The media and the political establishment plays checkers. It\u2019s a perfectly honorable game, with well-established rules that haven\u2019t changed in generations. There\u2019s only one way to play checkers.<\/p>\n
Trump plays\u2026<\/p>\n
\u2026 Well, not chess. To say that would be to claim he plays a similar, more sophisticated game than the establishment and media.<\/p>\n
Trump plays poker. He may play it well, he may not, it may vary from hand to hand in situation to situation. He may bluff while holding fours over deuces with all the grace of a German jazz band, and he may drop a straight flush on you while you\u2019re doing the \u201cI\u2019ve got a full house!\u201d dance…<\/p>\n
… but whether he\u2019s playing it well or like an amateur after 12 cocktails, it\u2019s a completely different game, with different rules, goals and expectations, than checkers. .<\/p>\n
And the media \u2013 or at least the \u201celite\u201c media that the establishment does business with – Watch his hand after hand of poker, good or bad, and keeps yapping about how bad Trump is at checkers, and how much better off we\u2019d all be if he played checkers as well as Andrea Merkel does\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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