CEO emeritus of PJ Media—is an award-winning novelist and an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter.

 

https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/bernie-on-fox-memories-of-the-soviet-union/

Note from Glenn H. Ray:    Socialist, Soviet Russian loving  Bernie has been   a lover of Socialism for many decades.     He celebrated his marriage and demonstrated his affection for the Soviet system  by exposing his flabby  naked Soviet  chest in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during his honeymoon there in 1988.

I began my collegiate studies of Stalinist Russian in 1952.  Ray is not a Russian name. Being a child of the Depression and World War II, I thought learning the language of the USSR, our America’s greatest enemy, might become useful in my future.

What a fortunate choice!!   I became quite a fluent speaker of Russian minoring in it with my first degree in 1956.  I began teaching it at University of Minnesota High school in 1960, continued my studies, and got a graduate degree in Soviet Studies whereupon all of the classes, exams, etc., all were given in the Russian language only!!

I received a national US grant to expand my Russian speaking ability in the summer of 1966 which included travels throughout a number  European cities of the fascistic Communist USSR police state.   (It needed money to keep up  its nuclear weapons industry.)    The nation was still a Communist police  state prison and so, poverty stricken in it fascist  control over the nation and its people.

I wish every American, especially our fascistic Democrats these days, would have experienced my month in the good old criminal USSR where I  was able to buy my baggy Russian clothes and mix in and meet and speak freely in the privacy of the fascist  adjusted but suffering public!  What wonderful folks in such a horrible prison state, that Socialist state sleazy Bernie Sanders will be selling soon.

I returned in 1990 as an interpreter invited by  a group of American Protestants from the Anoka area of our Minnesota Twin Cities  who had raised a  remarkable amount of money in their Christian effort to donate to  hospitals in Kiev, where so many of the countless victims of the horrible Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April, 1986 were still struggling to survive.

The fascist USSR was then in terrible economic and cultural trouble, and luckily  not as brutal in its daily police state control over its people as it was in 1966.

There is no doubt in my mind that Vermont’s arrogant loud mouth, Democrat Party Socialist Bernie Sanders IS a fascist Socialist kind if given the power to maneuver.

It is a feminized fascist  world we Americans are  now facing in AD2019.  These female human animals have no interest in freedoms in life.   They are, after all, already communists.  THEY WANT TO BE TAKEN CARE OF BY THE STATE.   THEY DON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT HUMAN FREEDOMS.  SO MANY DON’T EVEN BOTHER TO BE A MOTHER!