https://www.realclearpolitics.com/
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/creeping-politicization-us-military
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/west-point-gives-in-to-creeping-liberalism/
''The Creeping Politicization of the U.S. Military''
How Republicans’ Loyalty Tests Erode National Security
By Risa Brooks
March 20, 2024
'' West Point Gives in to Creeping Liberalism ''
chroniclesmagazine.org/web/west-point-gives-in-to-creeping-liberalism
Mackubin Owens
https://conservativebrief.com/video-of-5-81911/
'' Video Of Melania Trump Goes Viral After Months Of Rumors Regarding Whereabouts ''
conservativebrief.com/video-of-5-81911
March 20, 2024
A video of former first lady Melania Trump walking with her husband, Donald Trump, has gone viral on social media after months of speculation as to where she might have been.
Melania Trump has noticeably reduced her involvement in her husband’s presidential campaign events, abstaining from public appearances and refraining from commenting on the election
— a departure from her more active engagement during the 2016 presidential campaign, Newsweek reported.
Critics have fueled speculation about Melania’s withdrawal from public life, questioning the reasons behind her presumed absence. Concerns heightened when she was noticeably absent from a Trump family Christmas card, which prominently featured her husband, all his children, and her father.
'' Donald Trump disclosed the reason for his wife’s absence from his New Year’s Eve party, stating during a speech at his Mar-a-Lago residence that she had been with her “very ill” mother, Amalija Knavs, in a Miami hospital. Knavs passed away in January at the age of 78. ''
On Tuesday, Melania stood next to her husband while the presumptive GOP presidential nominee fielded questions from reporters after casting his vote in the Florida Republican primary.
When asked if she planned to return to the campaign trail on her husband’s behalf, she responded, “Stay tuned.”
Video footage preceding that moment has now gone viral on the X platform. The clip shows the Trumps and their aides walking together ahead of the vote.
Rare sighting of former first lady Melania Trump as she and Donald go vote in the Florida GOP primary. Good to see her! pic.twitter.com/lAsEYDyMUW
— USA Features Media (@UsaFeatures) March 20, 2024
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Newsweek added:
Melania Trump has been, on the whole, less visible when compared to spouses of previous presidential candidates, and her approach to her husband’s campaign trail underscores the unconventional nature of Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency.
Unlike past first ladies who have actively campaigned on behalf of their partners, during the 2016 presidential race, Melania Trump chose moments that would maximize impact without exposing herself to the harsher elements of campaign scrutiny. She also didn’t hold a traditional activist role similar to her predecessors during Donald Trump’s four years in the White House.
Melania Trump has kept a similarly low profile during the former president’s 2020 campaign and has not been seen on the 2024 campaign trail so far, although she has attended a few events at Mar-a-Lago.
Melania recently bedazzled a Mar-a-Lago crowd earlier this month while she and her husband hosted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, with one video clip, in particular, going viral.
According to clips posted online, Melania entered the venue dressed in a sleek white pantsuit, black shirt, and black heels while Orbán presented her with a bouquet of flowers.
Preceded by husband and former President Donald Trump, as Melania entered, the song “Pretty Woman” by Roy Orbison can be heard in the background.
WATCH:
The Prime Minister of Hungary, @PM_ViktorOrban, gifts Melania Trump with a beautiful bouquet of flowers tonight at Mar-a-Lago 💐🥰 pic.twitter.com/bHBVyk4T9y
— FLOTUS Report (@MELANIAJTRUMP) March 9, 2024
The Trump campaign said late Friday that the two long-time allies discussed “a wide range of issues affecting Hungary and the United States, including the paramount importance of strong and secure borders to protect the sovereignty of each nation,” per Politico.
While in the U.S., Orbán — who has been chastised by liberal European leaders over his refusal to allow Hungary to become inundated with migrants — did not visit with President Joe Biden, which led to criticism from the commander-in-chief.
A report noted in December that Melania Trump will make many more public appearances on behalf of her husband as he campaigns for a third time for a second term in the White House.
A source told Page Six that after the former president won a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in Decemter, in which justices rejected special counsel Jack Smith’s attempt to get a quick ruling on presidential immunity, “Trump and his family are so secure that he will become president again that insiders at Mar-a-Lago say he’s reached an agreement with [wife] Melania [Trump] to step up top-tier diplomatic appearances in 2024.”
https://twitter.com/vdhanson/status/1770445530646421937
'' From Russian Collusion to “Bloodbath”—A Decade of Toxic Hysteria ''
Ever since late June 2015—following Donald Trump’s announcement that he was running for president, and his voicing of controversial agendas (on tariffs, China, illegal immigration, foreign policy, NATO, etc.)—leftwing toxic hysteria has been the norm.
