In our little town here I have a friend who owns a car and truck repair business which he and his wife have built, with enormous effort, into a highly respected and, I trust, successful enterprise. He told me something yesterday which was music to my ears. He's always told me that his business and maintaining his mastery of mechanics requires most of his time and effort. He has opinions on public policy but he doesn't have the luxury of being able to expend much time or energy to pursue them. But he said this: "I didn't vote in 2016 because I didn't like either candidate but, for sure, now I'll never vote for a Democrat ever again. Trump is doing a good job and all they can do is attack him". Oh gads I hope this is represents a trend. Joe, Bernie, Kamala, Cory, naughty Kirsten and even Andrew - take heed: you've lost his vote and maybe many of his hard working colleagues across a land the vastness of which you would be stunned by if you were willing to do other than fly over it and sneer.
Recent primaries appear to show that Trump nation is ready to stand by him again and that we are incensed by the vicious onslaught on him by Democrats and their media toadies. As if we needed it, now we have Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former Democrat Chair, sniffing that NRA is close to being a terrorist organization. Good goin' Deb, we know how well your "war on women" screed went in 2016. Thanks for reminding us how very much you and yours loathe the real America. NRA is sort of popular with us don't you know? You'll need some of our votes to surf that "blue wave" in November and you're losing more of them every day. I still get a kick out of the fantasy of you serenading Hillary after the election with "don't cry out loud . . . remember you almost had it all". You ought to know; the withering disdain you, her and your ilk display for us was a big factor in her loss and its still at work.
The 2016 election was critical in that had we lost we probably would have been finished, I think. Now the shoe is on the other foot. The Dems are still showing much of the overconfidence in which they luxuriated in 2016. It still hasn't dawned on them that we got their message alright; we just don't like it, despite its "unquestionable" transcendent truth and virtue. If they lose again they may begin on the long slide to marginality they thought to put us on. They may become as disoriented and vexed as to nominate a real whopper in 2020 - one who entertains no compromise with politically incorrect heresy and, well, reality but floats their perfectionist boat. I'm sure Van Jones would be pleased to serve; Jerry Brown might come down from Olympus - he thought about it before. Maybe Zeus dissuaded him before playfully transforming himself into a pile of coins. It would be high comedy to see Rachel Maddow run and have to face actual opposition and disagreement insolently directed at her very person. It could be that the left blew its big chance to dominate in 2016 and that its beginning to know it and to panic. Why, maybe it has decided its just too good for this country; "let them stew in their primitive juices - we tried to enlighten them!" The road ahead will be rough for them and we have a proven effective leader; they don't. Jack
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This is all music to my ears, Jack! I do believe there's a chance that the lefties have shot their bolt, in terms of the vilification of Donald Trump. They have attacked him so relentlessly, and from so many directions, that a disinterested observer has to be able to discern the desperate/disingenuous nature of their assault. Having said that, they still have 40-45% of the electorate firmly (nay, obsessively) in their corner. We have to hope that the few independents and "moderates" out there see the Left's temper tantrum for what it is. 2018 will reveal much.
Dr. Waddy: We can win close ones though - twice in the last 16 years. Maybe it won't even be close and the possibility of that being our win is, I think, better than it is for them. The real America continues a slow but perhaps inexorable rise to belated realization, outrage and finally, determination that we will not abide our country's evisceration.
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