This is the Tom Hartman program.

Welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you.

I want to talk about brazenness and Donald Trump and there is

this quality of leadership that you find among some of our most successful presidents and it's called

brazenness. Brasonness is the willingness or ability because it's kind of back of the envelope description, but basically a strong

belief in one's own, in fact a high level of certainty in one's own correctness that what one is doing is the right thing and a willingness to

stick with it to the bitter end regardless of the consequences. This is how

Winston Churchill helped win World War II. This is how Franklin Roosevelt pushed

through the New Deal over overwhelming opposition for Republicans who called it

communism and socialism. This is how Abraham Lincoln fought the Civil War.

And, you know, there's still a debate about that.

He decided, you know, he initially thought that that war was going to last four or five months

and, or maybe even a few weeks, that it wouldn't be that big a deal to put down the

south and it turned into a multi-year you know 700,000 Americans dead

disaster or was it not a disaster?

Did it hold the union together?

I mean, there's, but the bottom line is that he was willing to do it.

At great cost, that just tore him apart, Lincoln.

This is what John Kennedy had when he confronted the

Soviets around the Cuban missile crisis. This brazenness is a quality of

leadership. Now it can be leadership for good or leadership for bad. Now it can be leadership for good or leadership for bad.

Adolf Hitler was also brazen, as was Mussolini. This is a very powerful

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