It’s very useful to see President Trump as the embodiment and spirit of the tidal wave of justice and determination that’s building up around the globe.
But, lest I get swept away, I want to remember that there’s a cast of thousands – thousands of people who risked their livelihoods and lives to form the white hats. Over decades, they alerted the world to what was happening and have joined together around the globe to stop it.
To focus too much on a single person can skew things. Donald Trump was chosen and is backed by an army of thousands.
I compared President Trump’s position earlier to Dwight D. Eisenhower. I so admire the latter’s leadership.
I hasten to point out one quality. Dwight D. Eisenhower was self-controlled, moderate, with no taint of arrogance or a lack of being present. His rise through the ranks was dramatic and, like Churchill, he was “born to sit in that chair.”
Donald Trump was also born to occupy it. With a different style. And it may very well be the style that’s needed for the times. But Dwight Eisenhower’s “style” never needed turning off or letting go of because it was always in the middle, the center, where all good things reside.
If Donald Trump knows when to play – but also when to stop playing – the dealmaker and come from the center, the heart – no pretense, no strategizing – then this fear that I have, which is around the birth of dictators – will fly away as completely as it did with Churchill (with all his “faults”) and Eisenhower.
Actually he has shown his heart many times. The most compelling time I’ve seen was with the homeless vet in New York:
Seeing scenes like this is reassuring to me. I can’t imagine some other world leaders doing this. Now I just need to see this more often – the human face of Donald Trump.
We need world leaders – and Donald Trump’s cabinet is full of them – who have a developed heart connection. Tulsi, JD, Elon, Pam, RFK Jr., etc. – what distinguishes them as a group is that all appear to have that developed connection; they all appear to care. That’s what gives me – and, I imagine, us – hope. That’s probably why they were elected.
Other world leaders like Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, etc., were utterly consumed by self-serving ambition. They killed those nearest to them (1) and some of those nearest to them killed themselves to escape their situation. (2)
But it’s not like that with Trump when he lets go of his dealmaker, poker-player skills, which I admit are going far to whip other world leaders in line. He can leave that and come from the heart.
We can find fault with anyone on 3/4D Planet Earth. If they were faultless, they wouldn’t be here (with exceptions). But do the virtues far outweigh any faults that one might find?
Well, in Trump’s case, for me, they do by far. And so do they as well in those he’s surrounded himself with.
Which contributes to my excitement for the future. After the Storm….
Footnotes
(1) Eg., Hitler’s niece Gilly (Angela Maria Raubal), whom Hitler is said to have shot.
(2) Eg., Nadeszhda Alliluyeva, Stalin’s second wife, who shot herself.