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True, and we can only hope those we elect in the GOP realize this and don’t let it affect their choices. Like you, I didn’t vote for Trump in the primaries either. But once he was our nominee, I was behind him 1000% and still am. I love him more and more as time goes on. One of the biggest eye-openers for me was when the Senate did nothing about Obamacare. After 7 years of wailing that if only we gave them the majority, they’d take care of that. But when we gave it to them, we found out they had prepared nothing. They had 7 years to put something together, but they had not.
That’s when I knew they never had any intention of doing it. They liked things just the way they were. I realized that there aren’t even really two parties. Just a bunch of career pols who like the status quo just fine and don’t care about us at all. And they STILL don’t understand why we elected Trump. As for some of you oh-so-fastidious Republicans who can’t stop themselves from informing me that he’s a bumptious oaf, get over yourselves. Oh and by the way, we already KNEW THAT. And we don’t care. Get it through your heads, we do not care. Trump is the man we needed right now, and nobody else from our supposedly deep bench of 2016 could ever have pulled this off. They couldn’t even have beaten Hillary. And every time one of you posts negativity about him, you are HELPING THE LEFT.
This was a really great post, Aaron. Well written and eloquent.
Excellent post, Aaron!
Spot on.
The Left is unhinged because their “arc of history” and their unstopped march to power is being interrupted.
They are the ones who, unprecedented in our Republic, refused the peaceful transition of power.
Completely agree. But, it’s not conservatives I worry about. Not real ones who tend to be wildly supportive of Trump’s presidency. It’s that squirrely 15% in the middle — the swing voters — who might be convinced that the beatings will cease once their morale improves (and they vote straight D). I’m concerned about what portion of the country suffers battered wife syndrome.
Keep in mind that the “geniuses” at the Lincoln Project want to hand the reins of power over to Democrats like those who wouldn’t let AG Barr speak and who think Antifa is a myth but really want the violence to continue.
Not to nitpick, but this is not exactly unprecedented. There was the dispute over the election results of 2000. And let’s not forget that little dust up that occurred following the election of 1860.
The. Juxtaposition. Of. These. Two. Tweets. Democrats won’t condemn what’s happening in the Andy Ngo video. Democrats and members of the Lincoln Project will instead focus all their energy condemning Donald Trump. This is the 2020 Election in a nutshell. I’m absolutely convinced that the only way that Democrats can win is by illegal vote harvesting and fraudulent votes in districts that look as they are going for a Republican candidate or Trump.
Let us not forget the election of 1800 when Vice Presidential nominee Aaron Burr, having received just as many Electoral College votes as Presidential nominee Thomas Jefferson, argued forcefully that he should be President. 35 deadlocked votes in the House of Representatives when Hamilton prevailed on Jefferson’s behalf with some Federalist friends. Good times.
A wonderful piece Mr. Miller but I am hesitant to give even the smallest of inch to the now insane left without a solid case. I submit that it would be damn hard to show that he acted beyond his authority to any extent beyond what has been acceptable to all of his modern predecessors.
I might have added, ‘blowback’ to the list of words to strike from our vocabulary last month.
It has a real meaning in physics, but is useless for war and politics because neither of them operate on rational forces.
When you’re tempted to use the word blowback, consider ‘retaliation’ or ‘overreaction’ instead.
And “unpack”. How about using a really weird word, such as “explain” or “analyze”. (We now return you to your program in progress.)