The Road That Brought Conservatives and Republicans to This Point
Excerpt: ...(A)t least you had your allies. Throughout the Bush and Obama years, you found writers who make strong arguments, who jabbed at the opposition forcefully, who called out their hypocrisies, who made you laugh, and who, metaphorically, are right there in the trenches with you, fighting the good fight. (...) No matter how bad it got, you always had them to read, lifting your spirits and reassuring you. And then one day in 2015, this outlandish celebrity came along who seems to agree with you most of the time. He’s a bit of a jerk, but you kind of like that; he treats everybody who disagrees with him with contempt, the same way the other side treats you with contempt. As time goes by, you realize he’s perhaps more than a bit of a jerk, he’s a raging narcissist and maybe a maniac, but you still like the way he responds to everyone you don’t like — the mainstream media, Democratic politicians — with this constantly erupting volcano of scorn. You feel like you’ve been mistreated for decades; now turnabout is fair play. But much to your shock, a bunch of your favorite writers don’t like him at all. They see him as almost as bad as the opposition.[I don’t now about anyone else, but this is pretty much the same way I felt at election time in 2016. I ended up voting for Johnson-Weld, knowing they weren’t top tier candidates. To give Trump his due, I love his judicial nominees and his pardons. As for the 2020 race, the only Democrats running that I would consider voting for are Gabbard and Buttageig (they’re both veterans and both are centrists). If things stay as they are now, I’ll probably hold my nose and vote for Trump. Ron P.]
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