Here we are, believe it or not, fast approaching the first quarter mile turn on the metaphorical 2018 One Mile Trump Derby Race and Fashion Show.\u00a0 Currently, the favorite, God-Emperor (1) is ahead of SJW\u2019s Last Hope (13) and JEB\u2019s Your Daddy (17) by at least 8 lengths and his jockey has now reversed his seat and is making funny faces at the rest of the field as they rapidly shrink into the middle-distance.\u00a0 Abandoning the horse racing metaphor (\u2018cause I can\u2019t think of anything more), we have CNN and MSNBC praising President Trump\u2019s initiative with North Korea, the President of the Steelworkers\u2019 Union telling Chuck Todd that Trump will get electoral support from the rank and file over his trade stance and NeverTrumper Senator Dean Heller is slobbering over President Trump in the forlorn hope that this will help him win his primary.\u00a0 Oh baby, the times they are a changin.<\/p>\n
And the only real threat on the horizon, Mueller and his Russian witch-hunt, seems to be turning into a case of the besieger becoming the besieged.\u00a0 I get the impression that the Trump Administration is building a case against Mueller to be used to put some teeth into a tit for tat agreement to end his investigation.<\/p>\n
And let\u2019s look at the political environment.\u00a0 The Media is hanging around porn shoots trying to scare up interest in impeachment.\u00a0 Congressional Democrats keep insisting that 2018 is their year to win back the House and Senate.\u00a0 Congressional Republicans are trying to memorize the phrase tax cuts and jobs.\u00a0 The NeverTrumpers are becoming increasingly lonely and confused.\u00a0 The Dissident and Alt-Right are becoming so confident that they are almost giddy.\u00a0 Some of them are toning down parts of their message to broaden their appeal.\u00a0 Others are actually hardening their responses to leftists in the Social Media and the broader culture.\u00a0 In general, there is a sense that the tide is turning against the left.\u00a0 Whether this change is momentary or something that is gaining momentum is still unclear.\u00a0 But there is definitely a change going on.\u00a0 Good.<\/p>\n
The Left of course is counter-attacking furiously wherever it can.\u00a0 Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have basically expelled the Right from their sites.\u00a0 California has declared war on ICE and the Federal Government.\u00a0 And the activists federal judges are doing everything up to and including criminal malfeasance to block the Trump Administration wherever they can.\u00a0 But I think they know they are getting their butts kicked.\u00a0 Basically, these are delaying actions, scorching the earth behind their retreat.\u00a0 Good.<\/p>\n
So, what about me?\u00a0 How do I feel about all this?\u00a0 I am generally optimistic.\u00a0 I think President Trump has shown that he can handle random catastrophes like the school shooting and deflect a lot of the media noise away from himself and his agenda.\u00a0 And with the extremely strong economic news and the positive foreign policy news he\u2019s positioned to help the hapless Republicans weather the 2018 midterms.<\/p>\n
As a sanity check I understand that bad things are going to happen intermittently throughout the Trump Administration.\u00a0 And some of them may be so dire that they destroy the progress currently being made.\u00a0 But that\u2019s the nature of life.\u00a0 What Trump has done is demonstrate that we need a leader as President not a bureaucrat.\u00a0 We must demand that whoever is the next President gets results.\u00a0 He must work for us and not the global cartel.\u00a0 I just hope Mike Pence is taking good notes and Donald Trump will give us his honest opinion of who his successor should be.<\/p>\n
So, there we are.\u00a0 Things are good and look to get even better.\u00a0 Maybe Justice Kennedy will do the right thing.\u00a0 He can vote constitutionally for freedom of religion on the Wedding Baker case and then retire to his beach house on Fire Island and allow a deciding vote Right Wing Justice to ascend to the bench.\u00a0 We can hope to see the Justice Department prosecuting California for obstructing the immigration laws.\u00a0 And we can hope to see Mueller ride off into the sunset with his tail between his legs.\u00a0 Stay tuned.\u00a0 Better days seem to be upon us.<\/p>\n
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