The Woking Dead vs. the People
The Right- both “awake” and in conservative slumber- are still rejoicing over Donald Trump’s glorious election to a second term as president. He won every swing state, we are told repeatedly. Or is it battleground state? I get confused. I guess either one works. Think Hamas and Hezbollah.
Trump certainly seemed like a winner at first, bull rushing around with autopen in hand, writing executive orders and breaking the china. But what exactly has changed? Well, the stock market has collapsed. This is almost exclusively due to Trump’s ass backwards policy of implementing- or constantly threatening to implement- tariffs on other countries. That would be fine, and a good way to protect American industry. Except that our industry is gone. Shipped offshore. Outsourced for cheaper foreign labor, under NAFTA and other disastrous trade deals. You have to build new factories, and start actually making products again, so you can provide domestic competition to imports. Obviously, that should be done before you place any tariffs on anyone. What Trump is doing is a bit like what we saw in Alice in Wonderland; sentence first, verdict afterwards. Unless your goal is to crash the market.
So, while Republicans brag, beat their chests, and chant “USA! USA!” repeatedly, the seemingly tamed “Woke” Democrats continue to rest on their laurels. And, when the occasion calls for it, to win again. They always win. Trump signs a long overdue executive order, abolishing birthright citizenship. A typical federal judge, using the never constitutional power of Judicial Review, simply overturns it. Trump waits for “his” Supreme Court to help him out and declare it constitutional. “His” Supreme Court has rarely been on his side. Virtue signaler extraordinaire Amy Coney Barrett never is. Yeah, let’s wait for “our” Supreme Court. That’s what “democracy” is all about. Getting the right unelected judge, or group of unelected judges, to decide important issues. Thomas Jefferson tried to warn against this, when John Marshall simply usurped the checks and balances and created the all powerful judiciary.
What the MAGA faithful should be learning is that you can’t govern exclusively by executive order. Theoretically, Trump should have easy sailing in getting his ideas passed into law. After all, Republicans are a majority in both houses of Congress. But as is very obvious, most Republicans are RINOs and will never support any actual “America First” policies. Even if you get all members of the “Freedom Caucus” on board, the average Republicuck is going to side with the establishment. Every time. Sure, you have the great Thomas Massie, suddenly widowed after his interview last year condemning the influence of AIPAC, but Trumpenstein has decided that the best Republican in Congress must be defeated for reelection. Meanwhile, the Giant Orange Man has once again endorsed his golfing buddy, macho Lindsey Graham, for yet another term in the Senate. Why do you think I call him Trump
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