So what happened to this person one year later?
Hardball big money politics and dark money is what happened. Lindsey Graham miscalculated as did Mitch McConnell that half of registered Republicans a year later would still believe anything coming out of Donald Trump’s mouth.
Politics is what happened. And probably a year after the election like most Republicans Lindsey Graham realized Joe Biden wasn’t going to govern as a moderate as he promised, but would fold his tent to the far left lane of his own party which he somewhat denounced back in the Democratic primaries of 2020 before James Clyburn saved Joe Biden’s presidential aspirations.
Here’s the truth about Joe Biden’s presidency so far…it’s been more of James Clyburns’ presidency with Joe Manchin acting as a brake from the American political middle.
Take a guess who the most trusted American is at some level of American government currently? It’s Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts who currently holds a 65% approval rating. John Roberts is a moderate who was appointed to the Court by Bush 43. You know how he gets to 65%? He gets there because almost all registered Independents like myself and somewhere around 20% of Republicans view him as a non-partisan sane human being compared to the other options available.
Sixty-two lawsuits were filled by Trump’s Legal Dream Team of lunatics and dimwits and by my count only one wasn’t dismissed. Trump’s own Supreme Court of which he appointed three Justices wouldn’t even give him the time of day.
This wasn’t like in Gore vs. Bush where the Supreme Court heard the arguments and then voted 5-4 in favor of Bush.
The Trump supporters still mouthing their claims of a fixed election need to at this point spend their time finding a viable GOP candidate in 2024 who has some integrity instead of wasting their time any longer on this nonsensical Donald Trump bullshit.
The math is very simple as from above.
If the GOP would present a qualified candidate to the American voting public they would probably win rather easily….given what we witnessed with the sloppy withdrawl from Afghanistan, the admission that no one really understands Covid at this point, and the most runaway inflation since Jimmy Carter.
No one I know was clamoring for Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris in 2020. Bernie….maybe, but with someone as a Vice-President who’s actually had to pay payroll taxes at some point in their life.
I like Bernie…I just don’t agree with him on everything. Kind of like with Tom Coburn and Barack Obama. But I ended up voting for Obama after McCain gave me no choice with Crazy Sarah Palin and all those children with bizarre first names.
None of Bernie, Harris, or Elizabeth Warren had any political traction whatsover when James Clyburn saved Joe Biden in South Carolina.
Everyone thought that was going to be Michael Bloomberg’s candidacy in South Carolina possibly, but what it in fact became was the prelude to James Clyburn’s presidency.
Don’t get me wrong…I respect Jim Clyburn, but just be up front is all I’m saying.
And to close…none of this excuses Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell for their lack of action to date. Maybe they’ve just been hoping Trump would die before the 2024 election and they wouldn’t have to do the very hard political right thing.
Doing the right thing is tough…just ask Liz Cheney.
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On tomorrow’s edition of Trump’s Domestic Terrorist Insurrection: One Year Later….I’d like to discuss the Election of 1876, the Election of 1960, and the Election of 2000 in relation to what we just witnessed a year ago.
Enjoy the NFL football today. Be thankful we’ve had brave Americans fight for our freedoms instead of them being taken away based on the whims of one petulant spoiled trust fund brat.
What happens at some point if Trump banishes the New England Patriots from tht NFL television contracts because BilliCOCK shamed Trump after the insurrection. It’s all about democracy and the American Dream in the end….and it shouldn’t matter what party you belong to.
Donald Trump would have lasted one day at two-a-day football practices at John Marshall. He then would have etiher quit, gotten the shit kicked of him, transferred to an all-white private school, or grown up into a man of some sort. Or maybe he would have had his driver Dan Scavino substitute for him at practices.
Bravo to Senator Graham on his opening from the Election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden. I actually wrote a term paper on this election my junior year of college.
Too bad Lindsey Graham folded two weeks later.