Preface to the following post from this past Friday: I have to believe....and I have evidence to back it up....that a sizable portion of the rank and file are tired of the way that Donald Trump has stirred and stirred and stirred....incessantly....day and night....for four years now....giving us no time to analyse or meditate upon anything....but Rush will take the airwaves of our mind tomorrow at noon and ply his trade. It's an amazing and formidable production to observe from a sociological standpoint....as by the end of his show all the concerns we may have had about President Trump will have been assuaged! Rush's skill of creative persuasion are pure artistry as he can take a dirty and threadbare canvas....and turn it into a masterpiece. There are two serious problems here....we've permitted ourselves to be led by an historically tried and true tactic of keeping angry and therefore controllable....whoever the strategy may be addressed....and we also have permitted ourselves to become totally intellectually dependent on the directions of another party....in this case talk radio. All politics aside....the whole deal is unhealthy.
WHO WERE WE IN 2015?
We did not really know exactly what we were made up of back in 2015. A naive assessment at the time in retrospect would be that we were all strong social and fiscally conscious small government conservatives....along with the Tea Party....with a lot of mixing within these groups...(I was part of all three.) Either that or there was something drastically different there that was hidden in the fog of battle and euphoria of the win. Were the social conservatives just not that dedicated all along....as also would not have been the small government fiscal conservatives....and as would not have been the Tea Party? In other words were we all talk....with no real convictions? Were we just weak-willed or was the real base in Donald Trump's win....the entire time....those who are represented by today's Trump rallies?
All of our key issues have been trumped by Trump. We still give lip service to some of those issues but Donald Trump himself is what we are all about today. If this is indeed the case....then I would be more likely to understand Trump's strong support....for if we were not true conservatives and Tea Party people to begin with....then President Trump did not betray us....for we were never really what we said that we were....and consequently we have no reason to care who he turned out to be....for what we really wanted was to get back at Hillary....(lock her up!)....and win bragging rights in the workplace and the family....and restore economic hegemony....while keeping the progressives from continuing to change our nation....(a good thing!)....but this without regard to how it happens....or who gets hurt in the process....or what the extended consequences might be....(a bad thing.) If this is the case then I understand the unconditional support....but I hope that there was more substance to us than that.
My hope also is that we will soon get tired of Donald Trump....that he will then see that his game is gone....and look for an avenue to change his mind on seeking a second term....and consequently be able to focus on very serious issues without being concerned on how they might effect an election. I hope that he would retire gracefully....with the monumental achievement of becoming the 45th president of the United States....and somehow be satisfied....and then retire to the life he has always led.....where those who want to can just ignore him....as we always had previous to 2015.
Short of this.....I hope that a conservative will step up....with the courage that our founding fathers had....(for he or she would initially be unmercifully lambasted and called a traitor)....and challenge President Trump in the primaries....laying everything out for us to see....how Donald Trump is not who he told conservatives and Tea Party people who he said that he was. If that challenger calls out President Trump on everything....as I have laid out in many of these posts....and President Trump gets up on that debate stage....with a real challenger....instead of a rally stage....or a Hannity interview....then the ball would start rolling and Donald Trump would lose that second nomination....(that's my personal belief)....but then certainly not leave so gracefully....having his great accomplishment severely diminished. I hope for the former.
WHO WERE WE IN 2015?
We did not really know exactly what we were made up of back in 2015. A naive assessment at the time in retrospect would be that we were all strong social and fiscally conscious small government conservatives....along with the Tea Party....with a lot of mixing within these groups...(I was part of all three.) Either that or there was something drastically different there that was hidden in the fog of battle and euphoria of the win. Were the social conservatives just not that dedicated all along....as also would not have been the small government fiscal conservatives....and as would not have been the Tea Party? In other words were we all talk....with no real convictions? Were we just weak-willed or was the real base in Donald Trump's win....the entire time....those who are represented by today's Trump rallies?
All of our key issues have been trumped by Trump. We still give lip service to some of those issues but Donald Trump himself is what we are all about today. If this is indeed the case....then I would be more likely to understand Trump's strong support....for if we were not true conservatives and Tea Party people to begin with....then President Trump did not betray us....for we were never really what we said that we were....and consequently we have no reason to care who he turned out to be....for what we really wanted was to get back at Hillary....(lock her up!)....and win bragging rights in the workplace and the family....and restore economic hegemony....while keeping the progressives from continuing to change our nation....(a good thing!)....but this without regard to how it happens....or who gets hurt in the process....or what the extended consequences might be....(a bad thing.) If this is the case then I understand the unconditional support....but I hope that there was more substance to us than that.
My hope also is that we will soon get tired of Donald Trump....that he will then see that his game is gone....and look for an avenue to change his mind on seeking a second term....and consequently be able to focus on very serious issues without being concerned on how they might effect an election. I hope that he would retire gracefully....with the monumental achievement of becoming the 45th president of the United States....and somehow be satisfied....and then retire to the life he has always led.....where those who want to can just ignore him....as we always had previous to 2015.
Short of this.....I hope that a conservative will step up....with the courage that our founding fathers had....(for he or she would initially be unmercifully lambasted and called a traitor)....and challenge President Trump in the primaries....laying everything out for us to see....how Donald Trump is not who he told conservatives and Tea Party people who he said that he was. If that challenger calls out President Trump on everything....as I have laid out in many of these posts....and President Trump gets up on that debate stage....with a real challenger....instead of a rally stage....or a Hannity interview....then the ball would start rolling and Donald Trump would lose that second nomination....(that's my personal belief)....but then certainly not leave so gracefully....having his great accomplishment severely diminished. I hope for the former.
