<p>The story is told that one evening, President Lincoln greeted a Congressional delegation, ushered them into his private study and asked their business.</p> 
<p>&#8220;We present you with a petition,&#8221; said the group leader, &#8220;demanding that you dismiss General Grant.&#8221;</p> 
<p>&#8220;And why should I do that?&#8221; asked Lincoln.</p> 
<p>&#8220;Grant is a drinker,&#8221; replied the leader. &#8220;He is known to have been drunk in his tent.&#8221;</p> 
<p>The president replied, &#8220;Gentlemen, I wish all my generals drank what Grant drinks; he wins!&#8221;</p> 
<p>This is how we should regard President Trump&#8217;s tweeting and his unbecoming, personal attacks on members of the media. We may cringe at Mika&#8217;s still-bleeding face, as we would in the tent of a drunken general. But Trump wins! In office barely five months, he has moved sure-footedly to correct the derelictions of the feckless fool who preceded him. His cabinet, the best since Lincoln, the Keystone pipeline, the impeccable Supreme Court nominee, the gathering of what amounted to the formative meeting of a Middle East NATO to defeat ISIS, the facing up to North Korea and Iran and Russia and China, the withdrawal from the rigged, insufferable Paris Climate Accord, sealing our borders to prohibit illegal entry, especially entry by dreadful thugs and terrorists, and moving aggressively to rid the country of those thugs and illegals like MS-13 and the monster who killed Kate Steinle, whom Obama welcomed, either directly or through insolent benign neglect. And on and on.</p> 
<p>We are awestruck at the vision, purpose and energy Trump has brought to the leadership of his country. But he is yet hampered by a war at home. The Democrats, the Progressives (or do I repeat myself), the Radicals, The Anarchists, the Communists, the university intelligentsia, Black Lives Matter, all amalgamated into a huge mass of vicious, unhinged hatred for Donald Trump. He alone stands between A Great America and the Sorosification of America.</p> 
<p>And so we see a level of disgusting personal attack on Mr. Trump such as has never been seen before, including faux-beheadings, calls for his impeachment, calls for his assassination, magazine covers depicting the president&#8217;s head with the cross hairs of a rifle at his temple, queries about his sanity, &#8220;professional&#8221; assertions of his imbalance, bastardized Shakespearean plays, allegations that he is a modern Hitler, utterly invented stories of misconduct by Trump or his team, based on unidentified &#8220;sources.&#8221; Ad nauseam.</p> 
<p>I propose you did a disservice to your community and your country when you admonished Rep. McSally to come out and vigorously oppose President Trump and school him in proper conduct (&#8220;Time for McSally to take a stand,&#8221; July 5, Page A6). And I propose you were in error when you promised that if she did not follow your advice, she would be punished in 2018 by the voters. You have it exactly backward. She owes her president her complete loyalty. She doesn&#8217;t need your advice. She is already wobbly enough. And, if she is punished at the 2018 election, it will be for failure to support and defend her president, and the punishment will be at the hands of We The People, who elected Mr. Trump.</p>
IN MY VIEW: In this civil war, Trump wins