Or, the normies realize that rule of law is dead. After watching rioters get away with Burn, Loot, Murder while it is called peaceful protest and real peaceful protestors get decades long sentences for years – coupled with blatant election fraud for 2 national elections in a row they will have to realize that.
Now what?
Now the normies can no longer ignore what has been true for years and they stop obeying the laws.
Nothing overt – they don’t want to be jailed for decades on the charge of parading – but small stuff. Little things that add up. This is how a society falls apart.
Tag: 2024 elections
Guest Contributor – Milo Mindbender – 21JAN2024 – Another Vision of 2024
This could be one scenario, but the most likely will be a repeat of the 2021 rallying cry ” Greatest threat to our democracy everrrr” and a total blockade against judicial intervention orchestrated to make this the new normal, that is until the WEF implementation of AI predictive elections.
If this does happen the Constitution is revoked, and all bets are off. By getting away with this in 2016, but not cheating hard enough, and again in 2020, but being too obvious they will advocate for a peaceful solution. In 2020 the movie “The Hunt” was delayed in release because it directly displayed the elites content for Joe Normal, I predict the upcoming predictive movie “Civil War” will also be delayed lest it make people start to wonder.
Any remedy will leave approximately half of Americans feeling betrayed by their government, either because they are forced to accept alphabet Mafia training, DIE inclusive hiring, and give up their property to the replacement serfs, or the alphabet Mafia gets told welcome out of the closet, now stay away from the the children, judgment based on content of character rather than skin tones, and securing the border, with deportations of foreign nationals, and loss of welfare support for said imported replacements.
No one solution will create a unified country again, without an external threat to make us forget our petty first world issues. Forgive the rant, typing as stream of consciousness while the coffee soaks in.
Ice Spikes
I’ve got guests this week and Camera Girl is killing the fatted calf and there will be much rejoicing. And there is not as much time for writing. But still enough. Today I’m in an upbeat mood. No doom and gloom today.
I went out and scraped some ice off the driveway and bought about five hundred pounds of tubesand (yes, that’s a real thing) and scratch it into the ice with a garden rake and voila! Traction. And I’ve been exposed to the joys of ice spikes and chains that can be attached to boots or shoes. With these wonder devices I can sneer at glass smooth ice fields. I feel like some kind of winter super hero. New vistas have opened up. Even the dogs; those canine klutzes, are now in awe of my agility and speed on ice fields. So yeah, I’ve fully adapted to winter and relish the next snowstorm. But just in time for my new attitude I read that warmer weather and rain is due by Wednesday. Bah.
Well, I listened to a bunch of lefty loons today. Eric Holder, Joy Reid, Claire McCaskill, Gretchen Whitmer, Rachel Maddow, Kamala Harris, James Carville, David Axelrod and on and on and on. And they’re all freaking out. Trump’s Hitler and he’s going to open concentration camps and he’s going to force women to wear those funny costumes from the Handmaid’s Tale and travel around the country in Air Force One groping them randomly and he’s going to paint the White House gold. And OUR DEMOCRACY!
Wonderful. It’s wonderful to see them running in circles trying to figure out how to make Nikki Haley the Republican nominee for president. And they can’t make up their minds whether Biden must get out of the race right now or that he must be the nominee but younger, smarter, faster and better than the doddering old doofus who keeps showing up at the White House podium announcing which airstrikes he’s approving against people whose name he can’t pronounce, never mind locate on a map.
Next Tuesday is the New Hampshire primary and presently it looks like Trump will win that too, even though so many Democrat ringers will be crossing the border from Massachusetts to vote that it might temporarily raise the IQ of Massachusetts by ten or twenty points. It’s said that if he beats her by fifteen points the nomination is more or less decided. And the prospect of this has Bill Kristol and the rest of the GOP establishment going crazier than the Democrats. The Bulwark and the Atlantic have called in suicide prevention professionals to coax most of their RINO pundits off the ledge.
Now does all this mean Trump is a shoo-in to win the November election? Oh, far from it. States are trying to ban Trump from the ballots and you know the absentee ballots are being printed up by fraud squads in all the precincts of Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit and various other Democrat strongholds across the swing states. There will be cheating on a scale that will make 2020 look fair and transparent. No, there’s every chance they’ll cheat us again.
