Friends, lefties are loving every minute of the Trump trials, and those multimillion dollar judgements against him are like candy to them. Be that as it may, there's little or no evidence that thus far any of the cases have achieved their primary, essentially political, objective: to damage Trump as a candidate for the presidency. Oh, he was already damaged and widely unpopular, but his favorables and unfavorables have barely budged overall -- and, given Biden's struggles, Trump is still in a very strong position to win in November. The presence of so many candidates in the race makes his job even easier.
On this week's Newsmaker Show, Brian and I discuss Trump's travails, as well as the significance of the death of Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison, Democratic efforts to capture control of the redistricting process via the courts, how Republicans and conservatives are increasingly assuming the role of persecuted dissidents in America, Nate Silver's surging anxiety about Biden's electoral prospects, the future of the No Labels movement and the question of why Americans refuse to vote for third party candidates, Nikki Haley's defiant tone about staying in the race, the outrageousness of the phony "fraud" case against Trump in NYS, and the prospects for Joe Sempolinski as a potential candidate for the New York State Assembly.
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https://wlea.net/newsmaker-february-21-2024-dr-nick-waddy/
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In other news, the New York Times is reveling in Democrats' crafitness in using state courts to advance their leftist agenda, and indeed the Dems have captured control of many critical purple state Supreme Courts. The Times didn't mention that the first priority of many of these state-level judges is redrawing legislative and Congressional district boundaries so that Democrats can win the maximum number of seats. As usual, the Dems are outperforming Republicans strategically and tactically, and we would do well to remember that, because of "judicial review", i.e. judicial supremacy, ultimately he who controls the courts controls everything.
Finally, among Republicans, apparently Ron DeSantis is the top choice to be Donald Trump's running mate. Now, whether DeSantis is Trump's top choice is another matter. I personally would love to see an alliance between these two men, first and foremost because it would put DeSantis at the head of the line of succession. Right now, it's very unclear who will, or could, seize the Trumpian mantle after DJT himself goes to MAGA heaven.
FROM RAY
ReplyDeleteDeSantis is NOT my choice for Trump running mate. The man does NOT have what it takes to "seize anyone's mantle". There must be some quality people out there that Trump could pick, besides Ron.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I think DeSantis and Trump would be a dynamite ticket. DeSantis may not have been an effective campaigner but he's one heck of a good executive ; he's doing just what has to be done with
ReplyDeleteincipiently totalitarian wokeism; he's sticking a thumb right in its eye and landing haymakers. Good for him; he's redeeming a very important state and showing alot of moxie in facing the antiamerican left's customary ad hominem onslaught. Thinking of Florida prompts me to note a story on Fox this AM concerning its very antithesis, NY state. An Arizona prosecutor is refusing to send back to NYC a savage who has allegedly done two stabbings of apparently random victims and, oh yes , may have gotten the job done smartly on a now dead NYC victim.Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is highly offended; perhaps if he were to demonstrate concern for victims instead of the heartwarming regard he has for criminals, Arizona would not have been constrained by common sense to bring this "person" to justice properly. NY is a pariah state and may well experience increasing and well earned noncooperation from America.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I think the antiamerican left has overreached. In prosecuting ad hominem lawfare on DJT they have deeply angered his supporters and, I trust ,many more of good will. They appear to have bet their future on this execrable tactic and on the border invasion and if they lose, they will fall hard! That prospect is a real mobilizer now and its ehh, inadvisable to motivate your opponent so.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Re: the broadcast : I understood you to say that the perception since 1947 of Russia as an existential threat to the West was mistaken (?). I would suggest that since Russia got deep into its long post USSR retreat across E. Europe to its very borders, allowing Nato to camp outside its , that that perception was no longer justified (except of course for the accidental use of its still appalling nuclear power). But from 1945 until then that perception was well supported I think. Stalin was a subhuman who would blithely have accepted the immolation of millions of Russians had he wished, had he seen advantage in taking Western Europe. Some sources hold that that was his intent after he secured the Hbomb.Since he would have had to fight Nato after 1949, WWIII would have commenced. China itself (!)fell to to commies apparently forming a bloc with Russia in 1949 American jets fought Migs with Russian pilots over Korea in 1950.We would have been most unwise to have immediately trusted the leadership which obtained after Stalin went to hell itself. Too, Russian development of ICBMs and its temporary advances in space raised understandable concerns. Even pore 'ol Jimmy Carter had to admit he had been wrong to underestimate the Soviet threat. Surely the comprehensive strategy of containment was necessitated by a fundamental threat to the world from Russia and its virulent ideology. But the antiamerican left's present cynical and disingenuous misuse of Russia as our bete noire for domestic political tactic: on that I completely agree with you.
