I remember reading the columns and editorials of several conservative and Republican pundits who were hoping that Trump would lose in 2020. They based their hopes on hatred of Trump’s personality and his disregard for “the norms of Presidential behavior.” They called themselves “NeverTrumpers” and were proud of it.
Others on both sides of the political aisle also hoped for conservatives and Republicans to lose, saying that the “only way” for the public to understand how screwed up America had become was to allow the country to hit rock bottom. Their theory went that “once we’ve bottomed out, we’ll be able to rebuild.”
I disagreed with all of them, often and quite loudly. I felt that allowing the US to continue to decline was a danger to the rest of the world: the US is a stabilizing force around the world, and to destabilize the US would be to destabilize the rest of the world.
On Thursday night, CNN was instrumental in ripping off the mask that the Democrats had kept in place over Biden’s cognitive decline. By setting the rules for the debate, Biden himself had put in place the stage where the world would know that “the emperor has no clothes.” The Democrat’s and media’s selected and appointed leader failed miserably to speak in complete sentences, to maintain a single train of thought, and to answer questions completely and honestly – without repeating previously and often-debunked tropes about his opponent. After his disastrous performance, his wife, Jill, spoke to him as a child in front of the whole world: “You did so well, Joe! You answered all the questions!”
Nail, meet coffin.
Democrats used the federal government to pass laws that forced individuals to submit to policies that tore families apart, violated scientific facts, and unbalanced equality throughout both government and private industry. Now, after Thursday night and their party leader’s almost total mental collapse in front of the entire world, the Democrats are in full panic mode.
Republicans, meanwhile, concentrated on winning state-level elections and won at least half the governor’s mansions and state legislatures in the nation. They gained the power and the state-level support to begin passing state-level laws to counter an increasing number of those federal mandates.
The up-and-coming generation is realizing that they cannot afford to live on their own because of the huge debt load that both taxes and inflation have saddled them with. They’re not happy. And they’re beginning to realize that Biden’s “school debt forgiveness” plan, which has twice been found unconstitutional, won’t happen. They want to blame someone… but they can’t blame Trump.
Then:
This past week, the SCOTUS issued decisions that reversed decades of “government knows best” assumptions. The most impactful was the declaration that “Chevron is overruled” (that is exact text from the decision). Reversing Chevron means that Congress can no longer write obscure and confusing laws, pass them, and hope that the Administrative branch can turn those obscurities into enforceable measures.
The result is that Congress must now make its meaning clear from the start. Legislators must legislate. They can no longer pass the buck and use Nancy Pelosi’s “we have to pass the law to find out what’s in it” mantra. The SCOTUS has declared that “if it isn’t in the law, then it isn’t in the law.” The SCOTUS has slapped the wrist of the “administrative state” and told them to enforce the law as written. And if there is obscurity, it is up to a court to decide what the law means, not some functionary in DC.
The media is still complicit in its hatred of the concept of American self-determination. They (or it) believe that The People cannot make decisions for themselves. The People are plainly too stupid, too uneducated, too biased, or unable because “they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them (Obama)”. No, they declare, it is up to them, the self-appointed “experts”, to act as “guides”. Anything else is an “attack on democracy.”
Now, after Thursday night, those self-appointed “experts” have been revealed to be sycophants and ideologues who were willing to sell their reputations for a seat at the pundit’s table on networks with ever-shrinking audience bases. Some of those “experts” don’t even have enough national viewers to fill a mid-sized football stadium. (You’ll be shocked at how few viewers some of those “hosts” have. The statistics are factual: cable boxes can – and do – report the channels being watched and at what time, and those numbers can’t be faked).
Yes, there are a huge number of Americans who are still comfortable wearing rose-colored glasses and believing that the government knows best. But more and more Americans are looking at their wallets, their children’s educations, and their hourly wages. And their satisfaction with their current situation is waning. They’re finding out that “that government is best which governs least” (attributed to Jefferson, but he didn’t actually write it.)
For some, it’s hard to admit that they may have been misled, especially when they believed what they were told by almost all of the “experts” in the news media, and especially after the debate and they saw for themselves that the current president is “fading.” The big question is: will they look in the mirror and ask themselves, “Have I been played for a fool?”
My advice to them is: Don’t be too concerned. MILLIONS of Americans were also played for a fool. The question now is: will you continue to allow yourself to be “played” by those who only want power for themselves?