But today I don’t care. I won’t borrow the trouble that’s due in ten months. Why should I? I’m just luxuriating in the agita and panic radiating off of these mental midgets. They’re honestly scared and that’s just fine by me. People do stupid things when they’re scared and that’s what we need. They need to say stupid things, which they are. That shows who they really are and that makes them look unhinged to moderates and independents. And that’s a good look for them going into this election season.
The second half of January is starting pretty well. Everyone’s healthy and working hard so what else can I ask for in this lunatic asylum called America? Our enemies are scared. We need to pay attention to our own affairs and stay alert to what is going on in the outside world. It’s a dangerous place and requires a lot of careful thought to navigate safely. Keep your balance and don’t slip on the ice.
Dunk Tank Justice
Tuesday was a chaotic day. We had snow, then rain, then sleet. When I got out of work today my car was a popsicle. But being a really lazy guy, my ice scraper was sitting at home where I left it, in front of the kitchen porch where it was definitely of limited value. So, I used my bare hands to scrape this thick ice off my windshield and remove the ice from the roof and trunk. Liquid water is an amazing heat transfer material. The ice on the car was wet enough to make my caveman act extremely effective at freezing my fingertips. So, there I am driving along trying to use the dashboard car heater to thaw my fingers enough to feel the steering wheel.
On the way home I filled up my five-gallon plastic gas can with some three-dollar gasoline and headed home to the horror that was my driveway. Because there was still a freezing rain falling, I put on a raincoat. And because my fingers were still kind of tingly-numb I decided that I needed to protect them from getting frozen again. I made a glove sandwich. I put a pair of thin Thinsulate gloves on and covered them with a pair of disposable kitchen gloves. Not the tight-fitting rubber ones for doing the dishes but the loose clear thin plastic kind that restaurant workers wear when they handle cold cuts. Then I put a pair of work gloves on top of this. It worked like a charm. Keeping the insulated glove dry kept my hands warm and the work gloves provided the strength to protect the thin plastic gloves from damage. Edison the Man!
Snow blowers are pretty good with dry snow. They’re so-so with wet snow and they’re pretty abysmal with slush. And that’s what I had. The slush would separate in the auger and form a cylindrical plug of solid ice that would slowly travel up the outlet and when it got to about a foot long it would break off and fall out of the chute and then a burst of watery slush would shoot out for about thirty seconds and then start to clog with ice again. It took about three passes over the whole length to get most of the slush off the driveway and even then, it was still a mess.
Last week, I bought this fancy shovel which works better at pushing than shoveling the snow down the driveway. It has a couple of handles at different points on its length and works really well for quickly clearing this heavy wet stuff. I went over the whole upper driveway again with it. This was slower and more tiring than the snowblower, but much more successful. By the time the light failed at about 5 pm I had gotten the upper driveway and enough of the rest of the pavement cleaned up to the point where tomorrow I should be able to get in and out without trouble. Camera Girl provided sufficient wifely verbal sympathy for my heroic efforts and also a hot meal that was greatly appreciated.
Afterwards I watched a few clips on the results of the Iowa caucuses and was happy to hear the Lefties on MSNBC caterwauling about white privilege and racism. It’s interesting how even Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow only seem somewhat moronic when in the company of someone as profoundly stupid as Joy Reid. She was jabbering away about how White Christians were plotting with Donald Trump to subvert the country and disenfranchise everyone who wasn’t white and Christian.
And I thought to myself, “If only Trump was this evil dictator. I think I would submit to a purported dictatorship of these Midwestern, Elks or Shriners or whatever, if only they would promise to sit Joy Reid on the shelf of a dunk tank filled with ice water and gave me a dozen baseballs. Now I’m not a monster. I would allow her to be fished out between dunks and dried off and warmed up. But I would consider it one of my finest moments if I managed to hit the target even once and consigned Joy Reid to the icy depths if only for a few moments. And I thought, “That’s a pretty good idea.” Dunk tank justice would provide satisfaction to the multitudes. Imagine if every aggrieved conservative got a turn at freeze dunking Nancy Pelosi or Joe Biden or Nikki Haley for saying really stupid things. This would be a happier world. Of course, some of the frailer losers like Pelosi might catch pneumonia. But I’m willing to take that risk.
I guess maybe the cruel and unusual punishment standard of justice might forbid dunk tank justice. But I tell you, I don’t see why we couldn’t get a constitutional amendment to cover it. And I’ll bet if Joy Reid thought that she could get dunked in ice water for saying things as stupid as what comes out of her mouth currently, maybe she’d take up some more noble profession, like rodeo clown. But unfortunately, being a rodeo clown takes brains, of which she has not a scintilla. Well, how about doorstop?
