Friends, how petty is the Left's maniacal hatred of Donald Trump? Pretty darn petty! Witness the fact that one of the sketch artists who was present for Trump's most recent arraignment in Miami has been excoriated for...making Trump look good. As everyone knows, Trump is a monster, and monsters should appear monstrous, right? Soon lefties will begin to demand that photographers who capture Trump's image use special filters to make him look crazed, bloodthirsty, and/or demonic. And isn't that the purpose of photography and all the arts, at the end of the day -- to advance the cause of neo-Marxism? I'd say so.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-sketch-artist-criticism/2023/06/19/id/1124046/
In more serious news, the first polls are in regarding Trump's indictment, and it seems that the American public isn't buying the MSM spin as much as I would have expected. Is there a large market for these Trump prosecutions? Oh, no doubt. There are also huge numbers of Americans who consider them unjust, at worst, or opportunistic and self-serving (on behalf of Trump's enemies), at best. What does this mean? It means that there is at least a chance that the DOJ's decision to go after Trump will backfire, and he will actually be strenghtened politically because more people see him as a martyr than as a menace to public order. We need to remember, however, that the legal vendetta against Trump will unfold over years, not mere days or weeks. Whatever the American people are thinking now about the case may not be what they think and feel a year from now. That is to say, there will be an arc to public perceptions of Trump's legal troubles. People will become either more or less sympathetic to Trump over time, and I'm certainly in no position to predict which it will be.
Dr.Waddy from Jack: As I recall , two relatively recent protracted "businesses", Watergate and the Lewinski scandal, ebbed and flowed in the public's view. But with significant events they flared to full life like a banked fire. Amoral and accomplished dissemblers like the anti americans will try to use our legal system to mismanage the political development of this very consequential , possibly critical,year and a half we have in store. The time between now and the big election and perhaps its aftermath could be historically decisive.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: We are already presented with unprecedented circumstances fostered by the antiamericans' savage onslaught on DJT. They have taken liberties with our nation's laws which herald a purposeful, presumptuous and harrowing attempted advance by the left toward the totalitarian rule it intends. If it is allowed to stand, the left will hasten to institutionalize it in our political life. You have rightfully and plausibly considered the possibility of the american left making a final assault on our democracy should President Trump be reelected. That the antiamericans are preparing for such a possibility should be considered an appalling certainty to which America must turn its full attention now! Even should this opportunity for takeover not manifest in 2024, we must fully accept the inevitability that they will go for it by and by.
ReplyDeleteJack, you're absolutely right that scandals can lie dormant for long periods, and they can blow up into major storms in the strangest ways. Of course, most of these dynamics can be explained if one understands the deep-seated interests and subtle machinations of the deep state... Why did the establishment decide that Nixon absolutely, positively needed to go? I'm not sure. Could they decide at some stage that the Bidens too need to be given the heave-ho? I don't see why not...
ReplyDeleteJack, I agree that conservatives need to come to grips with just how fragile our constitutional rights, and indeed our constitutional system, have become. Democracies can and often do die a death of a thousand cuts. Censorship, ballot harvesting, and the strong-arming of employees by woke corporations, IN THEMSELVES, could turn this country into a sham democracy. It wouldn't take much...
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Perhaps we are going to find that American democracy is a failed experiment. We appear to be unwilling to muster the resolve to defend it against those who demonstrate unlimited cynicism which motivates them to blithely misuse it to destroy it. Eg. we countenance tolerance, to a level which beggars common sense by an overemphasis on rights and scorn for responsibility. To its shame our country allows the two most vulnerable groups - children and senior citizens - to suffer physical danger from unrestrained criminals to an extent unthinkable in most of the civilized world
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Cultural neo marxism, the fundamental credo of the antiamericans, the left, is proven radically counter and inimical to democracy. Yet we countenance it to perhaps a tragically self destructive extent. We may lose all if we demur at RESOLVING ourselves to meet the dissemblers and defeat them, using means democracy does afford us, if we will but do it!
ReplyDeleteJack, I can pretty much guarantee that American democracy will be a failed experiment -- in the long run. Every human artifice fails in the long run. The question isn't if we'll succumb to centrifugal forces, but when... A lot of people thought we were teetering on the edge in the early 70s. We got through those trials. Maybe we will again. The problem I see is that we're in a constant race to the bottom, in terms of intellectual and emotional maturity, fostered by our corrupt and self-serving media. How can we pull out of that tailspin???
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