re: My Party Is in Denial About Donald Trump by Jeff Flake

That was painful to read. His assessment of the criticism of the Obama administration is both delusional and lacking substance. I could hardly continue reading when he said,

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But we conservatives mocked Barack Obama's failure to deliver on his pledge to change the tone in Washington."

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The whole diatribe is lacking any substance. His complaint seems to be that he doesn't like Trump's style. He doesn't like that Trump tweets so much. Well, most people don't.

But Flake still doesn't understand that the people who voted for Trump are willing deal with his unpolished and aggressive manner of communicating, and even his crudeness. They see those characteristics and feel it's more honest than the slick messaging style and disingenuousness of "traditional" political rhetoric.

The Obama example he gave fits this argument precisely. Obama may have uttered the words that he wanted to "change the tone in Washington", but his other words and actions showed that he was anything but serious about that. He came into power to attempt to radically change fedgov to a much more progressive agenda, and he would do anything and say anything to get that done. He had to hide his agenda as much as possible because he thought he knew better than the voters and Congress.

I still say that while I don't like the style of Donald Trump and I am growing impatient with his clown show administration, I have been pleased with his actual policy decisions thus far which have been very close to what he campaigned on. That makes him 10x'a more honest than Obama and most of the Washington establishment and certainly more than the MSM.