ReplyDelete" . . . Allowing Nato to camp outside its gates. . . "
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: A viable 3rd party capable of winning national elections would necessarily involve compromise (Manchin/Romney fur the luvva. . . ). Compromise with the antiamerican far left is impossible. American politics consist of two irreconcilable factions: those fanatically determined to "fundamentally transform" America into a forceably secular marxist totalitarian hellhole and those determined to conserve and protect America by stopping them. One side or the other will prevail; if we do we will marginalize the commies; if they do they will enslave all, including their hapless enablers. The antiamerican left's incipiently totalitarian behavior in those institutions it already dominates (eg. the "american "academy, secondary and elementary education, the MSM) is proof enough of how complete and arbitrary their control would be if they take over. There is no room for compromise there and a third party hazarding a perceived middle ground, would itself be ground to atoms.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Waddy is most right in pointing out the appalling disdain and presumptuousness displayed by NY's AG in openly campaigning for the power to wage lawfare.Naturally she followed through! To have expected any less of a devoted far left fanatic is folly. Even worse is the proven sorry state of an electorate which obsequiously enabled her.I agree: today its DJT, a former President; tomorrow, if her ilk succeeds in November , who among us might not be next?! NY's countenance of such evil intent in its polity fairly warns us of what the antiamerican far left strives to impose on America. What more do we need to persuade us that we stand to lose ALL?
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Hooray for Joe Sempolinski. With him in office our way of life would continue to be truly defended in the hostile setting of the NYC dominated NY legislature. A smart and experienced guy like him would not stand for such candidacy unless he knew he could be effective in that challenging setting!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Once again, ad infinitum, ad nauseum, the antiamerican left simply and openly asserts its willingness to be lawless. "So the Constitution says the state legislatures determine Congressional districts! If we don't like the results, we'll just ignore it. Don't like that? So sue us! In the time it takes we'll hustle and bustle and if you get favorable results we'll just come up with another time consuming play, see! Look what we're doing to the 2nd Amendment in NY. You people just don't understand do you? We are in this to WIN, by any means necessary!"
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: The memory of the antiamerican left's traitorous aid and comfort to Russia's commie ally, murderous North Vietnam, puts the lie to their "shock. . . shock!" and ire at Russia today. They can't have it both ways. They have imagined Russia a convenient foil for their incipiently totalitarian onslaught on America and those who defend it and their insincerity is laughably obvious. Their lugubrious concern over Navalny is sham!
ReplyDeleteJack, I'm optimistic that DeSantis would make an excellent president, which is a good reason for Trump to choose him, but would he make an excellent running mate? Ahh. That's another matter. Ray, what causes you to doubt DeSantis? His ineloquence?
ReplyDeleteWell, the Dems may fluff in '24, but "fall hard"? They certainly didn't in '16, so why should '24 be any different?
Oh, I don't object in the least to the strategy of containment during the Cold War. I do view the USSR as an existential threat to the West. My view parallels yours: all that changed in 1989-91...
Jack, I disagree that any viable third party would necessarily be a "compromise", i.e. wishy-washy moderate, party. Why would that be so? There's nothing to stop a party to the left of the Dems, or the right of the GOP, from forming and enjoying popularity, even ascendancy. All it would take is a little imagination... Trumpers may even be the means by which this sea change occurs.
Sad to say, but SCOTUS had a chance to slap down efforts by state supreme courts to usurp power over redistricting. As I understand it, SCOTUS sat on its hands. That was a very regrettable oversight and American democracy may not survive it, if the Dems have anything to say about it.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Such is the intensity of the antiamerican left's dread of a DJT restoration that it may well bode an equally hyperbolic reaction in them , a veritable tsunami of despair and vindictiveness, should it occur. Perhaps just the thought of DJT's to be expected further assurance of a lawful Scotus might suffice to bring them to critical mass and beyond. They have always, just behind their disingenuous fronts, chafed almost beyond forebearance at the tactical limitations their grudging accession to "respectability" have forced on their totalitarian intentions. Maybe they would cut loose and throw down!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: A third party to the left of the dems or the right of the GOP: an intriguing thought. I would think it unlikely Maga would depart the GOP; it ours now and we benefit from its structure and its stature. Let rinos live their indecisive cavilling in the phantom zone. This is a time when the totalitarian intent of those who have captured the dem party is unmistakeable and a firm stand against it is VITAL. Where can they go aside from the pitiful middle? Surely they could not countenance common cause with the increasingly bold expectant totalitarians .If DJT were no longer available I would think we would have candidates eager to inherit his mantle. They would not be successful unless they fully realized that Maga knows that it doesn't have to put up with rinos anymore; DJT proved it. On the left: OH I do hope the radical left raises a snit and either bolts or , more likely since they already direct the dem party, show dems of good will the door as they clear the decks for their final offensive. And where will those loyal good souls go? I think to the atavistic middle to sojourn with the rinos, though perhaps , if they really "wake up", to the remaining still American party. The battle lines in the Cold Civil War are clearly drawn now ; its going to be a political and cultural fight to the finish and the middle will have little say in who prevails. I don't think those who dominate the dems now can be "outlefted" by any viable party. They are already in lala land!
ReplyDeleteOh, Jack, I'd say the possibility that the Left will forsake "respectability" to take down Trump is very real. Some would say they are way past that point already, but as yet they have not been willing to renounce judicial review. That day may be coming.
ReplyDeleteInteresting analysis, Jack, but I'm not convinced that the "battle lines" are as clear as you suggest. For instance, who would have predicted a few years ago that Liz Cheney and Chris Christie would become two of Trump's most ardent critics? Who would have predicted that RFK, Jr. would split with the Dems and threaten to scoop up 20% of the vote, seriously hampering Biden's chances? I'd say the situation is VERY fluid, and, if the electorate splinters thoroughly enough, almost any party, current or future, could capture the White House -- assuming that our elections remain reasonably fair, or at least competitive.