Well, well, well. The election is over. Kamala gave a graceful concession speech, unlike Donald Trump would have, certainly, appealing to the better angels of our nature, unity, freedom, praising justice and congratulating Trump on his victory. Trump got his justice last night, from clearly enthusiastic millions of his supporters. Jack Smith will go away, and Trump will not.
The mystery to us Democrats, despite the howls of pundits is what caused so lopsided a victory for Trump? What was it that Democrats did not see that a majority of voters in the country did? Was it jobs, the cost of living, racism, gender bias, foreign interference, social media, a low-information electorate, rage against cultural elites, immigration? Or was it all these things, melded with years of propaganda from FOX news, and Rupert Murdoch’s malign influence on the information cycle? Was it lies becoming truth? Was it Orwellian verisimilitude?
Some of my liberal friends think the world is coming to an end, or at the least, the American experiment will now go down in a whirlpool of authoritarian power and revenge, presided over by a convict, rapist, and truculent liar? Maybe. I told them not to take it so hard. Get a life. Turn off MSNBC and read a novel or do some navel contemplation.
It would behoove those who think the sky is falling, to reflect on some aspects of American history. That we have survived , among many other disasters, a Civil War, two World Wars, the Korean War, a plethora of equally malodorous con men, racists, bigots and scoundrels, including, but not limited to, Father Coughlin, George Wallace, Joseph McCarthy, the House Un American Activity Committee, Communist witch hunts, backlists, Atomic spies, Pearl Harbor, 9/11, misbegotten wars in Viet Nam and Iraq, The Great Depression, The Great Recession, Jim Crow, slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, Segregation, and failed presidents like James Buchanan, followed finally by Abraham Lincoln, who saved the Union. Then assassination. And don’t forget, after Lincoln, came Andrew Johnson, a racist who was impeached, just like Trump, but stayed in office by just one vote in the Senate doing what he could to sabotage reconstruction.
Some of us feel like we have been cheated out of seeing Trump marched away in a complexion-matching orange jump suit and handcuffs on his way sharing a cell with one of his insurrectionist constituents, the guy with the fur hat, outrageous tats and horns who now, among all the others, Trump promises to pardon for trying to overthrow the government and hang Mike Pence for doing his constitutional duty.
Now, Kamala Harris will preside over the Senate when the votes are certified. Just as did Al Gore when he lost to W. There will be no cries from Trump’s minions, since this election will be deemed Trumplistically “perfect,” Why?
Well, well, well. The election is over. Kamala gave a graceful concession speech, unlike Donald Trump would have, certainly, appealing to the better angels of our nature, unity, freedom, praising justice and congratulating Trump on his victory. Trump got his justice last night, from clearly enthusiastic millions of his supporters. Jack Smith will go away, and Trump will not.
The mystery to us Democrats, despite the howls of pundits is what caused so lopsided a victory for Trump? What was it that Democrats did not see that a majority of voters in the country did? Was it jobs, the cost of living, racism, gender bias, foreign interference, social media, a low-information electorate, rage against cultural elites, immigration? Or was it all these things, melded with years of propaganda from FOX news, and Rupert Murdoch’s malign influence on the information cycle? Was it lies becoming truth? Was it Orwellian verisimilitude?
Some of my liberal friends think the world is coming to an end, or at the least, the American experiment will now go down in a whirlpool of authoritarian power and revenge, presided over by a convict, rapist, and truculent liar? Maybe. I told them not to take it so hard. Get a life. Turn off MSNBC and read a novel or do some navel contemplation.
It would behoove those who think the sky is falling, to reflect on some aspects of American history. That we have survived , among many other disasters, a Civil War, two World Wars, the Korean War, a plethora of equally malodorous con men, racists, bigots and scoundrels, including, but not limited to, Father Coughlin, George Wallace, Joseph McCarthy, the House Un American Activity Committee, Communist witch hunts, backlists, Atomic spies, Pearl Harbor, 9/11, misbegotten wars in Viet Nam and Iraq, The Great Depression, The Great Recession, Jim Crow, slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, Segregation, and failed presidents like James Buchanan, followed finally by Abraham Lincoln, who saved the Union. Then assassination. And don’t forget, after Lincoln, came Andrew Johnson, a racist who was impeached, just like Trump, but stayed in office by just one vote in the Senate doing what he could to sabotage reconstruction.
Some of us feel like we have been cheated out of seeing Trump marched away in a complexion-matching orange jump suit and handcuffs on his way sharing a cell with one of his insurrectionist constituents, the guy with the fur hat, outrageous tats and horns who now, among all the others, Trump promises to pardon for trying to overthrow the government and hang Mike Pence for doing his constitutional duty.
Now, Kamala Harris will preside over the Senate when the votes are certified. Just as did Al Gore when he lost to W. There will be no cries from Trump’s minions, since this election will be deemed Trumplistically “perfect,” Why?
Because you dummies, he fucking won.
I am exhausted after nine years of Donald Trump. And now another four? Now we are sentenced to four years ourselves.
Because you dummies, he fucking won.
I am exhausted after nine years of Donald Trump. And now another four? Now we are sentenced to four years ourselves.
I promised myself that if Trump won, I would not watch cable news or read a newspaper for four years. I would not listen to journalists wringing their hands about what the Democrats did wrong enough to lose the election. Or how all those voters could be fooled and vote for someone who did not represent their values. Or how they drank the Kool Aid. Au contraire. The voters got what they wanted. Trump represents their values. They overlooked his criminality, his self-enrichment, his disdain for the rule of law. They got what they wanted, what they wished for. So as the saying goes, be careful about those wishes.
