Overshooting the Mark; Nikki, Trials and More Confusion

1.  Overshooting the Mark

OK, now look. I know that there are plenty of very smart people on the Left. I generally respect them greatly. And I'm quite used to being looked at like I'm insane when I disagree with them. After all, I just think what I think; they, on the other hand, are blessed to be objectively correct. Lucky folk, they are. 

But sometimes, they really do overshoot the mark. Examples: (i) Trump's a Russian spy and (ii) the Hunter laptop is Russian disinformation. Well, in those cases, they somehow successfully engineered a reversal at the mid-terms in 2018 and somehow successfully engineered a (maybe) Democratic victory in 2020. Gotta give 'em credit - very impressive. 

But the jig may now be up. I'm hearing that if Trump wins we will have seen the last American election. I'm hearing that if he wins it is - literally - the end of democracy. I'm hearing that if he wins the great American experiment is over. The complete (with all due respect) absurdity and inanity of those phantasmagorical surmises are flat-out jaw-dropping. Maybe Trump Derangement Syndrome really is a thing. Anyway, anyone other than those at the fringe will or at least should see the patent hilarity of these supposed eventualities. And, when they do, the Left will have yet again lost the middle. 

Looking forward to November. 

2.  Nikki and More Confusion

I've been getting more and more confused about the patent duplicitousness of certain arguments coming from the left. Now I've got to listen to the same kind of thing from Haley? Identity politics? The "fellas" have conspired against her? Really? So when they all turned away from her to Trump AND turned away from DeSantis that's somehow an attack on Haley as a woman? Or when DeSantis, who obviously has views that conform to Trump's, endorses Trump, that's because he's a "fella"? C'mon, Nikki. Maybe, just maybe, you picked the wrong year for this and by doing so put your entire once-promising political future in tremendous jeopardy. Maybe. 

3.  And yet more confusion. The question you hear being asked is - well, if he's convicted then at that point he can't still be supported, right? So I'm assuming that Mandela's conviction DQ'd him? Solzhenitsyn's? Etc.? The question obviously presupposes that the prosecutors and adjudicators are not politically motivated. So the answer to the question is, "C'mon, give me a break."

 

Leadership; Democracy; Climate Change

I'm so confused. And I think my confusion may well become a running theme here going forward. The duplicity is just so stunning. 

- So now we're to believe that strong charismatic leadership is a bad thing. Like, presumably, it was for JFK, Clinton and Obama. Sheesh. People who ascend to the top at least in part because of their magnitude and because of the devotion of their supporters are to be admired.

- On the following I'm far from the only one to notice. Trump is a threat to democracy? And so the way to deal with that is to get him off the ballot and try to jail him? That's just so transparent that it seems more like a joke. 

- Didn't we hear last year that the warm winter was proof positive that global warming was indeed upon us? As long as we're confusing causation with correlation, don't we now need to conclude that the threat of global warming is over? Just asking. 

- Why is every Democratic subpoena one that must be complied with for risk of jail, but every Republican subpoena is an abuse of power? Similarly, why is every Democratic change to the left an evolution, while every Republican change to the right is a flip-flop?

I would submit that I'm not the only one that's getting progressively (haha) more confused here. I think it's time for the Dems to come up with an issue other than "we really really hate Trump". Although they do seem to be running out of time. And the voters seem to have caught on. Looking like November may be fun, indeed.

Paths

I remember that 2016 Election Day moment in time (I believe it was when Wisconsin was called) where, in a Wag the Dog numerical sense, the media en masse came to the realization that, not only was it not the case that Trump had no path to election, but that indeed it was Hillary that had no path. I wonder if there'll come a 2024 point, indeed well before Election Day, that the media starts to settle into the somber realization that there's no path for Joe. I'm not saying we're there yet. I'm just wondering if (and when) we'll get there. Tick tock.