{"id":6868,"date":"2016-05-04T20:06:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T01:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/?p=6868"},"modified":"2016-05-04T20:28:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T01:28:43","slug":"the-trump-revolution-where-he-is-where-he-needs-to-be-second-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/?p=6868","title":{"rendered":"The Trump Revolution: where he is; where he needs to be, second update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third in a series of articles on the Trump revolution. In the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/?p=6847\" target=\"_blank\">first article <\/a><\/strong>we established that Trump was a revolutionary, that the American political process institutionalized the processes of revolution, and that Trump was headed down the revolutionary path.<\/p>\n<p>In the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/?p=6857\" target=\"_blank\">second article<\/a><\/strong> we set down the following requirements for a successful revolution:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Become <strong>King of the Hill<\/strong>, the only candidate still standing<\/li>\n<li>Master the <strong>Game of Thrones<\/strong>, compel all foes to bend a knee<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Control the <strong>Will of the Convention<\/strong>, harness the RNC or become harnessed to achieve unity<\/li>\n<li><strong>Run to the Center<\/strong> to cause the election opponent to lose<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, where are we?<\/p>\n<p><strong>King of the Hill<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is now May 4, 2016, and both Cruz and Kasich have suspended their campaigns leaving Trump as the de facto <strong>King of the Hill<\/strong>, the only candidate still standing. Difficult tasks are still ahead. The <strong>Game of Thrones<\/strong> begins in earnest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Game of Thrones<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Previously, Christie and Carson quickly bent a knee to support Trump. Today, Jindal bent a qualified knee.\u00a0 His position is that, given a binary choice between Trump and Clinton, he chooses Trump.\u00a0 Jindal has set the stage for at least a perfunctory bending of the knee by all former Trump foes.<\/p>\n<p>Those who do not bend a knee are consigned to oblivion in this election cycle.\u00a0 At a minimum, Trump will simply ignore those who do not make at least the Jindal pledge.\u00a0 Therefore, Trump will approach the convention with at least the illusion that he has unified the opposition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Will of the Convention<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bending of knees aside, the real battle of wills ahead is that between the Trump vision and the RNC vision of the future.\u00a0 As that battle looms the RNC would do well to remember from whence came Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has consistently played all sides against the middle. He will continue to do so. Trump is a republican of convenience. As a revolutionary he had two paths to the general election. He could have entered the primary battle as either a democrat or a republican. He chose the clearly weaker path.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s not to like about a field of battle divided into fiefdoms by 16 other contenders, as opposed to a field of battle dominated by a single individual?<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, that other field of battle brought forth its own Trump doppelganger, in the person of Sanders. Both Trump and Sanders are revolutionaries. Both share a common vision, only one has a path to victory, at least so far. The other battle has not yet been decided.<\/p>\n<p>Let the conventions begin to set the stage for the general election.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Running To The Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the fundamental factor. Politicians run as close to the center as they can without significantly alienating their base.\u00a0 For revolutionaries there is no center.\u00a0 Agendas of base, left-right, liberal-conservative have no bearing.\u00a0 Why? Because revolutionaries bring their own agenda to the table and that agenda owes no allegiance to conventional wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>This should be a heads-up warning to the democrats and to the democratic candidate.\u00a0 The Trump revolution laid waste to the republican party. Given the opportunity, it will do the same to the democratic party.\u00a0 If successful, there will be a new day. There will be no going back to previous conditions. They will no longer exist.<\/p>\n<p>The final Trump challenge is get his democratic opponent to lose.\u00a0 Regardless of how the run-up to the general election unfolds, neither Trump nor his opponent get to decide.<\/p>\n<p>Successful revolutions rely on assured behavior from the populace.\u00a0 Nothing about the American populace is assured. The populace will take the measure of the candidates and render a decision. At the end of the day the will of the people will prevail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.&#8221; (Abraham Lincoln)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third in a series of articles on the Trump revolution. In the first article we established that Trump was a revolutionary, that the American political process institutionalized the processes of revolution, and that Trump was headed down the revolutionary path. In the second article we set down the following requirements for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/?p=6868\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Trump Revolution: where he is; where he needs to be, second update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-revolutionary-warfare"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6868"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6879,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868\/revisions\/6879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}