Trump’s base freaks out, Karl says chill…

Trump’s base is rumbling, Coulter called him senile, Bannon is gone, even James Woods, who has been a reliable backer – threatened not to vote Trump in 2020, if he includes any DACA protections in his immigration package, the Pot Smokers smell a rat — and my Democratic friends – are sure he’s crazy and/or about to be impeached.

I’ve been watching Donald J. Trump like a hawk since way before the election and I’m pretty sure each and every one of these groups; for a wide variety of reasons — has the narrative way wrong.

Coulter watched the same meeting I did with the Dems this morning on immigration and she heard something very different than I did. In Washington D.C. political nomenclature, a “clean” bill is one without any other elements, riders, amendments, restrictions, it’s just an up or down on one specific thing, like a CR (Continuing Resolution), but Trump wasn’t discussing this concept at that meeting (although others were), and although those Senators and the Congressmen Coulter mentioned were focusing on this — Trump wasn’t confused about that — he was simply unwilling to let that be on the agenda.

There was no point to the meeting if he allowed that to happen.

Listen to his opening, he was clear, his list of items are related and belong together, watch the video carefully, each time Trump looked like he wasn’t listening — that simply isn’t true — each one of those questions he evaded, was a trap he wasn’t willing to venture into. He could have said, NO, I won’t allow the DACA bill through all by itself – but he wasn’t going to fall into that trap. This statement by him – had he been trapped into it — is not a smart position — it allows the Dems to attack him from every side — and he knows they plan to do it — it’s the only reason they showed up, therefore his refusal to engage on that issue.

Next, Coulter theorized that Steve Bannon was really the brain behind Trump. This is disappointing coming from her, she should look back over Trump’s positions on many of these national issues, because, for decades now, Trump has been very consistent about almost every one of his campaign planks — long before Bannon was an anything.

James Woods is a really smart guy, but boy oh boy, is that a stupid tweet. What exactly does he think Trump is going to do? Wave a magic wand and the Wall will appear and the DACA people will ALSO go home? Trump promised a Wall, he has to get Democratic votes to build one – and this is as good a place to get those votes – as there is. Woods may not understand this, but realism suggests Trump must get some cross over votes in the Senate — eventually — or stay within reconcilation, which means no wall.

Woods also — obviously — doesn’t see the difference between our immigration position with a Wall — and the DACA crowd still here — and our position without a Wall, and 800,000 people to deport. Crazy shit. Trump is playing this BRILLIANTLY.

If the Democrats insist he’s crazy, breaking his word on DACA, whatever they make up, it doesn’t matter – DACA will now be on them with the American people. Schumer, Pelosi, Graham, McConnell, Ryan, the whole rotten bunch, created this problem, let is fester, and Trump, the one guy who doesn’t have the stink of this on him — is willing to compromise to fix it. Everybody saw that today. This was a win for him, maybe not with Coulter, who apparently has the warmth of a rattlesnake, or 180 IQ James Woods, or the leftist, loony tunes Democrats — but he continues to score points with middle America, and that shit adds up.

The American people heard him this morning. Give me a bill with a Wall, an end to chain migration and an end to the Visa lottery – plus a reasonable DACA plan – and I’ll sign it.

He even pointed to a Congressman who he thought had such a plan.

Trump said, these are the issues Americans agree on, the Senate agrees on, the Democrats promised Reagan they agreed upon — all those years ago — and that he still agrees on. This is literally the perfect pitch. Because an overwhelming majority of Americans do want the chain migration stopped, do want the Visa lottery stopped, do want the Wall built — and also want the DACA problem resolved — without deportation of nearly a million people that have been living here most of their lives.

Ronald Reagan was a great and moral man, he did not mishandle the situation, and neither will Trump.

President’s HAVE to make deals with Congress; it’s designed that way.

Common sense must reign and it will because Trump is committed to winning and winning requires forward action. Schumer has admitted the Visa lottery is “past its usefulness” and he was an originator of that program. Chain migration is wildly unpopular in ½ the districts Democrats will be defending soon; so, a lot of them are secretly relieved (1/2 of them anyway) this abuse of the system will die. Trump knows all of this, he just knows how much it weakens him to beg for it.

The establishment RINO’s like Graham will support every word of what I’ve described above and the remaining hard-core types have no case. Listen up James Woods. You can’t build a multi-billion Wall without funding, all of which MUST come from Congress and you will never get funding for this wall if you deport the DACA Dreamers, deport the El Salvadorians, and bog Congress down into gridlock for 8 years like Obama did after he gave the Republicans the middle finger on Obamacare. He was able to do that because he had something Trump does not, a filibuster-proof Senate.

Even still, it became trench warfare after the following midterms and Trump is too smart to follow Obama down that road. Trump understands time is money and he wants the precious WH time he has — to fix things – and to be well spent. Look at his Voter Fraud decision. He could see the legal bog forming around the wheels of that initative and instead of putting his head down like a Bush or Obama type Bull, he switched tactics, and tossed the ball into DHS. It doesn’t matter whether this bears fruit or not, if it doesn’t, Trump will try another angle.

The left hates him because they know he’s a competitor, a fierce competitor willing to play every game they are, and them some. The one thing they don’t get is how honest he is. They would do better to Forget about who he was — and concentrate of what he is. The presidency is a special thing, it can transform men, even great ones, into even greater ones and that process is underway with Trump.

The Pot Smoker issue is a good example. The Pot Smokers heard Trump say on the stump that he thought this was a states rights issue, and that he thought medical marijuana should be legalized everywhere. Trump has never repudiated that stance and I don’t think he will.

Yes, Sessions has withdrawn the Holder memo, but he had to do that. Holder sold guns to criminals, he organized an extortion racket to funnel judgments directly from corporate America to leftist causes, he put out memo’s on enforcing the law, not enforcing the law, on how to violate sentencing laws, on all kinds of things that ignored Federal Law, and simply got away with it. President Obama backed him up, the press adored him, and for some reason the Senate refused to jail him, so he got away with it. Trump promised to stop all this nonsense and he has.

AG Sessions, I am assuming at the president’s direction, has been eliminating all these unconstitutional arrangements Holder had going, and simply got to Pot last. But he had to get there eventually.

Holder had no constitutional power to ignore the laws of the land, as written by Congress, and issue AG authored memorandum – that contradicted those laws. He also had no right to re-interpret those laws; the higher courts are specifically set-up for this in the Constitution. Holder was just running roughshod over the Constitution and Trump (and Sessions) are just fixing that.

This doesn’t mean Trump would not sign a marijuana bill that legalized medical marijuana and left recreational marijuana up to the states, I think he would. I don’t think Jeff Sessions would be happy with him, but I think Trump would sign it. Author it, probably not also, but this is where the Democrats are missing the boat entirely. They could author all kinds of common sense legislation; get Republican co-sponsors and Trump would sign all of it – if it made common sense.

He’s a President for the People, not the Parties, and it’s been so long since we’ve seen anybody operate this way, we have no idea what it looks like.