Anand Giridharadas, publisher of The.Ink, brought up an interesting
subject on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today: What happened to “The Reckoning?” Well, so far, against all odds, it hasn’t
happened.
“But as I look back on this half year, I can’t escape the conclusion: there was no reckoning. In fact, as far as I could tell, quite the opposite.
So many of the people and organizations that should be grappling hard in this moment instead seem consumed by the feeling that they have been getting it absolutely right in a world that fails to appreciate their good sense. We were promised a [political] reckoning; instead, we got complexes of feeling misunderstood. Here we are — amazing political party or news organization or activist group — and people don’t get it. Everyone is crazy. But we’re [the] sane [ones]!”
I wonder about that all the time. That is, am I one of the sane ones and it’s
the rest of the world who is crazy? They
call that second-guessing oneself and it plagues me often. The old “it’s me, not you.”
So what is it we (and people like me) don’t understand? What is it that has caused so many, especially
younger, White, non-college educated men, to abandon the democrats, the
so-called “Party of the working man” and vote for Trump? Why didn’t the Blacks come through for
Kamala? Why do so many find Trump
appealing? What don’t the confused democrats get?
But that’s what I’m seeing.
I’m seeing Trump getting stronger, not weaker. Am I delusional? Sure, Rachel Maddow and other lefties have
flooded the airwaves with so-called “daily protest” from all over the country,
against what the Trump administration is doing.
People are so-called “up in arms” against the elites’ shenanigans. Are those protests just a false narrative; an
attempt by the democrats to manipulate the masses via “the power of suggestion?”
From what I could tell, Anand Giridharadas chalks it up to
our country turning into a bunch of out-of-control psychological misfits, and Trump’s
mastery at pulling their emotional and psychological strings. We’ve seen it many times; the way Trump can take
an objective truth and reformat it into a total lie. And people, many people, just continue to buy
it.
No, I see Trump as getting stronger over the next few years. I do not discard his ability to finagle his
way into a Third Term, somehow, someway, and with SCOTUS help. I'm tellin' ya, not impossible.
So what do you think?
Is Trump getting stronger with the electorate or weaker? Make your case.
By PrimalSoup