The Expectations game vs the Excuse game

Far be it from me to give ideas to the president’s oppo­nents in the media (not that they’d lis­ten to me any­ways) but there is one card that I don’t see them playing.

The expec­ta­tions game.

There are sev­eral things that peo­ple who voted for Trump are expect­ing, the wall, the vet­ting, the tax cuts, Oba­macare repeal, Defund­ing Planned Par­ent­hood etc.

Two of them, the wall and the repeal of Obaa­macare are from my data, par­tic­u­larly important.

Oddly enough the GOP which spent years argu­ing for the enforce­ment of immi­gra­tion law, and for the repeal of Oba­macare have shown a real reluc­tance to come through. When it comes down to actu­ally leg­is­lat­ing when they are in a posi­tion to make law rather than just oppose oth­ers they have colder feet than an Eskimo tak­ing a foot bath in the Arctic.

While a few anti-​trump folk on the right seem to grasp this the left and the media doesn’t seem to under­stand this. Instead they keep high­light­ing silly protests, attempts to silence con­ser­v­a­tives and push memes sug­gest­ing that the media will be silenced not grasp­ing how odd that meme sounds when it is the lead every sin­gle day on every sin­gle media plat­form that exists to the point where you can’t avoid it.

Now it’s true that said mes­sage plays well to their shrink­ing cus­tomer base and to the left insti­tu­tions that pro­vide funs and man­power to the left, but in terms of bring­ing down this pres­i­dent it’s silly.

Instead of get­ting out of the way and let­ting Trump the Deal­maker try to move the cow­ards of con­gress with all the has­sle and poten­tial for fail­ure this involves and try­ing to get things done (which is a lot harder than just speak­ing it) they are thanks to the courts and protests and obstruc­tion pro­vid­ing an excuse for every item that doesn’t get checked off.

Despite excel­lent defenses of real­ity of just how hard it is to do things by folks like Don Surber The “Trump the Fail­ure” card has a real poten­tial to hurt the pres­i­dent with his base, but to the media and the left it’s not as sexy as the “Trump the Evil” or the “Trump the Hitler” or the “Trump the Dic­ta­tor” card which while cathar­tic, only cements his sup­port further.

If the elites who claim to be so bright were really as smart as they claim, they would see this and pivot and per­haps in time they will, but there is one other fac­tor that might be hold­ing them back.

For all their mock­ing of Trump, I sus­pect they fear that if given the chance, he WON’T fail.

I sus­pect this fear, which is even larger than the fear that is par­a­lyz­ing the GOP in con­gress, is what dri­ves them even more than their anger.

If I was Pres­i­dent Trump and his team, I’d exploit this fear when­ever possible.