Iowa Checks In
If Donald Trump regains the White House this will still be a different country than the one I was born into. That country ceased to exist after 2001. That was when the people who ran this country decided that they had the cover to take over everything in our lives and leave us nothing but the bills. And in 2009 when Obama entered the White House he stood over the corpse of our country and buried it once and for all.
So, whatever happens going forward we live in a different place. But some of the people who made up the Old America are still kicking around. You can tell when Donald Trump scores an enormous win in Iowa. It took 37 minutes to declare Trump the winner. With about 37% of the vote in he’s got 52% of the votes to something like 20% apiece for DeSantis and Haley. People know who’s on their side.
So, you can see the demographic outline of the Old America by the places where Trump is doing well; places like Iowa and the Midwest and the South. And so, we’ll recognize that the Old America is a layer submerged in the new. It’s like a layer of pebbles that is all made of one mineral but then another mineral dissolved in water leaches into the stratum and forms a matrix around the pebbles and encases them in a sediment. We’re still here but in new surroundings, a new reality.
The only question to ask then is what can be made of this new place. Will the elites who drove this replacement manage to destroy us? I suppose that’s what we’ll find out. They’ve done a pretty thorough job of lousing up most of the things that still worked in this country. They croaked about half of the small businesses around the cities during the pandemic they orchestrated. They’ve ignited inflation and made life awful for the working class. They’ve consigned the children of the middle-class to the under-class. And they’ve sent most of the manufacturing jobs to Asia. I won’t even bother with the forever wars because even the Millennials and Zoomers are hopping mad about those because they might be the ones to have to fight them. So, all of this is waiting in the wings to see who gets the White House in November.
And to keep us amused until then we get to watch the spectacle of the Republican donors and the RNC spending tens of millions of dollars to try to convince voters that Nikki Haley is one of them. Not since Hillary Clinton started speaking in tongues and tried to convince black voters that she was just a poor old cotton-picker from Arkansas have we witnessed phonier “aw-shucks, we’re just folks” play acting. Well, I know Nikki said that Hillary was her inspiration and template. I think she’s reached her goal. All she lacks is the cackle.
So, let’s see how these primaries go. New Hampshire is probably going to be Haley’s high-water mark. All the Dems will voter for her since there isn’t going to be a Democrat primary to speak of. It’ll be fun to listen to the various talking heads try to parse this thing and give Nikki all the hopeful coverage they can until Trump reaches the finish line on Super Tuesday, March 5th. That’s seven weeks. Forty-nine days of listening to halfwits explaining how Nikki Haley would bury Joe Biden but Donald Trump doesn’t stand a chance. I’m sure MSNBC, CNN and PBS will have graphs and power point presentations and even holograms to prove all this.
I hope there is plenty of entertainment value to all this. I could use a laugh. In fact, Old America could use a laugh. We haven’t had one in years.
Strapping In for a Long Political Season
I was watching some footage of the pro-Palestinian rioters scaling the outer fence at the White House and thinking, “Is there a chance they might get Joe?” But, no. It was all Kabuki theater, of course. Some people are screaming,” Hey, how come they didn’t arrest them like they did the January 6th protesters?” But you don’t arrest your friends when they’re playacting. You know, making believe that they expect the White House to throw the Israelis under the bus. Ask the former president of Harvard how that worked out for her. No this is a fig leaf to try and minimize the electoral penalty they expect to pay in Michigan from the Arab voters there. Well, someone did the math and decided this was the better play.
So, tomorrow is the Iowa Caucus. Trump will win it by twenty or more percent. If Haley comes in second then maybe DeSantis may drop out. I’m not sure if Ramaswamy stays in. Maybe he wants to do New Hampshire too. I really don’t know how all this works for him. I think with all the Democrat and Independent crossover, Haley has a shot at winning in New Hampshire. But New Hampshire is now just North Massachusetts. Of course, they don’t want Trump. Every time the idiot governor Sununu shows up on MSNBC, he yammers on about how independent their voters are. What a load of crap. Anywhere else in the country a New England “Republican” is a radical progressive.
But if Haley manages to squeak out a victory in New Hampshire the press will trumpet how this means she’s got a shot at the nomination. Now that’s a crock. I don’t even think she has a chance of winning in her home state of South Carolina. But we’ll be hearing that drivel all the way up to February 24th when the primary occurs. Then mercifully, the wind will collapse out of their sails and the next sideshow will be the court trials to try and put Trump in jail. And on and on until the conventions and then the election.
