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By Eugene Robinson
RealClear Politics
December 26, 2017
WASHINGTON -- Grit your teeth. Persevere. Just a few more days and this awful, rotten, no-good, ridiculous, rancorous, sordid, disgraceful year in the civic life of our nation will be over. Here's hoping that we all -- particularly special counsel Robert Mueller -- have a better 2018. Many of us began 2017 with the consoling thought that the Donald Trump presidency couldn't possibly be as bad as we feared. It turned out to be worse. Did you ever think you would hear a president use the words "very fine people" to describe participants in a torchlit rally organized by white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan? Did you ever think you would hear a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations thuggishly threaten that she would be "taking names" of countries that did not vote on a General Assembly resolution the way she wanted? Did you ever think the government of the world's biggest military and economic power would reject not just science but empiricism itself, preferring to use made-up "alternative facts" as the basis for major decisions? We knew that Trump was narcissistic and shallow, but on Inauguration Day it was possible to at least hope he was self-aware enough to understand the weight that now rested on his shoulders, and perhaps grow into the job. He did not. If anything, he has gotten worse.
Trump and his enablers have waged a relentless war against truth in an attempt to delegitimize any and all critical voices. He wields the epithet "fake news" as a cudgel against inconvenient facts and those who report them. The president's Republican allies in Congress, who have the power to restrain an out-of-control executive, have rolled over in passive submission. I haven't even mentioned Trump's nepotism -- installing his daughter and son-in-law as high-ranking advisers, with portfolios they are in no way qualified to handle -- or his inability to staff the executive branch with the best-and-brightest types who customarily serve. In November, Democrat Ralph Northam won the governor's race in Virginia, a purple state, by a surprisingly big nine-point margin. His coattails were long enough to elect so many Democrats to the state House of Delegates that control of the chamber is still undecided pending recounts. And then on Dec. 12, Democrat Doug Jones defeated Republican Roy Moore in a special election for a U.S. Senate seat -- in Alabama, of all places, one of the most Republican states in the nation. These races were not about D's versus R's. They were about sanity versus insanity, reason versus chaos. They were about Trump, and he lost. So Godspeed to the Mueller investigation, but let him worry about that. The rest of us -- Democrats, independents, patriotic Republicans -- should work toward the November election. Our duty is to elect a Congress that will bring this runaway train under control.
Voters Should Use Ballot Box to Control Trump in 2018
Organize and vote in 2018. Seizing control of Congress from the complicit GOP is the fastest and surest way to politically castrate the dreadful Trump presidency.
Voters Should Use Ballot Box to Control Trump in 2018
Organize and vote in 2018. Seizing control of Congress from the complicit GOP is the fastest and surest way to politically castrate the dreadful Trump presidency.
I'll be quite surprised if this does not happen. Even though the odds are stacked against the D: Gerrymandered districts and very few R senate seats up for grabs; I still see them taking majorities in both houses.
And, that would be thanks to Trump.
Not really. The left hss a white people problem.... we are still the majority...
And Democrats are majority white hating minorities these days. Racism is rampant amongst all white folk...:roll:
Since the minorities are so hate full of whites, many left the building. Or didn't you notice?
Add in the strong economy and the left race baits itself into another loosing election.... :lamo
losing
Voters Should Use Ballot Box to Control Trump in 2018
Organize and vote in 2018. Seizing control of Congress from the complicit GOP is the fastest and surest way to politically castrate the dreadful Trump presidency.
It's a dog gone shame the Democrats didn't realize candidates matter. If they had, there would be no Trump presidency. All of this could have been easily avoided.
thank you.
But alas, it did not happen.
We have whom we have as president as a direct result of the decisions and choices made by the two major parties last year. The only remaining question is how long will we have to suffer those consequences wrought on us by the two major parties decisions and choices? Seems to me each should have known better. But it is what it is.
We have who we have as President because the so called career politicians from either party have failed to lead us. :2wave:
That is why we chose Trump to lead us. He is not actually a politician, must less a full blown career politician.. He care less about party and lots more about what is good for America.
"We?" Only 46% of the voters voted for him.
It is a contest of who wins the most states. Only you left wingers suddenly think this is not how we should do it...:roll:
Your azz hurt is plain t see.. Btw how many of those illegals your state houses voted? Maybe this is the question you should ask yourself. My bet is a lot.
California liberals are the worst of the entire lot IMHO.
Voters Should Use Ballot Box to Control Trump in 2018
Organize and vote in 2018. Seizing control of Congress from the complicit GOP is the fastest and surest way to politically castrate the dreadful Trump presidency.
We have who we have as President because the so called career politicians from either party have failed to lead us. :2wave:
That is why we chose Trump to lead us. He is not actually a politician, must less a full blown career politician.. He care less about party and lots more about what is good for America.
Resorting to ad hominem when you have no real arguments.
A classic way to "refute" an argument. Want a prize?
35% of Republicans choose Trump, that is until he clinched the nomination then the band wagon effect brought that up to 40%. 46% voted for him in the General. A plurality of folks wanted him. Or did they. Looking at the exit polls one finds out that 50% of those who voted for Trump in the general election were anti-Clinton voters. Not voters necessarily for Trump, any Tom, Dick or Harry would have done. As least as the name opposing Hillary Clinton wasn't Hillary Clinton.
I do think however, if Trump had a better personalty, more of a presidential persona instead of a reality TV show host he presents to the public, he would be more liked. That he would have accomplished more. It's his persona that turns off people, grates on him and his persona has so far stopped Trump from gaining a 40% job approval rating. Perhaps Trump had the right message, but he has turned out to be the wrong messenger.
I read the OP linked article. Pretty much a trash hit piece on President Trump. The "RealClear Politics" seems to dislike Republicans.
It's by Eugene Robinson, and was actually published in the Washington Post, who is who he writes for. RCP shared it. Of course it's a "hit piece" on Trump. Robinson is a liberal and makes no secret of it and has never claimed to be a non-partisan. That said, he's entitled to his opinion whether someone disagrees or not. Robinson was a Pulitzer Prize winner about 10 years ago. You never heard of him?
meh. Don't keep track of Pulitzer Prize winners.
Yes, he is entitled to his opinion. One should take articles like that with a grain of salt. My point stands that is is a biased article.
(ps. I don't particularly like Trump. Nor did I vote for him.)
Of course it's biased. It was never intended to be pro-Trump. Robinson is a partisan and makes no secret of it.
His article was well written and spot on. Don't like Trump? take it to the ballot box. Pretty obvious no matter who is the President. That's also what happened to Obama.
To clarify. There are some things Trump is trying to do or has done I like. It is more the way he presents himself and the "tweets" that I dislike. You are correct in that we need to "take it to the ballot box". Hopefully this next go around we have better candidates to choose from.
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