Trumpism Lives On!
By: Pat Buchanan
Trump will endure. He remade the GOP and expanded it. He put America first. His legacy will live o and his principles and ideas will be the face of the opposition. All resistance will be in his name. The establishment will be dealing with us forever more.
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Source: AP Photo/Alex Brandon
Donald Trump may end up losing the 2020 election in the Electoral College, but he won the campaign that ended on Nov. 3.
Democrats had been talking of a "sweep," a "blowout," a "blue wave" washing the Republicans out of power, capturing the Senate, and bringing in an enlarged Democratic majority in Nancy Pelosi's House.
They visualized the ouster of Trump in a defeat so massive and humiliating that it would serve as an eternal repudiation of the man. And, most intoxicating of all, they believed they would be seen by history as the angels of America's deliverance.
It was not to be.
The American electorate failed to perform its designated role in the establishment's morality play. Indeed, Democrats ended Tuesday night terrified that America had again turned its back on them and preferred Trump to the leaders and agenda they had put forth.
By the campaign's end, Democrats were freezing the ball and running out the clock.
Consider the immense burdens candidate Trump had to carry.
Early in his reelection year, the nation was struck by the worst pandemic in a hundred years that, by Election Day, would kill nearly a quarter of a million Americans and cause an economic collapse to rival the Great Depression.
Trump had to endure daily the near-universal hatred and hostility of the nation's academic, media and cultural elites. How hostile is this city to President Trump?
He lost D.C.'s three electoral votes by a margin of 20-1.
Yet, even so burdened, Trump won 3 million more votes in 2020 than he had in 2016, and, as of midnight on Election Day, he seemed headed for victory in the Electoral College.
Giving the energy and effort he put into his campaign -- a dozen rallies in the last three days -- and the enthusiastic response from the huge crowds, Trump has much to be proud of.
Trump may lose the presidency, but Trumpism was not rejected.
Nor was it repudiated by the people if, by Trumpism, one means "America First" nationalism, securing our borders, using tariffs to bring back our manufacturing base, bidding goodbye to globalism, staying out of unnecessary wars and swearing off ideological crusades.
And if Joe Biden becomes our 46th president, the tenure of office of this visibly frail and enfeebled leader is likely to be among the more abbreviated in American history, and bereft of high achievement.
For Democrats appear to have lost seats in Nancy Pelosi's House, and, instead of sweeping to power in the Senate to make Chuck Schumer the new majority leader, Senate Democrats appear to have gained only a single seat. As of now, Sen. Mitch McConnell is set to be the gatekeeper to any passage of the Biden-Harris and Sanders-AOC agendas.
Good luck getting something enacted that Mitch McConnell doesn't like.
As of today, the 2020 election has restored to Senate Republicans veto power over any and all administration legislation, be it liberal, progressive or socialist. This election may have made McConnell the most powerful congressional leader since Lyndon Johnson.
With McConnell leading a GOP majority, Democrats would be unable to end the filibuster or pack the Supreme Court, and the GOP majority would have the power to kill the Biden tax plan, "Medicare for All" and the "Green New Deal." There will be no statehood and two senators for Puerto Rico or D.C., and no reparations for slavery. Mayors and governors seeking blue state bailouts to avoid defaulting on overdue debts will need McConnell's blessing.
In times past, there was often comity between the parties, or at least an attempt at comity. In mid-August of 1974, after he took office, President Gerald Ford went before Congress to declare: "I do not want a honeymoon with you. I want a good marriage."
It was not to be. And in the ideological divide and poisoned politics of this city, there is little likelihood of compromise -- or even civility.
Biden faces other troubles, too.
The worst of the COVID-19 crisis, in terms of cases, hospitalizations and deaths, may be ahead of us. And Democrats will not be able to blame Trump indefinitely. And if their answer is, as Joe Biden has at times indicated, a national "shutdown," a Biden honeymoon is unlikely to last.
Bottom line: Joe Biden is not going to be the "transformational" president of his imagining. Nor is he going to be the "most progressive president since Roosevelt" as some Democrats have been promising.
And the reasons are obvious.
FDR had massive Democratic majorities in both Houses of Congress throughout the 1930s. And he won the presidency in 1932 by capturing 57% of the vote and 42 of the 48 states of the Union. In 1936, he carried 46 of 48 states, losing only Maine and Vermont.
Biden has no such mandate and no such power base, and he lacks the natural gifts of FDR. Sorry, but there is no new "Era of Good Feelings" in store for America. To the contrary.
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Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result..
1st, your quote is wrong, you should keep saying it until you get it right.
2nd, this is America, we're not a dictatorship. Stating what you want, but refusing to back down from that desire is neither stupidity or insanity.
3rd, by your own claim, how many times did Trump say Mexico is going to pay for the wall? And you believed him every single time.
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But why should Mexico pay for the Wall-- when it hasn't even been completed yet?
expecting a different result..
Such as defeating Trump the second time he ran?
