I want the President to fail in enacting his policies and agenda, which I know are not good for the country. Not only are his economic policies damaging to our general prosperity as a nation, but they are so transformative that the success of those policies would transform the very nature of our country. The same way how Jindal would want him to fail, The same way Fred Thompson wants him to fail. Sorry to admit, but this is the time for the right kind of nuance:

But when you say you want him to FAIL, even if you try to qualify it by saying “if his policies hurt America I want him to fail,” you are alienating and losing the support of the vast middle, who do NOT want any American president to fail. When you insist on it, they hear you saying you want America to fail.

Wrong, Charles. Wrong, because the President is not America, and while our national success does not turn on one man, he has enough power to hurt our success. That our fate is inextricable from his is the narrative that our opponents in the media want people to believe and this is what I, politically, have chosen to focus on. Forget economic policy, NatSec, shit there’s enough wonks and a half out there to discuss the ins and outs of that. However, the high population density of the American Left in the Mass Media presents a challenge in presenting message, and until these people are called out, fought on our terms and not theirs, well, anyone’s words will be subject to their machinations.

I’ve lived in a third world, or “developing” country. My whole life in the Philippines the electorate has placed hope not so much in themselves but in the President, and by year two of a six-year, one-term-limited president, there are always grumbles. Frankly, this is what I am seeing here in the USA, and it is disheartening.