[TheRealThing]

We agree that Democrats and RINOs are existential threats to this country, but Democrats and the GOP establishment have nothing to do with nasty campaign that Trump ran against his conservative Republican rivals, nor do they have anything to do with how he has publicly attacked loyal Trump supporters like Jeff Sessions after he took office.

As I said, I think Sessions was a poor pick for Attorney General but he made a huge sacrifice when he gave up his safe Senate seat to serve as Trump's Attorney General. Sessions is an honorable man and an experienced lawyer. He made what he thought was his only ethical choice when he recused himself from the Russian investigation. Trump treated Session's decision like a personal betrayal, which was not remotely true - and Sessions is not the only Trump loyalist who has been treated shabbily by President Trump.

Trump needs to appoint a qualified, conservative constitutional lawyer to head the Justice Department, and then let him or her do his or her job. I know that there is nothing to the allegation that Trump's campaign colluded with the Russians to rig the election, but he needs to appoint somebody who is not seen as a political ally. In other words, he need to appoint somebody who can effectively communicate and educate the public about the political hatchet job that Democrats have perpetrated against Trump but not somebody who has been overtly political in the past.

The worse thing that Trump could possibly do would be to nominate a person as the next AG who is or appears to be a political hack. He needs a nominee who will refuse to take a position on the Mueller investigation, either in public, or during Senate confirmation hearings, just as a good Supreme Court nominee would do.

The AG nominee should pledge to study the facts after he or she assumes the job and make decisions at that time - and that should be all that Trump asks him or her to do prior to the confirmation hearings. Whoever is nominated will be asked repeatedly during the hearings whether Trump asked them to fire Mueller and/or Rosenstein and whether they had already agreed to do so if confirmed.

IMO, Democrats politicized the Justice Department and the Department of State under Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to an extent never before seen in U.S. history. In the next two years, Trump needs to make the Justice Department and the State Department two focal points of a genuine effort to drain the swamp. Whatever it takes to rid those two extremely important cornerstones of democracy of radical left wing Obamunists needs to be done in a methodical, professional way.

Well, I agree with you strongly about the DOJ. Somebody has to take the law seriously in this country. If I was in Trump's shoes I'd split them between Florida and Arizona and send every last one of them down there armed the power of the Federal Government. And putting the appropriate judges on notice, I would tell them to be ready to act with swift dispatch on any matter deemed necessary.

But in your saying the above, I believe you have landed on the two weaknesses I have observed in the President. First, he tends not to appoint the right people for the post. I have not agreed with a number of his appointments and nominees. For example, it was a big mistake to not get Rudy Giuliani in there somewhere from the get-go. I had predicted that Trump would be an effective delegator, that is I thought he would sagely select the best folks to work for him. But generally in his personnel picks, MR Trump has fallen short of the wisdom Ronald Reagan showed when he made his cabinet picks. Past that he cannot expect to co-op his political opponents into the fold by offering them positions.

Secondly, though the President has shown he has the courage to go against the politically correct Dems on a broad range of issues, he has also caved in on a few things. For example, not going through with the declassification of the FISA documents which led to an awful lot of grief for himself and the Republican Party, may have led to more than a few of those lost seats in the Congress. There has been precious little by way of accountability so far. And as the election results (of sorts) revealed, whatever capitulations that were made thus far, they did absolutely nothing to slow down or humor the Dems. The before and after contrast I would make would be the Kavanaugh confirmation and the Florida shenanigans presently afoot. These guys are playing for keeps and conservatives will never be able to make peace with them. They have given new meaning to the term 'opposition party.'