My mistake! You are absolutely right, and I don’t know how I made that mistake since John Warner was Governor of Virginia, a US Senator, and married to Elizabeth Taylor for awhile. In my defense I will say that I was out of the country for much of the time John Warner was in the Senate. Thanks for the correction.

I’ve been cut off by a couple of folks who didn’t think I hated Trump enough. Didn’t accept the most foolish accusations…? You’re gone. Little or nothing to do with policy.

One was a women I’d worked with in a field project in a dicey area in the Sixties. She’d hung around my partner, also a woman, in our little team. And thus was around me when certain difficulties threatened and then faded. Thanked me then. Cut me off since. You’d think…. Hell if I know.

Stable, responsible adults, by this point in time, know they have been lied to repeatedly by the MSM (which means the Ds/Leftists who control the traditional media).
The people who repeatedly told them to get experimental mRNA shots that were “safe and effective” that clearly are neither.
That there were hundreds of federal agents at the Capitol on J6.
That no law enforcement officers died that day, only protesting citizens.
That doors were held open by Capitol police and protestors led to the Rotunda, where they walked inside rope lines and took pictures.

That there was no Russia collusion of substance in the 2016 election.
Which is what the Mueller report, after three years and thirty two million dollars, reported.
That the basis of that investigation was completely fabricated.
That Crossfire Hurricane came from the HRC campaign. Her attempt to save face, so she could run another day.

The question is what causes them to elect to live in the fantasy world they chose to live in?

Because that is what they chose.
Why are they so susceptible to propaganda?
Why do they remain so wedded to their long proven erroneous beliefs?
Why are they so threatened by acknowledging that they have been played completely?

This behavior is not atypical of early adolescent females, which to me means, at a minimum, they are emotionally immature and have poor ego development.
That their ‘belonging” is of primary importance to them, and trumps rational thinking and adult civilized, respectful behavior in society.

By the Democrats.

So are we worried that they’ll do it AGAIN?
Worried that they’ll do it worse this time (if there is a “this time”) than last time.
Worried that Trump will be causing them to go “six ways to Sunday” (or whatever day of the week)?
Worried that they’ll TURN vindictive? Hateful? Dangerous? Enraged? Destructive?
Afraid that they’ll become dishonest? “Transformative”? That they’ll cheat? Steal? Lie?Grift? Embezzle? Intimidate their opponents? Lawfare ‘em non-stop? Incarcerate ‘em? Ruin ‘em?? Character assassinate ‘em? Assassinate ‘em full-stop?

(Virtuously, it goes without saying…)

They did all this and they threaten to continue doing it. Not JUST threaten. (One can’t believe ‘em about almost everything but THIS you CAN believe—see, they just gotta “save the country”…)

Without Trump, they’d be doing it NOW. They know it and they understood that he stands in the way of their goal of total power. It’s why they had to destroy him, after all. It’s why they’re still trying to; trying every lousy trick in the book to achieve his defenestration. Decapitation.

“Standing athwart history yelling STOP” is pretty good, rhetorically. But Trump’s actually doing it. With his pretty darn good team (compare ‘em with “Biden”’s clutch of cabinet clowns).

Trump is, as has been noted, the counter- revolutionary, trying mightily to undo what the Democrats were hoping could NOT be undone; trying to stop their destructive dreams; trying to reverse steam on their intentional sabotage and subversion of the country, its institutions and its citizenry.

Trying to build and create hope and opportunity in contrast to the only “hope” offered by his opponents—hope of the arsonist, the gangster, the nihilist. (IOW despair, fear, loathing and unstinting hate.)

Yep, the Democrats know that Trump is standing in the way of their orgiastic Gotterdammerung.

They fully understand it.

Why can’t you?

Is there an emoji for spittle faced rage?

They either reject the truth when told, or are surprised by it.

The media is responsible. If MSM would broadcasts Trump’s success’s he could be most popular ever. Instead, they ignore success, or spin it as failure, or divert to latest b.s.

As mentioned above, big story about pardoning “drug dealer politician”. Immediate reaction is to wonder if the guy been railroaded. Then read a little deeper, no money trail for the supposed hundreds of millions, convicted on testimony from drug dealers who got a deal.

For the bien-pensant followers, it’s about identity.
Who *are* you when your professors and thought leaders have been revealed – or revealed themselves – as bottomless nihilists and illiberal fascists?

When your comics are nasty but no longer funny, and the cultural products you use to signal status are obviously debased and empty?

When your roofer and plumber not only earn more than you despite your college degrees – but actually are smarter than you, more perceptive, more obviously in touch with reality? When your sophomoric word games no longer impress anyone?

When the blacks and other minorities you believed you were championing now talk about advancement based on merit, how welfare has damaged their communities, and accuse *you* of running an identity-based plantation?

When the pose of superiority, liberality, enlightenment in which you’ve wrapped yourself since you first watched “All in the Family” or “Maude” in your childhood – when it is no longer certain, or believed by the rest of society, who see you as an out of touch scold…

(When you did everything the “right” way for your smart set, but your children and grandkids are obvious failures – blue-haired, heavily tatted future cat ladies whose arrested development is poorly covered by various semi-medical fig leaves – “he’s on the spectrum” – while the kids of the people you’ve long sneered at seem to be doing fine…)

Does anyone expect any less furious a response?

Trump has precipitated mass mid-life crises across several post-war generations simultaneously.

Then the right will have to come to terms with the fact that Trump’s new voters only show up if Trump is on the ballot and that, without those voters, the GOP and the right are actually in a worse position than they were before 2016.

And what will we have to show for it? After Trump’s first term, we had three new conservatives on the Supreme Court, so that was something (something significant). This term, we have the extension of the 2017 tax cuts (again, not nothing), but what else? Executive tariffs that are damaging the economy and likely to be struck down by the Supreme Court anyway? An unpopular war with Venezuela? Good feels from owning the libs for a few years?

And then the GOP will have to confront the reality that just about any Republican would have also delivered tax cuts and conservative supreme court justices.