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Friday, August 25, 2017

Is Trump the ONLY Issue?

President Trump is very lucky in his enemies.  The Democrats and the Republican NeverTrumpers seem to care about and speak about nothing else besides the President and crazy left wing causes.  (To be fair, the Republican NeverTrumpers don't mention the crazy left wing causes; that's just the Democrats.)

Consider this.  What are the issues getting the most attention these days from the Democrats?  Is it healthcare, taxes, economic growth, jobs???  NOPE!  It's statues of people who led the South in the Civil War, and that issue is broadening into statues of other American leaders that the Dems now consider reprehensible.  Outside of DC and the offices of various far left groups in New York, LA and Boston, how many Americans think that the statues are an important issue?  We already know that fewer than 30% of American voters even support the removal of these statues, but I ask again how many voters consider this an important issue for the country?  One recent poll put the figure at 3%.  THREE PERCENT!  That's just a statistical error.  It means that essentially no one cares about the statues.  But this is the big issue for the Democrats these days.

And what are the Republican NeverTrumpers talking about?  They want the President to resign.  They don't think he's "presidential".  They think he's an embarrassment to the country.  And yet, the Trump in the White House is exactly the same Trump who was on the campaign trail last year.  America voted to make him president, and these Republicans want the will of the people to be subverted and then overturned.  After seeking to undermine the process set forth by the Constitution, these NeverTrumpers then try to claim to be true conservatives.  Sadly, they just don't seem to get that conservatism is not another name for hatred of the president.  Still, they don't talk about anything but Trump either; they are much like the Democrats in that regard.

About a month ago, the Dems came out with their new slogan, "A Better Deal".  They have a slogan, but they haven't yet told us what it stands for.  We know that Hillary Clinton ran an entire presidential campaign with no real positions other than to point out that she wasn't Trump and that his voters were "deplorable."  Hillary lost.  Maybe the Democrats need to change their slogan from a Better Deal to "The Same Mistake".

The GOP and the President haven't been doing great lately, but at least they are talking somewhat about actual problems facing the country.  If they can switch to talking about those issues all the time, they will guarantee a GOP victory next year.

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