Written by Ben Meiselas
If you want a Substack that whines and points fingers about the election, this is the wrong place for you. As a former litigator, who led Colin Kaepernick’s case against the NFL, and as co-founder of the MeidasTouch Network, I believe in providing solutions, strategy, and answers. Let me give you two quotes by the ancient Chinese military strategist and philosopher Sun Tzu I would often tell my young associates when I practiced law, when our opponent was getting arrogant and vulnerable to making missteps. They both apply to this past week of Trump’s disastrous transition.
Quote 1: "In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."
Quote 2: "The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
Donald Trump is a chaos agent. He cares about retribution over the well-being of America. He cares about his personal wealth over the happiness and health of We the People. Donald Trump is a malignant narcissist who acts on impulse and acts erratically. All of that was on display this past week as he nominated a Fox News host to be Secretary of Defense, a potential pedophile and drug user in Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General, a potential Russian agent to be Director of National Intelligence, a person who wants to ban all vaccines and says water turns kids gay to be Secretary of Health, and a dog killer as Homeland Security Secretary.
We can react to this chaos in two ways. We can be discouraged and run away and hide. Or we can do as Sun Tzu says, and see the chaos as opportunity.
Dictators and authoritarians hate being called out. They have thin skin. Trump has the thinnest of thin skin. Now is the time we act. During this chaos, we organize and mobilize. We get ready to rally against Trump’s picks and the Trump administration. We call him out for his failures every day. We ensure his propaganda fails. We ensure the American people see what a fool he is. We find alliances in unlikely places.
The most dangerous thing Donald Trump could have done was trickle out his dangerous agenda over the next four years—a slow drip. Strategically, he could have sat back, tried to take credit for President Biden’s economy, and played golf while slowly implementing his agenda in a way that phased it in over time. But Trump is incapable of that. In five days, he’s rolled out the most incomprehensibly unqualified and dangerous cabinet picks. Trump is showing how crazy he is right from the jump. Economists are already predicting Trump will cause a recession in the next several months. He’s already a failure, and he hasn’t even started.
Let your voices be heard. Make it clear he is a failure. Do not submit. Never submit. Every day for the past four years, as President Biden did wonders to get us out of the mess Trump created during his first term, the right-wing media put out lies to undermine President Biden. We don’t need to lie. The truth is on our side. Trump is a mess. He’s a disaster. He’s a failure. He’s a loser who surrounds himself with bigger losers.
Yes, there is chaos, but view this moment as a chance to do something powerful. It’s an opportunity we all have to create enduring stability for generations if we fight. Are you ready to fight?
Look, we will do our part here. We will lead as best we can. We are more energized than ever to fight and win.
I made a YouTube video that is going viral right now highlighting Trump’s failures this past week. You can check it out here.
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