In the last ten years, we’ve witnessed
the Russian collusion hoax,
calls from military officers and analysts for extra-legal interventions and coups,
the Alfa ping hoax,
the drink bleach hoax,
the “suckers” D-Day hoax,
the celebrities’ contest about the best way to decapitate, stab, blow up, shoot, or incinerate Trump,
the 2016 leftwing postelection effort to turn state electors into “faithless” apostates to elect Hillary,
the nutty Mark Milley call to his Chinese counterpart,
the Antifa/BLM riotous months of 2020 and the effort to storm the White House grounds,
the two first-term impeachments,
the laptop “Russian disinformation” hoax,
the pee accusation,
the “51 intelligence authorities” ruse,
the FBI hiring of Twitter censors to suppress unwanted news,
the Senate trial of a private citizen,
the January 6 “insurrection” where “five police officers were killed” lie,
the farcical two Republican members of the Jan 6 committee,
the attempt to remove Trump from state ballots,
the insane E. Jean Carroll suit,
the Letitia James “find me the man, and I’ll find you the crime” writ,
the monstrous $355 million fine growing daily to $450,
the Alvin Bragg bootstrapping of an inert federal suit,
the Fani Willis/Nathan Wade circus,
the Jack Smith antithesis to Robert Hur’s twin investigation,
the effort to bankrupt the Republican nominee,
and of course, the constant calls to pack the court (when the Left lost the majority),
to end the filibuster (when Democrats control the Senate),
to add two new states and four new senators (provided they are DC and Puerto Rico)
and to end the Electoral College (once the Left lost the surety of the reliable blue wall).
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'' What is the effect of all this decade-long civil strife on the 2024 voter?''
There are two knowns and two unknowns from this unprecedented effort to destroy rather than defeat at the polls Donald J. Trump.
First, we now know that the more they have tried to destroy Trump through media lies and distortions, lawfare, and extra-legal means, the greater his resiliency and popularity.
Two, we also realize that the greater the anti-Trump hysteria, venom, and furor on the Left, the more leftists meltdown and project their paranoias onto Trump.
'' They think something like: “If we were Trump, and we were smeared with the stuff we are dishing out, we know what we do to our tormentors when we got power. So naturally Trump will do to us what we would to us in his place.” ''
Their projection then turns into our now daily unhinged screams that Trump will “take revenge” and “demand retribution”, ensure a “bloodbath”, and “end democracy”—and “therefore we have to double down to employ even more extra-legal means to destroy him”.
Of the unknowns, we are somewhat unsure about the cumulative effect of this historic effort to warp the electoral system to destroy a candidate, and in at least two regards.
One, as the Left ramps up its hatred and frenzy over the next seven months before the election (and they surely will), what will be the effect on Independents, swing voters, and the undecided?
Will they grow incensed at the damage the Left is doing to the country and react by supporting Trump all the more?
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Or, alternatively, will they finally curl up, fetal-like, with hands over ears, and simply whimper and wish for someone to make all this conundrum go away
—and along with it the disrupter Trump, who, however much the victim, still somehow is responsible for the insane reaction he elicits from the left?
As far as the second unknown in the upcoming months, could or would Trump as the Happy Warrior better finesse the vitriol to his advantage by joking about his tormentors’ insanity, using Reaganesque humor to ridicule his critics, or simply shrug, stick to business, ignore the madness, and press on?
Can he not unite the country by rising above the tit-for-tat taunts and put-downs?
That is, should he not avoid his gratuitous slights (often against fellow Republicans like DeSantis and Haley), and curb silly stuff like “birdbrain” and the usual social media ridicule?
Or does it even matter at this late date
—given the Left will distort anything Trump says anyway
—as we just witnessed with the “bloodbath” psychodrama, and the laughable spin to suggest Trump was calling for insurrection rather than the damage Biden will do to the automotive industry?
Are we reaching a point, then, where it does not matter how carefully Trump speaks and how ecumenical he might sound, given whatever he says or does will still be distorted given the existential hatred for who he is, what he represents, and what his agendas might portend?
Add up what we know and the things we know we don’t know, and it is going to be a wild, dangerous next seven months in which we are going to witness things from the Left never seen before in this country.
9:41 AM · Mar 20, 2024
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