View from behind the plow
Sound and fury signifying nothing
Despite the general apathy toward the left’s attempt to overturn the 2016 election of President Donald Trump, the charade continues in Washington, D.C.
A reasonable person recognizes that President Trump has done nothing to warrant impeachment – other than to exist.
That President Trump lives and apparently has the backing of a majority of bona fide American citizens, drives the left mad, especially in the District of Columbia.
Even though nobody in his right mind believes them, the leftists are determined to keep up their impeachment mantra as long as possible in the hopes of confusing enough people that leftists can take control of the U.S. Senate in this year’s elections, as well as the House, and possibly even capture the presidency.
President Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale, writing in Townhall, suggests that the Trump haters might want to attend a Trump rally to understand why their delusions of beating him in an election are far-fetched.
He writes:
“Contrary to the media’s straw-man portrayal of a stereotypical Trump voter, Keep America Great rallies attract voters of all demographic descriptions from across the political spectrum who have been uplifted by his policies. ... Trump supporters are not embarrassed by our founding, our history, or our Constitution. All they want is to live in a great America, and Donald Trump is the only leader who unabashedly shares that goal.
“After attending dozens of Trump rallies throughout the country, I can definitively say that there is no politician in America who is capable of uniting voters like this president – and the data we’ve gathered from these events proves it. As I’ve been saying since 2016, data doesn’t lie.”
He says that of more than 20,000 identified voters who came to a rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 57.9 percent did not have a history of voting for Republicans and even scarier for the Deep State, 4,413 attendees didn’t even vote in the last election.
This indicates that people who had about given up on a constitutional government of law and individual rights have been energized to get involved in politics.
He also adds these statistics:
“Nearly 22 percent of identified supporters at President Trump’s rally in Toledo, Ohio, were Democrats, and another 21 percent were independents. An astounding 15 percent of identified voters who saw the president speak in Battle Creek, Michigan, had not voted in any of the last four elections. In Hershey, Pennsylvania, just over 20 percent of identified voters at the rally were Democrats, and 18 percent were non-white.
He also observes that those attending the Trump rallies face hostility from the “#Resist” movement who are at the center of the nation’s polarized political environment.
The corporate media has attempted to picture Trump voters as ignorant backwater rubes.
However, those attending the president’s rallies belie that image.
When President Trump holds a rally, people line up for hours – in some cases days – to see him and hear him in person.
The Trump coalition appears to us to indicate that thousands, possibly millions, of Americans had been waiting for someone to put the nation back on track as the nation the Founders intended after years of overturning our founding principles by power brokers who were – and are – totally unconcerned about the welfare of the nation and its normal people.
After the left got so disappointed because none of their ruses to “get Trump” came to fruition – no Russian collusion (the Mueller investigation), no pro quid pro on Ukrainian phone call (call transcript released by White House), no basis for “Obstruction of House” and on and on.
One interesting sidelight on the popularity of the president came from a deep blue New England state – New Jersey, where the president held a rally on Tuesday.
Columnist Katie Pavlich reported that despite freezing weather in the middle of winter, people camped out a day ahead of his appearance in order to make it inside the arena.
She provided photographs to back up her comment.
The last gasp hope of the House managers of the impeachment is getting the Senate to allow a new wave of “witnesses” in the Senate, which serves as judge of the articles filed by the House.
Among witnesses the impeachment managers want to bring in is former White House national security advisor John Bolton, who was fired by President Trump because his hawkish world view did not correspond with the president’s policy goals.
Bolton has written a book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,” which contains some recollections that impeachment managers are using as a pretext for drawing out the Senate trial by calling additional witnesses.
Columnist Mark Davis, writing in Townhall, says the Bolton book is a handy story to enable networks to ignore the president’s defense of his position and focus on the “Bolton bombshell.”
Davis predicts this won’t work, either, explaining:
“In their zeal for witnesses in the Senate trial, Democrats dream of Bolton testimony that finally proves them right in their assertion that Trump was driven to damage a rival and not by a broad concern over Ukrainian misconduct. This simply will not happen. Bolton wants to sell books in the short term and enjoy a long-term reputation as a conservative power broker through his BoltonPAC, goals he knows will elude him if Trump and his base view him as a traitor.”
Several Republican senators, including recently elected Utah Sen. Mitt Romney (former presidential candidate who lost to Trump in 2016), Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski and Maine’s Susan Collins, who have given indication they would favor hearing additional witnesses, possibly joining Senate Democrats in calling for witness testimony.
Davis observes
“The coming days will determine what these key Senators decide. Rest assured that the media will make every effort to fill their heads with the notion that the Republic is in peril if we don’t get Bolton testimony. This would be the same Bolton roundly despised by the same journalists when he was in Trump’s good graces.
“Meanwhile, the Trump legal team wraps up its defense with arguments that may or may not rise above the noise.”