Pinch me or maybe even strike me in the head with a 2 by 4. I cannot believe we as Americans are where we are this morning as Donald Trump stands on the cusp of being sworn in as the 47th POTUS in American presidential history.
To think that the same pariah who tried to overthrow a presidential election on January 6, 2021…would today become our 47th president is beyond stunning for me. It disheartens me as I close in on the final chapter or two in my life.
I want to be very careful moving forward on my blog as to not allow myself to use hyberbole or partisanship of any sort in my blogging during Trump’s second term. This should be easy for me though because I was at one time a moderate Rebublican and have been a pragmatic Independent since 2000. I repeat….I have never been a member of the Democratic party. I am not a lit-woke mofo in any shape, form, or fashion.
First thing…did Donald Trump win any kind of mandate moving forward? He did not. He did not win the popular vote by attaining a fifty percent threshold. He got torched in most of America’s urban college educated jursidictions, but slayed Kamala Harris in America’s rural counties across our country. Trump in fact, won 90% of America’s counties, but only 49.6 of the popular vote.
From my view, he did win a convoluted mandate on the Southern border because it was Trump in fact who dismantled the bi-partisan immigration bill led by Oklahoma’s own James Lankford. Trump in essence, made sure the Southern border would in no way be fortified during the last year of Joe Biden’s one-term presidency.
The biggest political asset Trump had in fact…was Joe Biden’s horrific judgement in choosing to ignore practical common sense and seek a second term. Then, the Dems compounded this by allowing Kamala Harris to become their candidate without her winning one SINGLE vote in a Democratic primary. Explain to me…when the Democratic party is assailing Trump’s takeover of American democracy, the Democratic party then unilaterally promoted a candidate who failed miserably in her previous attempt to even be viable in her only run for the party’s nomination in 2020.
How is this American democracy?
Give Joe Biden and Kamala Harris what I would call a hockey double assist. The hypocrisy of this did not go unnoticed by the average American voter. Yet, I did begrudingly vote for Kamala Harris. It was the toughest vote I’ve made for the presidency in my lifetime. But let me say this, if the GOP had acted responsibly and nominated a different candidate.. I would have voted for that candidate.
Would Kamala Harris have won her party’s nomination if she’s been challenged by Josh Shapiro, Gretchen Whitmer, Mark Kelly, Hakeem Jeffries, or some other candidate who caught some magic in a bottle during the primary season? We’ll never know…because for the average guy or gal in the street it appears Joe Biden and James Clyburn unilaterally made that decision on their own.
In essence…Donald Trump drew into a Grover Cleveland inside straight in a presidential poker game of sorts.
So…here’s what I would say to Donald Trump… I’ll be more than fair to you on my blog. I want you to succeed. I actually want you to be an effective president who governs on behalf of all Americans, not just Elon Musk, Jeff Besos, Mark Zuckerberg and Google.
I want you to fight for all the people in this country who need to believe their president is fighting for them so as they can aspire to claim a piece of the American Dream. You will not be seeking a second term. You have a rare opportunity to do things which benefit the working people in this country whose parents and grandparents made America great.
Please govern all 330 million Americans in a fair-minded way.
Mike J