{"id":9861,"date":"2020-02-08T21:05:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T02:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=9861"},"modified":"2020-02-08T20:29:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T01:29:12","slug":"weve-got-the-bastards-on-the-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/08\/weve-got-the-bastards-on-the-run\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve Got the Bastards on the Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s possible, in my opinion, to belabor certain points.\u00a0 For instance, some folks are so interested in the inside baseball of the Justice Department corruption that countless words will be expended weekly going over the minutia of the various documents available and how these might impact future moves by President Trump\u2019s allies and enemies.\u00a0 Granted, that many people are fascinated by the prospect of the swamp getting nuked by Attorney General Barr.\u00a0 I myself am among those who would build a statue to Mr. Barr if he won that war.\u00a0 But I think continuously covering the same ground is too maddening to contemplate and a form of abuse of the readers.\u00a0 That being said, I want to regurgitate some of the events of this past week.\u00a0 And the reason is I want to talk about what the cumulative effect of all these wins has been on the morale of the Right Wing.<\/p>\n<p>I have some friends on the Right who for a long time have been borderline clinically depressed over the state of the country and the prospects of things ever improving.\u00a0 Well, this week I caught them smiling and laughing about the events of the past few days.\u00a0 When I accused them of optimism, they tried to deny it but the smiles on their faces put the lie to it.\u00a0 And in the news a poll found that Americans by an 80% to 11% margin thought that their lives would improve in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>What we are seeing is the result of winning.\u00a0 What we are seeing is the result of trying.\u00a0 People have been conditioned by decades of seeing the hapless Republicans having their heads handed to them by progressives in the Media and the Democrats that they automatically assume that no matter what break comes our way it will be stifled by a combination of the power of the Left and the incompetence of the GOP establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Well, what we saw this week is something that we haven\u2019t seen since Reagan.\u00a0 Sustained good news.\u00a0 A whole week where every real piece of news went our way.\u00a0 Every event showed President Trump winning and the various Leftists taking it on the chin.\u00a0 You might ask, so what?\u00a0 Shouldn\u2019t we just take this in stride and move onto the next fight?<\/p>\n<p>No.\u00a0 We should celebrate.\u00a0 We should relish the moment.\u00a0 We should go out to dinner and order something special and if you\u2019re of the persuasion, pop open a bottle of good wine.\u00a0 Call up your friends on our side of the aisle and share a laugh and a pleasant conversation.\u00a0 This doesn\u2019t happen every day.\u00a0 Their side took some pretty heavy shots and their leaders and their followers were noticeably stunned at just how bad things turned out.\u00a0 Guys like James Carville were sounding the alarm.\u00a0 They know just how bad it will be for their side if a Bernie Sanders or even a Pete Buttigieg ends up as their candidate.\u00a0 They\u2019re terrified.\u00a0 And us?\u00a0 We\u2019re elated and confident and expecting it to get even better.\u00a0 And the best part?\u00a0 They know the truth of both sides of it and there\u2019s not a damn thing they can do about it.\u00a0 As I said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/13\/impeachment-the-last-bullet-in-the-gun\/\">earlier post<\/a>, impeachment is the last bullet in the gun.\u00a0 If you can\u2019t get a conviction or even a bipartisan effort you\u2019re out of luck.\u00a0 President Trump has actually come out of the trial stronger than he went 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