PURELY POLITICAL Losing
It's been a rocky half-dozen years for conservatives, beginning with the all-out establishment assault on Donald Trump's ascendance, beginning in 2016.
The Might of the Entire U.S. Establishment has come down on Us
We’re losing it.
I mean, we are really losing it.
The royal “We” – meaning those of us of a particular political bent who find joy and inspiration in heated debate, thoughtful discourse, and in the first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution – are and have been on the losing side of public debate for decades and the trend has only accelerated since Donald Trump’s surprising victory over establishment favourite Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Occasionally, we get a reprieve with a Ronald Reagan and then Donald Trump, but the aftermaths of both their administrations have been short-lived. The progressive agenda moves on, despite the stumbles.
This latest decline began, I suppose, after Inauguration Day 2017 with the accusation that our new president – Donald J. Trump – had been “compromised” by some nefarious relationship with Vladimir Putin and Russia. The salacious and completely fictional “Steele Dossier” that claimed Trump had hired prostitutes to urinate on the bed that Barack Obama slept on in Moscow and other equally sensational falsehoods, had been presented as “evidence” to a FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Court of the president’s culpability in favour of all things Russian.
Although most thinking Americans now know that the preposterous allegations were not only non-existent poppycock, but also fabricated disinformation promulgated and paid for by the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and sustained by FBI leadership along with the help of many of America’s “intelligence” agencies. Piling on were the mainstream press, virtually all news and social media outlets, the Hollywood community, and of course, the Democrat Party apparatus. All of which claimed it to be their solemn duty to harass and destroy this president’s destructive (to the Progressive movement) mission.
They succeeded.
In April of 2017, we were less than three months into Trump’s presidency when we lost Bill O’Reilly as Fox’s primetime opinionator. He’s still around but he, as an influential TV voice, has been more or less silenced. His message gutted. His opinion neutralized.
Then, in November 2020, the horrible news that Democrats had cleverly maneuvered a Covid-19-era presidential victory for a masked-up lifelong political hack from Delaware named Joe Biden was delivered the morning after Election Day.
Heading up a lackluster campaign out of a basement in his home, he and his least-popular-Democrat-running-for-President-ever – Kamala Harris – were named President and Vice-President-elect, even though President Trump had received many millions more votes (74,223,369) than he had in his first election.
Somehow, basement-dweller Biden received many millions more than Trump (81,282,916) without stepping outside his house for any extended period.
The “right” to harvest paid off.
“Say, that’s a nice ballot you’ve got there. Need some help in filling it out?
Go figure.
On the morning of February 17, 2021, barely a month after Biden took over at the White House, we learned of the death of Rush Limbaugh. Rush had filled our late mornings here in California with brilliant insight, cogent analysis, and lots of politically incorrect humor five days a week for over thirty years.
We received the awful news of his death at the beginning of his radio show, delivered by his wife, Kathryn. The Rush Limbaugh Show began familiarly enough with James Honeyman-Scott’s opening bass guitar strains from The Pretenders’ “My City Has Gone” theme song. But when Kathryn Limbaugh began to speak, (most of us listeners knew Rush had been going through treatment for lung cancer) we voiced a collective “Uh oh” as we waited to hear what she would say.
Here is what she did say:
“I – like you – very much wish Rush was behind this golden microphone now, welcoming you to another exceptional three hours of broadcasting,” she began, voice cracking ever so slightly. “It is with profound sadness I must share with you directly that our beloved Rush, my wonderful husband, passed away this morning due to complications from lung cancer.”
We knew one day we’d hear those terrible words about the man who worked with “half my brain tied behind my back,” but the reality shocked and deeply saddened us, nevertheless.
Our rock, our hero, was no more.
Next, by virtue of President Biden’s flurry of Executive Orders, the building of the Keystone Pipeline had been halted, leases for drilling in a small portion of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge were rescinded, and a virtual ban on fracking had been implemented. In less than a month, the U.S. had lost its coveted status of energy independence.
There’s no reason to catalog the series of catastrophic policies and depressing decisions promulgated by Biden and his team that have not only run up the U.S. National Debt, allowed millions of border crossers unfettered access to the American heartland, left the U.S. begging for oil from Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, and whose reckless spending has brought on the worst inflation in nearly fifty years.
We bristle as Trump supporters – whose only “crime” was to join an invited crowd into the Capitol building in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021 – are hauled into court, fingerprinted, and charged, while rioters and arsonists in other cities are ignored and real insurrectionists rewarded and applauded.
And now, we’ve lost Tucker Carlson, the most imaginative and effective voice for common-sense resistance to the ongoing madness that we had. The uttered ecstasies of various TV personalities, talk-show hosts, and left-wing political pundits at the downfall of our spokesman, our champion at Fox Cable News leaves many of us both shaken and sad. But don’t be fooled: the smarmy comments and lip-smacking elation of his detractors are evidence of the powerful and effective voice that Tucker had.
He’ll be back.
We are indeed grappling with an existential dilemma, one that wakes us up at night asking ourselves if our beloved country will ever find its way back to the ideals of its founders or of the writers of our Constitution and its foundational Bill of Rights.
But it’s up to us to hang on despite continued losses. Because, if we don’t, there’ll be no one around to sweep up the mess these nasty people and their ill-informed “voters” will have left behind.
Let’s Go Brandon!
Agreed, beyond the pure politics, the lunacy of the LGBT influence, the crazy poisoning of young children in school with gender identity and hiding school actions from parents, the hypocrisy of climate laws going into effect while they fly around in private jets, to to the out of control economy. When will people understand what Covid did for this government, controlling people’s personal lives and shuttering businesses. Great you have an outlet on Fridays, to vent, discuss etc. I remember a good friend Joe Scifers and a couple others friends used to meet at Tres Lune on Fridays and try to solve local and world problems. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts.
Thank you for this article, it says it all. People please do not give up, we cannot fold to the left’s insanity, their control, hatred and bullying if you disagree with them. Hard to believe the majority agrees with all the BS going on in our country today and will vote for more of it.