Well, I really don’t have the interest to follow all of the minutia. I’ll just look at the headlines and look for some talking head to say something really stupid that I can mock. And there’s no end to those. I can’t make up my mind which are more pathetic the idiots on CNN and MSNBC or the fakes at Fox News. They’re both contemptible but somehow the fake conservatives are more contemptible. The pundits on the Left are so obviously cretinous numbskulls that you almost feel sorry for them; being paraded in front of cameras and allowed to prove themselves morons. Someone like Joy Reid isn’t playing with a full deck.
She’s annoying for sure but no one is thinking, “Hey, that Joy Reid really has a point there.” Well, no one with an IQ over 65. So, it’s not very important to try and discredit her jabbering.
But the Fox News people are of at least functional human intelligence and yet they lie and deceive their viewers by carrying water for the likes of Joe Biden. More and more the likes of Bret Baier strike me as the worst problem in news. He’s the voice of the Republican establishment and the worst offender when it comes to trying to sell people on Nikki Haley as some kind of conservative. So, Brett and his clones will probably provide the best fodder for my mockery. I’m sure if I search round in his history, I’ll find his elevator speech for why Republicans should embrace pediatric transgender affirmation surgery. But somehow he hasn’t volunteered to try it out himself.
As I said at New Year’s Day, I intend to try to avoid beating the same dead horses I’ve been pummeling for the last few years. It’s not very amusing anymore but when there is something amusing or enlightening that I can think of I’ll pass it along. Well, let’s see what shows up in Iowa.
Fabulous 2024
JB – Welcome back to the PBS News Hour. I’m your host Jiff Benetton and I’m here with New York Times columnist David Brooks-Brothers and Washington Post editor Jonathan Capon and we’re here to talk about the Biden reelection campaign strategy. Tell me David, what do you think should be the Biden campaign’s highest priority right now.
DBB – Well Jiff, If I’m being honest, I think they should try to limit the number of new shooting wars to one per week. Not that shooting wars are wrong or anything but it’s kind of a tradition to try and explain why we’re blowing up foreigners in some sort of detail. I mean, it’s hard enough to explain who the Houthis are and why they’re not called Yemenis and where Yemen is on the map. A recent survey revealed that 73% of Americans polled, identified the Houthis as inhabitants of the ice planet Hoth in Star Wars Episode 5; whereas in reality the desert home of the Houthis is more akin to Tatooine the home of the Tusken Raiders in Episode 4, or as I like to call it “the real Star Wars.”.
But all of this is happening while we’re still trying to explain why the Ukraine wants the Israelis’ money and it’s leading to confusion. People are starting to get frustrated with all the flag icons they have to list on their profile on X. Someone attempted to post the Yemeni flag with a slash through it and accidentally identified himself with the Cricket Liberation Front and a tragedy ensued. As a simplifying strategy, during the next White House press conference I’d have Haitian Bette Boop say that all of these places are just different parts of Ukraine. That would be best.
JB – Jonathan, what’s your take on the reelection situation?
JC – Jiff, I have just one word for Joe; FABULOUS!!!! What the Biden campaign needs is fierce queer energy. Joe needs a makeover. A beehive blue wig, three-inch scarlet fingernails, stiletto heels and a B&D leather two piece should be enough to get this campaign moving. They should bring in RuPaul as an image consultant and maybe give the First Lady a year-long furlough to an old age home to give the president room to explore his wild side. I feel confident with Jolene Biden on the prowl the 2024 election will be jumping. The campaign will become one big dance party!
JB – Dave, care to comment?
DBB – Uhhhhh, yeah. I’m a little uncertain about Joe Biden as a drag queen candidate. I’m not a hundred percent sure that the American public is ready for that much excitement. In fact I’m pretty sure they want less Biden on their news feed.
JB – What are you saying David?
DBB – A recent poll found that 78% of Democratic voters wanted President Biden to make up fewer lies when he spoke to the press. 52% of Democratic voters said they were more likely to vote for Biden if he just hid out and didn’t show his face to the public until after the election. I think that Drag Queen Biden would be unlikely to enhance his poll numbers.
