I initially felt a little bad at the thought of quoting Erick Erickson, the conservative dude who keeps me on his non-subscriber list to whom he nevertheless sends mail, because it is a mass email, not something I can point at as documented.
But, hell, the guy who once accused all anti-Trumpers as having Trump Derangement Syndrome, which made me giggle madly at the thought of this allegedly devout guy defending an inveterate liar, sexual infidel, cager of children, etc, the guy who had asserted he trusted Governor Kemp (R-GA) in the matters of Covid-19 response, a state now in today’s Top Ten for Covid-19 infections per capita, and was able to somehow ignore this …
I had people show up at my house to threaten my family and witnessed an organized effort to have me kicked off the radio. In fact, some of the very people most outraged about cancel culture right now were trying to cancel me because they just hated I wouldn’t hump Donald Trump’s leg with them and still won’t.
And now, only now, has he figured out that maybe, just maybe, those Republicans, whose supporters tracked him down for purposes of intimidation, who he judged to be better qualified for election than the hated Democrats, really aren’t all that … admirable:
The President of the United States was just fine in good times and got a lot accomplished, in spite of himself, but a person’s character is revealed in crisis and we should not be surprised that the man is revealed in crisis to be unfit for leadership during a crisis. Lest you think otherwise, the rest of the world is starting to go back to normal and the virus is running rampant here.
The very people that told us not to wear masks in February and March and then ridiculed Joe Biden for wearing a mask now have an erection for a President wearing a mask as if his own Surgeon General and other leaders were not telling us otherwise and he himself was treating mask-wearing as a sign of weakness.
Yes please, let me repeat this — THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TOLD US NOT TO WEAR MASKS BECAUSE IT WOULD DO US NO GOOD.
But frankly, my issue is not really with the President. It is with his apologists who have shown themselves to be full of invective without much insight. The people who told us 2016 was a “Flight 93” election have crashed the plane and are now fighting over who to blame. Along the way, they showed themselves to lack the valor and integrity of those aboard the real Flight 93. Go down the rabbit hole of deep insight among that crew and you’ll realize many of these people are all bluster. Their ideas are as completely incompatible with the structure of our republic as the left’s ideas are. Their “nationalist-conservative” hybrid approach can’t work in a democracy when more than half the people hate their standard-bearer and they think they can somehow use the mechanisms of a national bureaucracy to steer a country to “national greatness” but can’t even fight a freaking microscopic virus with any credibility. Drag-queen storytime delenda est my left butt cheek. Good luck with that.
And he’s surprised that the man who was impeached for international blackmail and caught committing civil offenses prior to his election has attracted the worst? That who Trump endorses seems to be chronically, even terminally incompetent, capable of only … humping Trump’s leg?
I’ll be just a moment. I have to sit back and smile. Erickson himself is a victim of his ideological fixation and team politics.
But Erickson has limits. He can only vaguely see the damage being done by the Republicans, from whom he conveniently distances himself. Biden?
Do you know the difference between Joe Biden and a tomato? A tomato is actually a fruit, not a vegetable. The leading luminaries of Reliable Sources on CNN, the gabfests of MSNBC, etc. have spent an inordinate amount of time on the mental fitness of Donald Trump to be President and have totally ignored their preferred candidate is a cadaver with a pulled back face who will be controlled by far-left activists.
The Democrats are too scared to even speak up against the mob right now because they are afraid the mob will turn on them. The mob is absolutely going to turn on them because the Democrats’ entire governing coalition is about ending the Trump Administration. Once it ends, the mob turns on itself like the orcs of Mordor with no hobbits around.
And, yet, his preferred candidate has surrounded himself with incompetent ideologues who are incapable of thinking the world is different from their dreams, people who live in delusions. The test for Biden and his team lies not in being perfect, because they won’t be, but it will be in how they adjust their strategies as they encounter reality. Obama did quite well in that area, and I expect Biden to emulate his old boss.
Trump? He still thinks domestic politics are stuck in the 1950s.
So, that’s my schadenfreude for the next six months.
