Help Wanted: Master Communicators
Am I the only person on the planet who remembers Donald Trump saying, at the outset of the Iranian conflict, that the war would last two weeks, maybe three?
Am I the only person on the planet who remembers Donald Trump saying “there are no more targets left to bomb?”
Am I the only person on the planet who remembers Donald Trump declaring that “the war is over?”
Am I the only person on the planet who remembers Donald Trump saying that the United States is now engaged in serious talks with a “new and more reasonable” regime in Iran?
Am I the only person on the planet who remembers Donald Trump saying that “Iran has agreed to everything?”
Above all, am I the only person on the planet who remembers Donald Trump saying he would accept nothing less than an unconditional surrender from Iran?
Excuse my ignorance, but why has Trump been focused on “bringing Iran back to the negotiating table” if the war is over, if there are no more targets left to bomb, and if the United States will accept nothing less than an unconditional surrender? In an unconditional surrender, there is no negotiating. The loser simply bows his head and listens for instructions from the victor.
Ask Japan if you doubt me. After the United States erased Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the map, Emperor Hirohito bowed his head in reverence and laid his sword down on a silk pillow. There were no negotiations. General MacArthur then told him, among other things, that the United States would be writing a new Constitution for Japan — without any input from Hirohito or his regime.
I don’t know how the Iran adventure will end, because Trump is a master of surprises, but if any remnants of the IRGC regime remain in power, you can be certain that two minutes after they agree to a “peace deal,” they will restart their nuclear program, crack down harder than ever on their own people, get back to working on plans to bring death to America and death to Israel, and continue to fire drones and missiles at their Sunni neighbors.
The only thing that has a chance of bringing peace and prosperity to Iran is the removal of the entire terrorist regime. Unfortunately, that probably cannot be accomplished without boots on the ground, because the 70 to 80 million Iranians who want to see the IRGC removed from power have no weapons. Which is why, as painful as it is to admit, the Iranian regime will probably succeed in holding onto power, which is all they really care about.
Trump’s biggest problem, which the Iranians are all too aware of, is that the midterms are just six months away. That means he has perhaps five months, at most, to bring the Iran situation to a positive conclusion and explain to independents why they will be far better off with Republicans in power rather than with Democrats.
To accomplish that, first and foremost Trump needs to stop telling voters how great the economy is and instead explain that he is recalibrating the U.S. economy so all Americans will be much better off over the long term. He needs to abandon the words “very quickly” and explain that ridding America of the political rot and poison that has accumulated over decades will take time.
By closing the border and deporting illegals, destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities and missile/drone capabilities, drilling for oil and gas at a record pace, saving taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars by exposing fraud in government programs, lowering taxes, drastically reducing the flow of fentanyl and other dangerous drugs into the country, and, above all, cracking down on election cheating, Trump is “fundamentally” changing America back to what it was originally intended to be and what it still was, fundamentally, before Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s puppeteers began dismantling the country’s foundational principles.
President Trump should explain why all of these things are more important than the price of groceries and gas right now, and to the extent he succeeds in making them happen, “affordability” will eventually take care of itself. Unfortunately, Trump is the most inarticulate president of our time, so that’s a heavy lift. You can only say “like nobody has ever seen before,” “numbers nobody thought possible,” and “We’re the hottest country in the world” so many times before eyes start rolling. This kind of cringeworthy talk is exhausting even to Trump’s most loyal supporters.
What Donald Trump and Republicans desperately need right now are some great communicators to get their message across to the general public, because the people they presently have in that role are incredibly ineffective. More to the point, they are worthless. Surely, there must be a few communication wizards out there who have the ability to make voters understand that no matter what they think of Trump and congressional Republicans, Democrats have proven, time and again, that they are infinitely worse. Infinitely worse. Call it the lesser of two evils if you so choose, but it is also unequivocally true.
Fortunately for Republicans, Donald Trump is a political magician, so perhaps he will find a way to pull yet another rabbit out of his MAGA hat, even with anti-American Democrats fighting him every step of the way. But if he wants to stack the deck in his favor, I would urge him to focus on finding two or three master communicators who can spell out the realities of the political landscape — in a convincing, easy-to-understand manner — to voters who are on the fence. It’s amazing what a little clarity can accomplish.
From robertringer.com