Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Trumps Response to the Assange Arrest Dismays but Doesn't Surprise Me" video.
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I agree, Tony Mathis. If Trump IS a good guy on this issue, this is still how he needs to play it, publicly.
It's crazy, but I keep coming back to James Clavell's "SHOGUN" when I see how things are playing out with Trump. Toranaga would posture one way and then the other. Only he knew the full array of forces against him and how he needed to posture in often contradictory ways. The emperor summoned him to Kyoto, where he would undoubtedly be killed, and his supporters were SHOCKED when he immediately agreed. But he knew that if he refused, he would be killed (ordered to commit seppuku on the spot), and if he agreed, he would be killed (ordered to commit seppuku) when he arrived in Kyoto. So he agreed, and - surprise, surprise! - he "fell ill" and had to postpone his trip.
Meanwhile, he'd maintained a very firm anti-Christian stance in order to mollify his "base," and then out of the blue, he agreed to let the Portuguese build the biggest cathedral in Japan in his own capital, and suddenly the Christians were on HIS side. He put that thorn in their paw (rabid anti-Christian stance) just so he could be the guy to pull that thorn, later. This tipped the balance of power in his favor, winning all the Christian daimyos (lords) to his side.
Trump did something very similar with DACA. Took a hard-line stance AGAINST it, in order to get the Democrats to say how unreasonable he was, and how unwilling he was to compromise. They even conceded a point or two on border security measures, just to show how reasonable THEY were, and it threw them into a tailspin when he suddenly reversed his stance on DACA. He obtained concessions by taking a hard-line position that he really didn't intend to push to the limit. He was just posturing. Negotiating. Bargaining.
The Democrats then freaked, and their only comeback at THAT point was to publish some Obama-era photos of children sleeping on concrete under space blankets. That's when "child separation" became the big meme, because he pulled the rug out from under them on DACA. Child separation remains a buzz phrase in far-left circles, but Trump took a big bite out of their credibility when the "child separation" thing was debunked as an OBAMA policy.
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