MACDONALD: Chipping Away

CNN is CNN. The Clinton News Network. The COVID News Network. Commie News Network. Whichever of the many reimaginings you’ve heard or prefer, it’s not your go-to for unbiased news or commentary. Adding Scott Jennings has helped give the appearance of balance, and CNN is almost having something of a Bari Weiss moment, like at CBS.

Younger folks don’t watch as much TV. The audience we have is going to age out, and Podcastistan is robbing more viewers than Fox News ever could. We need to try harder because MSNOW is cornering the market on blue-haired wine moms with TDS.

Democrats might want to try that too, and with feeling. As Matt Vespa notes over at Townhall, “blue-haired supporters and a bunch of gays won’t get you to 270 in the Electoral College,” especially when the number of gays who are offended by the whole transgender agenda is as likely to check out or vote Republican. Not good news for the Demorrhoids, and neither is this.

While most Black voters still support Democrats, that hold is weakening, and nearly 20 percent support Trump in this group, which must cause concern for Democratic strategists. 

Not so much nearly 20%, but who wants to date a political party that lies, cheats, and makes you angry all the time? Too many people, but do you want to be angry? All the time. Even when your party is in control, you have to be angry about them not being in enough control. The fact that anyone even disagrees is supposed to make you angry.

I can’t see why anyone would want to be part and parcel to anything like that.

I don’t want to be angry. I want to be happy (and I am). I don’t internalize any of this, so I’d make a terrible proglodyte. A growing number of Black Americans are thinking the same thing.

  • What have they done for me?
  • More crime, more poverty, more dependency.
  • They picked illegal aliens over actual Americans.
  • Our women and girls aren’t safe from trans predators.
  • They wrecked the schools, teaching kids that learning is racist.

You can’t lift yourself up with all that bearing down on you, and all they can say is blame white privilege when it is liberal privilege keeping them down. And maybe it’s simpler or more complex than any of that, but for whatever reason, support from black voters has grown from this time in Trump’s first Presidency.

The uncivil rights movement is crapping kittens. Losing 4% of any demographic is an issue, especially when you aren’t gaining them anywhere. Hispanics have been trending towards Trump as have young men across all demographics. They are sick and tired of being hated on, and that’s likely a large part of this 4% shift.

We saw it in the 2024 elections, but that won’t make much difference if they don’t turn out in the midterms. That is literally the only issue Republicans need to work. Yes, they need to pass the Save America Act. Yes, they need to stop wasting their majority. But letting democrats into power will not only end any hope of improvement from the Legislative branch, but it will also kneecap Trump’s train at the executive level as well, which affects efforts to improve the courts.

Not showing up is giving all the positive change away and inviting a whiplash-like return to all the crap and misery of the Biden years and then some.

We need to chip away at a lot of things before November, but this is a good sign, and it will distract Democrats and keep them in panic mode.

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  • Steve MacDonald

    Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, award-winning blogger, and a member of the Board of Directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor, Executive Editor, assistant editor, Editor, content curator, complaint department, Op-ed editor, gatekeeper (most likely to miss typos because he has no editor), and contributor at GraniteGrok.com. Steve is also a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, The Republican Volunteer Coalition, has worked for or with many state and local campaigns and grassroots groups, and is a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

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