JC – You know David, I always thought you were an ally but you sound just like a minion of the patriarchy spewing hate and trying to harsh the buzz that we LGBTQ people feel. You white, straight, cis-gender males are the enemy of all that is queer and beautiful. You should be ashamed for disparaging fabulous Jolene Biden and the White House Drag Extravaganza.
DBB – Yes, Jonathan. … I’m very ashamed. In fact, I’ve gotta get out of here right now. (walks off the set).
JB – Well folks, you’ve witnessed history right here. The patriarchy is reeling out of control and crashing to the ground. If only there were a disco ball in this studio, we could celebrate the way we should.
JC – You go girlfriend!
JB – Right back at ya. And that’s all we have. From everybody at PBS, well everybody except that homophobe David, have a great tomorrow and a better yesterday.
Waking Up to Brutal Reality
I was having a discussion with a good friend who currently is about where I was in 2016. He’s seen how fake the GOP establishment is but he thinks things are so bad, based on the polls, that Trump has to win. He talked about the drift of black and Hispanic and youth voters either slightly or precipitously away from Joe Biden this year and he feels that this has guaranteed the election for Trump.
So, I asked him what happens if two weeks after election day Joe Biden wins in the usual places; Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona and Georgia? “Well, then it’s over. We might as well look for a new country,” he said. Based on my conversations with this friend over the course of over twenty years this is a seismic change.
2020 was a wakeup call for the normie-cons. And no one can claim that in the world that we inhabited in 2000 or even 2008 that an economy and a social environment such as we have now would possibly have allowed for the incumbent that caused these conditions to get reelected. It just wouldn’t have happened. Everyone knows that election results no longer track with public opinion polls or even reality. I’m convinced that if Joe Biden “wins” the 2024 Presidential Election the last remaining holdouts on the Right will be fully awakened to truth about American elections; that they’re fake.
Now this is a limited observation and conclusion. I don’t claim that this realization will have any effect or result on our situation. The only thing that will happen will be a collapse in trust in the federal and blue state governments and a search for some other power center that can be invested with whatever monetary and social support these people can provide.
People like DeSantis and Abbott will be looked to for protection against Biden and the unconstitutional power grabs that he and his cronies will enact. It might even come down to a showdown over something like illegal border crossings in Texas. But at the very least most people will finally agree with the statement that “we can’t vote our way out of this situation.”
And that’s huge. This collapse in trust by the least political portion of the population is the death knell for the establishment Republicans. Creeps like Mitch McConnell and Nikki Haley will be recognized for what they are; patsies for the Left. Brave men who are willing to strike out in a new direction, to take matters into their own hands and force the federal government to accept the rights of Red State Americans to the constitutional freedoms that we were promised generations ago will be the true leaders and they will find enormous support from the people who are impatiently waiting for some kind of resistance to the unrelenting attack against us by the Left and their minions in Washington.
I look forward to the day when a whole generation of men who recognize what Trump did and use his example to replace the RINOs in state and federal offices and begin the process of defining and acting upon a concerted program to push back the outrages that have been perpetrated against the good people of this country for generations.
But all this supposes that such men exist. What if they don’t? Well then, if after the upcoming 2024 debacle no one steps forward to lead the remaining people of this country who want to be free, then I agree with my friend. We’ll need to find a new country.
Can You Top This?
In 2020 the Democrats had to beat a popular incumbent president. What they came up with was a race war and a lame bioweapon release to justify massive election fraud. So, for 2024, with Joe Biden as popular as a prostate exam how will the CIA and FBI top their last effort?
Since Joe is the incumbent, they can’t make the country vote for him with another race war. And I think we’re through with pandemics. The only thing I can think of is a false flag attack. Or rather, a real attack that the feds allow to happen. And with all the millions of illegal aliens marching up out of Mexico it’s a cinch that it will be easy enough to orchestrate. The only question is who will they attack?
One possibility is the Palestinians, or some Islamists that sympathize with them, attack a symbolic target in New York or even Washington DC. So, if they blow up the Freedom Tower or the White House what is supposed to happen? Would we rally round the flag? Would we vote to appropriate ten trillion dollars to get Raytheon to build a billion drones and blow up some more third world villages? And then what? Import whoever was left in the Middle East to come live in Michigan and Minnesota? And is that to punish them or us or both? I don’t know. It seems stale.
Another possibility is some Ukrainians pass themselves as Russians and attack a civilian target that will produce mass casualties. Maybe they’ll attack a business district at lunch time. Unfortunately, all the city downtowns have already been emptied out by remote work practices. If they attacked San Francisco at noon the only ones at risk are the homeless encampments and, honestly, I don’t think anyone would notice or care.