Democrats tried to turn the 2020 election into a personality contest. Who is more likeable? But voters seem to have been more concerned about the future of the country than political fluff.
Democrats have earned the opportunity to royally screw up again. We'll see if Democrats learned anything from 2010. The precipice is only two years away.
You think it is anything else?
You vote for who you like the best. Just no swimsuit competition (thank god!!!).
They didn't earn anything, there were just enough gullible people who believed the false propaganda the Left Wing Media spewed for four years. The Dems owe the Media big time, they traded their credibility to defeat Trump.
Trump and Palin?
Good to see you're not giving up Vic.
Obviously! That's why they elected Biden!.
And that limits what Biden can do.
We already know that 2022 will be a referendum on Biden. Biden will obviously try to blame someone else, most likely Trump. Pelosi and Schumer will blame Republicans, in general. That's de rigueur.
The interesting thing to watch will be how much Trump has changed the Republican Party.
Skunk smell lives on too until you get tomato juice. Rational Americans has just submerged the GOP to help get rid of the stink.
Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is reported as testing positive for coronavirus following the super herd thinner event at the White House Tuesday night.
Meanwhile there were a record number 122,000+ new coronavirus cases in the U.S. today and 1,000 U.S. coronavirus deaths for the fourth day in a row while Trump spends all day watching TV and plotting frivolous lawsuits.
Trumpism kills!
What I find to be ironic is that for the most part those who follow Trump's example and refuse to wear mask are Trump supporters-- and thos who do follow sensible guideline tend to be Democrats.
Yet another example of trump's irrationality-- his stupidity is proportionately killing more of his supports than his opponents!
(I can tell you this. many people are saying that "there's no cure for Stuck on Stupid").
In addition to Meadows it is reported that four other staff members tested positive.
Trumpism kills!
What goes around comes around.
(Sadly, we can expect trump's stupidity to kill more of his staff in the future-- at least those loyal supporters who follow trump's examples and refuse to wear masks).
Trump and Trumpism will 'live on'? I doubt that. The mirage that is Trump will swiftly fade as this former 'alleged president' cries and whines his way through court room after court room pathetically explaining that he can't remember or it is someone else's fault. And especially when the Fifth Amendment is his only vocabulary with the exception of the occasions when he rats out others to gain a better deal for himself. Trump will always be that man who is a liar, cheater and a fraud.
Ironically, Biden is a genuine Christian (life long practicing Catholic) in contrast to the faux Christian Trump whose base is predominantly religious.
"predominately religious." ? ? That'd depend upon an honest definition of christian and religion.
How about: " The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. " — Oxford
In 2020 America the Oxford description is not an honest definition.
Why not?
sent by god
I find most "Christians" to be quite unChristian-like, but maybe that's just me.
It's not just you.
No, it is not only you.
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Heartbreaking to read ... How and why did compromise in politics become a nasty word? It is the only way to get things done ...!
... please do not say .. 'when the republicans vowed to make Obama a one term president' .. which sincerely cracks me up .. since for 4 years all anyone has heard and read about is how Trump is an illegitimate president [Russian collusion fantasy conspiracy repeated ad nauseam] .. please people Russia did not get Trump elected .. the poison pill that is H. Clinton is what got Trump elected.. Had Biden listened to me, and ran in 2016 - I believe he would have been elected .. alas it was H.s turn to be president, so Biden gracefully stepped aside .. Beau's passing gave him the out .. Hell if Elizabeth Warren had ran in 2016 .. she may have been the first ................!
Another shutdown [in my opinion] would be a big mistake .. but the gloom and doom of the so called 'dark winter' ahead, points to a shutdown (Biden was just on TV.) ....................................MASKS in public are a must (how it became a party issue is confusing to me) common sense is free, and just seems like a simple thing to use! Travel is the second issue - stay home and if you cannot stay home .. stay in your own fucking state .. ! I am working on fencing my state to prevent irresponsible people from traveling here .. it is a uphill battle - just ask the border states....!
No Biden does not have a clear 'mandate' and is not going to be the greatest president ever [his VP choice will take some getting use to] but if this nation can have some time to heal, he will be a blessing to have in office! Alas, I am not holding my breath, but I am hopeful that agendas can be set aside long enough allow things to calm down - but Biden is already chomping at the bit to be heard .... YAY! Jump right in there and stir things up before even having the 'power' to do anything! Talk about being the president for all .. yet not give people that did not vote for him time to breath, so much for healing the nation (some are still digesting the election, hell some are still trying to accept H. was not elected in 2016 - so it is not just Trump supporters trying to digest) .............................. do we need yet another president that half the nation feels is illegitimate.. just let the process play itself out .. there is plenty of time between now and January to go on TV!
My 1/2 cent worth .....
I did not vote for either candidate, voted on state and local races and issues .. partisanship confuses me ..... contrary to what seems to be popular belief - I have never voted a straight ticket ... am rather socially liberal and very fiscally conservative ..... just saying!
Peace!
Seems like a solid combination.