tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777917788300730378.post2099569704755518316..comments2023-09-16T07:54:36.619-07:00Comments on The news from David S. Wieder: The Divisiveness of Donald J. Trump Wiederlaw legal blog for plain folkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14714040614753389922noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777917788300730378.post-34171910585872314912017-10-24T16:49:20.000-07:002017-10-24T16:49:20.000-07:00David,
Trump is not Trump. Trump would have been...David,<br /><br />Trump is not Trump. Trump would have been any other 1% cartoon in the primaries, except he had adherents. That's the problem. And as low as he is in whatever polls anyone takes, he's no where near zero. And he still has Congress folding, and enabling him. Because they're afraid of him, and of the voters they think (probably rightly so) are stupid enough to continue to go along with this dishonest nonsense.<br /><br />The answers to all the questions you ask in your second paragraph are yes. The Electoral College is not magic. It's not a higher plane of mental existence. It represented what the voters wanted, as it always does. If we needed to be saved from ourselves, we needed something more than the Electoral College. The other and more elegant thing Barnum said is that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. And Walt Kelly reminded us that "we have met the enemy, and it is us." This is what Americans want. We can complain that the House of Representatives is a caricature, because it's gerrymandered. And that it was the technicality that is the Electoral College that gave Trump a victory. But the Senate is also Republican. There's no getting out of that. And people like Corker and Flake, whatever you or I might think is wrong with them, have quit and are quitting, because they think they can't fight the rising tide of nutcases and goofballs. So as bad as anyone thinks they are, they're willfully giving way to Senators who will be worse.<br /><br />Unless Trump and the stooges and idiots in Congress succeed in doing enough damage soon enough that the American people will see what's wrong with the bedtime stories they've been read. I don't want Congress to fail to destroy the ACA. I don't want them to say they're still working on a replacement. I want them to go for it. Before the midterm elections. I want them to SHOW the American people what liberals have failed to TELL them convincingly, when it comes to warning against the so-called conservative agenda.<br /><br />FredFredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07127705762104787222noreply@blogger.com