So, this is a conundrum for the Deep State’s best and brightest. If I could make a suggestion, maybe they could have their proxies attack Martha’s Vineyard. They could emulate what Hamas did in Southern Israel and slaughter the inhabitants in an orgy of sadistic violence. And after their paroxysm of mayhem had eliminated most of the managerial elite and their families, Americans would rise up to avenge them. Wouldn’t they? Surely the military recruiting stations in Cambridge MA and Berkley CA and Williamsburg Brooklyn would be inundated by trust fund babies lining up to enlist and get revenge for all those billionaires massacred on the sand dunes and along the bike paths of Martha’s Vineyard. And even if they didn’t, surely, it’s worth a try.
Seriously, no one knows what the powers that be will come up with for 2024. One thing they’re desperately attempting is to revive the economy. Every hour on the hour the talking heads on tv tell us just how wonderful the economy is. We’re assured that the rise in the cost of living is more than compensated for by the incredible increases in salaries. And anyone who says otherwise is a stooge for Putin. But unfortunately, Putin must be paying off something like two hundred million stooges because that’s about the proportion of Americans who want to fire Joe Biden for turning us all into paupers.
After all that buildup, will 2024 be free from fireworks? I guess it’s possible. My only thought is be a little more careful than you think you need to be. There are a lot of really sick people who may react to bad news by doing crazy things. Some of those sick people may live in your area. Don’t volunteer to set them off. In the new year attend to your business. Do what you need to do to live a better life. Protect your family and make sure they have what they need to thrive. Get involved in your local politics. Everything else is just the sideshow that’s outside of your control. Watch that from a distance and act according to how it plays out.
Welcome to 2024.
Mirror Image
Recently, I had a short conversation with someone on the Left. In New England, that’s hardly an unexpected situation. But for me to discuss the political situation with people on the other side of the political divide is quite rare. Basically, I don’t bother to debate the political issues with those on the Left. It serves no useful purpose for me. We would not be able to even agree on the definitions of the things about which we disagree. There’s no point of contact between our world views.
But a funny thing happened. Someone I met in town while waiting in a line asked me what I thought would happen after the November election. We had been standing in line and we were talking about Christmas get togethers and then we mentioned the New Year and he reminded me it was an election year. I said in a neutral way that it was going to be an ugly campaign. He agreed but said he thought that it would provide closure. Specifically, he asked whether I thought that things would go back to normal if Trump lost.
I answered his question with a question. I asked, “Would things go back to normal if Trump won?” He flinched and said, “No, of course not!” I asked why and he said, “Because that would be intolerable.” I replied, “You’ve just given the answer to your question.” He seemed very surprised and then thoughtful. He stopped talking to me and we stood in silence until his turn in the line was called. I can’t be sure but I think I witnessed an epiphany.
The people on the Left, a lot of them anyway, think Trump is some kind of a hypnotist that has mesmerized otherwise normal people into saying and doing things that they would otherwise not do. They think that Trump voters are acting against their own best interests and even against their own beliefs. They figure if Trump is eliminated then Republicans will go back to voting for Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush and Liz Cheney. We’ll cheer for illegal aliens sucking up all the federal government’s resources. We’ll come around to accepting doctors castrating boys and neutering girls and allowing perverts to groom young children in grade school.
They blame Trump for the revolt that he spearheaded. They either believe or pretend to believe that all the stuff like Russia-gate and the suppression of Hunter’s laptop and COVID lab leak are just rightwing conspiracy theories. So, they either believe or just hope that once Trump leaves the scene more reasonable Republicans will take control of the party and steer us back into the calmer days of George W Bush, or better still, Mitt Romney. Mitt is every Democrat’s favorite Republican; technically competent, ethically spineless and willing to take any amount of abuse without uttering a single word in his own defense.
But I think I impinged on this one Democrat’s reassuring bubble. I think I revealed to him that there is a mirror image to his world view. And that it rules out the old status quo. The old world where Democrats and Republicans were two ends of a single spectrum of American voters is completely gone. It’s been replaced by a landscape where close to half the population feels like they’re living through an occupation complete with gestapo and fake elections. They may be afraid to revolt against the army of occupation but that doesn’t mean they feel any kinship with their occupiers.
I think I convinced him that November isn’t going to end anything. It’s just the beginning of the next phase, one way or the other.